Proposed Slate for 2016 ‐ 2017 Oficers Mark Appelbaum President Sanford Lakoff Editor Morton Printz Vice President Robert Knox Secretary/Treasurer Suzan Ciofi Managing Editor Henry Powell Past President, Awards Henry Powell President APRIL 2016 Volume XV, No. 4 Executive Committee Mark Appelbaum Vice President Phyllis Mirsky Secretary/Treasurer Members at Large: George Backus (IGGP, SIO); Stan Chodorow (History, Campus); Win Cox (Communications, Campus); Fran Gillin Joel Dimsdale Past President, Awards (Health Sciences); Marguerite Jackson (Health Sciences); and Gill Williamson (Mathematics, Campus). Ex Oficio: Dick Attiyeh, Representative to CUCEA; Jack Fisher, Members at Large: Marguerite Jackson, Robert Knox, Carol Historian; Nancy Groves, Liaison to the UCSD Retirement Associa‐ Plantamura, , Roger Spragg, Joe Watson, and Gill Williamson. tion; Sandy Lakoff, Editor, Chronicles, Suzan Ciofi, Managing Edi‐ Ex Oficio: Dick Attiyeh, Representative to CUCEA, Jack Fisher, tor, Chronicles, and Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center; Historian, Boone Hellmann, Representative, UCSD Retirement By Henry Powell anyone else rich, though it might and Maxine Bloor, Liaison to Oceanids. Association, Sandy Lakoff, Editor, Chronicles, Suzan Ciofi, Direc‐ Professor Emeritus of Pathology get him killed by the hordes of pro‐ tor, Retirement Resource Center, and Maxine Bloor, Liaison to spectors drunk with acquisitive The election of the proposed slate will take place in April by email. Oceanids. If you do not have access to email, you are welcome to mail in your Forward queries, changes in mailing/email address to: Have you thanked a missionary frenzy. approval of the proposed slate, or your proposal of an alternate Suzan Ciofi, Director, UCSD Retirement Resource Center, Already in 1849, General Bennet oficer or Member at large to: Suzan Ciofi, Director, UCSD Retire‐ lately? UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, CA 92093‐0020. ment Resource Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0020, La Jolla, The University of California was C. Riley, an energetic and vision‐ Telephone: (858) 534‐4724, [email protected] CA 92093‐0020. The deadline for mail ballots is April 15, 2016. founded in Berkeley in 1869. As its ary military governor of the territo‐ sesquicentennial in 2019 nears, we ry, convened a constitutional con‐ might want to remind ourselves how vention and drove the delegates to it came to be and who were its little‐ fashion a document prescribing remembered progenitors. institutions of civil governance. A Like so much else having to do major concern of the delegates was with California, our system of public that education be free, public, and excellent. The consistency with Joel Dimsdale, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of higher education had its beginnings in the feverish Gold Rush of 1849. which the case for education was Psychiatry made during these formative years No other territory came hurtling into Professor Emeritus Henry Powell Topic: "The Anatomy of Malice, The Enigma of the Nazi the Union with such speed, Carey embedded public education in the McWilliams noted in The Califor- ly disruptive. John August Sutter DNA of the ledgling state. But the War Criminals” man who more than anyone else nia Exception (1949); it became the had been advised that the rich soil Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 3:30 ‐ 5 PM thirty‐irst state only a year after the of California would yield greater laid the foundation for what be‐ electrifying discovery at Sutter’s wealth to farmers than the “crazy‐ came the University of California Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club Mill. Onrushing events, a vacuum in making” pursuit of gold, but the lust was not at all like the fortune seek‐ governance, masses of migrants for easy riches brought a stampede ers drawn by the Gold Rush. In from many countries, violence and of speculators with no interest or some ways he was the prototypical lawlessness all combined to create a patience for the hard work of clear‐ sense of desperate urgency in this ing and tilling the soil. Still, even the cont. on page 2 wildest dreams of the Gold Rush BOTH of the following events are on WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 new and raw western territory. There were also strategic issues. Be‐ had to pass scientiic scrutiny. Cap‐ Chancellor’s Scholars Freshman Cohort tween the high Sierras on one side tain Sutter reached for his personal Academic Poster Session— Free and the Paciic Ocean on the other, copy of Encyclopedia Americana How a Missionary Helped Found Seuss Library, UCSD Faculty Club, 10:00 AM ‐ 12:00 PM “Alta California”‐‐ newly separated when called upon to prove that the the University of California …. 1 shiny yellow material brought for from Mexico by the war that ended Writing Anatomy of Malice ….. 