 Bovard administration building is named after him.His brother, Marion McKinley Bovard, was the university's first president.Rufus B. von KleinSmid

Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid (1875 – July 9, 1964), also spelled Kleinsmidt, was the seventh president of the University of Arizona (1914–1921) and the fifth president of the University of Southern California (1921–1947).