Clarence Addison Dykstra, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American academic administrator
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About Clarence Addison Dykstra
- Clarence Addison Dykstra (February 25, 1883 - May 6, 1950) was a U.S.
- administrator.
- 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 (1937–1945) 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.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.
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