by laura | Dec 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Bartlesville Community Foundation is excited to celebrate this holiday season with the awarding of more than $60,000 in grant monies. These awards are a result of the Foundations’ annual fall grant cycle. Each year, the Bartlesville Community Foundation hosts two...
by laura | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Bartlesville has been home to the Vaclaw family for 100 years. Walenty “Joseph” Vaclaw arrived as a Polish immigrant in 1920. His original name was Waclaw, but he changed the spelling because a “W” sounds like a “V” in the Polish dialect. Walenty and his wife,...
by laura | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Emile Hubert Lyon was born on March 26, 1906 in Elmo, TX, forty miles east of Dallas. After graduating high school, he attended Texas A&M College where he played on the football team. When he was a freshman, his teammates called him “Ted” after Chicago White Sox...
by laura | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Dunlap family has been in Bartlesville since 1937. Originally from Hardy, Arkansas, Ray and Lucile Dunlap and their young son, Ken, moved to Bartlesville when Ray had an opportunity to work for his uncle who was a home builder in town. Ray went on to found Dunlap...
by laura | Feb 4, 2021 | Announcements, Grants/Scholarships
The Bartlesville Community Foundation is humbled to help honor the legacy of Spence Edward Rigdon with the establishment of the Spence Rigdon Memorial Scholarship Fund. Rigdon was born and raised in Bartlesville before attending Kansas Community College in Kansas City...
