Guide to the University of California, Irvine, Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich records AS.001
Finding aid prepared by Special Collections and Archives staff, 1993-2007; updated by Dawn Schmitz, 2009.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: University of California, Irvine, Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich records
Creator:
Aldrich, Daniel G.
Creator:
University of California, Irvine. Office of the Chancellor
Identifier/Call Number: AS.001
Physical Description:
25 Linear Feet
(25 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1962-1984
Physical Location: Most of the collection is stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and Archives staff in advance of your visit so
we can arrange for retrieval of the materials.
Abstract: Daniel G. Aldrich was the founding chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. The records in this collection document
many of the professional activities he engaged in while serving as chancellor, as well as his speeches and involvement with
community organizations.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access restrictions
The collection is available for research, except some materials in Series 1, Personal files. Unrestricted materials in this
series can be made available with advance notice upon request.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are retained by the creators of the records and their
heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact the University Archivist.
Preferred Citation
University of California, Irvine, Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich records. AS-001. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine
Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquisition Information
Transferred from the Office of the Chancellor, 1984.
Processing History
Mary Ellen Goddard processed this collection in 1993. In order to facilitate access, the collection was subject to minimal
processing.
Historical Background
Daniel G. Aldrich was the founding chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, serving from 1962 until 1984. Aldrich's
background in agriculture and his connection with the land-grant system at the University of Rhode Island influenced his decision
to design a campus in which environmental planning and community service would be crucial. After accepting the appointment
of chancellor he set out to create a university faithful to the land-grant tradition, yet appropriate to the opportunities
and challenges of the 21st century.
Born in Northwood, New Hampshire, on July 12, 1918, Aldrich received his Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Agriculture
at the University of Rhode Island in 1939. He earned his Master's of Science degree at the University of Arizona in 1941 and
married the former Jean Hamilton. He went on to get his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1943.
Aldrich began his academic career at the University of California in 1944 as a soil chemist at the Citrus Experiment Station,
now the University of California, Riverside. In 1955 he was appointed chair of the Soils departments concurrently for the
University of California, Davis and The University of California, Berkeley. In 1958 he became dean of Agriculture for the
University of California, presiding over agricultural teaching programs at Davis, Berkeley, Riverside and Los Angeles, as
well as the Statewide Agricultural Experiment Station. He was responsible for activities on four campuses, a network of field
stations, and the Agricultural Extension Service, with farm advisors and home advisors serving 56 of California's 58 counties.
When appointed to the position of founding chancellor of UC Irvine, Aldrich was given the responsibility for developing the
new campus from blueprints to fully operating academic institution within three years. He accomplished this, encouraging the
newly recruited deans and department chairs to establish academic programs that reflected new developments in intellectual
inquiry. Thus, the School of Biological Sciences pioneered in establishing departments based on levels of analysis, the School
of Social Sciences developed programs emphasizing mathematical approaches to inquiry in the social and behavioral sciences,
and the School of Humanities fostered programs in creative writing, literary criticism, and comparative literature. The young
UC Irvine campus also provided a fertile setting for the development of newly-emerging interdisciplinary programs. The campus
landscape was Aldrich's applied laboratory, a reflection of his interest and expertise in soils and plant nutrition.
Aldrich retired as UC Irvine chancellor in 1984. However, with the sudden death of the UC Riverside chancellor, he became
acting chancellor of that institution from 1984-85. He was called again from 1986-87 to become acting chancellor of UC Santa
Barbara, after which he retired, finally, and became Chancellor Emeritus of UC Irvine.
In recognition of Aldrich's key role in the planning and development of the buildings and programs of UC Irvine, the park
in the center of campus was dedicated to him and named in his honor in 1984.
Aldrich was involved in numerous civic and professional activities, receiving honorary degrees and awards from a number of
academic institutions as well as many honors in recognition of his professional activities and his contributions to service
organizations. He served on advisory committees and boards of a large number of local, national, and international organizations
and provided leadership to groups concerned with world-wide problems of agriculture and natural resources, including the President's
Agricultural Task Force to Zaire (1985).
He was also an active participant in a variety of sports, ranging from coaching Little League teams in Riverside, Davis and
Berkeley, to participating (and winning medals) in U.S. Master Track and Field Championships, Senior Olympics, and World Association
of Veteran Athletes Championships.
When Daniel Aldrich died on April 9, 1990, he had been with the University of California for 47 years.
