James H. Zumberge

(1923-1992) lived in Lincoln. Geologist, educator, administrator, known as a geologist who led research expeditions of Antarctica and co-author of the 1963 textbook Elements of Geology, he served as president of three colleges for 22 years, and was chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for three years; while at Grand Valley State College in Michigan, he was essentially the founding president, where student enrollment grew to 1600 and a faculty of 85 members before he left, and at Southern Methodist University and the University of Southern California he was known for leading campaigns that substantially increased endowments; recipient of many honors, including Cape Zumberge in Antarctica named for him in 1960. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, April 23, 1972, pp. 5, 7 and August 5, 1984, p. 18 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol N-63 (1984) 13 and New York Times obituary, April 17, 1992, p. A-19 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 10 (1993) 40l.

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