Friends and Family of Dr. Cedars

Dr. Marie Meisel Cedars Memorial Scholarship was established in 2001. Dr. Cedars was a member of the faculty at Tarleton for many years as a French instruction and was an accomplished artist. Dr. Cedars’ group of twelve paintings based on the book “6 Days of Destruction” by Elie Wiesel, an Auschwitz survivor, and Rabbi Albert H. Friedland, who fled Germany in 1939, has been displayed in New York galleries and many other major cities across the United States. The collection features images from the Biblical account of creation and Holocaust individual tragedies.