GTHC Lecture: Mary Moody Northen, The Grand Dame of Galveston

In recognition of Women’s History Month, the Galveston & Texas History Center is proud to present a lecture on Mary Moody Northen and her unconventional role as the head of the Moody family’s sprawling billion-dollar business enterprise from 1954 to 1986. Staff archivist Katelyn Landry-Carranza will discuss how Mrs. Northen exceeded societal expectations for American heiresses, and how her position as a business executive and philanthropist starkly contrasted with women’s then-typical roles in corporate workplaces. The lecture will feature newly digitized images of archival materials from Moody Family Papers and Business Records, an archival collection donated to the GTHC by the Mary Moody Northen Endowment in 2023.