Bob Curtis Hamm

February 5, 2014

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Hamm, Bob Curtis, professor emeritus of the Spears School of Business and consultant to the Oklahoma State University Foundation, died Feb. 5, 2014. Hamm received his undergraduate marketing degree from Oklahoma A&M in 1955 and, after a military obligation and time in the executive development program at IBM, a master’s of business administration from Oklahoma State in 1962 and doctorate from the University of Texas in 1966. While Hamm’s impact on the knowledge and love of education for students was worldwide, his heart was always with Oklahoma State University. For more than 50 years, Hamm held a variety of professorial positions within the College of Business and the university’s Foundation and introduced the importance of service to students through his support of student activities and organizations. He took an active role in mentoring and was recognized in a variety of ways including being selected for the National International Student Association Award, as a Distinguished OSU Alumni Award winner, as the Redskin Yearbook Faculty Member of the Year and as the Blue Key National Faculty Adviser of the Year. Other recognitions of Hamm’s impact on the lives of others include his induction into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame.