Oral Histories
Interview of William H. Chandler
Dean of the UCLA Department of Agriculture.
- Subtitle:
- Reminiscences of William H. Chandler
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part one
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryUrban Planning and Land UseScience, Medicine, and TechnologyAgricultureUCLA Faculty
- Biographical Note:
- Dean of the UCLA Department of Agriculture.
- Interviewee:
- Chandler, William H.
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Interviewer Background and Preparation:
- The interview was conducted by Elizabeth I. Dixon, Head, UCLA Oral History Program; B.A., international relations, University of Southern California: M.L.S., UCLA School of Library Service.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Abstract:
- Childhood on farm in Missouri; early education and teaching experiences; further education and teaching at University of Missouri, 1901-13; difficulties of farming; quality of early agricultural studies; appointment to faculty of Cornell University, 1913; influence of Liberty Hyde Bailey, professor at Cornell; tenure as head of department; study of pomology established at Cornell; relationship between Cornell and State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York; interaction between farmers and university study of agriculture; decision to accept position at University of California, Southern Branch, 1923; work with California agriculture; importance of soil chemistry; Martin R. Huberty; John Eliot Coit; Vernon T. Stoutemeyer; Claude B. Hutchison; start of floriculture program at UCLA; contributions of plant pathologists; fruit growers' prob-lems; B. H. Crocheron; Ralph E. Smith; Thomas F. Hunt; E. W. Hilgard.