Sammy the Slug greets arriving guests.

Tables set and ready.

A sold out audience enjoying the 6^th annual Founders Celebration

UCSC Cheerleaders helped keep the wine flowing.

The Ow family table.

Cloud 9 Acapella entertains the crowd.

Emcee & Honorary Committee Chair Doug Ley

Alumni Council President Jerry Ruiz & Alumni Achievement Award winner Shannon Brownlee.

Academic Sentate Chair Joe Konopelski & Faculty Research Lecturer Awardee Gail Hershatter with Chancellor Blumenthal.

Fiat Lux Award winners George Ow & Gail Michaelis-Ow.

Foundation Medal awardees Gordon Moore and Martin Rees with Chancellor Blumenthal.

Chancellor Blumenthal, Founders Medal Awardee Gordon Moore, and UC Santa Cruz Foundation President Ken Doctor.

Martin Rees presenting the Foundation Forum lecture

The Foundation Medal. Composed of limestone from the UCSC quarry and a lens crafted at UCSC’s Lick Optical Lab.

The Fiat Lux Award.