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Santa Barbara: Administrative Officers
Chief Campus Officers
Santa Barbara State College was under the
supervision of a president, but in 1944, when it became a campus
of the University, the title of the chief executive was changed
to provost. In September of 1958, the Regents established Santa
Barbara as a general University campus and at that time the official
title of the chief campus officer became "chancellor." source
Clarence L. Phelps, 1944-46
 Clarence
L. Phelps, born in Kentucky in 1881, came west for his college education,
earning his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Stanford University. He fulfilled
all course requirements for the Ph.D. degree, including the publication
of his dissertation, but residence requirements prevented the granting
of the degree. Before coming to Santa Barbara, he was on the faculties
of teachers colleges at San Jose, Tempe (Arizona), San Diego, and
Fresno. In 1918, he became president of Santa Barbara State Normal
School of Manual Arts and Home Economics and in 1944 was appointed
the first provost when the campus (then known as Santa Barbara State
College) became a part of the University system, retiring from that
position 1946. He died in Santa Barbara on May 7 1964, at the age
of 83. source
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J. Harold Williams, 1946-55
 J.
Harold Williams, acting provost 1946-50, and provost from 1950-55,
earned his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University.
He was director of the California Bureau of Research from 1915-23,
then joined the faculty at UCLA as lecturer. Dr. Williams advanced
to a professorship in 1929 and became director of the Summer Sessions
on the Los Angeles campus in 1936. He came to Santa Barbara in 1946
to take up the duties of acting provost. Acquisition of the Goleta
site and preparation of a physical master plan for a 3,500-student
campus were among his accomplishments. In 1955, he was appointed
co-ordinator of Summer Sessions on a University-wide basis with
headquarters on the Los Angeles campus. source
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Clark G. Kuebler, 1955
Clark G. Kuebler received his A.B. degree
at Northwestern University and the Ph.D. degree at the University
of Chicago. He was in the classics department of Northwestern from
1930-43, and served as president of Ripon College, Wisconsin, from
1943-55 before coming to the Santa Barbara campus in February of
1955. After a short tenure as provost, Dr. Kuebler resigned the
position in November, 1955, and later entered private business.
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John C. Snidecor, 1956
John C. Snidecor, acting provost at Santa
Barbara from February to June of 1956, received his A.B. degree
from the University (Berkeley) and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of Iowa. He joined the Santa Barbara faculty
in 1940. Following service with the Navy in World War II, Dr. Snidecor
became a dean of the Division of Applied Arts in 1948 and continued
in that post (except for the five months spent as acting provost)
until July, 1960, when he resumed his full-time responsibilities
in teaching and research. source
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Elmer R. Noble, 1956-59
Elmer R. Noble received his A.B., M.A., and
Ph.D. degrees from the University (Berkeley) before joining the
faculty at Santa Barbara in 1936. He became dean of letters and
science in 1955. In July of 1956, he was appointed acting provost
of the campus and served as such until September, 1958, when he
was made vice-chancellor and acting chief campus officer, a position
he held until June, 1959. Dr. Noble then became vice-chancellor--graduate
affairs, continuing until 1961 when he resumed full-time teaching
and research. source
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Samuel B. Gould, 1959-62
Samuel B. Gould, who became the first chancellor
of the Santa Barbara campus, was born in New York City on August
11, 1910. He received his A.B. degree from Bates College (1930)
and his M.A. degree from New York University (1936). During World
War II he served as an officer in the Navy. Dr. Gould was president
of Antioch College for five years and on the faculty of Boston University
for six years before coming to Santa Barbara to serve as chancellor
from 1959-62. source
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Vernon I. Cheadle, 1962-77
 Vernon
I. Cheadle received his A.B. degree from Miami University, Ohio,
and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Prior to
coming to California, he was on the faculty of Rhode Island University,
which included a decade of service as head of the botany department
and director of the graduate division. During ten years of service
as professor of botany on the Davis campus, he also served as chairman
of his department for eight years and in 1961-62 was acting chancellor.
Dr. Cheadle came to the Santa Barbara campus as chancellor in 1962,
at a time when enrollment was beginning a series of increases unprecedented
in the history of the campus. source
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Robert A. Huttenback, 1977-86
A 1951 graduate of UCLA, Robert A. Huttenback
received his Ph.D. from the same campus in 1959. He spent the 1956-57
academic year on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of London
in the School of Oriental and African Studies. The following year,
he was awarded a Ford grant to study and travel in India. He has
received other fellowships and grants that permitted additional
study in India and Great Britain as well as Pakistan and South Africa.
He joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology
in 1958 and has been a full professor since 1966. He served as chairman
of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1972 until
his appointment as chancellor of Santa Barbara in 1977. source
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Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr., 1986-87
 Daniel
Gaskill Aldrich, Jr. was named first chancellor of the Irvine campus
in 1962. Born in Northwood, New Hampshire, on July 12, 1918, he
received the B.S. degree in 1939 from the University of Rhode Island,
the M.S. degree in 1941 from the University of Arizona, and the
Ph.D. degree in 1943 from the University of Wisconsin. Joining the
University in 1943 as a junior chemist at the Citrus Experiment
Station at Riverside, he progressed to the rank of chemist in the
Agricultural Experiment Station and in 1955 was appointed professor
of soils and chairman of the Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition
at Berkeley and Davis. In 1958, he was named dean of the Universitywide
Division of Agricultural Sciences and served in that capacity until
1963. He left the Irvine chancellorship in 1984 and was appointed
acting chancellor at Riverside following Chancellor Rivera's death.
He later served as interim chancellor at Santa Barbara from 1986-87.
He died in 1990. source
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Barbara S. Uehling, 1987-94
Barbara S. Uehling left the University of
Missouri at Columbia after eight years as chancellor to become a
senior visiting fellow of the American Council of Education in Washington,
D.C. Prior to becoming chancellor at Missouri, she served for two
years as provost of the University of Oklahoma-Norman. She left
Washington to become chancellor at Santa Barbara in 1987. source
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Henry T. Yang, 1994-
Henry T. Yang was named UCSB's chancellor
in 1994. He was formerly the Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor
of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University,
where he also served as the Dean of engineering for ten years. He
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow
of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has
received many awards and honors for his research, teaching, and
service, including an honorary doctorate from Purdue University
and the Benjamin Garver Lamme gold medal, the highest honor from
the American Society of Engineering. source
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