Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright

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Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright
Born	Jean Elizabeth Geiger^[1] 1924 Atlanta, Georgia United States
Died	March 4, 2002(2002-03-04) (aged 77–78) Cobb County, Georgia, United States
Alma mater	Washington Seminary (1942)^[2]
Occupation(s)	Conservationist, educator, animal activist
Known for	Jean and Elwood Wright Environmental Education Center

Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright (1924 – March 4, 2002) was an American conservationist, educator, and animal activist.^[3] After beginning with her family's own house and 19 acres (7.7 ha)^[4] farm property in Cobb County, Wright worked to restore multiple plots of land in Pickens and Union Counties. Her former property was purchased by Cobb County in 2003 for $650,000, far below market price, and today operates as the environmental education conservation, the Jean and Elwood Wright Environmental Education Center.^[5]

Early years

Jean Elizabeth Geiger was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1924 to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Henry Geiger. She graduated from Washington Seminary in 1942^[2] and worked for a time at the First National Bank.^[1]

Conservationism

In addition to restoring her own property in Cobb County, Wright worked with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources on its Weekend for Wildlife (WFW) project, which included annual fundraisers on Sea Island; the Environmental Resources Network (TERN); the Mountain Conservation Trust of Georgia (MCGTA); the Georgia Native Plant Society (GNPS); the Nature Conservancy; and the Southeast Land Preservation Trust, where she served as a director.

After the Wrights' deaths and the county took over ownership of their property, their house was converted to classroom space. The Wright Center was officially declared a wildlife sanctuary by the Atlanta Audubon Society in early 2019^[4] and features nearly two miles of trails.^[6]

Animal advocacy

Wright was a central figure in working to pass two bond referendums, in 1978 and 1992, to expand existing animal shelter facilities. She also worked with the Humane Society to bolster adoption rates, co-established the Homeless Pet Foundation, and lobbied the Georgia General Assembly to pass animal protection legislation. Wright became a member of the Cobb County Animal Control Board in 1987, and served as director of special projects for the Humane Society of Cobb County in the 1990s.

After her children grew up, Wright fostered dozens of dogs and puppies, to the extent she was known as the "Puppy Lady".^[7]

Personal life

Jean Geiger married Ernest Elwood Wright on November 10, 1946;^[1] the couple had three children, daughters Kris and Kathy and son Robert ("Bob"^[8]).^[9] In the late 1940s the family purchased a house and land in Cobb County, which Wright worked for decades to restore to its natural state, seeking out native plants to install.^[5]

Wright died on March 4, 2002.^[9]

Legacy

The Jean and Elwood Wright Environmental Education Center, commonly called the Wright Center, is named after Wright and her husband.

In 2020, Wright was added to the Georgia Women of Achievement Hall of Fame.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Miss Jean Geiger To Wed on Nov. 10". The Atlanta Constitution. October 27, 1946.
^ ^a ^b "Lewis H. Beck Archives: Washington Seminary (1878-1953) Holdings". The Westminster Schools. November 12, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020. 1.34: Jean Geiger Wright Papers Class of 1942.
^ ^a ^b "Jean Elisabeth Geiger Wright". Georgia Women of Achievement. 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Parker, Wendy (April 12, 2019). "East Cobb's Wright Environmental Education Center certified as wildlife sanctuary". East Cobb News. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Sager, Brenden (July 8, 2004). "Changing the Landscape to Resemble Yesteryear is the Wright Way". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. JF1.
^ "Wright Environmental Education Center". Master Gardener Volunteers of Cobb County. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
^ Sherrer, Brantley (August 7, 1997). "They Call It Puppy Love". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. J1.
^ Hartwell, Thomas (January 3, 2020). "Jean Wright is first Cobb County resident to be inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement Hall of Fame". Marietta Daily Journal. Former Cobb County Commissioner Thea Powell; Bob Wright, Jean Wright's son; and Judy Beard, master gardener project coordinator at the Jean & Elwood Wright Environmental Education Center, inspect a frog pond at the center in east Cobb.
^ ^a ^b "Obituaries - Wright". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. March 7, 2002. p. F5.

Georgia Women of Achievement

1990s

1992	Martha Berry Lucy Craft Laney Juliette Gordon Low Flannery O'Connor
1993	Dicksie Bradley Bandy Mary Musgrove Cassandra Pickett Durham Viola Ross Napier Ma Rainey
1994	Julia Flisch Carson McCullers Margaret Mitchell Ruth Hartley Mosley Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman
1995	Selena Sloan Butler Anna Colquitt Hunter Hazel Jane Raines
1996	Susan Cobb Milton Atkinson Nellie Peters Black Ellen Craft Corra Harris Lugenia Burns Hope
1997	Rebecca Latimer Felton Mary Ann Harris Gay Nancy Hart Lucy Barrow McIntire
1998	Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Julia Collier Harris Rhoda Kaufman Carrie Steele Logan
1999	Moina Michael Lillian Smith

2000s

2000	Sallie Ellis Davis Laura Askew Haygood Ellen Axson Wilson
2001	Julia L. Coleman Catherine Evans Whitener
2002	Wessie Gertrude Connell Lula Dobbs McEachern Alice Harrell Strickland
2003	Madeleine Kiker Anthony Helena Maud Brown Cobb Julia Lester Dillon Leila Ross Wilburn
2004	Mathilda Beasley Louise Frederick Hays Helen Dortch Longstreet Sarah McLendon Murphy Emily Barnelia Woodward
2005	Alice Woodby McKane Nina Anderson Pape Jeannette Rankin
2006	Eliza Frances Andrews Grace Towns Hamilton Sarah Porter Hillhouse
2007	Margaret O. Bynum Edith Lenora Foster Helen Douglas Mankin Sara Branham Matthews
2008	Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick
2009	Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers

2010s

2010	Mary Ann Lipscomb Celestine Sibley Madrid Williams
2011	Lillian Gordy Carter Mary Francis Hill Coley May duBignon Stiles Howard
2012	Sarah Randolph Bailey Beulah Rucker Oliver Ethel Harpst
2013	Lollie Belle Wylie Mary Gregory Jewett Henrietta Stanley Dull
2014	Rebecca Stiles Taylor Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas Bazoline Estelle Usher
2015	Allie Carroll Hart Frances Freeborn Pauley Nell Kendall Hodgson Woodruff
2016	Sarah Harper Heard Ellamae Ellis League Katie Hall Underwood
2017	Carolyn Mackenzie Carter Clermont Huger Lee Lucile Nix
2018	Ludie Clay Andrews Susie Baker King Taylor Mamie George S. Williams
2019	Leila Denmark Mary Dorothy Lyndon

2020s

2020	Clarice Cross Bagwell Katharine DuPre Lumpkin Juanita Marsh Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright
2021	Ruby M. Anderson Mary G. Bryan Laura Pope Forester Allie Murray Smith
2022	Lizzie Lurline Collier Josephine Fields Sanders Hedy West Josephine Wilkins
2023	Phyllis Jenkins Barrow Alice Coachman Luck Flanders Gambrell Dorothy Rogers Tilly
2024	Beatrice Hirsch Haas Adella Hunt Logan Valerie Murphey Elizabeth "Bessie" Tift

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