GENESIS: HOW UCSD CAME to BE Cooperative Efforts We Can Better the Lot of Our Members at Large: Stan Chodorow, Win Cox, Fran Gillin, Co‐Workers

Cont. from page 7. home life Uncle Moe managed was pervaded by a kibbutz-like equality: everything was planned and we all shared the chores and life’s pleasures. Today, the Amalgamated boasts tall towers on ifteen acres with apartments ranging from studios to Sanford Lakoff Editor three bedrooms. They are available to all applicants, Suzan Ciofi Managing Editor not just union members, with relatively modest in- comes. They provide housing for 1500 families and remain co-operatively owned and managed. The irst Morton Printz President February 2018 Volume XVII, No. 3 president, Abraham Kazan, set forth its principles, Phyllis Mirsky Vice President now enshrined on its website: Robert Knox Secretary/Treasurer Mark Appelbaum Past President, Awards It was offered to us to demonstrate that through GENESIS: HOW UCSD CAME TO BE cooperative efforts we can better the lot of our Members at Large: Stan Chodorow, Win Cox, Fran Gillin, co‐workers. We have also been given the privilege Marguerite Jackson, Henry Powell and Gill Williamson. to show that where all personal gain and beneit Ex Oficio: Dick Attiyeh, CUCEA Chair, Jack Fisher, Histori- is eliminated, greater good can be accomplished an, Gail Geddis, Representative, UCSD Retirement Association, Sandy Lakoff, Editor, Chronicles, Suzan Ciofi, Director, III. Assembling the Land ence Division at Convair, and Fred- for the beneit of all. It remains too for the mem‐ Retirement Resource Center, and Maxine Bloor, Liaison to bers of our Cooperative Community to exert their Oceanids. erik de Hoffmann, a physicist efforts to run this cooperative and make it more Forward queries, changes in mailing/email address to: By Jack C. Fisher who was now President of General Suzan Ciofi, Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center, Atomics. The Regents were duly useful, and more interesting, for all who live in UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, CA 92093‐0020. Professor Emeritus of Surgery Telephone: (858) 534‐4724, [email protected] impressed and endorsed the these apartments. Forward queries, changes in mailing/email address to: EA Historian and Past President

Suzan Ciofi, Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center, group’s proposal for an “Institute It was a beautiful idea. The whole country would UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, CA 92093‐0020. In 1924, when the Regents irst of Mechanics” and an “Institute of do well to emulate that cooperative spirit these days. proposed opening a campus in Pure and Applied Physics.” Revelle southern California, San Diego’s City was asked to submit a plan. Council offered parcels of land north and east of SIO. Unfortunately, Los Mark your calendar for 2018 events! Angeles submitted a more appealing bid in the city’s Westwood section and the result was UCLA. Finally, in Sexual Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Misconduct Across the 1955, the state legislature, at the urging of local Assemblyman Sheri- World– Is Progress in Consciousness Leading to Good Solutions? dan Hegland, asked the Regents to

consider adding a campus in San Di- Presented by Anita Raj, PhD, Medicine ego. That set off a series of initia- Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 3:30 - 5 PM tives, often at cross purposes, which eventually produced UCSD. Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club Robert Gordon Sproul The Regents referred Hegland’s 11th president of the inquiry to UC President Gordon University of California Sproul, who consulted SIO Direc- from 1930‐1958 John Jay Hopkins of tor Roger Revelle. Revelle made a General Dynamics pitch for “something like a publicly an offer of “certain city owned lands Dr. F. Martin Ralph cont. on page 2 supported Cal Tech” for advanced for an undergraduate school enrol- Research Meteorologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography research and graduate education in ling students who are desirous of entering into the professional ield Topic: “Atmospheric Rivers” the natural sciences and engineer- Inside ing. San Diego State College, he of engineering.” Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 3:30 - 5 PM pointed out, was already doing a The Chamber of Commerce pre- great job educating undergraduates. ferred Revelle’s idea and invited a Genesis, How UCSD Came to be; stellar scientiic panel to promote it Assembling the Land …………..…. 1 Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club But when the City Council took up

the matter in December, City Manag- at a Regents meeting in Los Angeles. Anecdotage:

er O.W. Campbell argued that to at- The panel included Henry Bern- The Amalgamated……..……… 7 tract industry the city needed a stein, director of the Naval Elec- Two Special Events, back-to-back on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 school that would offer undergradu- tronics Laboratory, John Jay Hop- Mark your calendar ……...……... 8 Chancellor’s Scholars - Freshman Cohort UCSD Emeriti Association ate degrees focused on engineering. kins of General Dynamics, Ed- Academic Poster Session Annual Business Luncheon Accordingly, the Council approved ward Creutz, director of the Sci- Small Conference Rooms, UCSD Faculty Club Atkinson Pavilion, UCSD Faculty Club 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM UCSD Emeriti Association Page 2 FEBRUARY 2018 Chronicles Chronicles FEBRUARY 2018 Page 7