Biographical / Historical
Chronology of Daniel G. Aldrich
| 1918 |
Born in Northwood, New Hampshire |
| 1939 |
Graduates from the College of Agriculture at the University of Rhode Island |
| 1941 |
Receives master's degree at the University of Arizona |
| 1941 |
Marries Jean Hamilton |
| 1943 |
Receives Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1944 |
Begins academic career as soil chemist at the Citrus Experiment Station, now University of California, Riverside |
| 1955 |
Appointed chair of the Soils departments concurrently for the University of California, Davis and The University of California,Berkeley |
| 1958 |
Appointed dean of Agriculture for the University of California |
| 1962 |
Appointed founding chancellor of the University of California, Irvine |
| 1965 |
UC Irvine opens as a fully functioning academic institution, with an enrollment of 1,589 students |
| 1975 |
UC-Irvine total enrollment is 9,547 students |
| 1975 |
UC-Irvine is awarded $28 million in grants and contracts |
| 1984 |
The Irvine Company donates $1,100,000 for events center, Beckman Laser Institute, Medical Clinic, and Aldrich Chair endowment |
| 1984 |
UC-Irvine adds $382 million to the Orange County economy |
| 1984 |
Retires as the chancellor of UC Irvine |
| 1984 |
Named acting chancellor of UC Riverside |
| 1986 |
Named acting chancellor of UC Santa Barbara |
| 1987 |
Finally retires and becomes chancellor emeritus of UC Irvine |
| 1990 |
Dies of colon cancer at the age of 71 |
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Daniel G. Aldrich was the founding chancellor of the University of California, Irvine. The records in this collection document
many of the professional activities he engaged in while serving as chancellor, as well as his speeches and involvement with
community organizations.
The collection contains records relating to Aldrich's his service on boards, committees and organizations in the field of
agriculture and his related work at the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. Also included are speeches,
personal files including recommendations, invitations, and files documenting his memberships in, and service to, a range of
organizations including the Boy Scouts, Children's Hospital of Orange County, and Big Brothers of Orange County.
Not included in this collection are correspondence files, which can be found in AS-002, the University of California, Irvine,
Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich Correspondence Files. Additional files documenting Chancellor Aldrich's activities are located
in AS-004, the University of California, Irvine, Central Records Unit Records.
Collection Arrangement Note
The numbers at the series level correspond to the highest level of the file plan arrangement imposed by the University of
California, Irvine's Central Records Unit based on the Central Records file plan. The Chancellor's records used an extension
of this plan, with series numbers ranging from 950 to 965.
The Chancellor's records section of the Central Records file plan has changed over the years; file plan numbers have been
deleted, added and renamed to accommodate the changing needs of the office. In this collection many file plan numbers have
no material filed under them. This material may have been discarded for some reason, or numbers may have been merged and old
numbers not deleted from the latest version of the file plan. File plan numbers with no material associated do not appear
in this guide.
There is more information about the file plan in the University of California, Irvine, Central Records Unit Records, AS.004.
Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for further assistance.
The collection is arranged in the following 7 series:
- 950 Personal files, 1968-1984
- 951 Invitations, 1970-1984
- 952 Agriculture, 1962-1984
- 953 National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1961-1967
- 961 Speeches, 1970-1984
- 962 Memberships, 1963-1984
- 965 Pacific School of Religion, 1972-1984
Related Collections
Related materials can be found in the following collections:
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AS-002 Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich correspondence and other materials
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AS-003 Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich professional papers
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AS-004 UCI Central Records Unit records
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chancellors
College administrators -- California -- Irvine -- History -- Sources
University of California, Irvine -- History
Aldrich, Daniel G. -- Archives
University of California, Irvine. Office of the Chancellor -- Archives
University of California, Irvine -- Archives
University of California, Irvine -- Administration -- Archives
950 Personal files Series 1:
1968-1984
Access restrictions
Access to this series is restricted because it contains restricted materials, such as personnel records, interfiled with unrestricted
materials. Researchers may contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access to records
from particular dates or date ranges, and staff will provide access after reviewing requested ranges for the presence of restricted
material.
box 4
D.G. Aldrich "Open University"
1970
box 4
Israel and Egypt trip
1978
box 4
Wright-Ingraham Institute
1975-1983
box 4
Christmas Card file, Volume 1
1982
box 5
950-11 Thorup thesis
1962-1973
950-13 Fund for Theological Education
box 5
950-14 Orange County churches
1964-1966
box 5
950-15 Pilgrim Place, Volume 2
1976-1978
box 5
950-16 Rhode Island University Alumni Association
1964-1970
box 5
950-18 Disneyland Community Service Awards Program: letter from Disney
1966
950-19 Sub-panel of Presidents' Science Advisory Committee: Study on World Food Supply (PSAC)
box 5
950-20 Marshall Scholarship Committee
1978
box 5
950-22 DanForth Leave
1970-1974
box 5
950-22 Chancellor trip
1971
box 5
950-23 California Natural Resources Federation
1977
951 Invitations Series 2:
1969-1984
box 9
Western Assembly on Population and Hunger
1975
box 9
Missouri-Columbia University Evaluation Team visit
1972-1973
box 10
Plant/Cell Biology Review Committee,
1977
box 10
Western Energy Congress (Wenatchee, Washington)
1974
box 10
Conference on International Development
1976
box 10
Virginia Polytechnic Institute Conference "Title XII,"
1976
box 10
EPCOT Future Technology Conference
1976
952 Agriculture Series 3:
1962-1984
Internal processing note
Possible missing materials: In a 2001 edition of this finding aid (last updated in 2007), there was an indication of (undescribed)
oversize materials in the Agriculture series covering the years 1963 and 1964-1965. These were listed as in box(?) XOS1. However,
no such box is listed in the stacks locator, nor is there any indication of which (if any) map case drawer these materials
might be in.
