News Releases for 1969
- January 1: Five UCSD faculty members present Apollo 11 findings at Houston Conference
- January 2: Dr. George Reynolds is PILS lecturer
- January 2: Guitarist Oscar Ghiglia to Appear
- January 3: The ONCE GROUP to perform
- January 6: International Symposium on Sea-Going Computers to be Held
- January 10: Paul Anderson, science fiction writer, to speak
- January 13: Dr. Averill A. Liebow Addresses the Mexican Academy of Medicine
- January 14: Dr. Gian-Roberto Sarolli honored by two foreign societies
- January 14: Melvin Voigt appointed to Calif. State Library Advisory Board
- January 16: Dr. Adolf W. Lohmann is PILS lecturer
- January 16: "OM" concert is presented
- January 17: Dr. Norman A. Baily is PILS lecturer
- January 20: Poet Elizabeth Sewell to speak
- January 21: Organist Lawrence Moe to present concert
- January 22: EOP Bus presented to UCSD by Sears-Roebuck Foundation
- January 23: Concert series planned by UCSD Music Department
- January 23: Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review, to speak
- January 23: Dr. Bernd Matthias and Dr. John Wheatley to take part in public conferences sponsored by the American institute of Physics
- January 24: Music Department to present Chamber Music concert
- January 24: Dr. Cecil Hougie is PILS lecturer
- January 24: Symposium scheduled by SIO--"Man's Chemical Invasion of the Ocean: An Inquiry"
- January 28: Music Department presents concert by the Ensemble
- January 28: Research grants totalling $235,500 awarded to UCSD
- January 31: Dr. Eugene Braunwald is PILS lecturer
- January 31: Jean-Pierre Rampal & Robert Veyron-Lacroix to appear
- January 31: The Borodin String Quartet of Russia to perform
- January 31: The Orchestra Michelangelo di Firenze to appear
- February 4: Dr. Frederick Wall named chairman of UOCSS
- February 4: Dr. John O' Brien (med school) receives grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- February 5: Music Department to present second annual Mondo Violino Concert
- February 7: Symposium on optical oceanography to be held
- February 10: Music Department to present two concerts of contemporary music
- February 13: The Renaissance Quartet to perform
- February 13: Tenor Robert Gartside to perform
- February 13: Dr. Leonard D. Garren is PILS Lecturer
- February 14: New Evidence of sea-floor spreading in the South Atlantic found on Deep Sea Drilling Project
- February 16: Chancellor McGill announces reappointment of Marcuse.
- February 17: Clarinetist William O. Smith to present program
- February 19: "Richard Jessop," new racing shell, to be christened
- February 20: Fourteen researchers received grant awards totalling $594,921
- February 21: Czech Nonet to premiere in San Diego
- February 21: Dr. Russell Kirk, columnist, to speak
- February 21: Three seniors at UCSD named Woodrow Wilson Designates
- February 28: Dr. Daniel Orr is PILS lecturer
- March 3: Dr. S.S. Penner receives special certificate from AGARD
- March 3: Old Miramar Road to be permanently closed
- March 4: UCSD needs rental listings
- March 5: Jack Douglass is appointed as assistant to the Chancellor in the area of minority affairs
- March 5: Chancellor's Office announces that it is still engaged in fact-finding in the campus incident with the Marine Corps
- March 7: Dr. Daniel Steinberg is PILS lecturer
- March 11: Inauguration of Dr. McGill to take place April 11
- March 11: Music Department to present all-Schoenberg concert
- March 18: Central Library displays exhibit on San Diego's 200th Anniversary
- March 20: Series of 19 lectures on current public issues offered to public
- March 21: FLIP will work in Atlantic Ocean for first time
- March 25: David Hellyer named Publications Manager
- March 26: The Danzi Woodwind Quintet to appear
- March 26: Dr. Elliott Lasser is PILS lecturer
- March 27: Music Department to present the New Music Choral Ensemble
- April 2: New Biography for Chancellor McGill
- April 3: Preliminary statement on Deep Sea Drilling Project
- April 3: Four UCSD faculty members receive Guggenheim Fellowships
- April 3: Trombonist Stuart Dempster to give recital
- April 3: Dr. Ronald Berman is PILS lecturer
- April 3: The New York String Sextet to perform
- April 4: Special open house scheduled at UCSD for Chancellor's inauguration
- April 7: Library receives grant of $22,700
- April 8: Formal inauguration of Dr. McGill to take place April 11
- April 10: Dr. Henry Wheeler is PILS lecturer
- April 14: "Mixed Bag" to be held for upcoming benefit
- April 14: "Shakespeare's Second Bananas" to be presented by Eric Christmas
- April 15: Harold Temmer to become president of AACRAO
- April 16: UCSD students need summer employment
- April 17: Dr. Kurt Shuler is PILS lecturer
- April 17: USMA Band's Saxophone Quartet will present program
- April 17: Department of Music presents Loren Rush in concert
- April 18: First Drama production at UCSD opens, Marat/Sade
- April 21: David Riesman is guest-in-residence
- April 21: Herman Johnson appointed Vice Chancellor-Business & Finance
- April 23: Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault to perform
- April 24: $1.2 million in research grant awards given to Revelle College
