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DOCTOR
ROBERT GORDON SPROUL
Robert
Gordon Sproul, president of the University of
California was born in San Francisco, California, May 22, 1891, the son of
Robert and Sarah Elizabeth (Moore). Receiving his early education in the public
schools of that city he was graduated with Bachelor of Science degree from the
University of California in 1913. He has since received honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws from Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1926; University of
Southern California 1930; University of San Francisco 1930; Pomona College
1931; University of Oregon 1932; University of Nebraska 1935, Yale 1935,
University of Maine 1938, University of New Mexico 1940, Harvard 1940, Mills
College 1943, Princeton University 1947, Tulane University 1949, St. Mary’s
College 1949; Doctor of Letters, Columbia University 1938 and honorable fellow,
Stanford University 1941.
Doctor Sproul
was comptroller and secretary of the Board of Regents, University of California
1920-1930, vice president 1925 and president since 1930. He is also vice
president and a director of the Berkeley Guarantee Savings and Loan Association
and member California State Commission on Agricultural Education 1921-1923;
member commission on Revision of California State Constitution 1929-1930 and
California State Board of Social Welfare 1928-1931. During the ensuing years he
has served in various official capacities with numerous state, national and
international organizations dealing with education, welfare, scientific
research, war prisoner and refugee aid, post-war reparations and the Marshall
Plan. He is also an American member of Council Newcomen
Society of England, National Red Cross Advisory Committee, American Newcomen Society, Board of Governors Pan-American Trade
Committee; director California Sate Chamber of Commerce.
Other memberships include Phi Beta
Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Delta Sigma Pi and Alpha Zeta fraternities. His club
memberships include Pacific Union, The Family and Bohemian, San Francisco;
Faculty and Rotary, Berkeley; Lincoln, Jonathan and Sunset, Los Angeles,
California and University, New York.
Married September 6, 1916 to Ida
Amelia Wittschen, they have three children, Marion
Elizabeth Goodin, Robert Gordon and John Allan.
Family residence is at President’s
House, University of California, Berkeley, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 71, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Cecelia M. Setty.
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