Volume 26 • No. 3 • MARCH 2002

A. Jess Shenson, longtime donor, dies at 80

A Jess Shenson, physician, patron of the arts and a generous donor to Stanford University School of Medicine for many years, died of lung cancer Feb. 26 at his home in San Francisco, the city where he was born in 1921.

Shenson and his older brother Ben earned their undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford. The brothers continued throughout their lives a long association with Stanford, supporting numerous medical school initiatives.

They established the Louis Shenson Memorial Loan Fund in memory of their parents to help finance the education of medical students. They also created a visiting professorship in 1985, annually bringing two distinguished guest faculty in medicine to present the Shenson Lecture at Stanford.

After his brother's death in 1995, Jess continued the tradition of generosity toward the school. He established the Shenson Society in his brother's memory, with the aim of encouraging Stanford physicians-in-training to enter internal medicine or primary care. In 1998, he created the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professorship in the School of Medicine.

In addition to his Stanford philanthropy, Shenson supported countless musicians through the Shenson Young Artists Endowment Fund. He served on the boards of the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Performances, Merola Opera Program and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Shenson maintained his San Francisco medical practice until early this year. He is survived by a cousin, Irma Levin, and her two sons, Fredrick and Lawrence. A memorial service will be held March 24 at 2 p.m. in San Francisco at Temple Emmanuel.

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