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Charitable Trust Helps Retired Couple and Supports UCSF

R.J. and Betty Matthews chose to establish a charitable remainder annuity trust, which will pay them a fixed lifetime income. The remainder from the trust will be used to create the Robert J. and Elisabeth K. Matthews Endowed Fellowship in Geriatrics.

Mother Creates Lasting Memorial
to Honor Her Son

Judy Richards had no idea that her son, Andrew L. (Andy) Teuteberg, had an addiction problem until about three years before the end of his life. According to Andy's dedicated companion, Carlen Peck, he was a master at hiding the enormity of his illness from the people he loved. Although Andy's death at the age of 49 was the result of a heart attack, his mother believes that alcohol played a part in it. Andy tried different ways to overcome his drinking problem. He did a spell in a rehab facility and he attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Sadly, nothing worked for him.
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Grateful Patient Supports Research into Kidney Disease

Carol Rasmussen grew up in the small town of Oroville in Northern California. When she was 12 years old, she started to feel tired all the time. At school, she would develop a mysterious low grade fever in the afternoon. The nurse would send her home, but the fever always returned the next day. This went on for weeks.
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Pediatric Oncology Nurse Remembers UCSF

Gail Perin, RN, MS, PNP, began her career as a pediatric oncology nurse in the UCSF Department of Pediatrics in the early 1970s when those in the field were observing tremendous progress in rates of survival. As a result of new drugs and improved treatments, she witnessed children survive cancers that previously would have ended their lives.
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Longtime Supporters of UCSF Make Bequest to the New Medical Center at Mission Bay

Jackie and Carl Kuhn, DDS '68, have connections to UC that go back many years. After meeting at UC Berkeley as undergraduates and marrying shortly thereafter, Carl decided to pursue a career in dentistry at the UCSF School of Dentistry, while Jackie took a position as a junior accountant at the UCSF Medical Center.
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Dr. Selna L. Kaplan Establishes Distinguished Professorship

Selna L. Kaplan, MD, PhD, a leader in the field of pediatric endocrinology for more than four decades, is remembered by those who knew her not only for her unwavering devotion to the infants and children in her care but also for her lifelong commitment to medicine.
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Bequest Supports Tobacco Treatment Center

Having attempted to quit smoking many times and with little hope that the UCSF program would work for her any better than any other, Jeanne Fontana contacted the UCSF Tobacco Education Center in 2007. At the time, she was 61 years of age and suffered from a number of smoking-related diseases which forced her to carry an oxygen tank.
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Family Who Lost Daughter Finds Solace in Giving

Although Sandy and Jerry McEowen sometimes worried about their healthy, athletic and exuberant 22–year–old daughter (pictured here as a senior in high school), the existence of a heart arrhythmia which would lead to her death never entered their minds. It was while teaching an aerobics class at Chico State University on a spring morning in 1992 that Erin Kathryn McEowen's heart began to race wildly. She was rushed to a storefront urgent care center for treatment. There her heart stopped. At Chico Community Hospital, the doctors started her heart beating again, but tragically she had already slipped into a coma from which she never recovered.
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