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Emil Mrak served as Professor and Chairman of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis (1951-1959) and as the Chancellor, University of California, Davis (1959-1969). Among other topics, his oral history discusses the UC Davis campus during the 1960s.Additional Descriptive Notes: Tape 1, Side 1: 1) The beginnings: Father and his early life - your early life thru high school - Father came to Calif. #200 - Father-Mother marriage - #285 - earthquake in Stanford - 305. Tape 1, Side 2: 1) Continuing early life - High School - Move to the farm - enrollment at Berkeley - scenes - Courses to 601- working on campus then campus experiences to end of tape transcribed 8/14/72. Tape 2, Side 1: Berkeley: Story of Frances (Fire and fraternities issue of prohibition) Fraternity Life. Of graduate work. Talk of doctoral dissertation research to 64 (ecology of yeast). Nicknames - Berkeley personalities - early professors- Creuss to end of tape. Tape 2, Side 2: Story of Creuss to 140. Other teachers at Berkeley 241. Chancellors and Presidents of Univ - Loyalty Oath - Creuss and Industry relations 352 - Offenheimer - Teller Wellman - Kerr - Gamma Alpha Frat to end of tape transcribed 8/18/72. Tape 3, Side 1: Quartermaster Corps to 400 - Marriage to Vera Mark - 525 - Chairman of Food Tech - 800 to end of tape. Tape 3, Side 2: Vera Mark 475 to 1000 - ICFST and Chancellor [?] to end of tape. Tape 4, Side 1: Chancellor (Malin Cook story) other staff - Everett Carter - Ed Spafford description of Univ. house - food service - Bob Downie - Ken Cross 475 - John Harlie - Fred Wyatt - Bynum Art Small Student relations - Academic plan and general campus - inauguration - recreation plan - medical school. Mark shocks Dr. Dale Lindsey's Primate Center - ground areas - landscaping plan - supporting facilities - equipment and travel expense funds - student funds - Putah Creek - Chet McCorkle - Vernon Cheadle - Daley Halprin - architects - med school salaries vs Vet. school 945 - Malin Cook again - academic plan and requests - Law school - College of Engineering cyclotron - Library. Tape 4, Side 2: Regents meetings to 440 - problems with students and faculty - 840 - Hiring Faculty - student organizations - 914 - Bldg growth - Dean Witter - Bohemian Club - Hydraulic Lab - Fine Arts Complex - Vet. School - minorities in Davis to end of tape transcribed 9/?/72. Tape 5, Side 1: Minorities (continued) and other confrontations - students on academic committees - dormitories - first secretary as Chancellor - moving the Vet. School - Committees on campus - 500 - Health - 609 - Research (FED/Money and influence on campus 700 - Teaching 839 - Consulting - 980 - Other chancellors to end. Tape 5, Side 2: Chancellors (?) 850 - Student athletics - pass/fail etc - health 944 - Federal Grants - matching funds - legislators to end of tape transcribed 9/16/72. Tape 6, Side 1: Jim Carley Legislators Mrak Pesticide Commission - 400 - Land Use - 1000 to end of tape. Tape 6, Side 2: After thought question re: Chancellor [?] - afterthought on legislative dinners and other matters 280 - campus affairs (again) 421 - ad hoc pesticide 638 - ICAITI - UC- Org. Tropical Studies 710 - Japanese IFT. 1961 - 738 - 1966 - Europe New Zealand - 738 to 874 - Calif. State Board of Air. 900 - Civil Defense 950 - Military and Personnel Supplies to end of tape transcribed 9/18/72. Tape 7, Side 1: Nestle Foundation - 130 - Nutrition Foundation - 250 - Refrigeration Research Foundation - 300 Gov. Commission on Ocean Resources 360 - Gov. Brown Pesticide Committee 425 - IRI - 525 - UC Res. White Mt Committee - 585 - Rockefeller Commission end of tape. Tape 7, Side 2: Rockefeller Commission Continued to end of tape transcribed 9/72. Tape 8, Side 1: Rockefeller Mission to 170 - [?] to 803 - personal and predictions to 840. Tape 8, Side 2: Blank, transcribed 9/72. Tape 9, Side 1: Mark - Algeria and Washington, Nashville and New Orleans. Tape 9 - taped in 2 sessions Dec. 2nd and Dec 6th 1972, start p 492. Tape 9, Side 2: Blank.
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