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J.E. Wallace Sterling: Mr. H. Donald Winbigler Dinner Program
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Call Number: SCM0425
Creator:
Stanford University. Office of the President
Title: J.E. Wallace Sterling: Mr. H. Donald Winbigler dinner program
Dates: 1968 Apr 18
Physical Description:
0.02 Linear feet (1 folder)
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This item was originally classified in the Stanford University Publications and Ephemera Collection
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[identification of item], J.E. Wallace Sterling: Mr. H. Donald Winbigler dinner program (SCM0425). Dept. of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
J.E. Wallace Sterling, president of Stanford University from 1949-1968, earned his A.B. in history at the University of Toronto
in 1927; he taught at the University of Alberta while pursuing graduate work there from 1928-1930. He came to Stanford in
1930 to pursue his doctorate, which he received in 1938. While at Stanford, he was also a research assistant in the Hoover
Library and taught in the History Department. From 1938 to 1948 Sterling taught at the California Institute of Technology,
where he was elected chairman of the faculty in 1944. He had been Director of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery for five
months when he accepted the presidency of Stanford University. During Sterling's 19 years as president, Stanford's endowment
nearly doubled, the faculty increased by 170 percent, graduate programs were improved, major building plans were completed,
the Medical School was moved to campus from San Francisco, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was built. After his
retirement in 1968, Sterling was named University Chancellor. He died on July 1, 1985.
Program for dinner held "in honor of Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Wallace Sterling to mark his approaching retirement as Fifth President
of Stanford University, 18 April 1968, San Francisco, California."
Bush, Royal Robert
Fuller, W. Palmer.
Phleger, Herman
Sterling, J. E. Wallace, (John Ewart Wallace), 1906-1985
Stanford University--Presidents.