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By David P. Gardner, Maureen Kawaoka, Vartan Gregorian
David Pierpont Gardner was once president of 1 of the world's such a lot individual facilities of upper learning--the nine-campus college of California--from 1983 to 1992. during this remarkably candid and energetic memoir he presents an insider's account of what it was once like for a truly deepest, reflective guy to stay a very public lifestyles as chief of 1 of the main advanced and debatable associations within the kingdom. incomes My measure is a portrait of unusual management and braveness and a chronicle of the way those features formed a precious, and infrequently mystifying, American establishment. earlier than his tenure as president, Gardner spent seven years on the collage of California, Santa Barbara, in the course of a tumultuous period of tradition wars, ethnic department, and anti-Vietnam battle protests, leaving his put up as vice chancellor to function vp of the collage of California from 1971 to 1973. In 1973 he used to be named president of the college of Utah, and whereas there he chaired the nationwide fee on Excellence in excessive schooling, which authored A country in danger, seemed at the present time because the 20th century's such a lot telling record at the situation of yank public faculties. As president of the collage of California, he contended with extreme controversies over affirmative motion, animal rights, AIDS study, guns labs, divestment in South Africa, and masses extra. This memoir recounts his reports with those and different concerns and describes his dealings with the various forged of characters who impression the college: U.S. presidents, governors, legislators, regents, chancellors, college, employees, scholars, alumni, and donors. The epilogue of incomes My measure is a considerate and fascinating account of the 10 years given that Gardner's retirement that incorporates his own perspectives approximately what has actually mattered in his existence.
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In my mid- to late teens, summer work came at the City of Berkeley’s family camp at Echo Lake, near the top of the mountains rimming the western boundary of the Tahoe basin and south of that magnificent lake nestled in the eastern portion of California’s high Sierra. Some of my fondest memories and experiences are of the three summers I and close high school friends worked at Echo Lake. Emery Curtice and his wife, Minerva, managed the camp. Emery later became principal of Burbank Junior High School in Berkeley and then of Berkeley High School.
My experiences in the army were both maturing and memorable. And after my discharge I also had a much more assured sense of my interests and desires. THE ARMY YEARS Basic training took place at Fort Ord on the California coast just north of Monterey. On balance, it was a valuable learning experience for me although I readily acknowledge that eight weeks of basic training were decidedly preferable to any other number of additional weeks. Near the end of my basic training it appeared that infantry, artillery, or armor were to be part of my future, the first with its seasonal rigors and not wholly congenial set of killing instruments, the second with its cannons, noise, and ear-deafening protocols, and the third with tanks, armored carriers, and other such claustrophobia-inducing machines.
We enjoyed the alumni association activities together and developed a pattern of common involvement and participation in the life of the university, as we also did in our church. We were family-oriented, not only because this priority comported with our common values, but also because we had no money, often ending the month with $10 to $15 in the bank. We had no complaints, however, loving each other and being together with our daughters, all of us healthy, a modest home we called our own, friends, family, and a set of shared, not separate, professional activities from which we derived much personal happiness and enduring memories.