1956 was a year of sporadic progress: gains made, lost, then Anecdotage: The Amalgamated later recaptured. Informed in March that the General Dynamics board had approved a million- By Sandy Lakoff band, Uncle Moe (short for Morris), us a nickel to buy a Bungalow Bar who taught history at nearby DeWitt ice cream pop. I saw my irst play dollar gift in support of the pro- Even before the tragic Triangle Clinton High. You became a resident with professional actors in the posed institutes, Sproul appointed ire in 1911, in which 146 workers by paying in a modest stake to be- street next to the park performed a special committee led by Berke- lost their lives, two unions arose come a shareholder, and a monthly by a WPA (Works Projects Admin- ley physicist Glenn Seaborg, to vet out of New York’s garment district. maintenance fee established by an istration) troupe from the vantage Revelle’s proposal. With its sup- Like most of the business people in elected board. When I got to know point of a tree branch. On week- port, the Regents unanimously ap- the industry many of their mem- them, the Tudor-style buildings, all ends we would hike to Tibbets proved the plan. Meanwhile, how- bers were Jews. From 1932 to identical and faced with brown Brook for picnics and to row in the ever, the UC Academic Senate en- 1966, the ILGWU –International brick, were about six or seven sto- lake. Who needed a summer camp dorsed the inding of its Committee Ladies Garment Workers Union -- Edwin Pauley, determined University of California Regent Donald H. ries tall, with elevators, heated by oil when you could live at the Amal- on Educational Policy that there was headed by David Dubinsky. to block the revised pro‐ McLaughlin and Scripps Institution of Oceanog‐ -ired furnaces. Each spacious apart- gamated? That was part of the un- was no need for anything more in The other was the Amalgamated posal of a general campus ‐‐ raphy Director Roger Revelle examine a map of ment was fronted by a solid metal ion’s idea, and it worked. San Diego than the oceanographic Clothing Workers Union, led in the possibly because it would the proposed site of the University of California door, and on every loor there was How I didn’t become a left- institute already there. And in May, campus at San Diego, 1959. Scripps Institution New Deal years by Sidney Hillman compete with rather than an incinerator outlet in which trash wing radical from that experience to add to the confusion, yet anoth- complement UCLA of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego. who, as head of the CIO, acquired could easily be disposed of. The I am not sure. It was probably be- er advisory committee urged ap- almost mythical standing when buildings were connected by con- cause my father, who looked a bit proval of a major center in San Die- nik, a time when the country came to Edwin Pauley, a 1922 Berkeley FDR was quoted as saying, “Clear it crete walkways and interspersed like Teddy Roosevelt, was a small- go but only if it provided under- the stark realization that our Cold graduate who made his home in Los with Sidney.” A song lyric parodied with patches of greenery. Nearby business Progressive like the rest graduate instruction. Meanwhile, War rival might be forging ahead of Angeles and had made a fortune in the the rivalry between the two unions: were PS 95, a primary school, and De of the family. Uncle Moe was dif- San Diego voters granted 40-50 us in science and technology. The oil business. In 1957, having initially Witt Clinton, ferent. He was in the teacher’s un- acres for an “Institute of Technolo- call went up from all quarters for a favored a graduate school for San Die- So join the needle‐worker’s union, where there ion and very much on the left. In gy and Engineering.” renewed emphasis on technical edu- go, he was determined to block the It’s the only needle‐workers’ union. were basketball the bookshelves were the novels In August, the Academic Senate cation. Demographic pressures in revised proposal of a general campus - The corset‐makers union is a no‐good union. courts, a yard of Howard Fast and non-iction reversed its earlier position and California coincided and resulted in - possibly because it would compete It’s a no‐good union – for the boss! for stickball, works from the Book Find Club, a backed the Revelle plan. The Re- the release of a UC report calling for with rather than complement UCLA. They are cheating all the Jones and the Thomases, running tracks, radical alternative to the Book-of- gents then approved a budget of the establishment of more general Pauley insisted that UCLA be given To the workers they are making false promises, and handball the-Month Club, along with issues $15 million for at least one and campuses, including one at San Die- responsibility for the planning of San They are preaching socialism in the name of capitalism, courts. of the Marxist quarterly Science possibly two graduate institutes. go. That compounded the confusion. Diego’s campus, a notion that Revelle For the sake of fascism ‐‐ and the boss. Kill the boss! As a youngster I and Society. I read them all with Sproul asked the California Assem- The Chamber of Commerce/General declared preposterous. Pauley coun- spent idyllic fascination, and remember lying bly to provide funds for “a well- Dynamics partnership still favored tered with a proposal that the Regents The bosses may not have appre- summers there. Coming from Ba- on the loor with the day’s edition developed graduate school for in- Revelle’s original plan for science take over San Diego State College and ciated the sentiment, but both un- yonne. a city in New Jersey best of the tabloid Daily Worker (the struction and research in science institutes. The City Council, siding limit the new campus to the graduate ions did a lot of good for their known for oil reineries and facto- organ of the CPUSA) he brought and technology.” The Regents ap- with the state Assembly, wanted the school option. It was the last time members by improving wages and ries, I thought the Amalgamated was home every day, discretely tucked proved $24 million more for site campus to include undergraduate Pauley and Revelle saw eye to eye. working conditions. The Amalga- the height of New York elegance. It into the day’s New York Times. development. San Diego State Col- engineering education. President Sproul agreed with Revelle that mated union also had the inspired even had a nursery, a co-op grocery, (The Worker even had comics for lege President Malcolm Love gave Sproul was caught