Textile museum salutes Rogers
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, January 27, 2003
Lowell, Mass. — Samuel Stevens Rogers has received the first American Textile History Museum Community Service Award for exemplary volunteer service, compassion and involvement.
About 200 guests attended a benefit gala honoring Rogers and raising $120,000 for the museum's programs and services. The award is expected to be presented annually.
Rogers's mother, Caroline Stevens Rogers, founded the American Textile History Museum here in 1960 with a collection of spinning wheels inherited from her father. Rogers's interest in textiles began while learning about his mother's passion for pre-industrial textile machinery, and the business of his great uncle, J.P. Stevens.
Rogers is former president of the American Textile History Museum and a trustee since its inception.
