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A native of Bakersfield, McCuen
attended Stanford University on an Eagle Scout scholarship, graduating at the
top of his engineering class. He went on to earn a master's degree and a
Ph.D. at Stanford, taking a faculty position in 1960.
In 1964, he left to pursue
high-tech business interests. He was most well known for developing Verbatim
into the world's largest manufacturer of flexible discs.
McCuen went to Sacramento in
1980, where he was involved in local politics, philanthropy and business,
the latter primarily as a developer and builder. He died of cancer in
November 1999. This high performance computing center was established in
his honor by his friends and friends of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Laboratory.
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