between advanc- the new campus ought to be autono- idea of constructing a not-for-proit and a pharmacy -- where kindly Mr. the kids, including “Little Lefty” to the plan a qualiied endorsement, ing the graduate institutes or serv- mous and suggested that it be named cooperatively-owned apartment Chavkin seemed to know all the compete with “Little Orphan An- implying that he could endorse a ing the state’s broader educational UC La Jolla. The local political outcry complex for its members. Called the residents. (“How is your grandmoth- nie” --and her father “Daddy War- graduate-level research institution needs. The matter was provisionally was immediate: members of the City Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, er?” he would ask when I came for a bucks” -- in the capitalist press.) that would complement but not resolved at an August, 1957 meeting Council pointed out that La Jolla was it was built in 1927 in the upper prescription.) With Harry and Jerry, And even more important, the compete with the college. The La of the Regents with a startling rec- merely a neighborhood of San Diego Bronx adjacent to Van Cortlandt cousins my age, I Jolla Woman’s Club, after listening ommendation: not one, not two, but and not an autonomous entity, so it Park, a long but only ive-cent sub- got lots of exercise to Revelle’s description of a school three new general campuses for Cal- would have to be called UC San Diego. way ride from the midtown gar- on the playing with no more than a thousand stu- ifornia: one for San Diego, another in But the larger question was not the ment district. ields. Captain dents -- “few capable of winning a Orange County, and a third for the name but the location. Where would My maternal grandfather Mi- Mike, by then re- football game” -- happily granted Central Coast region. the land be found? chael Robins, a tailor known in tired, would inter- approval for “any kind of advanced But the Regents were unable to Pauley tried to use the land issue the family as “Captain Mike,” was rupt his pinochle institute that might emerge from move forward on a San Diego pro- to scuttle the proposal by persuading one of the early residents – or game at the edge pending deliberations.” ject because of the determined re- the Regents to agree to a rider in its “cooperators” -- as was his daugh- The following year, 1957, is of the park to give sistance of one Regent in particular, ter, my Aunt Rose, and her hus- remembered as the year of Sput- cont. on page 3 UCSD Emeriti Association UCSD Emeriti Association CHRONICLES FEBRUARY 2018 PAGE 6 CHRONICLES FEBRUARY 2018 PAGE 3 lead and brass from the ranges. Names Considered/Selected by recommendation requiring all to 43,556 acres, an area measuring land extended as far north as Despite these efforts, ammuni- UC Regents land for the new campuses to six miles by eleven! In 1870 the his- Torrey Pines Park. When ru- tion items including unexplod- for a San Diego Campus 1912 ‐ 1960 come without cost to the Universi- toric map was redrawn with the mors of a UC campus circulated, ed rockets are often found at ty. He may not have realized how pueblo lands subdivided into 240 realtors and developers nosed easily this ploy could be sur- plots of approximately 160-170 campus construction sites. In about for all available deeds or mounted in San Diego. Fortuitous acres each, an unprecedented asset 1999, 200 3.5-inch practice 1912 ‐ Scripps Institution of history had given San Diego more for a city to dispense at its own dis- leasing opportunities. UC be- rockets were uncovered in the Biological Research came responsible for conveying uncommitted land for develop- cretion. hillside excavation for an addi- 1925 ‐ Scripps Institution of ment than any other city in Cali- But which parcels were to be to Caltrans a lien of 84.7 acres tion to a Radisson (currently Oceanography for construction of Interstate 5. fornia – thanks originally to the given to the university? Enter the Sheraton) Hotel. During the 1951 ‐ School for Science and way the land was assigned when it inluential voice of James Copley, Dow Chemical, target of construction of student housing Engineering was irst settled by Europeans publisher of the San Diego Union. He demonstrations for its manu- units, several 60 mm. mortars, ruled by King Carlos IV of Spain. rejected proposals of land surround- facture of Agent Orange, no 1955 ‐ Institutes of Mechanics, After Mexico achieved independ- ing Lake Murray, or at the northeast M9 grenades, and Mark-II hand Pure and Applied Physics longer wanted to be near any ence in 1820, all the settlements corner of Balboa Park, or the valley grenades were removed. UC San Diego Inaugural Chancellor UC campus, so it gifted its 1956 ‐ Institute of Technology and were allowed to petition for pueb- south of Rancho Santa Fe, or Lind- Just before the transfer, uni- Herbert York choice property to Scripps Clin- Engineering lo (township) status. In 1834 Mex- bergh Field, insisting that La Jolla versity oficials inspected the 1961‐1964 and 1970‐1972 ic. ico granted municipal autonomy was the only choice that made any 1957 ‐ School for Science and site and were pleased to ind 46 to San Diego, which now com- sense, preferably on land tucked Pauley was still determined remaining structures in excel- ego’s recently announced inau- Technology to kill the idea of a comprehen- prised all these pueblos. A map between SIO and the emerging Gen- lent condition, twelve still gural Chancellor, Berkeley 1957 ‐ UC La Jolla was drawn up showing the bound- eral Atomics campus. In this area sive campus. That led to the fa- standing with ten still in use physicist Herbert York. Many aries. In 1848, when Mexico ceded there was still ample city land avail- mous “La Jolla air war.” The today. On September 23, 1964, faculty, especially recent hires, 1961 ‐ Institute of Technology and Alta California to the United States, able, and the Marines were rumored aerial war over Korea was deeply regretted that Roger Engineering to be thinking of evacuating Camp a quitclaim deed was ready for the rights to land held under Mexi- fought with technologically ad- signatories representing the Revelle was passed over for the 1963 ‐ School of Science and can law were guaranteed by the Matthews in return for improved vanced jet aircraft. By the late Regents and Secretary of Navy appointment. The iftieth anni- Engineering new Territory of California. The facilities at Camp Pendleton. 