Those wishing to attend the Celebration of Life are requested to RSVP to Noemi Guevara at 562/985-7536 or [email protected]. Parking for the event will be provided free of charge in Parking Lot 3 adjacent to the Steve and Nini Horn Center.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests any contributions in her honor may be made to three organizations she strongly supported for many years:
CSULB College of the Arts, c/o University Foundation, CSULB, 6300 State University Drive, Suite 332, Long Beach, CA 90840. www.csulb.edu/divisions/urad
Todd Cancer Institute, c/o Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Foundation, 2801 Atlantic Avenue, P. O. Box, 1428, Long Beach, CA 90801-1428. www.lbmmcf.org
The Long Beach Community Foundation, 400 Oceangate, Suite 800, Long Beach, CA 90802. www.longbeachcf.org
February 23, 8:00am | After a rather quiet and courageous 16-year battle with breast cancer, Nini Horn, wife and essential partner to late Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) President and Congressman Steve Horn, passed away on February 21 at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center at the age of 80.
Her contributions to Long Beach are seemingly endless, particularly with regards to her work within education and the arts.
At CSULB, she was instrumental in attracting community support to the campus and played a significant role in cultivating many major gifts, including the Isabel Patterson Child Development Center, the President’s Home, the International House, the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, and the Martha Knoebel Dance Theater. Her role at CSULB was pivotal to the extent that in 2003, the Trustees of the California State University honored her and her husband via their own name, renaming the North Campus Library to the Steve and Nini Horn Center.
In the community, she chaired the Long Beach Unified School District’s 100-member committee that proposed desegregation guidelines and the magnet school plan in 1979. She served for 10 years on the Long Beach Unified School District’s Personnel Commission.
She was President of Long Beach’s Public Corporation for the Arts and led the effort in 1984 that persuaded the City Council to provide funds through the Long Beach Arts Council for arts organizations. She also served on the boards of the California Community Foundation, the Greater Long Beach Community Foundation, Family Service of Long Beach, and the Todd Cancer Institute at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, among other civic organizations.
She grew up in Lodi, California, graduated with distinction in History and the Humanities from Stanford University in 1953, and received a Certificate from the Program in Business Administration of Radcliffe College/Harvard Business School in 1954 (prior to the formal admission of women to the Harvard Business School).
She leaves two devoted children, Marcia of Phoenix, and Stephen of Long Beach, and an adoring grandson, Jonathan Horn of Phoenix.
A celebration of her life will be held at a later date. The family suggests that, in lieu of flowers, any contributions in her honor may be made to three organizations she strongly supported:
- CSULB College of the Arts, c/o University Foundation, CSULB, 6300 State University Drive, Suite 332, Long Beach CA 90840 or click here.
- Todd Cancer Institute, c/o Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Foundation, 2801 Atlantic Avenue, P.O. Box, 1428, Long Beach CA 90801-1428 or click here.
- The Long Beach Community Foundation, 400 Oceangate, Suite 800, Long Beach CA 90802 or click here.
For more information, please contact Steve Horn, Jr. at 562-427-5561