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Steven Browning Sample (November 29, 1940 – March 29, 2016) was the 10th president of the University of Southern California (USC). [1] He became president in 1991 and was succeeded by C. L. Max Nikias on August 3, 2010. [2]
Mar 29, 2016 · Steven Browning Sample, who served as USC’s 10th president from 1991 to 2010 — a time of remarkable transformation at the university — died March 29. He was 75. During Sample’s 19-year tenure as president, the university ascended the national academic ranks.
May 2, 2016 · At Sample’s retirement, he and his wife, Kathryn, gave USC a statue of USC’s mascot, Traveler, which overlooks Hahn Plaza. Steven and Kathryn Sample Hall is named in their honor, as is a special Renaissance Scholar endowment.
Personal life and death. Samples was married to Grace Carrie Bolton (April 27, 1927 – July 9, 1983), and they had five children together. Grace occasionally used Bolden as her maiden name and it was an official alias in legal documents.
Mar 31, 2016 · Steven Browning Sample was born in St. Louis on Nov. 29, 1940. He earned three degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: a bachelor’s, a master’s and a Ph.D. in electrical...
Mar 30, 2016 · Steven B. Sample, the former president of USC who oversaw a dramatic rise in the university's academic and financial profile during nearly two decades at the helm, died Tuesday at 75.
Mar 30, 2016 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steven Browning Sample, who was president of the University of Southern California for 19 years during which the school rose to international prominence, died Tuesday. He was 75. Sample's death was announced by USC, which did not indicate where the Pasadena resident died or the cause of his death.