1950s, the Navy relied on sev- Territorial Assembly’s “Act of The task of securing enough par- Paul Nitze. In a carefully versary of this historic transfer 1960 ‐ UC San Diego eral carrier-based ighters, all worded document that allowed was celebrated at the same site 1851” required that territorial cels to make up the stipulated 1,000 operating noisily here at the claimants provide documentary acres for a general campus proved for transfer of 545.3 acres ef- on Oct. 6, 2014. Among those training grounds of Naval Air attending were Sybil York, wife evidence in support of their inher- to be less straightforward than Cop- fective October 6, 1964, the ley imagined. There were already Station (NAS) Miramar. Alt- of the late Chancellor York, ited grants. San Diego fared best government stipulated that it because of the map on which plenty of suitors for the land. The hough the main runway is di- be held forever harmless for Colonel Christopher Nash, pueblo boundaries were deined California Department of Highways, rected at Mount Soledad-- a de- any liability or claims of injury Commander, Weapons and with unique precision. While oth- busy exploiting the 1956 Federal- cision based on historic need to to the land itself (e.g., retained Field Training Battalion for er cities were forced to relinquish Aid Highway Act, had announced exploit prevailing offshore ordnance) or for damage to im- Camp Pendleton’s Edson major portions of their inherited plans for a north-south Interstate winds -- pilots customarily provements (e.g., university Range, and several World War land, San Diego retained nearly all that would pass through the natural banked right immediately after structures) from military air- II veterans who had received of its eleven square leagues, equal ravine bisecting Camp Matthews. A takeoff and continued north- craft operating in the vicinity of their small-arms training at property lien was therefore re- west over land under consider-

NAS Miramar. Camp Matthews. Appendix quired from either the Marine ation for the university. This Next day, a transfer cere- There was more to come by Corps or whoever inherited con- was also a time when after- Financial Support from Ellen and mony was held on the parade way of land acquisitions and trol of the Matthews acreage. The burners were in common use, a swaps, but the basic site was E.W. Scripps for Marine Studies city, having repossessed land as- plaza (now called Town and an Oceanographic Institu- means for suddenly increasing Square) facing an evacuated now established. signed to Camp Callan at war’s engine thrust that necessarily tion* headquarters building since This is the third installment end, operated an auto-racing added still more overhead In 2016 $ replaced by a Student Services of an edited, much‐abbreviated 1903 $ 500 $ 14K track until 1956 when a decision thunder.

Center. An inscribed stone com- history based on extensive re‐ 1903 $ 1.500 $ 41K was made to create two champi- It didn’t take much effort memorating the event was search in primary sources. The 1905 $ 50,000 $ 1.4 M onship golf courses. The Council for a politically connected Re- placed. Attending the event full version (including a wealth 1910 $100,000 $ 2.6 M was also granting parcels to se- gent like Pauley to pick up the 1910 $150,000 $ 3.9 M of footnotes) is available online lected enterprises, irst General were Commander of San Die- 1915 $100,000 $ 2.4 M phone and get a comprehensive at http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/ Atomics and later Dow Chemical go’s Marine Corps Recruit De- TOTAL: $400,000+ $ 10.0 M + military brieing on these mat- object/bb4371434f. NEXT: Land Corporation, much to the chagrin pot Bruno Hochmuth, UC Presi- *Total does not include repeated James Copley, Publisher ters. How, he then asked, could dent Clark Kerr, and UC San Di- Swaps and Development. smaller gifts from E.W. Scripps San Diego Union Tribune of Revelle, whose appetite for an institution of higher learning

UCSD Emeriti Association UCSD Emeriti Association CHRONICLES FEBRUARY 2018 PAGE 4 CHRONICLES FEBRUARY 2018 PAGE 5 function under the light path of Charles Luckman, estimated allocated for a full campus in His institute, designed by Louis Marines to go somewhere else. mate, Secretary of Defense a naval air training facility? The that modiications to mufle jet La Jolla. Years later, after Rev- Kahn and completed in 1962, Wilson introduced a bill re- Robert McNamara, who re- Navy chipped in helpfully, noise would add ten percent to elle had been passed over as a was declared a “transformative questing approval and funding viewed the matter and prom- strongly objecting to any further costs of building construction – candidate to become founding structure” by architectural critics for a transfer to Camp Pend- ised, “…the navy will reevalu- civilian development in proximi- not the two percent estimated chancellor, he ruefully recalled and later designated a National leton. Senators Thomas Kugel ate its position in the hope ty to its base, one that would by the University’s architects. his “victory over the oilman as Historic Site. and Clair Engel later submitted that some solution can be serve as headquarters for TOP- But Revelle, whose research being pyrrhic at best.” In 1961, the City Council de- a concurrent senate bill. The found.” Unfortunately, the GUN, the U.S. Navy Fighter prowess was not limited to the The assembly of land then livered another blow to Revelle’s Navy balked, informing the House Appropriations Com- th Weapons School. 