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Youth in Davis, CA; father, James B. Kendrick, Sr., plant pathologist at UC Davis; education at UC Berkeley, 1938-1942, PhD in plant pathology, University of Wisconsin; Citrus Experiment Station, UC Riverside, 1947-1968: campus expansion, faculty governance, Academic Senate, chairing Department of Plant Pathology, community affairs; vice presidency, UC's Division of Agricultural Sciences (under various names), 1968-1986: Agricultural Experiment Station, budget, field stations and research units; Cooperative Extension Service, organization, personnel problems; Water Resources Center; Natural Reserve System; College of Natural Resources, Berkeley; relations with University Presidents Hitch, Saxon, Gardner, and with state legislature,
State Department of Finance, Board of Regents.