Word: meyerson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tumultuous times that may well lie ahead at the University of California, the board of regents last week picked a new top official, competent in the field of "student political activity." The choice for acting chancellor: Martin Meyerson, 42, an internationally known authority on city planning who since 1963 has been dean of the College of Environmental Design at Berkeley. He takes over from Chancellor Edward W. Strong, 63, who has been suffering from a gall-bladder ailment as well as heavy nervous strain...
City Planner. "I sort of fancy myself as a troubleshooter," says Meyerson. In one of his books an important topic is "decision making in the face of conflict." A native of New York City, he studied urban planning at Harvard (M.C.P., '49) after graduating from Columbia College. He has taught at Chicago, Pennsylvania and Harvard, served on U.N. urban-planning missions in Japan and Indonesia, was a consultant on the reconstruction of Skoplje, the Yugoslavian city devastated by an earthquake in 1963. In manner Meyerson is shy and whimsical. One close friend says of him that "his favorite word...
...Martin Meyerson, former professor of City Planning, succeeds Edward W. Strong, who was granted an indefinite leave of absence to recuperate from a recent illness...
...Meyerson, whose appointment became effective Saturday, had served at Berkeley for only six months. He was appointed to the faculty last July as dean of environmental studies. Previously a member of the Harvard Faculty, he had been acting dean of the Graduate School of Design, and had been director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...return of the Berkeley student body today will mark the start of a period of great challenge for Meyerson. He is faced with the task of molding a functioning university out of a seething mass of unrest...