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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. Robert Gordon Sproul Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club 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.
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