Jenna Bush Hager Visits FWCD

Jenna Bush Hager keeps her promises, even two years later. Hager was planning to visit FWCD in April 2020, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, she had to change her plans, just like everyone else. On September 16, 2022, Hager kept her promise and attended two FWCD events, a breakfast program at River Crest Country Club and a Lower School reading on campus.

Approximately 330 people attended the River Crest ticketed event to hear Hager discussing her book, Everything's Beautiful in Its Time, which she wrote the year she lost her grandparents. She shared with the audience how everything is beautiful in its time, even in your deepest grief, which is how she determined the book title. The 45-minute question-and-answer session was moderated by NBC 5 Today morning co-anchor Deborah Ferguson. Hager reminisced about her fond memories of her grandparents and how her grandmothers were such strong female role models for her and her twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush, growing up.

Jenna Bush Hager visits FWCD lower schoolers.

Hager also shared her story about being in Scotland for The Today Show when Prince Charles III, now King Charles, was informed that Queen Elizabeth II was ill, just hours before the monarch passed away. She was there to interview Queen Consort Camilla.

Following the breakfast event, Hager visited the Lower School to read her book The Superpower Sisterhood, cowritten with her sister, to the students. Hager, a former teacher, engaged with the students and teachers throughout the reading and took some questions at the end. She even shared a little secret about the White House ghost. Each Lower School student went home with a copy of The Superpower Sisterhood

The events and Lower School books were made possible by Kit Tennison Moncrief ’70 and Gloria Moncrief Holmsten ’00. Funds raised from the River Crest ticketed event benefited the Moncrief Library.

Jenna Bush Hager reads to FWCD lower schoolers.