During his tenure as university president, from 1921 to 1947, USC had attained full national accreditation, established a graduate school, and had severed its ties with the Methodist Church to become a non-denominational institution. During his lifetime, von Kleinsmid also served as the seventh president of the University of Arizona (1914-1921) and as a chairman of the Los Angeles Library Commission. He died in 1964 and is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale. Portrait of the University of Southern California's fifth president, Dr. Rufus B. von Kleinsmid (1875-1964).
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