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Cal FuturesPhilanthropic, Financial, and Estate Planning Ideas for UC Berkeley Alumni and Friends, Fall 2016
University of California, Berkeley
Office of Gift Planning
University Development and Alumni Relations
2080 Addison Street #4200
Berkeley, CA 94720-4200
With all of the types to choose from, legal and tax strategies to navigate, and individual
goals to contemplate, making a planned gift can feel overwhelming. Luckily, UC Berkeley offers a
friendly, knowledgeable team to help you sort through the issues — and ensure you land on a gift
that is practical, powerful, and personal.
R. J. “Rocky” Gutiérrez Ph.D. ’77 and Holly Brownscombe both made gifts that are deeply personal.
Although Rocky was told he’d never succeed in college, he received a Ph.D. and is an expert on the
spotted owl. He and his wife established a charitable gift annuity that will support traditionally
underrepresented graduate students who share an affinity for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
While Holly didn’t attend Berkeley, she grew up here and still lives nearby. Her deferred charitable
gift annuity will support the Campanile — for her a symbol of beauty, history, and her family’s
love of bells.
Whatever your financial and giving goals are, you, like Rocky and Holly, can support the
campus’s highest priorities or a program or place on campus that holds a huge place in your heart. l
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Having grown up nearby with several family members who either attended or worked at the university, Holly Brownscombe was destined to give to Berkeley. The conundrum was deciding where to designate her gift. It wasn’t until she toured the Jane K. Sather Tower, aka the Campanile, that her answer rang as clear as the bells.
“Sometimes I get choked up when I hear them,” she says. “Something went through my system that day, and I knew that was it.” Holly created a deferred charitable gift annuity that helps ensure the Campanile will continue to “stand fast, look high,” as UC President Benjamin Ide Wheeler said of the monument at its cornerstone-laying ceremony more than a century ago.
Never just a stone tower, the Campanile is a beautiful landmark, a treasure trove of history, a music box, and familiar friend. Most of all, it is a symbol of Berkeley’s enduring contributions to California and the world.
For Holly, who lives in Berkeley, the bells are also a lovely soundtrack that
fills the air and marks time. “It has a nice feeling,” she says, “very centering, balancing, and calming.” But the bells didn’t always hold as much meaning.
Holly recalls frequent fieldtrips to campus as a child with her parents, Bob ’41 and Virginia, and brother, David. They would wander around, listen to concerts at Hertz Hall, attend basketball games, and visit her Aunt Wilma, who worked in the physics department. They often enjoyed lunch in the Faculty Club, which her mother and aunt treated as a special occasion. Holly says she has probably walked by the Campanile a thousand times, and hears it every day, “but now it’s resonating with me. I’m paying more attention to it.”
She learned on the tour she attended, which was hosted by the Office of Gift Planning, that 20 tons of ancient fossils — most of them excavated from tar pits in prehistoric Los Angeles by UC paleontologists in the early 1900s — occupy five floors of the Campanile.
“I also love the old, gnarly trees outside. They’re like characters in a sci-fi movie,” she says, noting the strange dichotomy between when they are trimmed versus when their leaves have filled in.
A family thingBob, Holly’s father, studied plant
pathology at Berkeley, where he met her mother, Virginia. After graduating, Bob worked in the agriculture business selling fertilizer throughout California. Virginia was a fastidious accountant and worked briefly, among other places, in Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Both of them loved wine and attended wine tastings in Northern California and Europe in the 1970s before they were popular. Bob established two charitable gift annuities to benefit the College of Natural Resources, which inspired Holly to make her own gift.
Holly graduated from UC Riverside in 1970 with degrees in history and English. As a young woman, she worked in an inner city children’s center in LA.
She then moved to Seattle, where she earned her teaching credential in special education. But her grandmother’s illness lured her back to California.
“When my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer, she wanted to be at home,” says Holly, who took care of her grandmother during the final months. “She was like my second mom. I’m glad I got to do that for her.”
Education eventually called to Holly again, but instead of being inside of the classroom, she started working outside of it — as a human resources director for the Contra Costa County Office of Education for over 15 years.
Since she retired 10 years ago, Holly has continued to offer her expertise as a consultant and as a volunteer for a virtual retirement village that offers companionship and support to elderly people who want to stay in their homes. She also still frequents the campus — as a longtime season ticket holder for men’s basketball.
In reflecting on why she chose to support the Campanile, Holly made a surprise realization. Her mother, aunt, and uncle, Leon Street ’41, played hand bells in their church choir, passing on to her a love of bells. “It’s a family thing,” she says with a chuckle … as is their deep love for Cal. l
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Planned gift stands fast, looks high
The Campanile: Did you know?• Jane K. Sather, an early donor to
Berkeley, gave $225,000 via life
income gifts, as well as 12 bells, for
the tower.
• It turned 100 in 2015.
• It now contains 23 bells, which are
played with both hands and feet.
• The bells played for two continuous
hours at the end of World War II.
• Among the 300,000 fossils housed
in the Campanile, the top one is a
dire wolf, a wild dog that roamed
North America 10,000 years ago.
