Jovita Idar
“Mexican children in Texas need an education. There is no other means to do it but ourselves, so that we are not devalued and humiliated by the strangers who surround us.”
“Mexican children in Texas need an education. There is no other means to do it but ourselves, so that we are not devalued and humiliated by the strangers who surround us.”
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Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Moroney Norsworthy
Philanthropist
Norsworthy, a Dallas native who died in 2001 at the age of eighty-three, was the granddaughter of Morning News founder George Bannerman Dealey. Her brother, James M. Moroney Jr., a retired publisher of the paper, presented the gift to the zoo as the trustee of her charitable trust. The Dallas Zoo has received $2 million ? the largest single donation in its history ? from the charitable trust of the late Betty Moroney Norsworthy and will use the funds to build an otter exhibit
