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Ray Edward Weisenborn, 84, of Moreno Valley, California, died on November 1, 2025. He was born on July 10, 1941, in Oregon, and built a distinguished career as a longtime faculty member with the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). Over the course of nearly five decades, Ray taught communication and business courses across 46 locations worldwide, serving thousands of students and contributing significantly to UMGC’s global mission.
Ray’s career with UMGC spanned multiple regions and eras. He taught in the European Division from 1968–71 and again from 2007–14, including downrange service in Kuwait from 2007–12. He served in the Asian Division from 1982–84, 1985–86, and 2014–16, and continued teaching stateside as an adjunct from 2016 to the present. In 1968, he worked under Bill Berlin in Karamürsel, Turkey, He also worked directly with Ray Ehrensburger, Stan Drazek, Julian Jones, Joe Arden, and Vida Bandis in Heidfelberg before she transferred to Adelphi.
Ray married Chin Suk in Korea in 1983. They had two children: Jenny, born in the United States in 1984, and Leonard, born in Seoul in 1987. His career, family life, and international experiences reflected his deep commitment to education.
Ray will be remembered as a dedicated educator, a valued colleague, and a man whose work touched lives across continents.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/moreno-valley-ca/ray-weisenborn-12590099
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Charles Brumfield
Ray's passing comes as a shock! We were UMUC (UMGC) friends in absentia, de tempore in tempus, from way back in 1968 when he first joined the program until I took the buyout in 2014 and left UMGC forever (after exactly 25 years). I had joined UMUC in August 1965. I remember meeting Ray in Vida's office in 1968. He was on his way to an assignment somewhere in Spain--Rota I think--and I was on my way to an assignment at Moron AFB in Seville, Spain. My memory of the details is somewhat fuzzy after all these years, so don't hold me to any "fact". Since Rota and Seville were relatively close, I and my first wife, Margot, (now ex, but we're still best friends) and Ray and his first wife, Donna, agreed to get together from time to time. I remember our trip traveling around Portugal in our car (or theirs) during term break quite well. Our last assignment together was in the summer of 1969 at Wiesbaden, Germany. I left UMUC, in 1969 (after a 4-year stint, although--in contradition to the maximum 4-year clause in all of our contracts back then--I was offered a 5th year) to return to the States to enter the Ph.D. program at USC in LA. But, Ray and I stayed in touch after his return to the States in the early 1970s. I was teaching at Cal Poly, Pomona and he was teaching at either the Univ of Wyoming or the Univ of Montana, I forget which. I was still ABD at a different USC, and I think he had already finished his doctorate. After I resigned from Cal Poly in 1978 to take a position in the Bay Area as VP in charge of the Northern Division of my brother's corporation, while also teaching as an adjunct at Cal State East Bay, Ray and I lost touch completely. I heard somewhere along the way through the grapevine that he had returned to a position at UMGC. I returned to a position with UMGC in 1993 (Europe, then Asia) and stayed until 2014 when I took the buyout. I had heard that Ray divorced Donna and remarried and was working for UMGC off and on in the Middle East. Then in the spring of 2014 at a faculty gathering in Seoul, there was Ray, looking the same as when I last saw him in 1969. I was delighted to see him again. But he was just passing through Seoul, as I remember it, and was not teaching for UMGC at the time. Don't quote me on that. I think he was on his way back to the Middle East after a visit with his Korean wife's family but was thinking about moving to Korea to teach for UMUC. I don't remember the details. But, that was the last time I ever laid eyes on Ray or even communicated with him. I moved to Thailand with my Thai wife, Pla, and changed email addresses. I guess I forgot to give him my new email address or he forgot to give me his. We never communicated or got together again after 2014. I'll miss just knowing he's out there somewhere. He was a great and talented guy.