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Sproul was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the second child of Robert Cecil Sproul, an accountant and a veteran of World War II and his wife, Mayre Ann Sproul (née Yardis). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Sproul was an avid supporter of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Pirates as a youth, and at the age of 15, he had to drop out from high school ...
Sproul's first wife, Denise Elizabeth Sproul (née Rocklein), died in 2011, age 46, of cancer. They have seven surviving children, a disabled daughter died in 2012. [15] On October 14, 2016, Sproul married Lisa Carol Ringel (née Porter) in a civil ceremony. On November 19, 2016, his father R. C. Sproul Sr. officiated the church wedding ceremony.
Robert Gordon Sproul (/ s p r aʊ l / SPROWL; May 22, 1891 – September 10, 1975) was the first system-wide president (1952–1958) of the University of California system, and a president (11th) of the University of California, Berkeley, serving from 1930 to 1952.
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Robert Lamb Sproull (August 16, 1918 – October 9, 2014) [1] [2] was an American educator, physicist and US Department of Defense official. Life and career.
Robert Sproul may refer to: R. C. Sproul (1939–2017), American Calvinist theologian; R. C. Sproul Jr. (born 1965), Calvinist Christian minister and son of R. C. Sproul; Robert Gordon Sproul (1891–1975), eleventh President of the University of California; Robert C. Sproul, founder of Major Publications
When I inherited a box of papers about a mysterious relative, I went in search of his life—and discovered a courageous man who found his purpose fighting the disease that killed him.