Reynard honored by Port Arthur Masons
July 10, 2024
Dr. Betty Reynard, center, President of Lamar State College Port Arthur, was honored by the Cosmopolitan Lodge #872 in Port Arthur on Thursday, July 4, 2024 as she received the Mirabeau B. Lamar Award of Excellence. She is pictured with Grand Chaplain Danny Dowden, left, and Lodge Master Sean Clifford.
As a part of its annual Fourth of July celebration, the Cosmopolitan Masonic Lodge of Port Arthur honored Lamar State College Port Arthur President Dr. Betty Reynard with the prestigious Mirabeau B. Lamar Award for Excellence.
Reynard, flanked by a room full of Masons and LSCPA employees, received a bronze medal in recognition of her years of dedicated service to education. A lifelong educator, she began her career in higher education in 1979 as an instructor of dental hygiene at Lamar University, rising through the ranks as a program coordinator, assistant to the vice president and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Workforce Technology at Lamar Institute of Technology before becoming president of Lamar State College Port Arthur on September 1, 2014.
Established in 1988 under the leadership of Grand Master Graham Childress, the Lamar Award of Excellence for personal Achievement is awarded to students and educators by Texas Masonic lodges in their communities in recognition of outstanding personal achievement in academics, citizenship, community service or sports. This prestigious award was named in honor of the “Father of Texas Education” Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar who travelled from Georgia with horse and sword, to join Sam Houston’s Army in 1836.