Paul F. Romberg

(1921-1985) born at Lincoln. Educator, administrator, served as founding president of California State University at Bakersfield from 1967 to 1973, then was president of the 22,000-student San Francisco State University until 1983, succeeding famed semanticist S.I. Hayakawa and initiating an urban mission program, a student and faculty foreign exchange program, and a major center for marine ecology renamed after him in 1985. Consult Omaha World Herald, June 5, 1974, p. 25 and San Francisco Chronicle obituary, April 9, 1985, p. 37 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 8 (1985) 343-344 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Fall 2002, p. 20.

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