Georgia Sue Herberger Black ’58 passed away peacefully on Dec. 29, 2025, the date of her 67th wedding anniversary. Her courageous three-year battle with ovarian cancer never dimmed her inimitable spirit.
Georgia Sue was devoted to her “beloved College.” Wellesley benefited enormously from her leadership and involvement. She served as president of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association and as a Wellesley trustee from 1997 to 2000. She received the Alumnae Association’s Syrena Stackpole Award in 2003, recognizing her “lifetime of dedicated service and exceptional commitment” to Wellesley.
Arriving at Wellesley in the fall of 1954 from Grand Forks, N.D., Georgia Sue’s ability to nurture lifelong friendships seemed remarkable in a setting where everyone was creating new friendships. She loved singing with Tupelos. Living next door to each other for our final three years, our lifelong friendship was cemented. Following graduation, we were bridesmaids in each other’s weddings before 1958 ended. Our friendship was strengthened when it turned out her husband, Don Black, was from my home town, Minneapolis.
Georgia Sue’s devotion to Wellesley and her ability to form friendships served her well as she and Don moved five times in their first seven years of marriage. Immediately, she joined the local Wellesley club and had many new lasting friends.
In 1965, Dallas became the permanent home for the Black family, and for the next 60 years, Georgia Sue distinguished herself as a dedicated and effective volunteer leader while raising a family of three children: daughter, Peggy Black Meyer, and sons, Steven and David Black; and later, five grandchildren.
Georgia Sue’s considerable volunteer involvements, in addition to those at Wellesley, included serving as board president of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League, board member of the Dallas Arboretum and Visiting Nurse Association of Texas, and past president of St. Mark’s School Parents Association, to name just a few!
Dallas has a very active Wellesley group that Georgia Sue enjoyed enormously. In communicating Georgia Sue’s passing to its members, Anne Sinek ’86 wrote: “It’s hard to imagine our Wellesley team here without her, since she has always been the center point we circle around, the life of the party, and forever ready with a hilarious story or a spot-on-insight. In this dynamic group of women, she surely was the shining star. We will miss her always.”
Yes, Georgia Sue’s wonderful family and many friends will “miss her always.”
Luella Gross Goldberg ’58, Wellesley College Board of Trustees Chair Emerita
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