Two Men and Two Institutions

eye the marked and unusually steady improvement in the public services of this commonwealth during the past generation know that much, if not most, of the credit must go to a relatively small group of educators, administrators, and elective public officials who in the 192o's caught the vision of a more efficiently managed and socially responsible kind of government and dedicated their lives to bringing it into reality. It has been the privilege of our guild, both in Northern and Southern California, to participate this year in a series of tributes to two men whose contributions toward this goal have not been exceeded by any other two individuals in the state. They are Samuel C. May, who has just retired as director of the Bureau of Public Administration at the University of California in Berkeley, and Emery E. Olson, who marked his retirement from the deanship of the School of Public Administration at the

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