212406A3 9/25/06 10:52 AM Page 1 f 2 CHARITABLE R EMEMBER ESTATE PLANNING & TAX TIPS SUMMER SS TANFORDTANFORD 2006 Creating a Legacy STANFORD SCRAPBOOK Students enjoying a coffee break in front of the Cellar at the Old Union in 1960. The old post office can be seen in the background. White Plaza has since replaced the thoroughfare at left. HONORING THE PAST WITH A GIFT FOR THE FUTURE arcus Krupp, ’34, MD ’39, and Donna MARC BEGAN his freshman year at Stanford in the M Goodheart Krupp, ’42, have been married for fall of 1930, in the early days of the Great Depression. 48 years. Their association with Stanford has lasted The stock market had crashed, his parents could no even longer: 75 years. Although they grew up in very longer afford tuition, and the money he had saved different worlds—Marc in the small copper mining from working during summers was lost when the town of Miami, Arizona, and Donna in San Francisco banks failed. It was a time of hardship for many fami- —their early experiences instilled in each a profound lies. Stanford’s response to the Depression—and the appreciation for education and a desire to give back to difficulties faced by its students—still touches him Stanford, where they feel they gained so much. deeply today. ❖ 212406A3 9/25/06 10:52 AM Page 2 REMEMBER STANFORD followed a few years later, graduating with a degree in speech and drama, and minors in English and history. Although the Goodheart family lived comfortably, they were conscious of the hardships that many faced, particularly in the early decades of the 20th century. Donna’s father, who lived through the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, fostered in his children a strong desire to help others. “I’ve been in a family “Stanford taught that very much believes LEFT: Marc’s Miami High School senior class picture (spring 1930). Marc used that you give back,” me how to use this photo for his Stanford entrance application. RIGHT: Donna Goodheart, Donna says. And she does Stanford Quad, 1940 my mind. For so regardless of her own that you have “Stanford did a wonderful thing. They did so much circumstances. “In the good for everybody,” he says. “Anybody who couldn’t 1940s,” Donna continues, to give back.” “I was the lowest thing you afford tuition was given a tuition note, which would bear — Donna Krupp, ’42 no interest until the person was working.” For Marc, could be: I was a divorced, that meant attending Stanford as an undergraduate and single, working mother. I was earning $150 a month, but then a medical student, offsetting his other expenses with I did volunteer work at night and took my child with me.” scholarships and jobs. He then pursued residency training At times Donna faced criticism for the path she had and spent four years in the army before he was called taken. But she held firm to the values her family instilled upon to begin paying for his education, 16 years after in her—and to the gift that would serve her throughout entering Stanford. her life. “That’s one reason why I feel completely obligated,” “I always felt very grateful to my parents for sending he says. Marc has never forgotten Stanford’s steadfast me to the school that I attended in San Francisco— commitment to its students or the remarkable faculty the Sarah Dix Hamlin School—and then to Stanford, who nurtured his interests in science and medicine. because Hamlin and Stanford taught me how to use my Together, they inspired him to pursue a career devoted mind,” says Donna. “For that you have to give back.” to caring for and mentoring others. Since graduating, IN 1958, Marc, a wid- Marc has repaid his “debt” to the university many times ower, and Donna married over as a tireless volunteer, earning Stanford Associates’ and joined their young Gold Spike Award in 1976 and the School of Medicine’s families: Marc’s daughter J. E. Wallace Sterling “Muleshoe” Lifetime Achievement and three sons, and Award in 1991. Donna’s son and two FOR DONNA, as a child, Stanford was a summer retreat nephews. Meeting from city life. The Goodheart family would rent a home through two of their chil- on campus, as many faculty families traveled elsewhere dren, they quickly dis- for the season, and spend several weeks immersed in the covered that they had intellectual and cultural activity on the Farm. much more in common “When we came down in the summer,” she recalls, than Stanford. For one Marc, in front of the Palo Alto Medical “Mother used to take her two girls to lectures in the thing, both loved working Research Foundation in the spring of 1985 evening. They would be on literature or history or some- with young people. thing else that would interest us.” These summers sparked After earning his degrees, Marc had followed in his both girls’ interest in attending Stanford. Judith enrolled mentors’ footsteps and joined the teaching faculty at first as a member of the Class of 1937, earning a pre-law Stanford School of Medicine. He had also become direc- degree and later studying at the law school. Donna tor of the Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation,* a post ❖ 2 212406A3 9/25/06 10:53 AM Page 3 CHARITABLE ESTATE PLANNING he held from 1950 to 1986. “It’s been an extremely important part of my professional life to be affiliated with students and young people,” he says. Donna’s professional life had also centered around students and faculty. Prior to marrying Marc, she had contributed to Stanford’s academic and artistic enterprises for 10 years. Following a three-year post at the Veterans’ Administration, Donna had returned to the Department of Drama to establish Stanford’s first box office. After seeing the box office through several successful years, she had been recruited to work in the Hoover Library, where she eventually became secretary to the director. Marc and Donna talking with Elena Sherman, ’07, a recipient of the Donna Since their marriage, the couple has made philan- Goodheart Krupp Scholarship, in the garden of the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center in 2004 thropy an important feature of their life together. Part of their giving commemorates loved ones they have lost— event that leaves everyone feeling inspired for the future. close family members who died long before their time. “And of course, we just love it.” she says. “It makes us The couple has chosen to honor them by helping other want to go home and give some more.” young people. “It’s been an Over the years the couple has supported a number When Donna’s of areas of the university, including athletics, the Stanford sister Judith passed extremely important University Medical Center, the Cantor Arts Center, and away in 1954, the part of my profes- the Faculty Club. Each of these gifts reflects their personal Goodheart family sional life to be affili- interests and their love for Stanford, but they are espe- created a Stanford cially proud of the scholarships they have created. scholarship in her ated with students The couple has recently established a financial aid memory, one of three and young people.” award at the School of Medicine, the Dr. Marcus A. and the family ultimately — Marc Krupp, ’34, MD ’39 Donna Goodheart Krupp Scholarship. They are supporting established. the scholarship through a charitable gift annuity, which Marc and Donna created their first scholarship, will pay them an annual income for the rest of their lives. the David M. and Marcus A. Krupp, M.D. Scholarship When the Krupps pass away, the remaining value will Fund, after the untimely death of Marc’s middle son, become available for Stanford’s use. David. Gifted with boundless creativity and facility with all things electronic, David was an avid amateur pilot. THROUGH THEIR WILLS, Marc and Donna intend to Tragically, he died in a small-plane crash on the way to support the Krupp scholarship at the medical school; Fresno, just short of his 28th birthday. Today, David’s the Donna Goodheart Krupp Scholarship, which was scholarship allows an undergraduate student-athlete established by Donna’s parents; and the Faculty Club, a majoring in computer science or electrical engineering place that holds special meaning for both of them. These to attend Stanford. While Marc and Donna are pleased gifts will be a final tribute to the university that has for the scholarship to be awarded to a man or a woman played such an important role in their lives. in any sport, “it has to be someone in computer science Marc says he admires those who carry on Stanford or electrical engineering,” Donna says. “That was traditions. Over the years, he and Donna have shown David’s passion.” abundant generosity and inexhaustible kindness toward Marc and Donna try to meet each student who holds the university, helping to educate generations of students the scholarship. Every year, they take past and current as well as leading by example. They are, indeed, a vital scholarship recipients to lunch at the Faculty Club, an part of the Stanford tradition. v * In 1981, the Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation merged with its affiliate, the Palo Alto Medical Clinic, and became the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. ❖ 3 212406A3 9/25/06 10:53 AM Page 4 REMEMBER STANFORD GOOD COUNSEL language drafted by the Office of Planned Giving which can save your attorney time and you money. BY JONRIE DÁVILA, ’81 STEP THREE: Visit your attorney’s office to sign the docu- ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PLANNED GIVING ments and complete your plans.