Say We Are Here: Selections from the Verdell A. Burdine and Otto G. Rutherford Family Collection
Culture Club Scholarships
Receipt for purchase of “books on education of the handicapped,” Lewis and Clark College to Culture Club, June 30, 1952.
This receipt demonstrates the Culture Club’s philanthropic commitment to supporting education, as emphasized in their club motto, “Progress through education.”
Invitation to Culture Club Mardi Gras Benefit Scholarship Fund, 1941.
Photograph of the Culture Club’s Mardi Gras Benefit Scholarship Fund Dance Royalty, Portland Women’s Club, May 12, 1941.
Left to right: Joyce Hilliard, Rose Marie Brock, Phillis Reynolds, Gertrude Williams, Betty Ann Rutherford, and Ruby Minor.
Letter, Edna Tidwell to The Culture Club, September 25, 1963.
In this letter, University of Oregon student Edna Tidwell acknowledges the scholarship she received from the club and pledges herself to being “worthy of this honor.”