2 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidal‐ his inspection was indeed gold. He Annual Business Luncheon go (1848) ‐‐ was too distant from the tested it with nitric acid, weighed it, Donor Recognition event ……... 6 Atkinson Pavilion, UCSD Faculty Club rest of the country to be left open to and compared its weight to equal Emeriti Book Club ………............ 6 11:30 AM ‐ 2:00 PM ‐ Fee: $25 member/$40 non‐members covetous foreign imperial powers. amounts of silver. In short he knew Anecdotage ………………………… 7 Featuring Gary Jacobson, Distinguished Professor of But nothing catalyzed action so that without knowledge, training, Political Science much as the Gold Rush, nor was any‐ and veriication, the shiny metal in Mark your calendar ……...……... 8 thing more economically and social‐ his hand would not make him or Topic: "Making Sense (if possible) of the 2016 Election” UCSD Emeriti Association Page 2 APRIL 2016 Chronicles APRIL 2016 Chronicles Page 7 American celebrated in the heroic Yale graduate and Congregationalist images of the fearless pioneer and minister, soon looked for a more per‐ Anecdotage self‐made man fashioned by writ‐ manent site. Several blocks of land in ers from Ralph Waldo Emerson to downtown Oakland provided real es‐ tate for the College of California and a Horatio Alger. But he was not By Sandy Lakoff and chips, are some actual maintenance com‐ building was raised. Durant was so driven by the urge to succeed in English plaints submitted by Qantas pilots ired with enthusiasm that he con‐ mining, farming, commerce, or in‐ Breakfast (marked with a P) and the solu‐ fessed to having “college on the A Cite to Behold: Kid brother dustry. Instead, he was a pious tea, biscuits, tions recorded (marked with an S) brain.” It turned out Durant would George, who professes linguis‐ Christian missionary. and other by maintenance engineers. (By the need both physical and moral courage tics at Berkeley, boasts over Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821 culinary way, Qantas is the only major air‐ to contend with dishonest and vio‐ 100,000 citations on the Google ‐1914) was a New Englander who staples of line that has never, ever, had an lently inclined building contractors, scholarly index! He did not come to graduated from Dartmouth College Old Blighty. Keep an eye out for its accident.) but he succeeded. As well as becom‐ this vocational celebrity without and Union Theological Seminary in perfect name: “God Save the Cuisine.” ing the irst president of the college, parental inluence. Like all Jewish New York, and pledged his service P: Left inside main tyre almost he made it into a university by over‐ moms, his mother (and my step‐ to the American Home Missionary *** needs replacement. coming political forces that wanted mother) complained that her sons Society originally founded by Bap‐ S: Almost replaced left inside main the college to focus on Agriculture and didn’t keep in touch nearly as often tists. Upon being ordained as a Thanks to Claire Angel : tyre. Mining to the detriment of liberal as she had every right to expect. Presbyterian minister at the age of Jeffers, and founded the irst pub‐ arts. Willey served as Vice President “Two professors I have,” she la‐ 27, Reverend Willey was ordered Chutzpah is a Yiddish word mea‐ P: Test light OK, except auto‐land lic library in California. During the of the College of California and later as mented, “and neither one can write to go west, to become the pastor in ning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, very rough. constitutional convention of 1849 he the irst Vice President of the Univer‐ me a line!” Pop regularly wrote Monterey, where he was to create sheer guts plus arrogance; and, as S: Auto‐land not installed on this served as chaplain and offered the sity of California, which absorbed the letters to the editor, including one schools and a library. If he had Leo Rosten writes, "No other word aircraft. benediction at the conclusion of its college. about corrupt military contracting harbored any hopes of a peaceful and no other language can do it jus‐ proceedings. He and his wife then As he had blessed the work of the that made it into the New York minister’s life in a well ordered tice." P: Something loose in cockpit. moved to San Francisco where they California Constitutional Convention Times. And he sometimes dabbled New England township, he had to The essence of chutzpah: A little S: Something tightened in cockpit. petitioned the town council to fund a in 1849, Willey blessed the irst grad‐ in whimsical doggerel like one that give them up for the sake of his old lady sold pretzels on a street cor‐ public school. There too he met re‐ uating class from Berkeley in 1873 began: calling. Late in the fall of 1848, he ner for 25 cents each. Every day a P: Dead bugs on windshield. sistance. The council rejected his and was honored many years later by A helluva ine palaver left New York harbor by steamer young man would leave his ofice S: Live bugs on back‐order.