Harry Wellman was a professor of agricultural economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a university administrator who served as the vice president of the UC system from 1958 to 1966. Born in 1899 in Alberta, Canada, he attended the Oregon Agricultural School for his undergraduate years and later earned his master’s and doctorate degrees from UC Berkeley. In 1925, he started working with the Agricultural Extension Service and the Berkeley campus as an agricultural economics specialist and later became the universitywide vice president of Agricultural Sciences. In addition to his term as vice president, he stepped in as acting president of the UC system for a year following the firing of Clark Kerr in 1967. In this interview, Wellman discusses his early education and work experience, the development of the UC system, President Clark Kerr and the university chancellors of the 1950s and 1960s, recollections of the loyalty oath, and his time as acting president.