Dr. Olin Cleve McDaniel

Dr. Olin Cleve McDaniel passed away at Presbyterian Rust Palliative Care Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 12, 2024. Cleve had a long and illustrious career in higher education and had recently retired as Vice President for Administration and Finance at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. He had held the position there from 2016 to 2023. He came to Socorro from Sharjah, where he was the chief operating officer at the American University. Prior to this, his academic positions included Administrative Vice Chancellor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration and Chief operations Officer at the Desert Research Institute of Nevada; and early in his career, Vice President for administrative affairs, Lincoln university, 1988-1995. 

Dr. McDaniel received his undergraduate degree from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; his Masters Degree in behavioral sciences from southern Illinois University and his PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri in 1997.

 According to Past President, Dr. Stephen Wells, of the Institute for Mining and Technology, Dr. McDaniel was skilled and successful in using a multi-tiered approach to developing non-traditional funding sources, throughout his career, and had extensive experience working with ethnically, culturally and gender -diverse campuses, having served in leadership roles at several universities and as a founding partner with a higher education consulting group. 

 Cleve was born in Bonne Terre, Missouri on March 30, 1948, and was preceded in death by his parents, Olin S. and Estella (Perrier) McDaniel; a sister, Carolyn McDaniel, of Bonne Terre, Missouri; a brother-in-law, Dr. Robert M. Heyssel and a nephew, Robert M. Heyssel, Jr., of Baltimore, MD. He is survived by his sister, Maria M. Heyssel, Ellicott City, MD; nephews and nieces, James and Patricia Heyssel, Lisa (Heyssel) and William Rinaca, Kurt and Meg Heyssel and Helen (Heyssel) and Werner Glaser, 11 grand nephews and nieces and 5 great grand nephews and nieces, all living and working throughout the US, Europe and Australia. Burial will be with his family in the Bonne Terre Cemetery. He will be missed, greatly.

 Arrangements are under the direction of C.Z. Boyer & Son Funeral Home in Bonne Terre.