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Tribute to the First Lady
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Laura Welch Bush |
As First Lady of Texas, Laura Welch Bush has worked tirelessly to promote one of her primary interests - education. As First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Bush will continue to focus on this area that plays such an important role in our nation's future. Her background as a teacher and librarian and her lifelong passion for reading have been the motivating forces behind her education advocacy for all Texans - and now for all Americans.
In Texas, Mrs. Bush launched an early childhood development initiative in 1998
to help parents and caregivers prepare infants and young children for learning
and reading when they enter school. The initiative includes a family literacy
project for Texas - a collaborative effort with the Barbara Bush Foundation for
Family Literacy.
She also helped organize a celebration of Texas books and authors called the
Texas Book Festival in 1996 that has since become an annual fundraiser for Texas
public libraries. During the last four years, 352 Texas public libraries have
received Texas Book Festival grants totaling $889,845
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Mrs. Bush has also been a champion of breast cancer awareness, working with the
Governors Spouse Program of the National Governors Association to promote
women's health. Mrs. Bush also serves on several boards, including the
University of Texas Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Foundation Advisory Council and the national Reading is Fundamental Advisory
Council.
Mrs. Bush is a native Texan who was born in Midland. She earned a bachelor's
degree in education from Southern Methodist University and a master's degree in
library science from the University of Texas at Austin and taught in public
schools in Dallas, Houston, and Austin from 1968 to 1977. She and George W. Bush
were married in Midland in 1977, and they are the proud parents of twin girls,
Barbara and Jenna, who were born in 1981 and are named after their grandmothers.
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