Memorial Endowments Gallery

Memorial Endowments Gallery

Endowments created in memory of loved ones provide meaningful support to our campus. We acknowledge and remember these very special people. We welcome photographs for this page; please send them to or call (831) 459-3251.
Bruce C. Lane, Staff 1964-1991. This memorial endowment through the UCSC Retirees Association supports scholarships for students who have served in the United States military.
Bruce C. Lane
Jeremy Marx, anthropology major, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports merit-based awards for undergraduate papers in cultural anthropology, with preference given to seniors' papers on rituals, festivals, and ludic events, rites of passage, art and symbolism and life transitions.
Jeremy Marx
Eileen Brooks, assistant professor of economics, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports merit-based graduate student awards in the Department of Economics.
Eileen Brooks
Richard Cooley, environmental studies program founder, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports field project awards for undergraduate students with a preference to students majoring in Environmental Studies.
Richard Cooley
Ida Benson Lynn. This memorial endowment supports the Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair in Ocean Health
Ida Benson Lynn
Eduardo Carrillo, professor of arts and founding member of Oakes College, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports the Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship in Arts.
Eduardo Carrillo
Lionel Cantu, assistant professor of sociology, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports merit-based awards to students in any department with preference to those interested in Immigration Studies, transnational/cross border studies, Latino/Latina sociology, gender and sexuality, or gay men and masculinity
Lionel Cantu
Kathryn Cheney Merriam, community leader, Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment support a scholarship to an undergraduate student showing financial need and studying education.
Kathryn Cheney Merriam
Jessica Roy, sociology graduate student, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports student awards for interdisciplinary studies including Environment, Feminism, and Sociology, with a preference for interest in issues of equity and poverty in international development, especially in relation to women and environment.
Jessica Roy
Frank X. Barron, professor emeritus of psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Frank X. Barron
Priscilla Parkin, Crown College, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment is awarded annually to a Crown College student for academic excellence in mathematics or the exact sciences.
Priscilla Parkin
Nancy Matlock, supervisor of teacher education, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports the Teacher Education Program.
Nancy Matlock
Rick Hooper, Stevenson alumnus, politics major and economics minor, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports a need-based academic merit scholarship for an undergraduate student with interest in traveling to increase understanding of or study in an Arabic-speaking or Muslim word.
Rick Hooper
Brian Martin Sweeney, late husband of Vice Chancellor Donna M. Murphy, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports a high achieving undergraduate student through a UCSC Campus Merit Scholarship.
Brian Martin Sweeney
Terence Freitas, Crown College alumnus, biology and environmental studies major, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports a need- and merit-based award to environmental studies undergraduate students, with special consideration to indigenous peoples in developing countries.
Terence Freitas
Federico and Rena Perlino, Perlino's Poultry Market owners, Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports a scholarship for a graduate student.
Federico and Rena Perlino
Gabriel Zimmerman, Stevenson alumnus, sociology major, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports social sciences students who are in financial need and are seeking careers in social justice or public service.
Gabriel Zimmerman
Stanley Flatte, professor emeritus in physics, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports an annual lecture by a distinguished physicist at UCSC.
Stanley Flatte
Sabrina Greenfield, feminist studies major, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports a scholarship to a College Ten student with financial need majoring in Feminist Studies.
Sabrina Greenfield
Sally Jane Hammond, staff member, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports a transfer student at Crown College, in this preferred order: 1) Cabrillo, 2) Monterey Peninsula, 3) Hartnell, and 4) Gavilan.
Sally Jane Hammond
Anthony Fink, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports merit-based student awards related to human health and biological chemistry.
Anthony Fink
Ryan Heumann, anthropology major, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports one or more awards to full-time undergradtuate students majoring in anthropology, in order to assist with the costs of faculty-sponsored independent research, research-related travel, or travel to academic conferences.
Ryan Heumann
Ali Akbar Khan, world-renowned musician; distinguished adjunct professor of music, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports upports the study and performance of classical Indian music.
Ali Akbar Kahn
Andrew and Mary Madeline Stolpe. This memorial endowment supports the Daniel O. Stolpe Archive in Special Collections.
Andrew and Mary Madeline Stolpe
David Shaeffer, artist. This memorial endowment supports the David Sheaffer local theater archive in Special Collections and also supports book, journal, and non-print media collections in Theater Arts.
David Shaeffer
William Everson, distinguished poet, master printer of the McHenry Library's Lime Kiln Press, and UCSC Poet-in-Residence. This memorial endowment provides enriched support for UCSC library collections in poetry and fine printing.
William Everson
George Barati, distinguished cellist, conductor, and composer. This memorial endowment supports a scholarship for a music major whose principal instrument is the cello, preferably an incoming freshman to play in string quartet of the Student Resident Ensemble at UC Santa Cruz.
George Barati
Kenneth Norris, professor of natural history, director of the Center for Coastal Marine Studies (now the Institute of Marine Sciences), chair of the Environmental Studies Department, and coordinator of the Environmental Studies Field Program, UC Santa Cruz; founder of the University of California Natural Reserve System. This memorial endowment provides funds for undergraduate and graduate research on marine mammals.
Kenneth Norris
Ronald Ruby, a founding physics professor at UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports a campus award for excellence in teaching.
Ronald Ruby
Thomas Jackson Jefferson (and Frances Graves) See, astronomer at Lick Observatory. This memorial endowment provides enriched support for UCSC library collections in the history of science, especially the history of astronomy and physics.
Thomas Jefferson Jackson
Mark Cary, UC Santa Cruz pioneer class (shown lower front). This memorial endowment supports a Cowell undergraduate in the field of the natural sciences.
Mark Cary
Marilyn Stevens, physics department manager, UC Santa Cruz. This memorial endowment supports a scholarship for a current upper-division physics undergraduate student and a current physics graduate student.
Marilyn Stevens
Ken Gram, UCSC Creative Writing Alum. The Kenneth Andrew Gram memorial scholarship will benefit creative writing students.
Ken Gram

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