Stanford's Tresidder

For the last three years California's Stanford University has scouted high & low for a new president to succeed long, lean Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, 67. Last week it announced the choice: tall, tanned, tactful Donald Bertrand Tresidder, 48.

Like Wilbur, who will become Stanford's chancellor for life, Tresidder is a physician. He has never practiced, since 1925 has directed the consolidated hotels and camps of Yosemite National Park. A woodsman, horseman and flyer who promoted skiing as a Western sport, Tresidder knows craggy Yosemite like his back yard. As a Stanford trustee since 1939, he has devoted the same lusty, detailed attention to "the Farm" (Stanford's name for its magnificent campus, once a horse-breeding ranch).

A big reason for Tresidder's election is his good relations with Washington--in sharp contrast to those of Stanford Trustee Herbert Hoover and his onetime Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur. Said a Tresidder friend last week: "He knows the department heads and he knows their politics. He'll be able to tie Stanford into national affairs. Tresidder even gets along fine with Ickes, and if that doesn't mean he's got tact, nothing does."

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