Portland Rose Festival :: 2020 Souvenir Program

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Follow Along With Us:ROSE FESTIVAL STORIES:PORTLAND GENERL ELECTRICIt seems fitting that Rose Festival’s most tenured corporatepartner is also the company that literally brought Portlandinto the light. Portland General Electric’s role in the successand growth of the City is a story in itself, one too detailed forthis publication.But just as Rose Festival has its roots in Portland’s 1905 world’sfair—the Lewis & Clark Exposition—PGE’s involvement withthe festival started with that very event. Henry C. Goode,president of PGE during the planning and production of thevery successful exposition, was also the president and generalmanager of the fair itself. Under Goode’s leadership, PGE’smission became aligned with corporate citizenship and civicbetterment, and the Lewis & Clark Exposition became one ofthe most financially successful world’s fairs ever.It followed that PGE would embrace the festival that inheritedthe fair’s mantle, the Portland Rose Festival. “For 113 years,PGE has supported the Portland Rose Festival. From the firsthorse drawn float in 1907 to PGE and TriMet’s all electric busentry in 2019, this festival has been a showcase of the beautyand evolution of our wonderful City of Roses,” says KreggArntson, PGE’s Director of Corporate Social Responsibility.Illuminated floats were one of the magnificent spectaclesof early festivals, built on the chassis of the trolley cars thatserviced the electrified city. In 1994 PGE fittingly becamethe title sponsor of the modern version of those earlyelectrical parades, the Starlight Parade, a sponsorship thatcontinues today.In the 1990s, environmental sustainability became a majorfocus of the relationship between Rose Festival and PortlandGeneral Electric. Working together withleaders from the City of Portland andSOLVE, the partners started one of thefestival’s most successful initiatives, the Cleanest and GreenestFestival program. For 25 years this program has receivedinternational accolades for itsmultiple elements, including itsfamous volunteer parade cleanupand PGE’s offset of parade entryemissions with renewable energycredits, plus the powering of RoseFestival CityFair with renewableenergy sources.Volunteerism is one of the keysto the Cleanest Festival program.Edgar Martinez, a senior customerservice advisor at PGE says, “Myfamily and I look forward to the Rose Festival each year! Welove representing PGE by volunteering, enjoying the festivitiesand helping our community. While this year is different, we’restill excited to join the fun virtually from home.”One of the festival’s legendary volunteer board leaders, HillmanLueddemann, Jr.—who served as Rose Festival President in1974 and continued to serve on its Executive Committee forthree more decades—retired from PGE as Vice President andAssistant to the Chairman in 1989. Just as he continued to serveRose Festival, the man fondly known as ‘Lueddie’ kept an officeat PGE until just a few years before his death in 2017. Ultimately,it’s PGE’s legacy of leadership that has made Portland and thesurrounding community a brighter place to live.26
#PDXRoseFestival @PDXRoseFestivalROSE FESTIVAL HONORSPresented by Wells FargoVirtual Event, Tuesday, August 11, 2020The Rose Festival Foundation invites everyone to virtually attend RoseFestival Honors, an uplifting one-hour live streaming broadcast recognizingthe role of mentorship and the power of Women Empowering Women. TheFestival is pleased to honor Marcia Randall for her decades of supportinghigher education for young women on the Rose Festival Court, and alsofeatures keynote speaker Tracy Curtis, Region President of Wells Fargo, andGrace (Neal) Stratton, 2006 Rose Festival Queen. An ask will be made tohelp us raise critical funds to continue support of mentorship and womenas the Foundation creates a runway to the 2021 Rose Festival.Learn more or donate now at RoseFestival.orgTo RSVP: bit.ly/rfhonorsHOPE SHINESThe neon rose atop the Rose Festival headquarters had a timelyaddition of something we all need: hope. Joe and Wendy Gibson,owners of Ramsay Signs, came up with the idea after a conversationwith Rose Festival CEO Jeff Curtis about the postponement of the2020 Festival.The sign is not only a shining beacon of hope for thecommunity as it glows over downtown, it is a testament to thepower of partnership.27
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