“The entire Trojan Family mourns the loss of George Boone,” said USC President Steven B. Sample. “He and his wife, MaryLou, have shared a strong belief in the university’s mission as well as in the creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship of our students and faculty.”

After graduating from USC, Boone worked as a dentist on a military base in China. He practiced orthodontics in Pasadena, Calif., for 20 years before entering real estate in 1969. He later served as a part-time faculty member of the USC School of Dentistry.

He and his wife made numerous gifts and endowments to USC, including the George and MaryLou Boone Chair in Craniofacial Molecular Biology at the dental school in 1984, the George and MaryLou Boone Center for Science and Environmental Leadership in 2004, and the George and MaryLou Boone Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Research Center and the George N. and MaryLou Boone Professorship in Medical Excellence in 2005. The Boones also donated real estate to support renovation of the third floor of USC’s Eileen and Kenneth T. Norris Dental Science Center in 1996.

Elected to the USC Board of Trustees in 1995, Boone was a member of the USC College Board of Councilors and the advisory board of USC’s Philip K. Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. He served on the boards of USC’s schools of dentistry, medicine and fine arts and was a charter member of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.

The Boones were founding members of the USC Presidential Associates, the USC School of Dentistry Associates and the Widney Fellows. George Boone also was a member of the USC Alumni Association board of governors and served as president in 1989-90.

Beyond USC, he was a life trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a trustee emeritus of the California Institute of the Arts. The Boones also have been benefactors of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Pasadena City College, Scripps College and Stanford University.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by children Lynda Boone Fetter, Nick Boone and Suzanne Boone, son-in-law Blaine Fetter, six grandchildren and sister Jeanne Boone Tappan.