[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 2, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E984-E985]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR EMERITUS ARTHUR C. TURNER

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                            HON. KEN CALVERT

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 1, 2004

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to University 
of California at Riverside Professor Emeritus Arthur Campbell Turner in 
conjunction with the Citizen's University Committee Banquet being held 
in his honor on June 3, 2004.
  Professor Turner himself explained best his role in the creation of 
the University of California at Riverside (UCR), in a quote to the 
local newspaper, the Press Enterprise, in 1988: ``I was here before the 
beginning. I am one of the reasons there was a beginning.'' No truer 
statement could be given. Indeed, Professor Turner stands as one of the 
original eight founding faculty members in 1954 when the California 
State Legislature deemed that the Citrus Experiment Station in 
Riverside should become a new campus of the University of California 
system.
  In 1953 professor Turner was recruited from the University of Toronto 
by founding Provost Gordon Watkins as Chairman of the Division of 
Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Political Science. As 
Chairman, Professor Turner appointed about one-quarter of the founding 
faculty of the College of Letters and Sciences at UCR. In 1958, Dr. 
Turner became a full Professor. He remained as Chairman until 1961 and 
was Chairman of the Department of Political Sciences until 1966. As if 
that is not enough, Professor Turner proceeded to be appointed as 
associate dean of University of California's Graduate Division, 
Southern Section, and as such was instrumental in the formation of a 
graduate division at UCR in 1961.
  Dr. Turner, professor of Political Science, was born and raised in 
Glasgow, Scotland. He received his undergraduate degree in History from 
the University of Glasgow, graduate degree in History at Oxford (Queens 
College), and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkley. While 
at Berkeley he met and married Netty, a graduate student. Following his 
Ph.D., Dr. Turner joined the faculty of the University of Toronto.
  His educational career at UCR also includes his membership on the 
Editorial Committee of the University of California Press from 1959-65 
and 1980-83, and Chairman of the Committee from 1962-65. Professor 
Turner has published extensively on British affairs, international 
relations and the Middle East. Not surprisingly, he has been named in 
Who's Who in America for the past thirty years. Professor Turner 
retired in 1988.

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  Mr. Speaker, Professor Turner has given back to his community four-
fold. His vivid memories of the early days of UCR, the joys of building 
a new university, seeing it grow and become a formidable institution, 
and recruiting faculty members, some of who are still on the faculty, 
serve to give us a foundation by which we may judge the progress of our 
community and future generations.
  Professor Turner has been and continues to be a shining example of a 
person with passion and principles, who has strived to improve the 
cultural and political direction of our nation. We have a vast system 
of public higher education in this country; a network of great state 
universities and colleges. Today we enjoy academic excellence in 
America as it is enjoyed nowhere else in the world. Professor Turner is 
one of those responsible for that part of America's incredible 
educational experiment known as UCR.

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