Hays County formally passed a corner at Lyndon Baines Johnson Drive and Martin Luther King Drive to the City of San Marcos Monday during Martin Luther King Day ceremonies. The corner will be the site of a monument remembering the two civil rights figures.
Martin Luther King Day will be recognized in San Marcos with a series of events starting at 11 a.m. Monday on the steps of the Hays County Courthouse. The morning courthouse program will feature proclamations by San Marcos Mayor Susan Narvaiz and Hays County Judge Liz Sumter.
Starting Thursday, the Lyndon B. Johnson Museum of San Marcos is changing its hours of operation. The museum will now be open from 1-5 p.m. on Wednesday and from 10 a.m.-5 p.m on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Texas State University President Denise Trauth told university faculty and staff Tuesday that Texas State is growing in enrollment, prestige and facilities. The university expects to welcome a record number of students when classes start Wednesday.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) Museum of San Marcos, 131 Guadalupe Street, is celebrating National Hispanic Heritage month with a reception at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 16.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum of San Marcos will host a fundraiser program, “60s Night at the Museum,” Aug. 7 as part of an effort to match a $25,000 grant.
CSPAN-3 will air Texas State’s 2009 LBJ Distinguished Lecture on June 7, at 10 a.m. The lecture features Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson, the daughters of Texas State alum and former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb will give their father’s namesake lecture at Texas State on April 14.
An LBJ Museum exhibit looking back on Lyndon Johnson’s experience as a Cotulla school teacher will open this week.
Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb, the daughters of Lyndon Baines Johnson, will highlight the final event of this year’s LBJ Common Experience theme at Texas State with a lecture in April.
