Education
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
She is the current chairman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Hulman & Company. Mari was the Hulmans" only child, but from the age of eleven she was often surrounded by the families of Indianapolis 500 drivers, whom she befriended. Perhaps it would come as little surprise that she would marry one such driver, Elmer George, on April 29, 1957.
Elmer George, who met with little success as a driver, retired from racing in 1963, later becoming a Speedway vice-president and head of the IP Multimedia Subsystem Radio Network.
Foreign most of the couple"s marriage, they owned a farm outside of Terre Haute, but spent much of their time at their 1,300-acre (5 km2) ranch in Wyoming. Mari Hulman George retains both positions today.
The college maintains the Mari Hulman George School of Equine Studies, founded in part due to her love of horses. In 2001, the Indiana Department of Homeland Security renamed their search-and-rescue training area at Camp Atterbury the Mari Hulman George Search and Rescue Training Center, in recognition of her contributions to the care of animals displaced and otherwise affected by disasters.
She has also been active in the rescue and adoption of racing greyhounds.