Gwendolyn (Tippy) Schwabe

Professor Schwabe was responsible for bringing English as a second language (ESL) instruction to UC Davis and overseeing it throughout the 70s and 80s. She also taught graduate courses in Linguistics on ESL pedagogy and has funded a grant that provides memberships in CATESOL (California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) for graduate students in Linguistics.

You can read her full obituary here: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/gwendolyn-schwabe-obituary?id=1640977