In the 15 months since hearty, hail-fellow Robert Gordon Sproul, 66, announced that he would retire as president of the University of California in July 1958, the university's board of regents has scoured the entire nation for a successor. Last week they looked in their own backyardâand picked balding, mild-mannered Clark Kerr, 46, since 1952 the able and popular chancellor of the campus at Berkeley.
A graduate of Swarthmore, with a Ph.D. from California, Kerr joined the faculty in 1945 as head of the Institute of Industrial Relations. He quickly became one of the state's top labor arbiters, held a long string...
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