Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything is needed. She has visited medical centers all over the U.S. to see if her own hospitals have the latest equipment, is always on hand for the annual Fondren Lectures at S.M.U. Says the Rev. Dawson Bryan, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Houston: "She attends more committee meetings than anyone I know. Why, it's only been a short time ago that she stopped going down to the church and helping out at functions. She used to roll up her sleeves, cook, wash dishes, do everything the other women...
...money to Texas institutions, but in refreshing contrast to the flashier philanthropists of oildom, she has always insisted on staying quietly behind the scenes. Those who honored her last week at first despaired of getting her to the ceremony at all. Says Methodist Episcopal Bishop A. Frank Smith of Houston: "We practically had to drag her into the hall...
...Orphans. Though no one knows exactly how much she has given (best estimate: more than $20 million), her bounty has been spread widely and well. Fondren money built the $500,000 S.M.U. library, furnished half the cost of the $2,000,000 library at Rice Institute. It helped build Houston's Methodist Hospital, and it also helps support Episcopal St. Luke's. It has done everything from building a gymnasium for the students of Houston's Kinkaid School to founding the Methodist Home (for orphans) in Waco and giving Houston's Texas Medical Center an Institute...
Officers of the group are John F. Maher '60, Holworthy Hall and Houston, Texas, president, and Thomas F. Glick '60, Straus Hall and Chagrin Falls, Ohio, secretary. Advisers are Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, Wallace McDonald, director of freshman scholarships, and Frederick L. Holborn, teaching fellow in Government...
...campaign to decentralize the company's insurance and investment business, put it in closer touch with its customers around the U.S. Since 1948, President Shanks has spent millions to move large chunks of the Pru's business from its Newark headquarters to regional offices in Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, Jacksonville, Toronto and Chicago. Said Shanks: "Our projects apparently stimulated other people to invest and press forward for a developing local economy. The same will be true in Boston. We expect more and more investments to go into New England to bring it the glory and prosperity it deserves...