Joci Straus funneled her many passions into the betterment of her community, said her son Joe Straus III, “from her transformative impact on the cultural and educational fabric of San Antonio to her sincere belief in volunteerism and civic engagement.
Jocelyn Levi Straus sits inside the Majestic Theatre, for which she helped raise restoration funds. Straus died Oct. 8 at age 91.Jocelyn Levi Straus — a respected political fundraiser, tireless arts advocate and savior of the historic Majestic and Charline McCombs Empire theaters — died Saturday. She was 91 years old.
Straus funneled her many passions into the betterment of her community, said her son Joe Straus III, “from her transformative impact on the cultural and educational fabric of San Antonio to her sincere belief in volunteerism and civic engagement.” A Republican Party fundraiser, Straus got her start in politics serving as a chairwoman for the Nixon Girls, a group of women who supported Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign, and as a party precinct chair.
Straus served on the board of the local United Way and led its annual campaign in 2004. She then created and served as the founding chair of the Women’s Leadership Council, now known as Women United, which today has more than 3,000 members in Bexar County and many more across the nation.
From that point on, Straus stuck to it and was the “driving force” behind raising the money to restore the theaters, Ruttenberg said. Through a public-private partnership, she raised $4.5 million for the first phase of the restoration and another $14 million for both later phases and for the work to restore the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, which was completed in 1998.
In 2008, Straus asked Las Casas to establish an annual scholarship competition that has since awarded $1.2 million to performing arts students to pursue higher education degrees. Top winners are given an award known as the Joci, named to honor Straus for her contributions to the program.
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