Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
UC Berkeley’s former Le Conte Hall physics building, seen above in the 1920s, was dedicated a century ago this week.March 22, 1924, was Charter Day at UC Berkeley. Elaborately celebrated each year up through that era, the 56th annual ceremony in 1924 featured the inauguration of William Wallace Campbell as the University of California’s president, according to the Berkeley Daily Gazette.
Among them were 200 delegates from other academic institutions around the world, a traditional way of honoring a major university’s new leader. California’s governor was on hand, the Gazette reported, and 10 “world-famous scholars and leaders in American industry were honored with the degree of doctor of laws” at the celebration.
Completed in 1923, the Gazette reported that “Le Conte Hall is one of the best designed laboratories for physics in the country, according to leading physicists who have visited and inspected it and is completely equipped for the study of physics and the carrying on of physical research. It is dedicated to the memory of John and Joseph Le Conte, former professors of the university.”
Among the projects was the construction of a new Hillside School, to replace the one destroyed by Berkeley’s September 1923 fire.On March 17, 1924, Dr. Frederick I. Kingsbury and his wife of 47 years, Leulla, died a few hours apart from each other in the Berkeley home of their daughter at 7 Shasta Road.
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