Tuesday
November 14, 1978

Memo to File - Subject - University of California 1957

Clark Kerr made a point of coming over to me to_
record that he had,a very vivid and distasteful recollec-
tion of the events that had led to the overruling of my
appointment to Berkeley by the then President Sproull.
It was a little difficult to make out just what he was
trying to say about his theory of the event: I have to
infer that it was nothing short of a direct power struggle
between Kerr and Sproull as individuals in which I had become
caught up. More specifically he said that Sproull had deeply
resented the establishment of the Chancellorship at the
Berkeley campus having intended to run that himself and that
he did not wish to be followed by any greater accomplishment.
This would seem to put the nepotism issue as a front. Mrs.
Kerr seemed to concur that the other two parties that were
mentioned in Norberg's correspondence to me might have

been entirely fictitious.

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