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Leah Rawls Atkins Endowment for Excellence in Programming

The Leah Rawls Atkins Endowment for Excellence in Programming creates and implements public programs in arts and humanities -- history, literature, music, theater, dance, and the visual arts -- in communities throughout the state of Alabama. Undertaken in partnership with state and community entities such as public libraries, history and heritage organizations, and arts councils, the Center's programs offer cultural and educational enrichment oppurtunities to all. The endowment will ensure that Alabamians everywhere, for generations to come, will receive the life-enriching benefits of engagement with the arts and humanities.

Leah Rawls Atkins is the founding director of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, the dedicated outreach office of the College of Liberal Arts located at Pebble Hill. Known throughout the state as an acclaimed historian and writer, Dr. Atkins served as the Center's director from 1985 to 1995. Through her work with the Alabama Historical Association, Alabama Association of Historians, Friends of the Alabama Archives, and numerous other state and regional organizations, she has helped create and shap the resources available to both academic and lay historians. During that time, she created a vision and set a standard for outreach in the arts and humanities that has had a profound and lasting impact on thousands of Alabamians in hundreds of locations throughout the state.

Contributions should be made payable to the Auburn University Foundation for the Leah Rawls Atkins Endowment for Programming. For additional information, please contact the College of Liberal Arts Office of Development at 334.844.1483, or mail your contribution to:

Leah Rawls Atkins Endowment

Office of Development

College of Liberal Arts

321 Biggin Hall

Auburn, Alabama 36849-5223

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