11 Naval Dis- ocean’s depths, came well pre- began in earnest. Parcels need- dreams when it rezoned unas- House Committee on Armed mittee had just turned down trict Commandant C.C. Hart- pared. He had learned that ed to meet the 1,000-acre re- signed land north of General Services that its objection to funding for a proposed small mann, in directing his warn- Scripps Memorial Hospital, at quirement without cost to the Atomics from “residential” to releasing the Marine facility weapons training facility at ing to President Kerr, character- that time planning a new facili- Regents came from three “research and development.” The remained unchanged, but at Pendleton. ty closer to the airield than the sources: the City of San Diego, university would never receive the same time hinted that $20 Next came San Diego prospective campus site, had the federal government, and any of this northern reach of city million would cover the cost of Mayor Dail’s turn to make an been advised that the cost of private citizens. land. But in that same year, the a move. (The Commandant of appeal, this time to Secretary dampening aircraft noise would Revelle was in the habit of City Council did release 58.5 Marines was politically savvy of the Navy John Connolly. At add no more than four percent. driving prospective faculty up acres, previously designated for enough to know he shouldn’t the same time, the. Regents Walter Munk remembers his biological grade to a bluff over- an Institute of Technology and have to give up Camp Mat- pressed the case via their DC friend Roger inviting him to at- looking the Paciic Ocean, ask- Engineering. This acreage be- thews without getting some- lobbyist who emphasized tend the meeting. “He told me ing them to look around and came the irst construction site thing in return.) that acquiring Camp Mat- there would be ‘electric mo- tell him what they saw, then for the San Diego campus, its inal Pauley refused to give up thews was essential for a San ments’ and indeed there were. answer his own question by name still being debated at the and now saw the Navy as a po- Diego campus. Copley Press It was all very dramatic.” imagining a cluster of build- time. In the fall of 1963, 268 stu- tential ally. In a letter to Sena- applied its own brand of Briefed by Revelle, Kerr also ings illed with magniicently dents from twenty-one nations tor Engel, he restated his con- pressure on Committee ized NAS Miramar as “hard informed the Regents that equipped laboratories, one of enrolled in a UC School of Science cern about the noise issue: “We Chairman Harry Sheppard, core,” a $60 million air station Luckman was serving as the them designated for the recruit and Engineering; they would have had studies made by peo- threatening to make public essential for leet operations. hospital’s consultant at the very he was addressing. But to his graduate from UC San Diego. ple who claim to be experts in his repeated vacillation on The base, he added, would re- same time that he was advising everlasting regret, the city More city land was in store the ield of sound, and the con- the issue. Something worked main dangerous and noisy: “The Pauley. Pauley jumped to his awarded this oceanfront acre- for the university, much more clusions of these people have because the San Diego Union university can expect no re- feet and demanded that his age to the Salk Institute for Bi- when it became clear that a gen- left questions in my mind.” reported on August 3, 1961 treat…the navy is in Miramar to consultant explain. Luckman ological Sciences, recently eral campus was actually in pro- Writing next to fellow Regent that Congress had approved stay.” Meanwhile, the Comman- sheepishly acknowledged the funded by the March of Dimes spect. Based on a March 12, 1964 Philip Boyd, he raised the the needed appropriation, $6 dant of Marines denied rumors discrepancy. Revelle persisted and the National Science Foun- vote, grant deeds involving seven prospect that commercial air million instead of the $20 that his branch of the armed in attacking Pauley’s objections. dation. more pueblo lots for a total of operations might move from million the Marines hoped services was about to quit Camp He revealed Pauley’s attempt to Revelle was initially 456.5 acres were executed and Lindbergh Field to NAS for, but still enough to cause Matthews: the corps would not inluence the Regents with a thrilled by Jonas Salk’s interest accepted by the Regents. An addi- Miramar. Boyd snapped back, a full transfer of operations surrender its rile range! Here subsidized junket to his private in San Diego but asked him not tional 29.8 acres were added on “It is disturbing to discover we to Pendleton. were two Cold War military in- Hawaiian resort. He added that to compete for land. The city March 17, 1969. More than half of still face your dissatisfaction Now with 1,090.1 newly stallations blocking San Diego’s the new campus was no closer council, encouraged by Mayor the required acreage was now in with that site.” acquired acres, UC held a to- academic development. Who than many others were to com- Charles Dail, a polio victim Regents’ hands. Despite the folly of hanging tal of 1,238.2 acres, enough could have been more pleased mercial airports, speciically, no himself, voted an unspeciied Then came the “surrender” of on to an outdated rile range in for a general campus. The than Regent Pauley? closer than UC Riverside was to lot for Salk who proceeded to Camp Matthews. Representative the middle of rapidly expand- move took three years to To prove his point about air- March Air Force Base. select coastal lot #1324 for his Bob Wilson believed he saw an ing urban sprawl rather than complete. Several iring rang- craft noise, Pauley lew fellow Pauley was humiliated and research institute, thereby opportunity to acquire the base moving to one tucked inside es required decontamination, Regents to his Kane’ohe Bay re- defeated. His was the only neg- “cutting the heart out of the for the state because it was faced 122,800-acre Camp Pendleton, especially the grenade/ treat on Oahu where they could ative vote when the Regents university campus,” as Revelle with closure of some of its ranges the time had come to seek in- mortar/bazooka range that experience the sound of takeoffs reafirmed their earlier deci- would later put it. Confronted due to safety hazards posed by tervention from higher author- crossed a ravine soon to be from nearby Kualoa Airield. At sion. Within a month, additional by Revelle, Salk blamed an residential encroachment. The La ities. And so it fell to City Coun- graded for a freeway. Mining a subsequent meeting of the Re- funds totaling $3million (worth “uninformed” associate but Jolla Town Council had made it cilman Ivor de Kirby to contact contractors were brought in gents, his consultant architect, about $26 million today) were refused to relinquish the gift. clear La Jollans would like the his former UC Berkeley room- to salvage large quantities of

