Phyllis J. Shorenstein; Bay Area Philanthropist

Phyllis J. Shorenstein, 76, philanthropist and a founder of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Married to real estate developer Walter Shorenstein, she devoted herself to promoting Asian art and helped the museum in Golden Gate Park acquire much of its collection. She donated several works from her own collection and served as a museum commissioner for many years. In May, the museum named a gallery in her honor. Mrs. Shorenstein made significant monetary gifts to UC San Francisco and Stanford University medical centers, the United Way and the Catholic Youth Organization. In honor of her daughter, a CBS news producer who died in 1986, Mrs. Shorenstein established the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center of the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. On Wednesday in San Francisco after a long illness.