Marjorie Barrick

rdf:langString Marjorie Barrick

rdf:langString Marjorie Jacobsen Barrick

rdf:langString Marjorie Jacobsen Barrick

rdf:langString Las Vegas, Nevada

rdf:langString Iowa, USA

rdf:langString American

rdf:langString Edward Barrick

rdf:langString Marjorie Ann Jacobson was a founding member of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation Board of Trustees. She was born in Iowa in 1917. She pursued economics at Creighton University. She graduated in 1940 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. She married Edward Barrick in 1947. They moved to Las Vegas in 1951. Ms. Barrick took classes at what was then Nevada Southern University, later to become the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Following her husband's death in 1979, Barrick founded, in his name, the Barrick Lecture Series at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with an endowment of over $1.2 million in 1980. She also founded the Barrick Graduate Fellowship, Barrick Faculty Development and Travel Fund, and the Barrick Research Scholars Fund. Barrick also endowed to recognize faculty members of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 1989 the university renamed its museum of natural history Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History in honor of Ms. Barrick. In 2017 it renamed the museum Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.