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Women of NoteEarlier this year, the Central Texas Chapter of
the Baylor Alumni Association honored Jane Ferguson Haywood '56, MA
'84, as the chapter's Distinguished Baylor Woman and named Sue Mayborn
as the first honoree of the new "Found Faithful" award.
 Haywood,
who came to Baylor from Tennessee, has been teaching English in the
Temple area for many years. After graduating from Baylor, where she met
her husband, the late Dr. Ray Haywood '54, she taught at Irving High
School until he finished medical school. The family lived in Arizona,
New Mexico, Idaho, and several parts of Texas while her husband
fulfilled his military obligation and orthopedic residency.
In 1968 the Haywood family moved to Temple, where Dr. Haywood joined
the staff of Scott and White. Baylor women in the area--including Mary
Cole Farrow Long '44, MA '65, and Estherbelle Messer Caesar '72 (both
previously named Distinguished Baylor Women)--encouraged Haywood to
pursue her master's in English at Baylor, which she did. For the next
seventeen years, she served on the faculty of the University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor (UMHB), where yet another Distinguished Baylor Woman, Dr.
Edna Bridges, encouraged her regularly. Haywood was honored twice by
UMHB with the Trustee's Award for Teaching.
The Haywoods have three children, one of them a Baylor graduate. In her
retirement, Haywood continues to tutor, teach Sunday School at First
United Methodist Church of Temple, work with Meals on Wheels, pronounce
for the Bell County Spelling Bee, and keep up with her students.
The "Found Faithful" award is for a non-Baylor graduate who has
contributed significantly to the university. A plaque given to Mayborn
was inscribed with I Corinthians 4:1-2: "So then men ought to regard us
as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the things of God.
Now it is required that those who have been given a trust be found
faithful."
Sue Mayborn and her family have generously supported Baylor, particularly through the naming gift to the Mayborn
Museum Complex, given by the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn Foundation. The
Mayborns also established a scholarship in the journalism department
and funded an internship program based in Washington, D. C., for
political science students.
Mayborn serves as president of the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn Foundation
which, under her direction, has given support to numerous Central Texas
institutions of higher education. Mayborn was honored by Baylor in 2000
with the Herbert H. Reynolds Award and in 2001 as an Alumna Honoris Causa.
She attended both Temple College and the University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor and is a member of Memorial Baptist Church in Temple.
Since 1987, Mayborn has been editor, publisher, and owner of the Temple Daily Telegram and the Killeen Daily Herald,
two of only four privately owned newspapers in the state with a
circulation above ten thousand. She is also president of KCEN-TV.
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