03/01/2024
During March, celebrates Women's History Month to honor women's contributions to American history and events. We want to highlight one of our notable alumnae and former first lady of the United States, Lady Bird Johnson (B.J. ’34). She is known for her environmental efforts, including her work to promote the Highway Beautification Act, which transformed our nation's cities and highways with native plants and wildflowers. Learn more about Lady Bird by listening to The Drag: An Audio Production House's "Lady Bird" podcast.
Now is the perfect time to stop by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, which Lady Bird established in 1982. "Beautification is far more than a matter of cosmetics," she said in 1968. "For me, it describes the whole effort to bring the natural world and the man-made world into harmony; to bring order, usefulness — delight — to our whole environment, and that of course only begins with trees and flowers and landscaping."
This Women's History Month, we also celebrate the appointment of Rachel Davis Mersey as the second female dean at Moody College. Congrats on this achievement.
Who are the women in your community making history?
