Mississippi State mourns death of longtime administrator and professor Bob Wolverton

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The Mississippi State University community is mourning the loss of a campus icon, Robert E. “Bob” Wolverton, who died Dec. 15 at age 98.

Wolverton’s approximately 70-year career in education included more than 40 years at MSU, where he served as a professor of classics and in several administrative roles. He first joined the university in 1977 as vice president for academic affairs and retired from full-time teaching in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures in the summer of 2020.

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