Endowments: Memorial and Tribute Gifts

Endowments not only make a lasting impact at Cal Poly, but also offer the opportunity to honor your family name or pay tribute to a loved one. The examples below demonstrate how philanthropy can serve as a permanent memorial. Read About:

The Andrews Prize | The Berrier Endowment | The Waterbury Endowment
The Yackle Scholarship

Andrews Prize

The Michael T. Andrews Best Senior and Capstone Project Prize Endowment honors outstanding student research in agricultural engineering and agricultural systems management. Carol Andrews created this memorial to her late husband, a 1951 graduate.

Berrier Endowment

The Brett Berrier Memorial Endowment was created in memory of the 1980 graduate. The Berrier family’s generosity ensures that city and regional planning students share the quality education that Brett found so valuable.

Waterbury Endowment

Ivar and Tennie Anderson chose a philanthropic approach to honor the Cal Poly teaching careers of their daughter and son-in-law. The Andersons contributed shares of stock to establish the Archie and Andrea Waterbury Biological Sciences Scholarship Endowment and to purchase science equipment. Their daughter Andrea L. Waterbury is a 1973 biology alumna who taught in the Biological Sciences Department until her retirement. Son-in-law Archie Waterbury, also a longtime Cal Poly biological sciences professor, remains on the faculty.

Yackle Scholarship
From building a dune buggy out of a secondhand Volkswagen to completing an impressive senior project on the “Simulation of a Mini Digital Computer,” 1974 alumnus Brad Yackle represented the essence of Cal Poly’s “learn-by-doing” philosophy. Although diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1984, he maintained a positive outlook until his death, continuing in product development at Hewlett-Packard and devoting himself to his wife and two children. To celebrate Brad’s life, his family established the Brad E. Yackle Scholarship in Computer Sciences.