SANTA CRUZ, California, Jan. 5 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news:

By Haneen Zain

Bob Dodge (Stevenson '69, politics) was in the first-ever class to graduate from UC Santa Cruz. He says his years at UCSC were some of the most transformative in his life. Now, as an alumnus settled in the Pacific Northwest, Dodge continues to support his Banana Slug community through gifts to McHenry Library and Stevenson College.