Carol Tomlinson-Keasey is the most recent in a string of UC Davis administrators and faculty members who have become higher-education leaders. Our campus institutional memory has tracked over the years the following folks who went on to presidencies and chancellorships after a formative period at Davis: Larry Vanderhoef, who came to Davis in 1984 as executive vice chancellor and was named chancellor here in 1994 MRC Greenwood, former dean of graduate studies and vice provost for academic outreach, who was appointed as chancellor of UC Santa Cruz in 1996 Carol Cartwright, vice chancellor for academic affairs, who was named president of Kent State University in 1990 Phil Dubois, a former associate vice chancellor for academic programs, executive associate dean of the College of Letters and Science and professor of political science, who has been president since 1997 of University of Wyoming, Laramie Dale Rogers Marshall, professor of political science and associate dean of the College of Letters and Science, who became dean of academics at Wellesley College in 1986 and has been president of Wheaton College since 1992 James Meyer, chancellor of UC Davis from 1969 to 1987 after serving as professor and chair of animal husbandry and dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Donald Swain, history professor and vice chancellor for academic affairs, who also served as UC academic vice president before being named president of the University of Louisville in 1980 Patrick Lattore, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, who assumed the presidency of North Park College and Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1986 the late Emil Mrak, who served as chair of food technology from 1951 until he was named chancellor in 1959 (he retired in 1969) the late Daniel Aldrich, founding chancellor of UC Irvine, who got his start here as a faculty member the late Vernon Cheadle, former botany chair and acting academic affairs vice chancellor, who became chancellor of UC Santa Barbara the late Jack Oswald, plant pathology professor, who went on to become UC executive vice president and president of the University of Kentucky and Penn State University Davis can even lay claim to retired UCLA Chancellor Charles Young, who spent a short period of time here before heading to an Office of the President administrative post and eventually UCLA.