BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING
Senator Jim Beall, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: SCR 30 Hearing Date: 4/14/2015
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|Author: |Hill |
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|Version: |3/26/2015 |
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|Urgency: | No |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant|Holly Glasen |
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SUBJECT: Frederick E. Terman Memorial Highway
DIGEST: This resolution designates a portion of State Highway
Route (SR) 101 in Santa Clara County as the Frederick E. Terman
Memorial Highway.
ANALYSIS:
The committee has adopted a policy regarding the naming of state
highways or structures. Under the policy, the committee will
consider only those resolutions that meet all of the following
criteria:
1.The person being honored must have provided extraordinary
public service or some exemplary contribution to the public
good and have a connection to the community where the highway
or structure is located.
2.The person being honored must be deceased.
3.The naming must be done without cost to the state. Costs for
signs and plaques must be paid by local or private sources.
4.The author or co-author of the resolution must represent the
district in which the facility is located, and the resolution
must identify the specific highway segment or structure being
named.
5.The segment of highway being named must not exceed five miles
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in length.
6.The proposed designation must reflect a community consensus
and be without local opposition.
7.The proposed designation may not supersede an existing
designation unless the sponsor can document that a good faith
effort has uncovered no opposition to rescinding the prior
designation.
This resolution designates the portion of SR 101 from post mile
48.596, at Shoreline Boulevard, to post mile 52.550, at the San
Mateo County line, in the County of Santa Clara, as the
Frederick E. Terman Memorial Highway. The resolution further
requests that the Department of Transportation erect appropriate
signs upon receiving donations from non-state sources to cover
the costs.
COMMENTS:
1.Purpose. The author introduced this bill to honor the life
and accomplishments of Frederick E. Terman.
2.Background on Mr. Terman. Frederick E. Terman was born on
June 7, 1900, in English, IN. Mr. Terman attended Stanford
University, where he completed his undergraduate degree in
chemistry and his master's degree in electrical engineering,
and returned to Stanford University in 1925 as a member of the
engineering faculty. For his first 12 years he was the only
faculty member teaching electronics, then known as radio
engineering.
In 1932, Mr. Terman wrote and published a textbook on radio
engineering, which was one of the most important books on
electrical and radio engineering and remains a good reference
on these subjects. He was elected president of the Institute
of Radio Engineers in 1940, the first person ever to be
elected from west of Pittsburgh.
During World War II, Mr. Terman directed a staff of more than
850 at the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University, an
organization that was the source of various technologies used
to counter enemy radar during the war. After the war, Mr.
Terman returned to Stanford and was appointed Dean of the
School of Engineering.
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Mr. Terman created the Stanford Industrial Park to associate
industry more closely with the university. Mr. Terman
encouraged the licensing of Stanford University inventions and
the establishing of faculty-consulting relations as a means of
getting Stanford ideas into the core of industry.
Mr. Terman passed away on December 19, 1982, in Palo Alto, CA.
3.Consistent with committee policy. This resolution is
consistent with the provisions of the committee's policy on
highway designations.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.: Yes Local: No
POSITIONS: (Communicated to the committee before noon on
Wednesday,
April 8, 2015.)
SUPPORT:
Santa Clara University
Stanford School of Engineering
Stanford University
Three individuals
OPPOSITION:
None received.
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