One of a small number of outstanding women executives in American business; prominent in the fields of banking, insurance, and hotel management; third generation representative of a distinguished and responsible Texas commercial family; patron of philanthropic organizations as diverse as the Boy Scouts and American universities; supporter of the advanced education of mature women and of medical research; active participant in community, state, and national affairs; she has quietly and without ostentation demonstrated the vision and the power of accomplishment of an able and dedicated Christian woman.