Robert Cordon SPROUL

March 22, 1891 (age 84)

San Francisco, California, United States

He is the elder brother of central banker Allan Sproul, who served as chairman of the New York Federal Reserve. Sproul"s outstanding contribution during his 28-year administration was the multiple-campus expansion of the University to meet the demands for higher education in widely separated parts of the state, while maintaining one institution governed by one Board of Regents and one President. By the time he left office in 1958, the University of California, Berkeley, was a distinguished university recognized worldwide for the excellence of its programs. And the University of California had a total of eight campuses from Davis to Los Los Angeles Sproul Hall and Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley campus, site of numerous political rallies since the 1930s, are named for him. At the University of California, Los Angeles campus, there are three residence halls named in his recognition: Sproul Hall, Sproul Landing, and Sproul Cove. Sproul Hall on the University of California, Riverside campus, home to the Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Education, is named for him. In addition, a research vessel utilized by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego, is named for him. At nine stories, University of California Davis"s Sproul Hall is the tallest building in Yolo County.

Robert Cordon SPROUL

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SPROUL, Robert Cordon was born on May 22, 1891 in San Francisco, California, United States.

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P.S.; University of California, Bachelor of Science. 1913; Occidental College, Los Angeles, Doctor of Laws (honorary) 1926. University of Southern California, Doctor of Laws, 1930.

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He is the elder brother of central banker Allan Sproul, who served as chairman of the New York Federal Reserve. Sproul"s outstanding contribution during his 28-year administration was the multiple-campus expansion of the University to meet the demands for higher education in widely separated parts of the state, while maintaining one institution governed by one Board of Regents and one President. By the time he left office in 1958, the University of California, Berkeley, was a distinguished university recognized worldwide for the excellence of its programs.

And the University of California had a total of eight campuses from Davis to Los Los Angeles

Sproul Hall and Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley campus, site of numerous political rallies since the 1930s, are named for him. At the University of California, Los Angeles campus, there are three residence halls named in his recognition: Sproul Hall, Sproul Landing, and Sproul Cove.

Sproul Hall on the University of California, Riverside campus, home to the Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Education, is named for him. In addition, a research vessel utilized by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego, is named for him.

At nine stories, University of California Davis"s Sproul Hall is the tallest building in Yolo County.

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Member: Commission on Revisions of California State Constitution, California State Board of Social Welfare. International House of University of California (director). Berkeley, Young Men's Christian Association (director).

E. Charles Fleischner Endowment Fund (treasury). Save the Redwoods League. Pacific School of Religion (Trustee).

Phi Beta Kappa; Tau Beta Pi. Playground and Recreation Association of American Clubs: Bohemian, Faculty, Claremont, Berkeley, University.

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Spouse Ida Amelia Wittschen, September 6, 1916.

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