Photograph of Hobart Burns, acting president of the San Jose State College from 1969-70. Hobert W. Burns was born in Los Angeles in 1925 and attended various schools in San Francisco. While serving in the Coast Guard, he perfected various clerical skills and performed on the base athletic teams, winning several boxing titles. After leaving the service, he engaged in radio and newspaper work until he was recruited for basketball by Stanford University, where he earned all of his degrees—but never played sports. Burns taught at Rutgers University, Syracuse University and Hofstra University before coming to San Jose State. With the Vietnam War as a backdrop, he fought for university status for SJSC and confronted registration problems. http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/history/presidents/ Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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