James Herbert Zumberge was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1923 to Herbert Samuel and Helen Reich Zumberge.
He served in the military (U.S. Marine Corps) before earning a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Minnesota in 1950.
[6] While President of USC, Zumberge instituted a revenue-center management system, where individual schools and units were responsible for their own revenue and expenses.
Zumberge died at age 68 in Pasadena, California, as the result of a brain tumor.
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