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Dr. James H. Zumberge served as the seventh president of Southern Methodist University from 1975 until 1980. Zumberge taught at the University of Michigan, and later at the University of Arizona where he also served as dean. Prior to his tenure as president of SMU, he worked as chancellor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Dr. Zumberge left SMU in 1980 to take up the presidency at the University of Southern California.

Zumberge was born in Minneapolis in 1923, and earned a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Minnesota in 1950. He taught at the University of Michigan for several years, becoming a full professor in 1960. His experience in school administration began two years later when he became president of Michigan’s Grand Valley State College; in 1968 Zumberge was appointed director of the earth sciences school at the University of Arizona. When the school was officially designated a college, he became its first dean. Dr. Zumberge served as chancellor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln from 1971 until his arrival at SMU in 1975.

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