Word: sproules
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four-Check Visitors. Bob Sproul, a Californian both by birth and inclination, is the first native son and first alumnus ever elected president of the university. He has spent 37 of his 56 years on the campus, 17 as president. Bluff and extraverted, he personifies the confidence and optimism, the booming voice and outsized gesture, that marked California of the '20s. A large man (6 ft., 200 lbs.), he diets and exercises to keep trim...
Every morning at 8:30 his secretary brings him a list of people who want to see him. Sproul ranks them in order of importance, from four checks down to one. He clips appointments to a 2O-minute maximum, allows himself three minutes in between to dictate a digest of the conversation. These digests are kept in bound volumes; callers are often astonished when Sproul picks up where he left off a year before...
...lives with his wife, his mother and a fidgety Irish setter, in a twelve-room stone mansion overlooking the Berkeley campus. They do a lot of entertaining (a September house guest: Harvard's President James Bryant Conant), have occasionally fed a whole varsity team. All three of the Sproul children, two sons and a daughter, are Cal grads. So is sobersided brother Allan, who is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...Sproul's father was an accountant for the Southern Pacific and hated it. Recalls Bob: "He told me never to get mixed up in a job I didn't enjoy, no matter what rewards it offered." Bob was born & raised in San Francisco, a geographical accident that he tries to minimize in ruling California's northern and southern branches with an impartial hand...
Soon after his graduation in 1913, he was a Little Man off Campus-an efficiency engineer in nearby Oakland. It wasn't half as much fun. Remembering his father's advice, Bob Sproul stuck it out only a year-long enough to marry the girl at the next desk (says he: "I'm the victim of propinquity"). When the university cashier absconded, creating a deficit and a vacancy, Bob Sproul joyfully went back to college. He has been there ever since...