EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The 22nd Annual Betty Price Jewelry Sale will take place noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, in the Christman Lounge, located on the second floor of Wharton Center.
Betty Price is a longtime supporter of the arts, Wharton Center and Michigan State University. As a member of the Wharton Center Advisory Board in the 1980s Price decided to hold an annual jewelry sale to help raise funds for Wharton Center.
Price and her husband, Don, owned and operated Liebermann's, in Lansing, which featured gifts from around the world. When Betty Price left the store she continued her travels and started working with artists from Poland, Hong Kong and Mexico. Her first jewelry truck show in 1988 was a huge success and Betty Price donated half the total sales from the event back to Wharton Center.
This year's sale will include jewelry from Gdansk, Poland, where 1 million-year-old amber is transformed into beautiful pieces of jewelry, and from Taxco, Mexico. As always, 50 percent of all proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Betty Price Retail Management Internship Endowment at Wharton Center.
The endowment is used to support a paid gift shop intern, who can continually improve and add to the vibrancy of Wharton Gifts.
For more information on the Betty Price Retail Management Internship Endowment at Wharton Center, call the Wharton Center Development Office at (517) 353-4640.
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