Ivan Hinderaker

In Loving Memory 1916 - 2007

 

Ivan Hinderaker

 

 

Ivan Hinderaker, UC Riverside’s longest-serving chancellor, died Sunday evening in Irvine. He was 91.
Hinderaker, widely revered as a champion of students, the community and the arts, was named UCR’s third leader on July 1, 1964 and served until his retirement in 1979.
“Ivan Hinderaker had a profound impact on UC Riverside during the formative years of the university,” said Acting Chancellor Robert D. Grey. “His emphasis on academic excellence and advocacy of the arts helped establish the university as a center of intellectual life, important research and artistic expression in the community.”
Francis Carney, a founding faculty member who taught at UCR for 50 years, met Hinderaker as a graduate student at UCLA.
Hinderaker endeared himself to students during the anti-war protests in the 1960s by inviting protestors into his office for coffee and doughnuts, Carney said.
Hinderaker was born in Hendricks, Minn., on April 29, 1916. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. He was a member of the Minnesota State Legislature in 1941-1942 and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1943 to 1946.
After teaching one year at the University of Minnesota, Hinderaker joined the UCLA faculty in political science in 1949, eventually serving as department chair. In 1963 he was named vice chancellor/academic affairs at UC Irvine, where he served for one year until his appointment as chancellor at UC Riverside.
Ivan Hinderaker is survived by his brother, Theodore Hinderaker and his wife, Laura, of Tucson; grandson Blake Hinderaker and his wife, Daniella, of Fremantle, Australia, and daughter-in-law Janice Hinderaker of Albury, Australia. He was preceded in death by his wife, Birk, and his son, Mark.

 

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