UCSD Emeriti Association UCSD Emeriti Association CHRONICLES FEBRUARY 2018 PAGE 6 CHRONICLES FEBRUARY 2018 PAGE 3 lead and brass from the ranges. Names Considered/Selected by recommendation requiring all to 43,556 acres, an area measuring land extended as far north as Despite these efforts, ammuni- UC Regents land for the new campuses to six miles by eleven! In 1870 the his- Torrey Pines Park. When ru- tion items including unexplod- for a San Diego Campus 1912 ‐ 1960 come without cost to the Universi- toric map was redrawn with the mors of a UC campus circulated, ed rockets are often found at ty. He may not have realized how pueblo lands subdivided into 240 realtors and developers nosed easily this ploy could be sur- plots of approximately 160-170 campus construction sites. In about for all available deeds or mounted in San Diego. Fortuitous acres each, an unprecedented asset 1999, 200 3.5-inch practice 1912 ‐ Scripps Institution of history had given San Diego more for a city to dispense at its own dis- leasing opportunities. UC be- rockets were uncovered in the Biological Research came responsible for conveying uncommitted land for develop- cretion. hillside excavation for an addi- 1925 ‐ Scripps Institution of ment than any other city in Cali- But which parcels were to be to Caltrans a lien of 84.7 acres tion to a Radisson (currently Oceanography for construction of Interstate 5. fornia – thanks originally to the given to the university? Enter the Sheraton) Hotel. During the 1951 ‐ School for Science and way the land was assigned when it inluential voice of James Copley, Dow Chemical, target of construction of student housing Engineering was irst settled by Europeans publisher of the San Diego Union. He demonstrations for its manu- units, several 60 mm. mortars, ruled by King Carlos IV of Spain. rejected proposals of land surround- facture of Agent Orange, no 1955 ‐ Institutes of Mechanics, After Mexico achieved independ- ing Lake Murray, or at the northeast M9 grenades, and Mark-II hand Pure and Applied Physics longer wanted to be near any ence in 1820, all the settlements corner of Balboa Park, or the valley grenades were removed. UC San Diego Inaugural Chancellor UC campus, so it gifted its 1956 ‐ Institute of Technology and were allowed to petition for pueb- south of Rancho Santa Fe, or Lind- Just before the transfer, uni- Herbert York choice property to Scripps Clin- Engineering lo (township) status. In 1834 Mex- bergh Field, insisting that La Jolla versity oficials inspected the 1961‐1964 and 1970‐1972 ic. ico granted municipal autonomy was the only choice that made any 1957 ‐ School for Science and site and were pleased to ind 46 to San Diego, which now com- sense, preferably on land tucked Pauley was still determined remaining structures in excel- ego’s recently announced inau- Technology to kill the idea of a comprehen- prised all these pueblos. A map between SIO and the emerging Gen- lent condition, twelve still gural Chancellor, Berkeley 1957 ‐ UC La Jolla was drawn up showing the bound- eral Atomics campus. In this area sive campus. That led to the fa- standing with ten still in use physicist Herbert York. Many aries. In 1848, when Mexico ceded there was still ample city land avail- mous “La Jolla air war.” The today. On September 23, 1964, faculty, especially recent hires, 1961 ‐ Institute of Technology and Alta California to the United States, able, and the Marines were rumored aerial war over Korea was deeply regretted that Roger Engineering to be thinking of evacuating Camp a quitclaim deed was ready for the rights to land held under Mexi- fought with technologically ad- signatories representing the Revelle was passed over for the 1963 ‐ School of Science and can law were guaranteed by the Matthews in return for improved vanced jet aircraft. By the late Regents and Secretary of Navy appointment. The iftieth anni- Engineering new Territory of California. The facilities at Camp Pendleton. 1950s, the Navy relied on sev- Territorial Assembly’s “Act of The task of securing enough par- Paul Nitze. In a carefully versary of this historic transfer 1960 ‐ UC San Diego eral carrier-based ighters, all worded document that allowed was celebrated at the same site 1851” required that territorial cels to make up the stipulated 1,000 operating noisily here at the claimants provide documentary acres for a general campus proved for transfer of 545.3 acres ef- on Oct. 6, 2014. Among those training grounds of Naval Air attending were Sybil York, wife evidence in support of their inher- to be less straightforward than Cop- fective October 6, 1964, the ley imagined. There were already Station (NAS) Miramar. Alt- of the late Chancellor York, ited grants. San Diego fared best government stipulated that it because of the map on which plenty of suitors for the land. The hough the main runway is di- be held forever harmless for Colonel Christopher Nash, pueblo boundaries were deined California Department of Highways, rected at Mount Soledad-- a de- any liability or claims of injury Commander, Weapons and with unique precision. While oth- busy exploiting the 1956 Federal- cision based on historic need to to the land itself (e.g., retained Field Training Battalion for er cities were forced to relinquish Aid Highway Act, had announced exploit prevailing offshore ordnance) or for damage to im- Camp Pendleton’s Edson major portions of their inherited plans for a north-south Interstate winds -- pilots customarily provements (e.g., university Range, and several World War land, San Diego retained nearly all that would pass through the natural banked right immediately after structures) from military air- II veterans who had received of its eleven square leagues, equal ravine bisecting Camp Matthews. A takeoff and continued north- craft operating in the vicinity of their small-arms training at property lien was therefore re- west over land under consider-

