Résumé

Designer, Howard and Galloway, Architect and Engineer, San Francisco, CA, 1906-1908.

Associate, Kurahashi and Hays, Associated Architects, Fresno, CA, 1919-1920; Hays was Kurahashi's professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as his partner on the Fresno Buddhist Church, 1920. Hays was the architect of record, as he was the only partner licensed at the time.

Principal, William C. Hays, Architect, Berkeley, CA.

Teaching

Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1914.

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1917. (See Circular of Information Academic Departments, University of California Bulletin, Third Series, vol. XI, no. 2, 08/1917, p. 32.)

Hays was a long-time Department of Architecture Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and friend of the Director of the School of Architecture, John Galen Howard (1864-1931).

Hays was a Board Member of the Northern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1927;

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 1930;

College

B.S., University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, PA, 1893. (See University of California Register, 1913-1914, [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1914], p 25.)

College Awards

William C. Hays was the second recipient of the John Stewardson Memorial Traveling Scholarship from the T-Square Club in Philadelphia, PA, in 1899. (SeeCatalog of the Annual Architectural Exhibition by the T-Square Club, [Philadelphia: T-Square Club, 1899] , p. 26.)

Relocation

Hays lived at 320 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, PA, in 1899.

In 1914, Hays lived in Cloyne Court, Berkeley, CA. (See University of California Register, 1913-1914, [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1914], p 25.)

Hays's last residence was in Hayward, CA. He died in Alameda County, CA, at the age of 88.

Parents

His mother's maiden name was Dales.

Biographical Notes

SSN: 553-60-7974;