McHenry Photo Gallery

Dean E. McHenry’s official portrait, taken early in his tenure as chancellor. Photo: Moulin Studios

Dean McHenry was a tireless promoter of UCSC–even before the campus opened. Here, he mugs for a Time magazine publicity still in 1962. Photo: Covello & Covello

In the precampus years, unpaved roads posed unusual transportation challenges for the new chancellor during the rainy season. Photo: Vester Dick Photography

Chancellor McHenry and his wife, Jane, greeted Cowell College’s first students in 1965. It was the first of many such receptions for students, faculty, parents, and friends of UCSC that the couple attended over the next decade.

Dean McHenry and UCSC’s founding provost, Page Smith, are shown in the Field House (now known as the East Field House) during the 1965-66 academic year, UCSC’s first. The Field House, one of the first completed facilities on the new campus, served as dining hall, meeting hall, and classroom.

Dean McHenry’s inauguration as chancellor in May 1966 was a celebration shared with then-UC President Clark Kerr (second from left), a former roommate and longtime colleague of the new chancellor. Photo: Vester Dick Photography

James Reston, left, longtime New York Times editor, was a guest at Dean McHenry’s inauguration. Stevenson College’s founding provost, Charles Page, is at right.

In January 1966, McHenry was present as UCSC’s signature sign was placed at the main entrance to the campus. Paid for by the McCrary family of Davenport, the four-ton sign was cut from a redwood log.

In 1968, at the university’s second commencement ceremony, Dean McHenry bestowed an honorary degree on director Alfred Hitchcock.

McHenry worked closely with photographer Ansel Adams to chronicle the campus’s infancy. (l-r, back row) Regents Theodore Meyers and Donald McLaughlin; Forrest Murdock, president, Affiliates of UCSC; and McHenry. (l-r, front row) Regent Elinor Heller and Adams. Photo: Vester Dick Photography

In this 1989 photo, Dean McHenry and his grandson, Ian, are shown at the McHenry Vineyards. Photo: Monica Lee

Dean McHenry and his wife of 63 years, Jane, in a recent photo taken in the lobby of the library that bears his name. Photo: Greg Pio