Donald Bertrand Tresidder (April 7, 1894-January 28, 1948) was the fourth president of Stanford University. Tresidder was born in Tipton, Indiana. At the age of 20 he took a trip with his sister to Southern California. However, the railroad tracks were washed out and they went to Yosemite Valley instead. There he met many Stanford faculty, who convinced him to enroll in Stanford University. Wikipedia
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Donald Bertrand Tresidder became president at a time when Stanford was still suffering from the effects of the Great Depression and had seen its ranks of students and faculty depleted by the Second World War. His ceremony was appropriately simple. A fil www.stanford.edu/dept/president/inauguration/tresidder.html
