Norris Hundley
Norris Hundley
Distinguished Emeritus Professor
Biography
Norris Cecil Hundley, jr. passed away peacefully on April 28, 2013. He was born to Norris and Helen Hundley, and was the oldest of seven children on October 26, 1935 in Houston, Texas. His surviving siblings are Juanita Walters, Helen Daugherty, Betty Howell, John Hundley, Patty Talbott, and Dr. Charles Hundley. In 1954, Norris met Carol Marie Beckquist at San Gabriel Mission High, they fell in love and were married on June 8, 1957.
Norris graduated from Whittier College in 1958. After receiving his Ph.D. in History in 1963 from UCLA, he taught at the University of Houston for a year before returning to UCLA in 1964. He was a Professor of American History at UCLA from 1964 – 1994. Professor Hundley was a renowned scholar of water rights in the west.
