• New Retiree

    Michael Dine

    30 Years | Professor of Physics

    "No one particular memory comes to mind, but many happy memories of working with undergraduates and graduates, and with very dedicated staff."

  • New Retiree

    Bob Vitale

    20 Years | BSOE Facilities Director

    "Around May 2000, I purchased and received several pallets of desktop computers for Engineering teaching labs. We were going to set them up for use in the Fall. Maybe about an hour after they arrived, Professor David Haussler asked if he could borrow them for the Summer to sequence the human genome. He did borrow them and with help from Terry Figel and a few others got them setup in a mini cluster. The rest is history."

  • New Retiree

    Lynne Sheehan

    33 Years | Comm and Network Tech 3

    "Convincing folks to help those in need whether it's catastrophic leave donations, food drives, blood drives, etc. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's about us."

     

  • New Retiree

    Rhonda Tramble

    15 Years | Principal Engineer, Interim Campus Engineer - PPDO

    "Neither years nor glasses of wine should ever be counted."

  • New Retiree

    Mary Knudtson

    26 Years | Associate Vice Chancellor

    "Evacuating the building my second week on the job. The construction crew used a chemical not meant for indoor use in front of the air intake for the health center buildings. I didn’t know any supervisors or their phone number to call and let them know what happened. My immediate supervisor was out on leave at the time."

  • New Retiree

    Sandy Ashley (Ewart)

    14 Years | Research Administration Manager

    "I will always remember many lunchtime walks on UCSC's beautiful campus!"

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    Barbara Silverthorne

    34 Years | Career Center Director

    "I like to say that I am 300% Slug: Alumni, Retiree, and Parent of an Alumnus."

  • New Retiree

    Cathy Crowe

    18.5 Years | Programs and Permit Sales Manager

    "It’s been an honor and sincere pleasure to work with such dedicated and extraordinary Staff, Faculty and Students- all who deeply care about the mission of the UC and the preservation of the natural environment of the campus. I will truly miss everyone!"

  • New Retiree

    Faye Crosby

    22 Years | Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Provost of Cowell College 2010 - 2016

    "One of the ways in which UCSC is special is that it is the only public research university that attempts to give all its freshman — and not just a subset -- a collegiate experience. Other institutions that care about "educating the whole person” tend to be in the private sector, which reinforces the divide between the one percent and the rest of us. Another way in which UCSC is a force for democracy is by treating this magnificent setting, including its open lands like the East Meadow, as a vast open area for one and all. By remaining stewards of the land we fulfill our mission of service to the public."

  • New Retiree

    Carl Walsh

    33 Years | Distinguished Professor of Economics

  • New Retiree

    Peggy Delaney

    37 Years | Vice Chancellor, Planning and Budget and Professor of Ocean Sciences

    "Good judgement is the result of experience. Experience is the result of bad judgement."

  • New Retiree

    Diane Nichols

    18 Years | Apprenticeship Program Coordinator

    "I enjoyed introducing campus and community members to the CASFS organic farm and garden."

  • New Retiree

    Jennifer McNulty

    28 Years | Senior Public Information Representative, Social Sciences and Director of Strategic Communications

    "The beauty of the campus never got old! I loved it every single day."

  • New Retiree

    Martin Flores

    12 Years | Senior Custodian of EES

  • New Retiree

    Ronnie Lipschutz

    30 Years | Professor of Politics

    "I have to die. If it is now, well, then, I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived — and dying I will tend to later.” -Epictetus

  • New Retiree

    M. "Monika" Dorough

    5 Years | Director of Prospect Management and Research

    "The beauty on campus; seeing students with their hopes and dreams. I have worked for the University of California since 1991. Beginning at UC Davis, then UC San Francisco, lastly completing my career at UC Santa Cruz."

  • New Retiree

    Jim Velzy

    29 Years | UC Santa Cruz Greenhouse Director


     

  • New Retiree

    Julie Barrett Heffington

    21 Years | Founding Director, Seymour Marine Discovery Center

  • New Retiree

    Robert Kemp

    30 Years | Director of Copy, Mail, & Receiving Services

    "Walking down past Opers with the view of the ocean in the background and the deer grazing on the knoll above the village and a falcon sitting on a post in the foreground next to the meadow."

  • New Retiree

    Lynne Stoops

    25 Years | Executive Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations

    "We work at and for a special place. I never tire of seeing the Monterey Bay from campus."

  • New Retiree

    Paula Schneider

    19 Years | Executive Assistant

  • New Retiree

    Howard Haber

    38 Years | Distinguished Professor of Physics

    "It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.” -from Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

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    Teresa Roffe

    24 Years | Employee & Labor Relations Analyst

    "What a special treat it was supporting the staff on top of beautiful Mount Hamilton - Lick Observatory and around our incredibly beautiful Farm (CASFS) on campus, two very different landscapes! Many thanks to the Alumni Association for the great A's baseball game activities! I look forward to our next chance to go to a baseball game. UCSC is a special place - with the best students, staff and faculty. That's a fact!"

  • New Retiree

    Zaunna Fingal

    21 Years | Contracts Manager, PPDO

  • New Retiree

    Lesa Stollenwerk

    28 Years | Stewardship Analyst

  • New Retiree

    Leticia Medina-Kohrs

    14.5 Years | Academic Payroll Personnel Specialist

  • New Retiree

    Ron Dillehay

    30 Years | PPDO Grounds Department Supervisor of Infrastructure Maintenance

    "Just when you think you have seen it all happen on campus, you always get a new surprise!" "I got the original wind vane that was on top of the carriage house restored. It is now on display inside the hay barn."

  • New Retiree

    Sheila Rodriguez

    39 Years | Assistant Director, Career Development, Career Center

  • New Retiree

    Toni L Porath

    10 Years | Executive Assistant to AVC Risk & Safety Services

  • New Retirees

    Lea Scarpelli

    21 Years | Media Systems Engineer

    "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -Nelson Mandela

  • New Retiree

    Marianna Santana

    37 Years | Department Analyst

  • New Retiree

    Jo Westbrook

    16 Years | Foundation Controller

  • New Retiree

    Allison C Johnson

    32 Years | Business & Finance Manager, RSS/TAPS


Contact the Retiree & Emeriti Center if you are a new retiree who would like to be included on this page. Many retirees leave campus before we know who they are and before we have an opportunity to thank them for their years of service to the university!

Please email the Retiree & Emeriti Center the following information, at rec@ucsc.edu

  • Name
  • Years of service at UC Santa Cruz
  • Title
  • Picture (optional)
  • Favorite quote or memory from campus (optional)

 

The information listed above was provided by UC Santa Cruz retirees who retired between July 1, 2019 - July 1, 2020.