Kathleen M. Price

Kathleen Marshall Clay Price Bryan (April 23, 1900 – August 6, 1984) was an American heiress and philanthropist. She founded the Junior League of Greensboro, North Carolina in 1926. Along with her husband, Joseph M. Bryan, she was an active philanthropist in North Carolina. Bryan was a patron of United Way, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State, and Duke University. Following her death, the Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund was established to provide grants to various North Carolina organizations.

Early life and family Bryan was born Kathleen Marshall Clay Price on April 23, 1900, in Greensboro, North Carolina to Julian Price, an insurance executive who developed the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, and Ethel Clay Price, a socialite and retired nurse. Her father was Baptist and her mother was Catholic. Bryan was the granddaughter of Colonel Henry de Boisfeuillet Clay, a U.S. Infantry officer and Civil War veteran.

Philanthropy On May 26, 1926, Bryan, along with nine of her friends from book club, selected a group of twenty-four additional young women to form the Greensboro Charity League.

In 1968, Bryan and her husband began making an annual contribution of $25,000 to United Way.

On May 12, 1970, Bryan and her husband were honored with a plaque, signed by U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, for their financial contributions to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. Department of State. They married on November 19, 1927, in Greensboro and lived together in New York City. They later moved into a mansion in the Irving Park Historic District.

Death and legacy Bryan had Alzheimer's disease and died in 1984. The foundation provided funding for Oak Ridge Military Academy, the United Arts Council of Greensboro, the Center for Community Self-Help, Urban Ministries, Hospice at Greensboro, and The Salvation Army.

In 2008, Bryan's home became the headquarters for the Junior League of Greensboro. A scholarship fund named after them, the Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Family Foundation Scholarship, was created for students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Other buildings named for the couple were built at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and North Carolina A&T University.

The Kathleen P. and Joseph M. Bryan Fellowship is offered through the Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Endowment Fund for business students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Youth Concerto Competition was formed as an instrumentalist performance competition for musical students in North Carolina.