box 10
Carnegie Study of American Colleges of Agriculture
1962-1963
box 10
Agriculture, general
1982-1983
box 10
952-12 California Farm Research & Legislative Committee
1963-1964
952-13 Soil Conservation Society (Honorary Member)
box 10
952-15 W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Agriculture Advisory Committee
1960-1974
box 10
952-16-1 State Board of Agriculture meetings
1963
box 11
American Society of Agronomy, Volume 2
1967-1972
box 11
UC Agricultural Extension Service
1972-1984
952-25 California Farm Labor Panel
box 11
California Tomato growers
1965
box 11
952-25-1 Grower interviews
1965
Scope and Contents note
Includes interviews from the following teams: Dixon, Marysville, Merced, Sacramento and Stockton.
box 11
Special Task Force Survey
1965
box 11
UC Division of Agriculture, California Cannery Tomatoes
1965
box 11
952-25-2 California Farm Labor Panel: California Department of Employment
1964-1965
952-25-3 U.S. Department of Labor
California Farm Labor Panel
Scope and Content note
Includes records of hearings on farm labor needs in California.
Volume 2
1965
Scope and Content note
Includes records of hearings on farm labor needs in California.
box 11
Stockton, California
1965 April 20
box 11
Salinas, California
1965 April 20
box 11
Santa Marina, California
1965 May 7
box 11
Stockton, California
1965 May 11
box 11
Salinas, California
1965 May 12
box 11
Blythe, California
1965 May 20
box 11
Agriculture, California
1965
952-25-4 Agriculture Extension Service
box 12
California agricultural labor requirements & adjustments
1964
box 12
Seasonal labor in California agriculture
1962
box 12
California Farm Labor Panel
1968
952-26 U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency: Agency for International Development (Advisory Committee)
U.S. Agency for International Development Service (A.I.D.S.)
961 Speeches Series 5:
1970-1984
Processing History
In a previous version of this finding aid, a notation was made indicating that speeches from 1962-1969 had been found. "Loc
144" was given as an indicator, it is presumed, of their location. However, since this location system is out of use, we are
again unable to find these speech files. After processing publishing this finding aid, it was noted that there are Aldrich
speeches covering the years 1957-1977 in box 13 of AS-003, located at SRLF.
953 National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council (CEANAR) Series 4:
1961-1967
953 Committee on Education Policy in Agriculture
box 13
Committee on Education Policy in Agriculture and Natural Resources: Minutes
1964-1967
box 14
Preliminary Report of the Curriculum Study Committee
1964
box 14
An Evaluation of the Agricultural Program
1966
box 14
Committee on Education Policy in Agriculture
1961
box 14
A Panel Review of Education in Agriculture
1966
box 14
Meeting of the College Commissions in the Sciences & Mathematics
1966
box 14
Conferences on Undergraduate Education in Horticultural Science
1965
box 15
Committee on Education Policy in Agriculture (CEPA) meeting
1965
box 15
CEANAR meetings
1966-1967
962 Memberships Series 6:
1963-1984
962-12 Boy Scouts of America
box 17
Minutes, Volume 3
1975-1981
box 17
962-14 Orange County Philharmonic Society
1963-1981
box 17
962-17 American Association for Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, Volume 5
1981-1984
962-19 Big Brothers of Orange County
box 17
962-27 World Affairs Council of Orange County
1966-1984
962-28 Stanford Research Institution – Board of Directors minutes
962-32 National Association of State Universities & Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
box 17
962-32-0 General, Volume 2
1981-1983
box 18
962-32-1 Water Resources Committee (Chairman)
1972-1975
962-32-2 Council of Presidents
box 18
Executive Committee Meeting
1975
962-32-3 Future of the Association
box 19
Executive Committee Meeting, Volumes 1-3
1976-1977
box 19
962-32-6 Board of International Food & Agricultural
Development, Volume 2
1980-1984
box 19
962-32-7 Policy & Issues Committee, Volume 2
1980-1984
962-32-8 National Committee on Extension in 1980s
box 20
962-32-9 National Joint Policy Committee
1982
box 20
962-33 Cosmos Club, Volumes 1 and 2
1966-1984
962-40 Constitution Revision Commission (California)
box 20
General Information
1968-1971
box 21
Memberships, Volumes 1-3
1967-1974
box 22
962-42 International Voluntary Service, Volumes 10-11
1982-1983
box 22
962-45 Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities
box 22
Sonoma State University
1982-1983
box 23
962-48 Southern California Turfgrass Council
1974-1981
box 23
962-52 National Conference of Christians & Jews
1981-1983
box 23
962-53 Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) Padrinos
1981-1984
box 23
962-56 Accreditation Visit, University of Washington
1983
box 23
962-57 Phyto-Genetics
1977-1980
box 23
962-58 Los Angeles Olympic Citizens Advisory Commissions
1981-1984
box 23
962-59 United Ways New Horizons Committee
1982
box 23
962-60 Education Advisory Committee
1982-1983
965 Pacific School of Religion Series 7:
1972-1984
