Major Vivian Osborne Marsh and Lieutenant Lottie Rucker, Berkeley, 1945

Title: Major Vivian Osborne Marsh and Lieutenant Lottie Rucker, Berkeley, 1945
Alternative title: Vivian Osborne Marsh, community activities
Date Created: 1945
Date: 1945
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description: Major Vivian Osborne Marsh and Lieutenant Lottie Rucker in uniform, when they worked for the Women's Ambulance and Defense Corp of America during WWII, in Berkeley. They are standing in front of a car, with a building behind them.
Vivian Osborne Marsh was born in Houston, Texas, and received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Anthropology at the University of California in Berkeley. She founded the Berkeley campus’ Kappa chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She went on to found several other chapters. Two major projects she organized were the Traveling Library, which provided books to rural portions of Georgia, and Teen Lift, which provided opportunities for underprivileged teenagers to visit events such as symphonies and operas. She was involved in many civic organizations and on February 21, 1981, the mayor of Berkeley honored her contributions by declaring it to be Vivian Osborne Marsh Day.