Description
This collection documents the career of
Dean E. McHenry, the founding Chancellor of the University of California, Santa
Cruz.
Background
Dean Eugene McHenry was born in 1910 on a bean farm in Lompoc, California. He attended
elementary and junior high school in Lompoc and then moved to Van Nuys (near Los Angeles) in
1925, where he attended Van Nuys High School. In 1928 McHenry entered the University of
California, Los Angeles, then a primarily undergraduate campus only in its ninth year. He
was to become an important force in the history of UCLA, both as a student and later as a
faculty member and dean of social sciences. While at UCLA he was elected president of the
Associated Students and earned a BA in political science. McHenry went on to Stanford
University, where he roomed with Clark Kerr, a fortuitous happening, for Kerr was to become
a lifelong friend and key colleague who shaped McHenry's career. There McHenry also fell in
love with his future wife, Jane Snyder. He earned his master's in political science from
Stanford in 1933. His thesis focused on lobbying in the California legislature.
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