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The Pitzer Years at Stanford University, 1968-1970
Kenneth S. Pitzer, the president of Rice University and a former professor of chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley, left Houston to assume the Stanford presidency on Dec. 1, 1968. His term, however, was short. Faced with increasing violence and disruption on campus over the prolonged conflict in Southeast Asia, he announced his resignation, effective Sept. 1, 1970, in a June 25 letter to the university trustees. In his letter he cited "trends [that] have made it increasingly difficult to obtain the very broad and active support from all those groups who together are responsible for the well-being of the university." Pitzer returned to UC-Berkeley in 1971 and taught there until his retirement in 1984. He died in 1997.
