The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Fall 2001, Volume 47, Number 4
Gregg Hennessey, Editor
Cover photo: UCSD library at night. Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
UCSD campus from the air, 1979. Photo courtesy of UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
Camp Matthews from the air, 1950s. The main road on the left side of the picture is former US 101, now Gilman Drive; a small segment of La Jolla Village Drive appears in the lower right corner. Photo courtesy of MCRD San Diego Command Museum.
Marines on the firing line at Camp Matthews, 1930s. They’re firing to the west on land that is today at the center of the UCSD Campus. Photo courtesy of MCRD San Diego Command Museum. Photo courtesy of MCRD San Diego Command Museum.
Camp Matthews buildings and firing ranges, 1950s. Photo courtesy of MCRD San Diego Command Museum. Photo courtesy of MCRD San Diego Command Museum.
Ceremony in honor of the U.S. Marine Corps transfer of Camp Matthews to UCSD, 1964. Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at its present site on La Jolla Shores, c. 1912-1914. At this time its buildings included the main laboratory designed by famed San Diego architect Irving Gill, the water tower, aquarium building, and cottages housing the faculty, staff, and students. (Director William Ritter lived upstairs in the main building.) Photo courtesy of SIO.
Scripps Aquarium, 1947. Since the very beginning of the Marine Biological Association, its aquarium has been a favorite of schoolchildren, tourists, and local residents. Photo courtesy of SIO.
Ellen Browning Scripps, 1919. Inspired by her brother’s enthusiasm for the Marine Biological Institute, Miss Scripps eventually took the lead in providing support for the research laboratory and its scientific projects. Photo courtesy of SIO.
E.W. Scripps, c. 1920s. A founder of the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, Scripps made numerous contributions-financial, material and ideational-to the institution that was named in honor of his family in 1912. Photo courtesy of SIO.
The Scripps family, assembled at the Miramar Ranch in 1900 to discuss the legacy of their late brother George, whose estate provided the funds that E.W. and Ellen Browning Scripps donated to the Marine Biological Association (and later, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography). Ellen Browning Scripps is second from left; her brother E.W. Scripps is seated next to her. Photo courtesy of Warren S. Wilkinson Collection, E.W. Scripps Archives, Ohio University Libraries.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as seen from the air in 1925, not long after the 1,000-foot long pier was completed. Photo courtesy of SIO.
SIO as seen in a Navy reconnaissance photo during World War II. Part of Camp Matthews, the Marine Corps rifle range that comprised much of the UCSD campus after 1964, may be seen at upper right. Photo courtesy of SIO.
Roger Revelle (at right) first came to SIO in 1936 as a graduate student. When this photo was taken, Revelle, one of the world’s leading oceanographers, was engaged in research aboard the R/V Horizon on its 1950 MidPac Expedition. Photo courtesy of SIO.
Roger Revelle testifying before the California State Legislature in favor of establishing a full-service campus of the University of California at San Diego, c. 1960. Photo from Glasheen Collection, courtesy of UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
Clark Kerr’s inauguration as president of the University of California. Kerr was inaugurated once at the university’s main campus in Berkeley, and again at SIO, on October 6, 1958. Roger Revelle is the tall figure to the left of Kerr in the picture. Photo courtesy of SIO.
Members of UCSD’s first freshman class on the plaza at Revelle College during Student Orientation, September 1964. Note the headgear: freshman beanies. Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
Surfer’s-eye view of SIO, 1963. Invisible over the crest of the ridge are the new buildings of UCSD’s First College (soon to be renamed in honor of Roger Revelle). Photo courtesy of SIO.
First graduating class, UCSD, June 14, 1968. SDHC photo.
Students in transit at Revelle College, 1964. Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
Groundbreaking ceremony, May 18, 1961. Left to right: Mayor Charles Dail, Chancellor Herbert York, President of UC Clark Kerr, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Roger Revelle, State Senator Hugo Fisher. Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
John Galbraith, UCSD’s second chancellor, 1965-68. Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
Herbert Marcuse (second from left) at hearing where he testified in behalf of UCSD students. SDHC photo.
Students on strike at UCSD, in sympathy with UC Berkeley strikers, December 2, 1966. SDHC/UT photo.
Strike assembly, UCSD Gym, May 26, 1969. Photo courtesy of SIO.
Clifford Grobstein. Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography with UCSD campus in the background, 1979. Photo courtesy of SIO.
SIO from the air, 1980s. Photo courtesy of UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
Sun God, by Niki de Saint Phalle, a symbol of UCSD. Installed in 1983, the sculpture is the first of fifteen works of public art on the campus known as the Stuart Collection. It is the site of a popular annual student festival. Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
UCSD Library prior to occupancy (note empty bookshelves). Photo from Glasheen Collection, UCSD Mandeville Department of Special Collections.
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