- April 24: Dr. Stanley Miller is PILS lecturer
- April 24: Music Department concert features piece by David Ahlstrom
- April 25: Dr. Robert Hamburger receives special guest speaker invitation
- April 25: Music Department presents a Chancellor's Concert
- April 28: Statement by Chancellor, McGill concerning discipline of students involved in barring Marine recruiter
- April 29: Music Department concert features works by Alsina, Bartok, Goode
- April 29: 4 UCSD faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
- April 30: Motion commending "constructive negotiations" passed by Academic Senate
- May 1: UCSD students to elect student body officers and vote on two referendums & an opinion poll
- May 6: Fiesta de la Gente planned at UCSD
- May 6: UCSD Madrigal Singers present Spring concert
- May 8: Dr. Joseph Gusfield is PILS lecturer
- May 9: Music Department concert features premiere work by Larry Austin
- May 9: Music Department schedules two concerts of electronic music
- May 12: Joseph Clark to speak on "Folly of the ABM"
- May 12: Debate on foundations of Capitalism & Socialism to be held
- May 12: 8 UCSD students found guilty of blocking entry of recruiter
- May 12: Dr. Harold C. Urey to receive Chemical Pioneer Award
- May 14: UCSD drops intercollegiate football
- May 21: Academic Senate passes resolution deploring actions taken at Berkeley
- May 21: Chancellor McGill's statement concerning strike at UCSD
- May 22: Music Department presents electronic music concert
- May 28: Music Department presents "Encore: 201 Ensemble" concert
- May 28: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship awarded to Grad Student David Shevach
- May 29: $1.3 million in research grant awards made to various UCSD depts
- May 29: 11 UCSD students chosen for 1969 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges
- June 5: UCSD Commencement Exercises planned
- June 6: Thomas Wolfe is Kiwanians' "Athlete of the Year"
- June 9: Dr. Penner resigns as Vice Chancellor-Academic Affairs
- June 9: UCSD awarded grant for course on biology of aging
- June 10: 18 UCSD scientists condemn DDT usage
- June 12: Ardys Heise wins ACPRA award
- June 13: $2.5 million in research grant awards received at UCSD
- June 13: Alpha Helix sails for New Guinea on expedition
- June 16: Discussion set on "The University and Its Problems
- June 17: Dr. Walter Munk & Frank Snodgrass are first recipients of the Marine Technology Society's Award for Ocean Science & Engineering
- June 18: Honorary Alumni of UCSD awards scholarships to 6 S.D. seniors
- June 19: UCSD's new Center for Human Information Processing begins operating
- June 19: Top senior at Lincoln High School receives $750 scholarship to UCSD
- June 26: Chancellor McGill invites 15 S.D. citizens to serve on urban affairs advisory committee
- June 30: Torrey Pines Kiwanis Club plants 101 pine trees at UCSD
- July 1: Woman's Architectural League presents $200 check to UCSD Library
- July 1: 7/1/69: Dr. William Frazer is named Acting Provost of Third College; Rappaport resigns as Provost
- July 8: NASA and Public Health Service grants total $1,465,000
- July 11: Marine biology building (SIO) architects announced
- July 11: Sports program offered free to children of low-income homes
- July 11: Appointments of Dr. William Nierenberg as SIO Director and Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences; George Murphy, VC and Dean of Student Affairs; and Dr. Clifford Grobstein title change
- July 14: Dr. Martin Chamberlain named assistant chancellor
- July 17: National Academy of Sciences names UCSD to form new association
- July 17: Alpha Phi Omega presents $750 to scholarship fund
- July 18: Arts and Lectures programming changes announced
- July 21: Dr. Joseph Mayer winner of James Flack Norris Award
- August 1: $4,686,000 in research grants received
- August 1: $4,686,000 in research grants received
- August 4: International Center groundbreaking
- August 7: Administrative Appointments announced by Chancellor McGill
- August 7: Centennial exhibit honoring George Ellery Hale on display
- August 8: Dr. Harold Urey press conference announced
- August 10: Dr. Kurt Shuler invited into Fellowship in American Institute of Chemists
- August 12: Argo (ship) gets sail for 8,960 mile tour of north and south Central Pacific
- August 15: Tay-Sachs disease prevention found
- August 20: Deep Sea Drilling project recovers ocean floor 140 million years old
- August 21: University of California Extension to offer more than 210 courses
- August 28: NASA Moon samples studied at UCSD
- August 30: Ysidro Community Health Center opens
- September 1: Mariner 7 transmission raises hope of life on Mars
- September 4: Arts and Lectures schedule
- September 4: Dr. Urey dedicates Franklin and Marshall College science center
- September 5: Research grants totalling $1,484,000 granted in August
- September 8: Thomas Washington (ship) concludes 37,886 mile east Pacific voyage
- September 11: 10 students aided by Medical Careers Project
- September 12: Dr. Bernd Matthias chosen for Annual National Conference on Industrial Research
- September 15: NASA Moon samples studied at UCSD
