Rancho Santa Fe resident honored as a Father of the Year

Rancho Santa Fe resident Donald Ankeny, president/CEO of Westcore Properties, will be honored with a Father of the Year award by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) at a dinner on June 6. Ankeny and wife Joy, married since 1992, are raising twin daughters, Hannah and Julia, who are sophomores at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla.. Ankeny also has two grown daughters, including Lisa, a doctoral student at the University of Denver, and Kristin, a finance executive living in Los Angeles. Ankeny currently serves as a trustee and chair of the Advancement Committee at The Bishop’s School. He also has served as chair of the Rancho Santa Fe Elementary School Foundation and as treasurer of the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club. The native of Minnesota played ice hockey while attending Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He graduated cum laude with a degree in economics. He also has a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University School of business. He worked for seven years as an investment banker in San Francisco before moving to San Diego in 2001 to join Westcore Properties, a private real estate investment firm focused on the acquisition of industrial and office properties in the western United States with particular focus on California. The Father of the Year Awards program, presented by the Father’s Day Council and benefiting the American Diabetes Association, honors fathers in the U.S. who have demonstrated the ability to balance their personal lives, serve as role models of strength, commitment and love for their children and help make positive contributions to their communities, according to Nicole Parker Eades, ADA manager with the San Diego office. The New York-based Father’s Day Council, which began the awards in 1942, designated the ADA as its charity partner in 1999. The San Diego ADA chapter began its Father of the Year awards in 2004. The ADA will host its 10th annual Father of the Year Awards beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 6, at Hyatt Regency La Jolla, 3777 La Jolla Village Dr., San Diego. Tickets begin at $300 per person. For more information, contact Eades at the ADA’s San Diego office, at (619) 234-9897, ext. 7438, or visit www.diabetes.org/SanDiegoFOTY.