Not really, since anyone working at the school in 1969 has long retired or moved on to other things, mostly forgotten by now. A lot changes in forty years. I wrote a thing about why UCSB even ended up as the third node: http://jeweledplatypus.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/text/ucsbnet.... - they pretty much just happened to have the budget for it and a person working on interesting related stuff.