Jean Stone

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For five decades, Jean Stone has pursued a multitude of UCLA volunteer activities as well as offering financial support. Currently on the UCLA Foundation Board of Trustees, she is also a Chancellor’s Associate and a member of the College of Letters and Science Campaign Committee, the College’s Advisory Board, the Humanities Advisory Board and the Honors Advisory Council. In 1985, she served with her late husband, Irving, as a Regent’s Professor lecturing on writing and editing books for publication.

The first Neil H. Jacoby Award, given by UCLA’s International Student Center, was presented to Irving and Jean Stone in 1983 “for their contribution to international communication though literature.” The Honors Commons, established in 1985, was the result of a generous gift from the Stones. Stone has contributed Division of Education Fellowships as well as an endowment to the Center for the Study of Women.

Since 1941, Stone has been an editor with Doubleday and Co. of such well-known works as The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Origins and The Passions of the Mind.

Stone is founder and former president of both the Associates of Ethnic Arts and the Association of Ethnomusicology. She is an active member of the Medical Center Auxiliary, the Westwood Women’s Bruin Club, Gold Shield and a founder of the James West Alumni Center. She is Benefactor and Chair of the Extramural Relations Committee of the UCLA Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life.