Clarence Addison Dykstra

Clarence Addison Dykstra (February 25, 1883 - May 6, 1950) was a U.S. administrator of Frisian descent.^[1] He served as the first City Manager in the US in Cincinnati, Ohio after teaching government at the University of Chicago. He then became Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin (1937–45) as well as director of the Selective Service System between 1940 and 1941. He then became Provost of UCLA from 1945-1950.

He also served as the Efficiency Director of the City's Department of Water and Power for Los Angeles before World War II. He argued that the city needed to be further decentralized by expanding highways and creating suburban communities.

During World War II, he was appointed by President Roosevelt to chair an 11-member Defense Mediation Board, in an effort to settle wartime labor disputes.^[2]

He was also the Director of the Selective Service System.

Clarence Dykstra was also the first to advocate student housing at UCLA. Dykstra Hall, which opened in 1959, was the first structure in UCLA's current undergraduate residential community. It was also the first co-ed residence hall in the country.^[3]

Notes

↑ Clarence Dykstra
↑ Rossevelt Establishes This 11-Man Defense Mediation Board Evening Courier. March 24, 1941.
↑ "Dykstra Hall". UCLA Office of Residential Life. Retrieved 1 September 2012.

Academic offices
Preceded by George Sellery	Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison 1937 - 1945	Succeeded by Edwin Broun Fred
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by Harold W. Dodds	President of the National Municipal League 1937 – 1940	Succeeded by John G. Winant

Leaders of the University of California, Los Angeles

Chief Administrators*	Ernest Carroll Moore (1919–1936) Earle Raymond Hedrick (1937–1942) Clarence Addison Dykstra (1945–1950)

Chancellors	Raymond B. Allen (1951–1959) Vern Oliver Knudsen (1959–1960) Franklin David Murphy (1960–1968) Charles E. Young (1968–1997) Albert Carnesale (1997–2006) Norman Abrams (2006–2007) Gene D. Block (2007– )

Leaders of UCLA prior to 1951 were named provosts. Provosts continue today in a smaller role, as the university has been led by a chancellor since 1951.

Chancellors and Presidents of University of Wisconsin–Madison

Lathrop Barnard Sterling Chadbourne Twombly Bascom Chamberlin Adams Birge Van Hise Birge Frank Sellery Dykstra Fred Elvehjem Harrington Fleming Sewell Kearl Young Clodius Weaver Pound Shain Cohen Shalala Ward Wiley Martin Ward Blank

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