Awards
Week of January 6, 2003
Textile history museum honors Samuel Rogers
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Samuel S. Rogers (R) receives the first ATHM Community Service Award
from American Textile History Museum Board Chairman Edward B. Stevens
(C) following remarks made by Hiram M. Samel, ATHM’s second vice
chairman and president of Merida Meridan, Inc.
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LOWELL, MA — Community leader Samuel S. Rogers received the first ATHM Community Service Award at a gala honoring him at the American Textile History Museum recently.
Nearly 200 guests attended the event, which raised $120,000 to benefit museum programs and services. The gala, a black-tie invitational hosted by the museum’s board of trustees, began with a reception, followed by dinner, dancing to the music of Bo Winiker and his orchestra and viewing of the museum’s holiday exhibition “Reflections: Fashions, Dolls and the Art of Growing Up.”
Gala co-chairs were Nancy L. Donahue of Lowell and Hooks K. Johnston Jr. of Andover. Gold sponsors included Ames Textile Corporation, The Demoulas Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Gable, Merida Meridian, Inc., Stevens Foundations, Dean and Eliza Webster and Mr. Melvin Weiner.
Silver sponsors included Brown Brothers Harriman, Nancy and Richard Donahue, John and Cynthia Everts, Mr. and Mrs. A. Garcia, Holy Family Hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Hooks Johnston Jr., Pearson & Pearson LLC/Butler Bank and the Rogers Family Foundation.
Recognized for his dedication to the museum and the region, Rogers has maintained a strong philanthropic and philosophical commitment to community service, including serving as former president of the museum and a trustee since its inception; trustee of the Stevens Foundations; former commodore of Chatham Yacht Club and president of Southern Massachusetts Yacht Racing Association; founder of Edgewood Retirement Community, North Andover; founding director of Merrimack Valley Community Foundation and School Volunteers for Lawrence; director of Andover Endowment for the Arts and Andover Committee for A Better Chance (ABC); Boston Council for Public Schools, School Volunteers for Boston, and Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts, Boston; member of Saengerfest Concert Chorus in Weston; and Andover and North Andover Historical Societies.
Rogers was born in 1924 to Horatio Rogers of Chestnut Hill, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Caroline Stevens Rogers of North Andover, who founded the museum in 1960 with a collection of spinning wheels inherited from her father. Rogers attended Phillips Academy in Andover and received an A.B. from Harvard College before serving in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
His career has included executive positions in the Andover and North Andover divisions of J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., and development and public affairs positions at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Globe Newspaper Company in Boston, where he founded the Globe Jazz Festival. He is married to Ann Dare Gill Rogers and lives in North Andover. They have four children and two grandchildren.
