Chester McCorkle: How Ed Voorhies Connected Faculty to California

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Channel: UC Davis · 2009 · Education

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Chester McCorkle arrived in 1952 at UC Davis as a member of a four-person faculty for the new Department of Agricultural Economics.  He was an adamant supporter of Ed Voorhies, the first chair in the department and the man he claims put the department on the right foot.

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