Hello & Goodbye

He hadn't really expected to see the game. He was sure he wouldn't be able to get tickets, and thought he would certainly be too busy to go anyway. But he saw it after all. Last week, when Stanford University played its Big Game with the University of California (see SPORT), John Ewart Wallace Sterling found himself in one of the best seats in the Berkeley stadium. He had just been appointed Stanford's new president.

Cob-nosed Wallace Sterling, 42, is an ex-football player himself (at the University of Toronto), who also likes to raise delphiniums. The son of an Ontario minister, he taught history and coached football at Saskatchewan's Regina College, then moved to the U.S. in 1932. While earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, he became a history instructor at CalTech. Most Californians know him best as a weekly radio news commentator (for Day & Night water heaters). Last spring he became director of the famed Huntington Library and Art Gallery at San Marino, Calif.

Historian Sterling regards himself as no great scholar ("I'm just an ordinary guy"), is known as an able, amiable administrator. When told that Stanford's trustees had picked him out of 200 candidates, he couldn't quite believe it. "A complete surprise," says Sterling. "I'm pleased, complimented, honored and gratified."

As President-elect Sterling prepared to move in, Stanford's Acting President Alvin C. Eurich made plans to move on. Last week he became first president of New York's State University, which exists only on paper. After next March the job will make him top man on the campuses of 32 state colleges and institutes, which will have local administrators but be controlled from Albany. A former professor of education, Psychologist Eurich likes to think up tests. His best known one, which he and Elmo C. Wilson devised: TIME'S Current Affairs Test.

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