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1956 was a year of sporadic progress: gains made, lost, then Anecdotage: The Amalgamated later recaptured. Informed in March that the General Dynamics board had approved a million- By Sandy Lakoff band, Uncle Moe (short for Morris), us a nickel to buy a Bungalow Bar who taught history at nearby DeWitt ice cream pop. I saw my irst play dollar gift in support of the pro- Even before the tragic Triangle Clinton High. You became a resident with professional actors in the posed institutes, Sproul appointed ire in 1911, in which 146 workers by paying in a modest stake to be- street next to the park performed a special committee led by Berke- lost their lives, two unions arose come a shareholder, and a monthly by a WPA (Works Projects Admin- ley physicist Glenn Seaborg, to vet out of New York’s garment district. maintenance fee established by an istration) troupe from the vantage Revelle’s proposal. With its sup- Like most of the business people in elected board. When I got to know point of a tree branch. On week- port, the Regents unanimously ap- the industry many of their mem- them, the Tudor-style buildings, all ends we would hike to Tibbets proved the plan. Meanwhile, how- bers were Jews. From 1932 to identical and faced with brown Brook for picnics and to row in the ever, the UC Academic Senate en- 1966, the ILGWU –International brick, were about six or seven sto- lake. Who needed a summer camp dorsed the inding of its Committee Ladies Garment Workers Union -- Edwin Pauley, determined University of California Regent Donald H. ries tall, with elevators, heated by oil when you could live at the Amal- on Educational Policy that there was headed by David Dubinsky. to block the revised pro‐ McLaughlin and Scripps Institution of Oceanog‐ -ired furnaces. Each spacious apart- gamated? That was part of the un- was no need for anything more in The other was the Amalgamated posal of a general campus ‐‐ raphy Director Roger Revelle examine a map of ment was fronted by a solid metal ion’s idea, and it worked. San Diego than the oceanographic Clothing Workers Union, led in the possibly because it would the proposed site of the University of California door, and on every loor there was How I didn’t become a left- institute already there. And in May, campus at San Diego, 1959. Scripps Institution New Deal years by Sidney Hillman compete with rather than an incinerator outlet in which trash wing radical from that experience to add to the confusion, yet anoth- complement UCLA of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego. who, as head of the CIO, acquired could easily be disposed of. The I am not sure. It was probably be- er advisory committee urged ap- almost mythical standing when buildings were connected by con- cause my father, who looked a bit proval of a major center in San Die- nik, a time when the country came to Edwin Pauley, a 1922 Berkeley FDR was quoted as saying, “Clear it crete walkways and interspersed like Teddy Roosevelt, was a small- go but only if it provided under- the stark realization that our Cold graduate who made his home in Los with Sidney.” A song lyric parodied with patches of greenery. Nearby business Progressive like the rest graduate instruction. Meanwhile, War rival might be forging ahead of Angeles and had made a fortune in the the rivalry between the two unions: were PS 95, a primary school, and De of the family. Uncle Moe was dif- San Diego voters granted 40-50 us in science and technology. The oil business. In 1957, having initially Witt Clinton, ferent. He was in the teacher’s un- acres for an “Institute of Technolo- call went up from all quarters for a favored a graduate school for San Die- So join the needle‐worker’s union, where there ion and very much on the left. In gy and Engineering.” renewed emphasis on technical edu- go, he was determined to block the It’s the only needle‐workers’ union. were basketball the bookshelves were the novels In August, the Academic Senate cation. Demographic pressures in revised proposal of a general campus - The corset‐makers union is a no‐good union. courts, a yard of Howard Fast and non-iction reversed its earlier position and California coincided and resulted in - possibly because it would compete It’s a no‐good union – for the boss! for stickball, works from the Book Find Club, a backed the Revelle plan. The Re- the release of a UC report calling for with rather than complement UCLA. They are cheating all the Jones and the Thomases, running tracks, radical alternative to the Book-of- gents then approved a budget of the establishment of more general Pauley insisted that UCLA be given To the workers they are making false promises, and handball the-Month Club, along with issues $15 million for at least one and campuses, including one at San Die- responsibility for the planning of San They are preaching socialism in the name of capitalism, courts. of the Marxist quarterly Science possibly two graduate institutes. go. That compounded the confusion. Diego’s campus, a notion that Revelle For the sake of fascism ‐‐ and the boss. Kill the boss! As a youngster I and Society. I read them all with Sproul asked the California Assem- The Chamber of Commerce/General declared preposterous. Pauley coun- spent idyllic fascination, and remember lying bly