The collection consists of the records of the SIO Staff Council from its establishment in 1958 to the present. The collection includes rosters, service records, minutes, committee reports, ballots, and other material. The collection includes a bound volume of records dated 1958-1964. This volume includes the bulk of material documenting the establishment and early history of the SIO Staff Council. Records in the bound volume overlap SIO Staff Council files. Unbound records of the SIO Staff Council are maintained in three series: rosters, service records, and minutes. Rosters list SIO Staff Council members for each year. Service records record SIO Staff Council service of individual members for the years 1988-1997, and these records are filed alphabetically by members name. Minutes of the SIO Staff Council meeting for 14 October 1969 are missing. There is no record of a meeting for fall 1970.

Staff meetings in one form or another have been held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography since its founding in 1903. Founding director William E. Ritter preferred formal weekly meetings that included faculty, staff, and visitors. During the 1920s a number of Scripps committees, such as the Library Committee, were formed by the director. Director Harald Sverdrup organized informal Wednesday afternoon staff luncheons in 1936, a practice that continued until 1960....suggested, for the present, one organization for the La Jolla campus, to be called the Administrative Council of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, established by the director...and charged with the duties of advising the director on various matters and of carrying out such other duties as he shall delegate to it. He agreed that this council, responsible for the consideration of local affairs, should be constituted of all UCLJ. 1 members of the southern section of the Academic Senate and all research and associate research professional appointees and non-faculty academic status. 21 For a brief period in 1959, the San Diego campus of the University of California was known as the University of California, La Jolla (UCLJ). By 1960 the campus was designed the University of California, San Diego.

2.8 li. ft.

Restrictions Student and personnel records are restricted in accordance with law and university policy

Access Collection is open for research.