"Joyce Barlow King Stoops, lifelong educator, philanthropist and supporter of USC, died Dec. 16. She was 86.
King Stoops devoted significant resources to USC and to helping the USC Rossier School of Education prepare future educators and enhance faculty productivity.She was born in England on Jan. 25, 1923 and grew up in rural Ohio. She worked as a nurse and a technician in a chemistry laboratory, where she was in charge of analyzing flame thrower gel for impurities during World War II while she earned her teaching credential and a bachelor’s degree at Northern Illinois University.
Later she moved to California and earned a master’s degree at California State Univeristy, Long Beach, and an Ed.D. at USC in 1966."