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Title: University of California, Santa Barbara, Office of the Chancellor, Chancellors' Records
Identifier/Call Number: UArch 17
Identifier/Call Number: 3914
Language of Material:
English
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Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
15.5 Linear Feet
35 document boxes, 1 half document box and 47 audiotapes
Abstract: The Chancellors' records are arranged chronologically by chancellor and predecessor administrators, and contain speeches,
subject files, clippings, committee files, correspondence, and other documents. The bulk of the collection consists of materials
from Vernon I. Cheadle, chancellor from 1962-1977.
Physical Location: Del Sur, University Archives, 24A (Series I-VIII); Annex 2 (Series IX).
Physical Location: Boxes 1-4: S1-A3-C1-R7
Boxes 5-11: S1-A3-C1-R8
Boxes 12-18: S1-A3-C1-R9
Boxes 19-25: S1-A3-C2-R1
Boxes 26-32: S1-A3-C2-R2
Boxes 33-36: S1-A3-C2-R3
Creator:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Office of the Chancellor
Date (inclusive): circa 1904-2003
Date (bulk): 1962-1977
None; Some materials stored off-site, advance notice required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Office of the Chancellor, Chancellors' Records. UArch 17, Department of Special Collections,
Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Multiple transfers from Chancellor's Office; Audio merged from University Archives Audio Recordings in 2010.
Biography / Administrative History
Biographical information from the University of California History Digital Archives,
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/index.html .
Chief Campus Officers. Santa Barbara State College was under the supervision of a president, but in 1944, when it became a campus of the University, the title of the chief executive was changed to provost. In September of 1958, the Regents established Santa Barbara as a general University campus and at that time the official title of the chief campus
officer became "chancellor."
Clarence L. Phelps. President, Santa Barbara State Normal School, 1918-1935; President, Santa Barbara State College, 1935-1944; Provost, Santa Barbara College of the University of California, 1944-1946. Born in Kentucky in 1881, came west for his college education, earning his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Stanford University.
He fulfilled all course requirements for the Ph.D. degree, including the publication of his dissertation, but residence requirements
prevented the granting of the degree. Before coming to Santa Barbara, he was on the faculties of teachers colleges at San
Jose, Tempe (Arizona), San Diego, and Fresno. In 1918, he became president of Santa Barbara State Normal School of Manual
Arts and Home Economics and in 1944 was appointed the first provost when the campus (then known as Santa Barbara State College)
became a part of the University system, retiring from that position in 1946. He died in Santa Barbara on May 7 1964, at the
age of 83. See also the box on Phelps in University Archives, History and Events.
J. Harold Williams. Acting provost 1946-1950; provost from 1950-1955. Earned his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University. He was director of the California Bureau of Research from
1915-1923, then joined the faculty at UCLA as lecturer. Dr. Williams advanced to a professorship in 1929 and became director
of the Summer Sessions on the Los Angeles campus in 1936. He came to Santa Barbara in 1946 to take up the duties of acting
provost. Acquisition of the Goleta site and preparation of a physical master plan for a 3,500-student campus were among his
accomplishments. In 1955, he was appointed coordinator of Summer Sessions on a University-wide basis with headquarters on
the Los Angeles campus. No Chancellor's records thus far found for Williams; see the Office of Public Information Biographical
Files, UArch 11.
Clark G. Kuebler. Provost, 1955. Received his A.B. degree at Northwestern University and the Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago. He was in the classics
department of Northwestern from 1930-43, and served as president of Ripon College, Wisconsin, from 1943-55 before coming to
the Santa Barbara campus in February of 1955. After a short tenure as provost, Dr. Kuebler resigned the position in November,
1955, and later entered private business.
John C. Snidecor. Acting Provost, Feb-June 1956. Received his A.B. degree from the University (Berkeley) and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa.
He joined the Santa Barbara faculty in 1940. Following service with the Navy in World War II, Dr. Snidecor became a dean of
the Division of Applied Arts in 1948 and continued in that post (except for the five months spent as acting provost) until
July, 1960, when he resumed his full-time responsibilities in teaching and research. No Chancellor's records thus far found
for Snidecor; see the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11.
Elmer R. Noble. Acting Provost, 1956-1958; Acting Chief Campus Officer, 1958-1959. Received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University (Berkeley) before joining the faculty at Santa Barbara in
1936. He became dean of letters and science in 1955. In July of 1956, he was appointed acting provost of the campus and served
as such until September, 1958, when he was made vice-chancellor and acting chief campus officer, a position he held until
June, 1959. Dr. Noble then became vice-chancellor--graduate affairs, continuing until 1961 when he resumed full-time teaching
and research. No Chancellor's records thus far found for Noble; see the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch
11.
Samuel B. Gould. Chancellor 1959-1962. First chancellor of the Santa Barbara campus; was born in New York City on August 11, 1910. He received his A.B. degree from
Bates College (1930) and his M.A. degree from New York University (1936). During World War II he served as an officer in the
Navy. Dr. Gould was president of Antioch College for five years and on the faculty of Boston University for six years before
coming to Santa Barbara to serve as chancellor from 1959-1962.
