The History of the California Master Plan for Higher Education: Signing the Donahoe Act

The Signing of the Donahoe Act, April 26, 1960

From left to right: San Francisco State College President Glenn S. Dumke, Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Roy E. Simpson, and University of California President Clark Kerr.

Governor Brown signed the Donahoe Act, placing major sections of the Master Plan into statute. State Senator George Miller was the principal author of the act. Miller renamed the legislation in honor of Assemblywoman Donahoe, who unexpectedly died prior to final decisions on the act.

Photograph courtesy of University of California Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.