Oral History Project

The following alphabetical list of interviewees gives a short description of the roles individuals had during the beginning of the State College system in the 1960s. Titles of each interview follow the names. 

1) Harry E. Brakebill:
FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR THE EARLY SYSTEM 
Financial advisor to the first CSC administration; Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs, 1965-69 

2) Edmund G. (Pat) Brown:
THE MASTER PLAN AND STATE EDUCATIONAL POLICY Governor, State of California, 1959-67 

3) Leo F. Cain:
FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO DOMINGUEZ 
Vice President, San Francisco State College; President, CSC, Dominguez Hills, 1962-76 

4) William Coblentz:
TRUSTEE OF FACULTY AFFAIRS Member, Board of Trustees, 1960-62 

5) Glenn S. Dumke:
CREATING THE CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGES 
President, San Francisco State College, 1957-61; Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, 1961-62; Chancellor, CSUC, 1962-82 [now deceased] 

6) James Enochs:
AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE 
Division of State Colleges and Teacher Education, State Department of Education, 1954-58; first CSC Dean of Academic Planning

7) Lyman Glenny:
STATE GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE COLLEGE BEFORE THE MASTER PLAN 
Professor of Public Administration, Sacramento State College; consultant, Restudy of Higher Education (1955) 

8) Donald R. Gerth:
RESEARCHING HIGHER EDUCATION IN TRANSITION 
Author, An Invisible Giant:
The California State Colleges; administrator, San Francisco State College 

9) Arthur J. Hall:
POSTWAR SAN FRANCISCO STATE AND THE EVOLUTION OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH Chief, Division of Institutional and Management Research, 1962-69 

10) Nicholas P. Hardeman:
FACULTY-ADMINISTRATION RELATIONS AND THE STATEWIDE ACADEMIC SENATE Faculty member, Long Beach State College; member, CSC Academic Senate - 

11) Harry Harmon:
PLANNING THE FACILITIES FOR THE CSU SYSTEM 
Chief, Physical Planning, 1962-68; Vice Chancellor, Physical Planning, 1969-75 

12) Donald M. Hart:
CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES: FROM THE MASTER PLAN TO CAMPUS CRISIS 
Member, Board of Trustees, 1960-68; Chair, 1967-68 

13) Louis H. Heilbron:
REFLECTIONS OF THE FIRST CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Member, Board of Trustees, 1960-69; Chair, 1960-63 

14) Arnold Joyal:
PRESIDENTIAL VIEW OF THE MASTER PLAN President, Fresno State College, 1948-1964 

15) C. Mansel Keene Goint:
FORMULATING THE SYSTEM'S PERSONNEL POLICIES Assistant Vice Chancellor, Faculty and Staff Affairs, 1961-72 and Lois R. Feldheym Goint interview [see above title]. 
Principal Personnel Analyst, Faculty and Staff Affairs 

16) Robert Kennedy:
CAL POLY IN A TIME OF CHANGE 
Vice President, California Polytechnic State College, San Luis Obispo; President, 1967-79 

17) Dorothy Knoell:
STATE COLLEGES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
Specialist in Higher Education, State Department of Education; staff member, California Post-secondary Education Commission 

18) William B. Langsdorf:
FROM THE PRESIDENT TO VICE-CHANCELLOR 
President, California State University, Fullerton (Orange County State College), 1959-1970 

19) Hector Lee:
DEVELOPING STATE COLLEGE POLICIES IN THE 1950s 
Faculty member and Dean, Chico State College and CSC, Sonoma; co-creator of Faculty Staffing Formula 

20) Donald Leiffer:
EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGES 
Faculty member, San Diego State College; interim administrative officer, CSC, 1960-61; Executive Vice Chancellor, 1961-62 

21) Charles Luckman:
ARCHITECT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Member, Board of Trustees, 1960-82; Chair, 1963-65 

22) Leonard G. Mathy:
DEVELOPING A FACULTY ROLE IN ACADEMIC GOVERNANCE 
Faculty member, Los Angeles State College; first chair, CSC Academic Senate 

23) Dean E. McHenry:
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE MASTER PLAN 
Member, Master Plan Survey Team, 1959-60 (representing the University of California) 

24) Theodore Meriam:
DEVELOPMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Member, Board of Trustees, 1960- 71; Chair, 1968-69 

25) Don M. Muchmore:
LEGISLATIVE LIAISON, BUDGETING, AND THE EXECUTIVE VICE CHANCELLORSHIP Vice Chancellor, 1962-63 

26) Ambrose Nichols:
FROM SAN JOSE TO SONOMA STATE: AN ACADEMIC ODYSSEY 
Faculty member, San Diego State College; President, CSC, Sonoma, 1961-70 

27) John M. Pfau:
CREATING NEW INSTITUTIONS 
Administrator, Chico State College, Sonoma State College; President, CSC, San Bernardino, 1962-83 

28) Ralph Prator:
A NEW COLLEGE IN A NEW SYSTEM 
President, CSU, Northridge (San Fernando Valley State College), 1958-68 

29) Albert Ruffo:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN THE START -UP YEARS Member, Board of Trustees, 1961-71; Chair, 1965-67 

30) Raymond A. Rydell:
A VICE-CHANCELLOR VIEWS THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE 
Educational Consultant, planning period; Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, 1962-65 

31) Walter Stiern:
THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND THE CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGES California State Senator (Bakersfield) [now deceased] 

32) Robert Wert:
EVOLUTION OF THE MASTER PLAN AND THE COORDINATING COUNCIL 
Vice President, Stanford University; member, Master Plan Survey Team, 1959-60; chair, Coordinating Council for Higher Education, 1960-62 

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