Library Planned Giving
For the Love of Listening
Harry Smith Glaze Jr.’s remarkable collection of more than 2,000 rare opera recordings is available at UC Santa Barbara, where it will be preserved and shared through the Library’s Performing Arts Collection thanks to his daughter, Cathy. She also established the Harry Smith Glaze Jr. Fund for the Performing Arts to ensure its long-term care and accessibility.
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In Their Names
David McDonald ’85 has created four named scholarships and an endowed fund for the UCSB Library to honor his family's lives. His gifts ensure lasting financial support for students, connecting his family’s legacy to future generations.
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When a Home Becomes a Legacy
When Erika Davis decided to downsize, she turned her home into an opportunity to help students. Through a charitable gift annuity with UC Santa Barbara, she secured her retirement, created the Richard and Erika Davis Scholarship, and left a lasting legacy for students.
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"Chomaha!"
John Davis (JD) ’82,’84 passionately supports UC Santa Barbara Baseball as a trustee and long-time advocate. He launched the Chomaha Fund in 2021 to strengthen community support and designated a bequest to ensure the program's future. His efforts have expanded the team’s donor base, improved facilities, and helped UCSB Baseball achieve success, including multiple Big West Championships and NCAA appearances. JD’s legacy gift and mentorship continue to impact players.
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An Intellectual Home
Jennifer Ho ’92 found her future in UC Santa Barbara's Asian American studies classes. She is now the director of the Center for the Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches classes on Asian American culture and Critical Race Theory. Jennifer hopes her bequest to the UCSB Department of Asian American Studies will provide stability and flexibility for the department.
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A Legacy of Inquiry
Ann Fingarette Hasse created the Leslie S. and Herbert Fingarette Endowment to honor her parents and support UC Santa Barbara philosophy graduate students, enabling them to present research at conferences. Her gift continues UCSB Professor Herbert Fingarette’s legacy of curiosity-driven scholarship. Ann’s endowment fosters the same intellectual exploration that her father championed.
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Literacy Luminaries
Professor Emerita Carol Dixon founded the UCSB Reading Clinic in 1973 and mentored many students whose impact has rippled throughout the classrooms and communities they served. Of these students, two accomplished educators — Ann Kaganoff ’75,’81 and Tina Hansen McEnroe ’89 — have joined Carol in philanthropic commitments to shape the work of literacy education at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.
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How to Nourish a Community
The late entrepreneur James Jimenez was a key player in the Mexican food industry and a lifelong advocate for education. He created the James Jimenez Scholars Endowment to provide financial support to undergraduate students from underserved schools, with a preference for those from his local Fillmore High School.
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The Global Campus
Ernie and Leslie Zomalt’s transformative international experiences at UC Santa Barbara inspired their lifelong dedication to global education. They established and endowed the Ernest and Leslie Zomalt International Education Fund to support students in UCSB's Education Abroad Program. Through their legacy gifts, the Zomalts ensure lasting support for future generations of international learners.
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Boosting Energy-Efficient Research
Dr. John Bowers, director of UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE), has committed a legacy gift to support graduate students with the aim to expand research in energy efficiency. Since 2008, IEE has pioneered innovations in areas like data transmission, sustainable agriculture, and LED technology to improve energy use worldwide. Bowers' support will empower more students to contribute to the institute’s goal of creating a sustainable future.
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A Study in Service
Prathibha “Sewwi” Madigapola-Liberty ’14, ’15 and Taylor Liberty ’14 created an estate plan at 29, designating their passions at UC Santa Barbara — the Teacher Education Program and the Department of History of Art and Architecture — as beneficiaries. Sewwi, inspired by her volunteer work and time in the Teacher Education Program, launched an educational company supporting students with special learning needs. Taylor’s love for architecture shifted his career path from engineering to art history.
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An Important Place
When Frederick Charles Hock Jr., father of three Gauchos, passed away in 2022 at age 83, he left an estate gift to the university that shaped his children’s lives. The generosity of the Hock family established the first unrestricted endowment at UC Santa Barbara, one able to sustain any part of the UCSB experience at the discretion of campus leadership.
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Scientists Lead Us
Katherine and Donald Denhart raised their family between a ranch in South San Jose and on their property in Oahu. Their daughter, Sandra Denhart ’73, remembers a childhood of swimming, surfing, snorkeling and caring for the land’s resources. In honor of her parents, Sandra has named UC Santa Barbara as a beneficiary of her estate to support coral reef conservation and Alzheimer’s research on campus.
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The Bonds of the Surfrider Battalion
UC Santa Barbara’s U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program is home of the Surfrider Battalion, where Mark ’89 and Julie ’90 Flower fell in love during their Army ROTC years, and their legacy gift will help provide financial assistance for ROTC students. Mark and Julie share many memories of their time on campus, including meals at Pizza Bob’s in Isla Vista after field training. Later, their daughter Samantha would graduate from UC Santa Barbara in 2017.
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Protecting Ocean Forests
Helen Hansma ’75, associate adjunct professor emerita, is the granddaughter of a botany professor; plants are in her genes. After a prestigious career as a biophysicist, Helen found herself returning to her lifelong fondness for kelp. Her bequest to support kelp research at UC Santa Barbara will help provide the resources needed to monitor and protect these critical marine forests.
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An Anchor
Dorris Goodrich was a lifelong scholar with research interests in the British education system, psychology, and art. Her husband, Chauncey, was a UC Santa Barbara faculty emeritus in East Asian languages and cultural studies. When the Goodriches passed, they left their legacy to the UCSB Library. Their gift will support the pre-existing Henry H. Tai East Asian Collection and the Art & Architecture Collection of the UCSB Library.
Practical Idealists
Professors Lorraine McDonnell and her late husband, Stephen Weatherford, supported UC Santa Barbara's UCDC program for over 25 years. UCDC offers students the opportunity to gain practical experience in public service through internships and academic instruction in the nation’s capital. Lorraine and Stephen created the first donor-supported funds for UCDC, both current-use and endowed, and often engaged with students and alumni during their visits to Washington.
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Part of the Family
UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center had a special place in the lives of Dennis Morelos and his late wife, Soledad. When designating their charitable beneficiaries, the couple decided to name the center as the recipient of a generous bequest. Soledad’s great-niece benefitted from the interventions and resources available there, and the Moreloses wanted to give back.
Mapmaking
Through a generous bequest to the STEM fields at UC Santa Barbara and more specifically for the Department of Geography, Kim Whittier '87 hopes her legacy gift will inspire more students — especially women — to pursue the sciences. The legacy gift, named The Delma C. Whittier Scholarship Fund, is dedicated in honor of Kim’s late mother.
Education as Equalizer
The daughter of Filipino immigrants, Carla Van Hoven Riley ’96 arrived on campus as a transfer student in search of financial security. In honor of the path she found at UC Santa Barbara, Carla and her husband are proud to support scholarships for students in STEM and economics. The family will continue that support in perpetuity through a bequest in their estate plans.
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