3COM CEO Bruce Claflin Honored by Penn State University.Business Editors SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002 Bruce Claflin, president and chief executive officer of 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) was honored Saturday, June 1, by Penn State University with the Distinguished Alumni Award for his personal, professional and community service achievements. Since 1951, the Penn State Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. has selected Penn State alumni to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, the University's highest award for an individual. Bruce Claflin has been involved with Penn State in a number of ways since graduating from the university in 1973. He currently serves on the College of Liberal Arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Development Council and was involved in the creation of Penn State's recently formed School of Information Sciences and Technology. Through Claflin's leadership and as part of 3Com's investment in education, 3Com committed $1.25 million in cash and equipment to assist in the creation of the School of Information Sciences and Technology. Bruce Claflin received a bachelor's degree in political science from the College of the Liberal Arts of Penn State University in 1973. About 3Com Corporation 3Com is a global leader in functionally-rich, easy-to-use networking products that connect businesses to their employees, customers and suppliers anytime, anywhere. 3Com is also a leader in Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) service platforms and access infrastructure for the network service provider market. In 1979, the company was founded by one of the inventors of Ethernet technology on which virtually all local area networks are based. Since then, 3Com has sold more than 360,000,000 Ethernet connections. 3Com has headquarters in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. and offices around the world. |
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