Donald Tresidder
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Alumnus Donald B. Tresidder (A.B. '19, M.D. '27), head of the Yosemite Park and Curry Co., resigned as president of the Board of Trustees to accept the university presidency. Tresidder's task was to keep the university's standards high during the straitened circumstances of the war years. Because of wartime shortages and priorities, there was little permanent construction, but Tresidder concentrated on the long term and established a planning office to study space on campus and anticipate the flood of returning veterans and the resulting need for additional classroom, laboratory and dormitory space. Tresidder died of a heart attack on Jan. 25, 1948, in New York City while on university business.
