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."

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."

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."

Rhonda Tramble

15 Years | Principal Engineer, Interim Campus Engineer - PPDO

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

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."

Sandy Ashley (Ewart)

14 Years | Research Administration Manager

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

Barbara Silverthorne

34 Years | Career Center Director

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

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!"

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."

Carl Walsh

33 Years | Distinguished Professor of Economics

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."

Diane Nichols

18 Years | Apprenticeship Program Coordinator

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

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."

Martin Flores

12 Years | Senior Custodian of EES

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

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."

Jim Velzy

29 Years | UC Santa Cruz Greenhouse Director

Julie Barrett Heffington

21 Years | Founding Director, Seymour Marine Discovery Center

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."

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."

Paula Schneider

19 Years | Executive Assistant

Howard Haber

38 Years | Distinguished Professor of Physics

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

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!"

Zaunna Fingal

21 Years | Contracts Manager, PPDO

Lesa Stollenwerk

28 Years | Stewardship Analyst

Leticia Medina-Kohrs

14.5 Years | Academic Payroll Personnel Specialist

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."

Sheila Rodriguez

39 Years | Assistant Director, Career Development, Career Center

Toni L Porath

10 Years | Executive Assistant to AVC Risk & Safety Services

Lea Scarpelli

21 Years | Media Systems Engineer

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

Marianna Santana

37 Years | Department Analyst

Jo Westbrook

16 Years | Foundation Controller

Allison C Johnson

32 Years | Business & Finance Manager, RSS/TAPS