April 29, 2002
In Memoriam
Elizabeth A. Penaat
Elizabeth A. Penaat, a founding member of UC Santa Cruz's administrative staff
who later became a vice chancellor on campus, died on Thursday, April 25, at Dominican
Hospital in Santa Cruz after a lengthy illness. She was 68.
Named vice chancellor for operations and employee affairs at UCSC in 1975, Penaat
was one of the first women named to oversee the business operations of a major U.S.
university. "Elizabeth not only was an important figure in UCSC's founding,
her subsequent promotion to vice chancellor helped pave the way for a generation
of female administrators across the country," said Harold Hyde, who in 1964--a
year before UCSC opened to students--asked Penaat to join the administrative team
that was establishing the campus. See
press release.
