Well before Dean Krevans expressed his wishes about degrees from both campuses, I had received the following memo, dated 5 Sep 1980, from Charles Susskind. He had surveyed Berkeley faculty interest in formation of a Graduate Group in Bioengineering and was reporting the results to Stan Berger and me.
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"TO: STAN BERGER, TED LEWIS
"Perhaps we should now get started on the proposal to form the Bioengineering Graduate Group. The returned 'interests' slips show that the following said they would help in the preparation of the propsal: Graham, Goldsmith, Stark, Budinger, Derenzo, Kaplan, Singer. (There was also a question about who would aid in the preparation of the curriculum, but perhaps the two tasks ought to be combined.)
"It seems to me that you two should form as committee with two or three more drawn from the above list, meet for a luncheon to prepare an outline, and then divvy up the task of writing the several sections among you. Stan said he would get copies of the last couple of successful proposals from the Graduate Council files, to serve as models. I'll be happy to help by keeping track of things if you need that, although I'd rather stay out of the actual writing.
"So will you?
Charles Susskind”
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I don't recall our response to Charles's memo, but I do recall that Stan and I soon were working with another "Stan," Stan Glantz of UCSF, on a proposal that involved both campuses. And we certainly had help from all of the people on Charles's list (Marty Grahan, Werner Goldsmith, Larry Stark, Tom Budinger, Steve Derenzo, Selig Kaplan and Jay Singer). My contributions to the propsal were limited to an introduction, describing my concept of bioengineering, and a boiler plate, listing professional societies and journals in the field, as well as bioengineering programs at other colleges and universities-- including those at other UC campuses. The two Stans wrote the rest of the proposal-- including proposed group bylaws and degree curriculum.