Vernon I. Cheadle. Chancellor, 1962-1977. Received his A.B. degree from Miami University, Ohio, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Prior to coming
to California, he was on the faculty of Rhode Island University, which included a decade of service as head of the botany
department and director of the graduate division. During ten years of service as professor of botany on the Davis campus,
he also served as chairman of his department for eight years and in 1961-1962 was acting chancellor. Dr. Cheadle came to the
Santa Barbara campus as chancellor in 1962, at a time when enrollment was beginning a series of increases unprecedented in
the history of the campus. See also Cheadle's faculty papers relating to his service as a professor, FacP 22.
Robert A. Huttenback. Chancellor, 1977-1986. A 1951 graduate of UCLA; received his Ph.D. from the same campus in 1959. He spent the 1956-1957 academic year on a Fulbright
Fellowship at the University of London in the School of Oriental and African Studies. The following year, he was awarded a
Ford grant to study and travel in India. Joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology in 1958; served as chairman
of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1972 until his appointment as chancellor of Santa Barbara in 1977.
Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Interim Chancellor, 1986-1987. First chancellor of the Irvine campus in 1962; left in 1984 and was appointed acting chancellor at Riverside following Chancellor
Rivera's death. He later served as interim chancellor at Santa Barbara from 1986-1987. He died in 1990.
Barbara S. Uehling. Chancellor, 1987-1994. Provost of the University of Oklahoma-Norman; Chancellor of the University of Missouri at Columbia; then senior visiting
fellow of the American Council of Education in Washington, D.C. Became chancellor at Santa Barbara in 1987 and served until
1994.
Henry T. Yang. Chancellor, 1994 - . Formerly the Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University,
where he also served as the Dean of engineering for ten years. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a
Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received many awards and honors for his research,
teaching, and service, including an honorary doctorate from Purdue University and the Benjamin Garver Lamme gold medal, the
highest honor from the American Society of Engineering.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection is arranged chronologically by chancellor and predecessor administrators, and contains speeches, subject files,
clippings, committee files, correspondence, and other documents. The bulk of the collection consists of materials from Vernon
I. Cheadle, chancellor from 1962-1977.
The collection contains the following series:
Series I, Clarence L. Phelps, President, Santa Barbara State Normal School, 1918-1935; President, Santa Barbara State College, 1935-1944; Provost, Santa Barbara College of the University of California, 1944-1946.
Series II, Clark G. Kuebler, Provost, 1955.
Series III, Samuel B. Gould, Chancellor, 1959-1962.
Series IV, Vernon I. Cheadle, Chancellor, 1962-1977.
Series V, Robert A. Huttenback, Chancellor, 1977-1986.
Series VI, Daniel Aldrich, Acting Chancellor, 1986-1987.
Series VII, Barbara S. Uehling, Chancellor, 1987-1994.
Series VIII, Henry T. Yang, Chancellor, 1994-
Series IX, Audio, contains tapes of speeches and other events featuring Gould, Cheadle, and Huttenback.
Serials originally included in the collection have been separated to the University Archives Serials section:
- Chancellor's Annual Report, 1965-1971
- Chancellor's Letter, 1960-1969
- Chancellor's Newsletter, 1969
- Chancellor's Report to the Campus, 1969-1973
- UCSB Bulletin, 1970-1977
- UC Santa Barbara Update, Oct. 1975-1977
See also in Special Collections:
UCSB Office of the Chancellor, Administrative Files, UArch 18, contains more general records relating to the Chancellor's
Office that are not specific to a single chancellor's tenure.
UCSB Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11, contain files on the current and past chancellors.
UCSB History and Antecedents collection, UArch 100, contains material relating to the different predecessor colleges and campuses
previous chancellors presided over.
UCSB Academic Senate records, UArch 13, and the UC Academic Senate records, University Archives Systemwide.
A separate collection on Vernon Cheadle from his time as a faculty member in the Botany Department can be found in the Faculty
Papers section of University Archives, UArch FacP 22.
In Memoriam, some issues in University Archives Serials and also found online at
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/in_memoriam/index1.html , contains biographical information about deceased university faculty and administrators, including past chancellors.
The library also houses publications by former chancellors, many in relation to research done outside of their service as
administrators. These can be found by searching the library's online catalog at
http://pegasus-16.library.ucsb.edu/
The website for the Office of the Chancellor is archived as a part of the UCSB University Archives collection on the Internet
Archive.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
College administrators
Student movements
Uehling, Barbara Staner
Yang, T. Y.
Huttenback, Robert A.
University of California, Santa Barbara. Office of the Chancellor
Aldrich, Daniel G.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Cheadle, Vernon I. (Vernon Irvin)
Gould, Samuel B.
Phelps, Clarence L.
Kuebler, Clark George