William Hoben

HOBEN, Jr, William J. of Centerville, Ohio, born May 19, 1927, entered eternal life on December 2, 2009 from Sycamore Medical Center, Miamisburg, Ohio. He was preceded in death by his parents. William J, Hoben. Sr. and Maud (Smith) Hoben, his sisters, Lois H. McGary, Rose M. Hoben, Shirley H. Hughes, and R. Kathleen Hoben and his brother John S. Hoben. He is survived by his sister Joyce Hoben, SND de Namur and seven nieces and nephews and their children. Dean Hoben graduated from Chaminade High School and earned degrees from the University of Dayton and Xavier University in Cincinnati. He received his CPA designation from the State of Ohio. He served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War during which he was stationed for almost two years at the 38th parallel. He entered public accounting practice after Korea and joined the University of Dayton's department of accounting in 1956. In 1959 he was named Assistant Dean. In 1962 he became Dean, a role be fulfilled for the next twenty- five years. During those years he was largely responsible for the establishment of the University's prestigious business administration program. He was also a key figure in the establishment of the law school by conducting a feasibility study and later serving as chairman of a search committee for the first law school dean. In the civic and religious communities he had many accomplishments. He established Teach Fund, an effort in behalf of educational and charitable programs. Incorporated under that fund in the 1 960s was Dakota Street Center, a Dayton inner city facility. He served as chairman of the Poverty Commission of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and as chairman of the Catholic Telegraph Advisory Board. He also served as a trustee at Sinclair Community College in Dayton. For more than eighteen years he was a board member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He was a co-founder of the Miami Valley Catholic Education Council; among the many awards he received are the Distinguished Daytonian Award from Miami-Jacobs Junior College, awards of appreciation from Sinclair College, the first Lackner Award from UD, the UD Emeritus Award, and the UD National Alumni Association's Christian Service Award. Xavier University awarded him the MBA Executive Achievement Award. The Dean requested that there be no wake but that fiends participate in the Mass of Christian Burial at the Church of the Incarnation, Centerville, Ohio at 10:30 A.M. Monday December 7, burial to follow at Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the William J. Hoben Scholarship Fund at the University of Dayton.