- September 15: University of California Extension to offer course "The Draft"
- September 15: 3 AMES professors named to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as Fellows
- September 17: 4,700 students begin fall quarter
- September 17: Interview with Provost Saltman
- September 18: Drs. Herbert York and Roy Harvey Pearce appointed
- September 23: Steam engine for automobiles to be unveiled
- September 23: Dr. Jack Blendinger appointed to Analytical Studies Office
- September 24: Dr. Victor Anderson gives first Professors' Inaugural Lecture
- September 26: Dr. Stanley Miller's statement to Assembly Transportation Committee on behalf of the Steam Car Group
- September 29: Steam engine passes first stationary test
- September 29: Applied Ocean Sciences program created by SIO Graduate Department, AMES and APIS
- October 1: Pueblo crewman now UCSD junior
- October 1: Three new Literature Dept. members announced
- October 2: British pianist John Ogdon appearing in concert
- October 3: Foreign student affairs workshop for college administrators
- October 9: Dr. Curtis Wilson delivers second Professors' Inaugural Lecture
- October 10: Ralph Nader to lecture on campus
- October 10: 6-part series on Vietnam covers range of views
- October 10: Librarian Melvin Voigt presents San Diego bicentennial bibliography
- October 10: Two members of APIS honored
- October 13: Bloodmobile come to UCSD to establish fund for UCSD benefit
- October 14: Program of dance concentrates on time and space values
- October 16: Arts and Lectures to present Paul Taylor Dance Company
- October 16: Animated Filmmaker Raymond Charles Rice to lecture
- October 17: Dr. John B. West to deliver third Professors' Inaugural Lecture
- October 20: UCSD and San Diego Historical Society press search for plaque
- October 22: Dolmetsch-Schoenfeld Ensemble to present chamber music
- October 24: Dr. Reginald G. Bickford to give fourth Professors' Inaugural Lecture
- October 24: Public auction of unclaimed items
- October 27: Dept. of Music presents Coffee Concert of chamber music
- October 28: Dr. Allen Lein to deliver 5th Professors' Inaugural Lecture
- October 29: Population biologists to meet in two day conference
- October 30: Monday Evening Concerts of Los Angeles to play at UCSD Gym
- October 30: State Assembly Speaker and Regent Bob Monagan to speak
- October 30: UC Regents' General Counsel files for writ of mandate in Davis type exclusion of Communist Party members.
- November 1: Registrar Harold E. Temmer to make major addresses
- November 1: $25 million in grants awarded in Sept.-Oct. period
- November 3: Robert H. Smith appointed Director of Development
- November 3: Romero Collection of 16th Century books arrives at Library
- November 4: Dr. William B. Thompson named chairman of Physics department
- November 5: "Beauty of Blackness" concert by Voices, Inc. to be presented
- November 6: James Oliver Buswell IV, 23 year old violin virtuoso to play
- November 7: Dr. Bernd Matthias given 1970 Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize by American Physics Society
- November 10: Dr. William McGill to address University Chapter of CSEA dinner
- November 10: Dr. Laurence E. Peterson to discuss NASA astronomy aims in press conference
- November 10: "Toys Collected by Jeff Raskin" displayed at UCSD Gallery
- November 11: Dr. J. Edwin Seegmiller wins 1969 Philip Hench Award
- November 13: Gaburo, von Wrochem, Brown, Brant and Webern works to be performed
- November 14: Conference in Ensenada to discuss border relations
- November 14: Melville (ship) completes maiden voyage to join SIO fleet
- November 20: UCSD begins third basketball season
- November 20: Chest X-ray unit visits for benefit of community adults
- November 20: Science fiction author Ray Bradbury to speak at Revelle
- November 21: Dr. Edward L. Winterer to give last Professors' Inaugural Lecture
- November 25: School of Medicines Basic Science Building to be dedicated
- December 1: Contrabassists Bertram Turetzky to perform
- December 1: Dr. Herbert York appointed Dean of Graduate Studies
- December 2: Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) loans book materials to Library
- December 5: Ford Foundation gives $18,980 for study of human problems
- December 8: Dr. Stanley E. Mills wins 1970 E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching by Danforth Foundation
- December 9: Frosh applications to be referred to other campuses
- December 10: University of Chicago awards Dr. Martin Kamen honorary doctorate
- December 11: Correction to: IGPP to measure Antarctica tides for first time
- December 11: IGPP to measure Antarctica tides for first time
- December 12: Central University Library "topped-out"
- December 15: Grad student Thomas Holzer gets post-doctoral fellow from NATO
- December 16: Press conference-"Exploring the Outer Solar System" program
- December 23: Former Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pa.) to speak on "Beyond Viet Nam"
- December 24: Thomas Nee to direct University-La Jolla Chorus
- December 31: Dr. John J. Holland awarded postdoctoral fellowship
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