The Marshall Steel Sr. Foundation Fund
Established in 1991 by Jane and Marshall Steel, Jr.

Jane Steel received her B.A, from Pomona College and later attended Stanford's Graduate School of Business, which she left in 1951 to accept a position with Merrill Lynch in San Francisco as a then-pioneer woman stockbroker.  She was a founding member and is a past president of the Financial Woman's Club of San Francisco, also serving on various Bay Area boards, including the Oakland Museum and the Society for Asian Art.  She was an honorary member for life of The Nature Conservancy and an honorary member of several other nonprofit organizations, as well as a member of Stanford Associates. In addition, she served as a trustee of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Marshall Steel Jr. earned his degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1937. Subsequently he joined and ultimately managed the family business, founded in 1904 by his father, a widely respected East Bay businessman. Both men shared many interests, ranging from duck hunting to a belief that financial success should be returned to the community. Accordingly, and to honor his father, Marshall established the Marshall Steel Sr. Foundation in 1957 with an emphasis on educational, environmental, and conservation causes.

Marshall Jr. was a member of the Oakland Rotary and served on the boards of Samuel Merritt Hospital and the California Academy of Sciences, as governor of the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, as a director of the Naval Postgraduate School, and, for many years, as president of the Del Monte Forest Foundation. He was a member of the Orinda Country Club, of Spyglass Hill, and the Monterey Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach.

The Marshall Steel, Sr. Foundation Fund for the Miller Library at Hopkins Marine Station supports the acquisition of educational materials including the purchasing of journal subscriptions related to marine biology and books whose subjects range from phycology to ichthyology.