JEFFREY AND LORETTA CLARKE
MARY PAT STUMBERG
Alumni Back Education for Future Generations
Memorializing a Legacy of Giving
Both UTSA alumni, Loretta M.A. ’90, ’87 and Jeffrey Clarke ’86 donated $1 million to establish two professorships, one in the College of Education and Human Development (named in honor of Loretta Clarke’s mother, Henrietta Frances Zezula Lowak) and another in the College of Engineering (named after Jeff Clarke’s mother, Mary Lou Clarke). After Jeff Clarke earned a B.S. in electrical engineering, he embarked on a career at Dell. Loretta Clarke earned her B.S. in physical education and then taught elementary school while earning her master’s in early childhood education. “We were both first-generation college graduates and…feel that our education at UTSA was such a sound basis and foundation for all our successes, both educationally and personally,” Loretta Clarke told UTSA Giving.
When longtime San Antonio resident Mary Pat Stumberg was considering how best to honor the philanthropic efforts of her late husband, Louis Herbert Stumberg, UTSA came to mind. The Stumbergs had created or funded half a dozen endowment funds and scholarships. But Mary Pat Stumberg wanted to memorialize the lifetime’s worth of civic contributions by her businessman husband, who pioneered the manufacture of frozen Mexican food with Patio Foods. She ultimately founded UTSA’s Stumberg Distinguished University Chair. Funds from the endowment will be used by Dean Daniel Gelo to boost research, teaching, and scholarship within the College of Liberal and Fine Arts. “Dan Gelo has been a great dean,” Stumberg said upon making her gift, “so if this can help him leave a good mark on the university and provide for quality leadership into the future, while at the same time honoring my husband, then I welcome the opportunity.”
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