The Cecil Wallace Fordham Memorial Award in Visual Arts, the Alice Jones Berding Memorial Award in Music, and the Eleanor Jones Award in Creative Writing are given to students who excel in art, music and creative writing. All three awards are funded through endowments, and are administered by the DCCCD Foundation.

Each outstanding student receives a cash award of $500, made possible by gifts from the Jones family. The general public is invited to view the visual arts exhibit and to attend the music concert on the day of the awards ceremony.

The Cecil Wallace Foundation Award in Visual Arts, made possible with a gift from Fordham’s daughter, Eleanor Fordham Jones, and her family, was created to remember Mr. Fordham’s love of visual beauty.

The 2011 recipient of the Cecil Wallace Fordham Memorial Award in Visual Arts is Mr. Richard Brown, pictured with one of his art works in the Fordham Scholarship Winners Art Show on Friday, April 8, 2011, in the H. Paxton Moore Gallery at El Centro College.

Ave Maria, pierra di grazia, collage and pen, apprx. 30" x 30", 2011 view full size

Richard Brown, 2011 Fordham Award recipient for El Centro College, and Rosemary DesPlas, Program Coordinator/Faculty ECC Art Department