{"id":283763,"date":"2010-02-05T12:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54efc2f8088330120a8669e6b970b"},"modified":"2010-02-05T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:55:55","slug":"philanthropist-evelyn-haas-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283763","title":{"rendered":"Philanthropist Evelyn Haas Dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evelyn D. Haas, a great philanthropist for the Bay Area, died on Wednesday at the age of 92.\u00a0 Of course I knew her name from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haasjr.org\/\" >Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund<\/a>\u00a0but I hadn&#8217;t realized the full extent of her\u00a0giving and its continuing effect.\u00a0 Local recipients of her philanthropy included the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the restoration of Crissy Field, and the <em>San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s<\/em> Season of Sharing Fund. I also learned from Michael Cabanatuan&#8217;s touching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article\/article?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/02\/03\/BA5B1BSBNI.DTL\" >obituary in the Chronicle<\/a> that she was an expert fly fisherwoman.\u00a0 At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haasjr.org\/index.php\/visitor\/who_we_are\/fund_at_a_glance\/our_founders\/evelyn_haas_obituary\/evelyn_d_haas\" >Fund&#8217;s web site<\/a> you can read\u00a0\u00a0more about this remarkable woman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=QGYaS50Y4QE:3kXC3dh-rMs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=QGYaS50Y4QE:3kXC3dh-rMs:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=QGYaS50Y4QE:3kXC3dh-rMs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?i=QGYaS50Y4QE:3kXC3dh-rMs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=QGYaS50Y4QE:3kXC3dh-rMs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=QGYaS50Y4QE:3kXC3dh-rMs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?i=QGYaS50Y4QE:3kXC3dh-rMs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?a=QGYaS50Y4QE:3kXC3dh-rMs:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SfLibraryBlog?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/SfLibraryBlog\/~4\/QGYaS50Y4QE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evelyn D. Haas, a great philanthropist for the Bay Area, died on Wednesday at the age of 92.\u00a0 Of course I knew her name from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund\u00a0but I hadn&#8217;t realized the full extent of her\u00a0giving and its continuing effect.\u00a0 Local recipients of her philanthropy included the San Francisco Symphony, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}