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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2009 |
SDSU and the San Diego Padres Team Up to Provide Economic Opportunities in the Dominican Republic Dr. Kathleen Krentler Presented with 2009 Outstanding Faculty Contributor California State University Mandated Personnel Furloughs SDSU's International Business Program Ranked 11th in U.S. SDSU HR Degree Program Receives Endorsement EMC Launched Fall 2009 Lavin VentureStart Program Spanos Family to Speak at EMC Event Environmentalist Lectures IB Students SDSU Welcomes EMBA XX Students 2009 International Economic Summit Dean Naughton Presents Award to Sempra Energy’s Felsinger M.B.A. Students Assist with Campus Housing for Student Veterans |
In Memoriam
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SDSU international business M.B.A. candidate, Sean Rae, died tragically on August 2, 2009. Early that morning, Rae and two friends were jumping off the Bahia Belle paddlewheel boat in Mission Bay off the coast of San Diego. A rescue effort was launched as the friends became alarmed when he did not come to the surface of the water. His body was located several hours later.
Originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia, Rae had completed all of the course work for his M.B.A. with the exception of one course, which he planned to take in during the Fall Semester, 2009. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Carolina – Wilmington and was known to be a world traveler. His professors and the staff that knew him at SDSU’s College of Business Administration described him as “a great guy” and “a brilliant student – among the very best”.
SDSU presented Rae’s family with his M.B.A. degree posthumously.
Rae was 28 years old and living in La Jolla, California at the time of his death. Survivors include his fiancé, and his mother, father, step-mother, brother, sister-in-law and his nephew. A celebration of his life was held in his hometown of Virginia Beach on August 15, 2009.
Robert Castetter
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Former San Diego State College finance professor, Robert Castetter, passed away on Sunday, August 2, after suffering a stroke. Castetter was just a few weeks shy of his 90th birthday.
Born in Martinsville, Indiana, Castetter earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. After he spent time in the U.S. Army, he earned his juris doctorate degree from the University of Northern Kentucky’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law in Highland Heights, Kentucky.
From September 1954 to August 1960, Castetter served as a professor in what was then the Department of Finance and Business Law at San Diego State College (later San Diego State University). Castetter was on hand for the formation of San Diego State’s College of Business Administration which launched in September 1955.
Castetter left San Diego State in 1960 for California Western School of Law where he became dean, and later, president of the law school in 1980. He remained with the school until his retirement in 1985.
Castetter is survived by his wife Marjorie of La Mesa, California, four children and three grandchildren.