A memorial service for University of California, Davis, Chancellor Emeritus James H. Meyer will be held on Friday, Dec. 6, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Jackson Hall of the UC Davis Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. A reception will follow in the hall's Grand Tier Lobby.

Meyer, who guided UC Davis from 1969 to 1987 during the campus's greatest period of unrest, change and growth, died Oct. 12 after a lengthy illness. A calming presence in moments of crisis and a patient and deliberate consensus-builder, he was also recognized as a leader in the adaptation of management theory and techniques to higher education.

His family asks that those wishing to make memorial contributions consider a donation to benefit students in the UC Davis Department of Animal Science or to augment the performing arts center's endowment. Checks for the animal science program should be made out to "UC Regents" in memory of James H. Meyer and directed to the Animal Science Memorial Fund, c/o the Department of Animal Science, UC Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616. Checks for the arts endowment should be made out to "UC Davis Foundation" in memory of James H. Meyer and sent to the Development Office, UC Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616.