Answer to “famous alum”
Soccer player Alex Morgan is an Olympic and National Women’s Soccer League champion, a U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year, and a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team’s All-Time Best XI squad. She wears the No. 13 as a tribute to her hero Kristine Lilly. After winning gold at the 2012 London Games, she played in the 2016 Rio Games this past summer. As a Golden Bear, Alex finished her career as Cal’s single season-season leading scorer, a four-
time all-Pac 10 performer, and a 2010 All-American. Off the field, Alex is one of sports’ most recognizable faces. Yet her best-selling books, written for young girls, are her most meaningful contribution. This empowering, fun-filled series about believing in yourself and working as a team may one day propel the next unknown to the top of the soccer world.
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Alexandra “Alex” Morgan ’14
Growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
R. J. “Rocky” Gutiérrez Ph.D. ’77
endured stinging rebukes from nuns
in his school that made him doubt his
abilities. With his independent streak
and outspoken mind, Rocky often ran
afoul of strict teachers — and was told
he’d never succeed in college. Not only
did he eventually receive a Ph.D. from
Berkeley, he found an instant academic
home in the Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology (MVZ) that shaped his career
and inspired a recent gift.
Following high school, Rocky headed
to the military, where his high IQ scores
landed him a four-year stint in Army
Intelligence units in the Middle East
and Japan. Motivated to dispel those
early uncertainties when he got home in
1967, he began pursuing bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in wildlife biology and
biology, respectively.
One day, while finishing his master’s
work at the University of New Mexico,
Rocky dropped by a recruitment talk
where a Cal student was encouraging
minority students to consider graduate
studies in zoology. While Rocky had
not set his sights on either Berkeley or
a Ph.D., the prospect of studying at the
famed MVZ launched a decades-long
relationship that will extend for years
to come.
Rocky arrived at the MVZ in 1973.
With a world-class collection of 700,000
animal species, the century-old museum
is dedicated to research on evolution and
conservation. Rocky loved its openness
and the free flow of ideas and theoretical
approaches that marked its culture.
“The general atmosphere, intellectual
dynamism, and collegiality all shaped me
and allowed me to go in the direction
I wanted,” says Rocky, who became a
noted wildlife ecologist and professor.
“I haven’t seen that type of interaction
anywhere else I’ve been.”
For the first time in his academic
career, Rocky felt he was treated fairly at
the MVZ. Integrative biology professor
Howard A. Bern, a caring mentor and
staunch advocate for equity and inclusion
in the sciences, regularly took Rocky out
to lunch — a practice that Rocky carried
on with his own graduate students.
“When people give you a helping hand, it
can make a huge difference in your life,”
he says.
To demonstrate gratitude for his
MVZ experience, Rocky and KT, his
wife, have made a generous planned
gift to Berkeley. Their charitable gift
annuity, which pays them income for
life, will eventually create a fellowship
supporting future graduate students
who are traditionally underrepresented
minorities and preferably share
Rocky’s engagement with the MVZ and
ornithology-related fields.
A soaring career takes flightRocky credits the MVZ with another
major positive in his life: a 36-year
association with the spotted owl.
Harnessing theories about
evolutionary biology he got from the
MVZ, Rocky began studying the shy,
brown-eyed owl in 1980 as a new
professor at Humboldt State University.
Today he is considered a leading expert
on the creature that became a national
environmental symbol over the effects of
logging in the Pacific Northwest. “It was,
at the time, the biggest conservation
controversy in North America,” he says.
Rocky and his students contributed
to the designation in 1990 of the
northern spotted owl as threatened
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UC Berkeley has been educating minds for more than 148 years — through 26 U.S. presidents, two world wars, and the invention of the automobile, moving pictures, space exploration, and now iPhones. The university was here when the SF Giants won three World Series and when the Oakland Raiders started, left, and returned. It was here when Silicon Valley was full of orchards and before any bridges connected the East Bay to its San Francisco
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Berkeley would not be where it is without visionaries who have invested in its future — even during turbulent times. Whether it was philanthropist Jane Sather, who created the first life income gift to Berkeley at the turn of the last century, or the two philanthropists featured in this edition of Cal Futures, Berkeley has relied upon tens of thousands of dedicated supporters who made an annual gift from their income, a major gift when called upon, or the ultimate investment through a life income or estate gift.
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under the Endangered Species Act and
helped preserve millions of acres of
old-growth forest.
“My students and I didn’t have nearly
the resources available that other people
did in terms of grant money and support,”
he says. “But we made a hell of an impact
on ecology and science.”
Rocky observed spotted owls in
dense forests throughout the West.
His discoveries — including the finding
that the owls’ survival depends on the
structure of forests, rather than simply
the age of the trees — influenced
logging methods designed to help owl
populations and the timber industry alike.
The recipient of many accolades,
Rocky retired in January as the Gordon
Gullion Endowed Chair in Forest Wildlife
Research at the University of Minnesota.
“I’ve still got lots of science left in me,”
he quips.
He and KT, a former medical lab
director, now live in the pint-sized town
of Fieldbrook on California’s north coast.
Rocky keeps busy with research and
consulting projects from his home office.
Sadly, the northern spotted owl’s future
remains precarious — a rival owl that
has invaded its territory is threatening
its survival.
That development underscores
the need to prepare young scientists
for the next wave of conservation
challenges. And that’s where Rocky and
KT’s gift comes in. “It’s an opportunity
for people to get their Ph.D. and do
bigger and better things for science
and, hopefully, conservation,” says
Rocky. “There’s a lot of talent that’s yet
unrealized among disadvantaged and
underrepresented groups.” l
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