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Family background and childhood, Stockton, CA; B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering, UC Berkeley, 1942-1948: V-12 program, U.S. Navy service; University of Illinois, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Ph. D., 1951; research in structural mechanics, earthquake and aero nautical engineering; professor and dean, UCB College of Engineering, 1952-1990; UC Academic Council and thoughts on shared grievance; consultant at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; chancellor at UC Santa Cruz, 1991-1996; UC Vice President-Educational Outreach, 1999-2000; reflections on K-12 and higher education, Catholicism, diversity, engineering, family and graduate students. Includes interview with Rita Olsen Pister, associate to the chancellor.