Interview with Lee F. Browne - Caltech Oral Histories

Browne–25
COHEN: And what was it called? I know you have to have a name of a position.
BROWNE: Well, at that time it was called the Director of Secondary School Relations.
COHEN: I see. The Director of Secondary School Relations.
BROWNE: Yes. It did not have the minority title it’s got now.
COHEN: OK. It just was Director of Secondary School Relations.
BROWNE: Director of Secondary School Relations. And then later—oh, what’s his name? The
guy from Wales. He used to be the vice-president. Ray Owen.
COHEN: Ray Owen.
BROWNE: When Ray Owen took it up, he changed it. It was Director of Secondary School
Relations and Special Student Programs, because I ran a lot of programs for all kinds of people
that wanted to do stuff in the summer, who wanted to work with professors—
COHEN: So when you came here, you sort of had a blank sheet?
BROWNE: Yes.
COHEN: They didn’t say to you, “We’d like this program or that program”?
BROWNE: They said, “Whatever you want to try to do, go ahead and do it. And if we can’t deal
with it, somebody will tell you.”
COHEN: OK.
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