The President’s Award 2023.

This award is dedicated to those individuals or organizations who help preserve history in our community which brings better awareness of our group, its programs, and preservation efforts.

Lafky-Martinazzi Award - 2023

This award is named in honor of our co-founders and given for unwavering and ongoing support to preserve Tualatin history.

Jack Broome Scholarship

The scholarship began in 2010, an idea past Tualatin Historical Society president Jack Broome. Jack was a great promoter of education. After his four-year tour in the Marines during WW II he received a G.I. bill scholarship at the University of Oregon in architecture which got him started on his long career. He retired from a large Portland firm and became the pro bono architect when the historical society acquired the 1926 Methodist church in 2003. The building was moved in early 2004 onto city property and became the Heritage Center and home of THS today. Jack was “anonymous” in his very large donation to move and restore the center.

Jack realized the historical society needs new and younger people to carry on in future generations. He insisted we must do our part in perpetuating the interest and belief of young people's involvement in history. He met with the board during early 2010 and requested and received approval that THS start its first scholarship of $2000 - which since has grown to $3000 for a qualified student graduating senior from the Tualatin High School.

Jack Broome passed away in June of 2020 at the age of 97. We renamed the scholarship to honor his major contribution to the community and particularly the historical society by naming the scholarship for him. An honor he surely would have not wanted, but we were compelled to do.

Daphine Sanchez Flores was chosen as the 14th Tualatin High School recipient of the Jack Broome -Tualatin Historical Society $3,000 scholarship. She will attend Portland Community College and study Business Administration, minoring in Spanish and Real Estate. She earned a 3.9 GPA with a rigorous class load including IB classes. She received several honors at school and from the community, and still had time to be a THS cheerleader and a Cheer Mentor for Tualatin Youth Cheer! She impressed the committee with her hard work and interesting essay.

If you would like to support the scholarship program, please donate.

Past Scholarship Winners

• 2011: Nathan Andrews

• 2012: Jenna Lichty

• 2013: Ryan Houlberg

• 2014: Chia-Ni Shen

• 2015: Adrienne Tedesco

• 2016: Oliver Price

• 2017: Sharona Shnayder

• 2018: Jackson Redding

• 2019: Ricardo Olguin Galeana

• 2020: Madison McDonald / Julio Lopez Carrillo

• 2021: Alexei Burgos-Davila

• 2022 Magnus Graham

• 2023 Awatif Al-hawani