Wesa Weddington

The plaque lists her posts; former students remembered what she turned down. When the Bryan school board offered her the superintendency in 1937, she declined, though she had served as acting superintendent several times. One student, W. T. McDonald, recalled her calling it "a position for a man"; another, Walter Carl Jones, said she doubted the male principals would cooperate. Her students dedicated the first Broncho yearbook to her in 1930. She also taught Sunday school at First Presbyterian Church in Bryan for many years.

What the plaque says

Wesa Weddington Granddaughter of Harvey Mitchell, a pioneer settler of Brazos County, Wesa Weddington began teaching Latin and Spanish in 1903 in Bryan public schools. She received a Masters Degree in 1918 from Columbia University and then taught while serving as Principal of Bryan High School from 1920 to 1946. A dedicated teacher who set high standards, she earned love and respect from students, many of whom became leaders in the community. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 5.5 mi
  The library of the forty-first president on the Texas A&M campus, opened in 1997, where George and Barbara Bush and their daughter Robin are buried in a family plot on the grounds.
• Navasota — 24 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 24 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.
• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 25 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.

More markers nearby

• Site of the Town of Boonville — steps away
• Allen Academy — 0.9 mi
• Site of Villa Maria Ursuline Academy — 1.3 mi
• First Presbyterian Church — 2.1 mi