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Vernon Cheadle
American botanist and university administrator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vernon Irvin Cheadle (February 6, 1910 – July 23, 1995) was an American botanist who served as the second chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1962 to 1977.[1]
He was born in Salem, South Dakota. He graduated magna cum laude from Miami University in Ohio with a bachelor's degree in botany in 1932,[2] and a master's degree and a PhD in botany from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation in botany was titled Investigations in the anatomy of the liliaceae and the amaryllidaceae (1936).[3]
He was an active masters athlete and held the M75 world record in the shot put, set at his home track at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) for over a decade.
Cheadle became UCSB's second chancellor at a time when local leaders in Santa Barbara, California had already been fighting tenaciously for several decades to establish a research university in their community. Cheadle gave them what they had desired for so long: the transformation of UCSB from a small liberal arts college into a research university. However, Cheadle was severely traumatized by the turmoil of the anti-Vietnam War era of the late 1960s, when Governor Ronald Reagan declared martial law and deployed heavily armed California National Guard troops to the UCSB campus. As a result, Cheadle became so passive for the remainder of his chancellorship that from 1972 to 1977, real power on campus lay in the hands of Vice Chancellor Alec Alexander.[4]
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