The Sati & Ram Manvi Endowment honors the lives of longtime Pasadena residents Sati and Ram Manvi and provides unrestricted support for PCF’s local grantmaking. Ram was a professor and dean in engineering at Cal State LA and later at College of the Canyons, while Sati worked in clinical research at Cal State Northridge. The couple shared a love of classical music, travel, and nature.
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The Sati & Ram Manvi Endowment provides unrestricted support for PCF’s local grantmaking programs. The endowment honors Sati Manvi, who died in 2019, and her husband Ram Manvi, who predeceased her in 2010. Ramachandra “Ram” Manvi was born on January 26, 1939 in Hyderabad, Andhra, India. His wife Sati was born in 1936. The couple married in 1963 and moved together to the United States in 1971. They lived in the San Rafael Hills of Pasadena for many decades.
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Ram Manvi was a professor of mechanical engineering between 1971 and 2003 at Cal State LA. During this time, he served as Chair of the department and from 1981-1985, as dean of the then-known College of Engineering and Technology. He was also a long-time consultant to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Following his time at CalState LA, Ram moved to the College of the Canyons where he eventually became dean of mathematics, sciences, and engineering technologies. His outside interests included classical music, international travel, camping, and nature walks. Sati was trained in clinical research and spent more than 30 years working at California State University Northridge – many of those years at the Klotz Student Health Center.
Through this fund, PCF has been able to
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Pasadena Community Foundation
301 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 810
Pasadena, CA., 91101
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