to provide funds for “a well- Dynamics partnership still favored tered with a proposal that the Regents The bosses may not have appre- summers there. Coming from Ba- on the loor with the day’s edition developed graduate school for in- Revelle’s original plan for science take over San Diego State College and ciated the sentiment, but both un- yonne. a city in New Jersey best of the tabloid Daily Worker (the struction and research in science institutes. The City Council, siding limit the new campus to the graduate ions did a lot of good for their known for oil reineries and facto- organ of the CPUSA) he brought and technology.” The Regents ap- with the state Assembly, wanted the school option. It was the last time members by improving wages and ries, I thought the Amalgamated was home every day, discretely tucked proved $24 million more for site campus to include undergraduate Pauley and Revelle saw eye to eye. working conditions. The Amalga- the height of New York elegance. It into the day’s New York Times. development. San Diego State Col- engineering education. President Sproul agreed with Revelle that mated union also had the inspired even had a nursery, a co-op grocery, (The Worker even had comics for lege President Malcolm Love gave Sproul was caught between advanc- the new campus ought to be autono- idea of constructing a not-for-proit and a pharmacy -- where kindly Mr. the kids, including “Little Lefty” to the plan a qualiied endorsement, ing the graduate institutes or serv- mous and suggested that it be named cooperatively-owned apartment Chavkin seemed to know all the compete with “Little Orphan An- implying that he could endorse a ing the state’s broader educational UC La Jolla. The local political outcry complex for its members. Called the residents. (“How is your grandmoth- nie” --and her father “Daddy War- graduate-level research institution needs. The matter was provisionally was immediate: members of the City Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, er?” he would ask when I came for a bucks” -- in the capitalist press.) that would complement but not resolved at an August, 1957 meeting Council pointed out that La Jolla was it was built in 1927 in the upper prescription.) With Harry and Jerry, And even more important, the compete with the college. The La of the Regents with a startling rec- merely a neighborhood of San Diego Bronx adjacent to Van Cortlandt cousins my age, I Jolla Woman’s Club, after listening ommendation: not one, not two, but and not an autonomous entity, so it Park, a long but only ive-cent sub- got lots of exercise to Revelle’s description of a school three new general campuses for Cal- would have to be called UC San Diego. way ride from the midtown gar- on the playing with no more than a thousand stu- ifornia: one for San Diego, another in But the larger question was not the ment district. ields. Captain dents -- “few capable of winning a Orange County, and a third for the name but the location. Where would My maternal grandfather Mi- Mike, by then re- football game” -- happily granted Central Coast region. the land be found? chael Robins, a tailor known in tired, would inter- approval for “any kind of advanced But the Regents were unable to Pauley tried to use the land issue the family as “Captain Mike,” was rupt his pinochle institute that might emerge from move forward on a San Diego pro- to scuttle the proposal by persuading one of the early residents – or game at the edge pending deliberations.” ject because of the determined re- the Regents to agree to a rider in its “cooperators” -- as was his daugh- The following year, 1957, is of the park to give sistance of one Regent in particular, ter, my Aunt Rose, and her hus- remembered as the year of Sput- cont. on page 3 UCSD Emeriti Association UCSD Emeriti Association Cont. from page 7. home life Uncle Moe managed was pervaded by a kibbutz-like equality: everything was planned and we all shared the chores and life’s pleasures. Today, the Amalgamated boasts tall towers on ifteen acres with apartments ranging from studios to Sanford Lakoff Editor three bedrooms. They are available to all applicants, Suzan Ciofi Managing Editor not just union members, with relatively modest in- comes. They provide housing for 1500 families and remain co-operatively owned and managed. The irst Morton Printz President February 2018 Volume XVII, No. 3 president, Abraham Kazan, set forth its principles, Phyllis Mirsky Vice President now enshrined on its website: Robert Knox Secretary/Treasurer Mark Appelbaum Past President, Awards It was offered to us to demonstrate that through GENESIS: HOW UCSD CAME TO BE cooperative efforts we can better the lot of our Members at Large: Stan Chodorow, Win Cox, Fran Gillin, co‐workers. We have also been given the privilege Marguerite Jackson, Henry Powell and Gill Williamson. to show that where all personal gain and beneit Ex Oficio: Dick Attiyeh, CUCEA Chair, Jack Fisher, Histori- is eliminated, greater good can be accomplished an, Gail Geddis, Representative, UCSD Retirement Association, Sandy Lakoff, Editor, Chronicles, Suzan Ciofi, Director, III. Assembling the Land ence Division at Convair, and Fred- for the beneit of all. It remains too for the mem‐ Retirement Resource Center, and Maxine Bloor, Liaison to bers of our Cooperative Community to exert their Oceanids. erik de Hoffmann, a physicist efforts to run this cooperative and make it more Forward queries, changes in mailing/email address to: By Jack C. Fisher who was now President of General Suzan Ciofi, Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center, Atomics. The Regents were duly useful, and more interesting, for all who live in UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, CA 92093‐0020. Professor Emeritus of Surgery Telephone: (858) 534‐4724, [email protected] impressed and endorsed the these apartments. Forward queries, changes in mailing/email address to: EA Historian and Past President

the matter in December, City Manag- at a Regents meeting in Los Angeles. Anecdotage: