Endowed funds

The Lucie King Harris Books for Music Fund 

Lucie King Harris, born in Sonoma in 1883, was an arts patron, a philanthropist, and an ardent horsewoman. She helped found the San Francisco Opera Association in 1922 and was a governor of the San Francisco Symphony Association, as well as a founder of the San Francisco Choral Society. After her death in 1974, her son Lawrence W. Harris, Jr. and his wife Jane chose to honor her through a book fund for music materials. The Lucie King Harris Books for Music Fund was the first endowed fund in Music at Stanford. 

Because of Mrs. Harris’s fondness for opera, the fund has largely been used to purchase materials relating to opera – current books and scores, CDs, DVDs, as well as rare books, manuscripts and printed scores, facsimile editions and microform sets. More recently, Mr. Larry Harris asked that the fund also be used to support undergraduate education. Thus, chamber music scores and recordings are purchased with the fund as well. 

Three of Lucie’s sons graduated from Stanford. Larry, a 1932 graduate, faithfully comes to homecoming activities every year and busily attends to alumni affairs. He and his wife Jane attend the San Francisco Opera, sitting in what were Lucie’s seats.

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