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Berneking Gift to
Support AIDS Research
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Harvey Berneking
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Harvey Berneking's exceedingly generous legacy of giving is improving lives and advancing medical science in the Bay Area and beyond. At UCSF, more than $1 million from the Harvey V. Berneking Living Trust will support HIV research at the AIDS Research Institute (ARI).
Child of a struggling Depression-era Minnesota family, Berneking was a 1948 graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Music. His adult life was spent in his adopted, and much loved, city of San Francisco, where he invested in real estate and personally renovated and restored a number of Victorian homes.
Devastated by the loss of many friends to AIDS, Berneking directed his gift to fund HIV/AIDS research at UCSF—a place he knew was a world leader in this field. The gift will support ARI laboratory and clinical research programs involving scientists, clinicians, and patients at the San Francisco General Hospital campus of UCSF and other locations. ARI Director John Greenspan, BDS, PhD, said that Berneking's generosity of spirit and resources will allow UCSF to recruit some outstanding new researchers. "We are deeply grateful for this gift," he emphasized.
Berneking also supported San Francisco's Salvation Army programs, a San Francisco HIV hospice program, the Alzheimer's Association of the Bay Area, and the San Francisco Public Library as well as the School of Music at the University of Minnesota, where his gift for scholarships and fellowships was the largest ever received by the School.
Though he gave up a career in piano performance when he left Minnesota, Berneking had a lifelong love of classical music. He credited the scholarships he received at the University of Minnesota as creating life-changing opportunities and wanted to help other students have the same experience.
Harvey Berneking's gifts will benefit not only music students but those suffering from AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and poverty.
To learn about the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF, contact Randy Shields at 415/597-8164 or rshields@support.ucsf.edu.
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