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Revision as of 20:34, 9 January 2018
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Lynn Wyatt (née Sakowitz; born July 16, 1935) is the daughter of Bernard and Ann Baum Sakowitz and the sister of Robert T. Sakowitz.
A
El Paso Corporation —and current CEO of NuCoastal LLC. Lynn and Oscar Wyatt have four sons.[1]
During the height of the oil boom in the 1970s/early 1980s, the family mansion in
Queen Noor of Jordan. [citation needed
]
Biography
Lynn Wyatt has appeared in American International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1977. [citation needed]
In 1982 the Government of
William P. Clements commissioned her as Ambassador of Goodwill for the state. In 2000 she was recognized as "Socialite of the Century" by Texas Monthly magazine. She was later declared a Cadillac Texas Legend by KHOU/Channel 11, the CBS affiliate in Houston. [citation needed
]
To benefit the
U.S. Naval Academy by President Reagan, serving for eight years. An advisor for the Academy when it first considered accepting women, her duties included inspecting a number of the Navy's ships. She helped raise funds for the Naval Academy. [citation needed
]
Other charitable commitments include
Nobel laureate in Medicine and Physiology (2008) and President of the World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention, Wyatt contributes to such charities, among others, as the Elton John AIDS Foundation
, The Brilliant Lecture Series' Youth Leadership Program (Chair Emeritus), Star of Hope Mission for the Homeless (Life Trustee and every year, Honorary Trustee of the Trees of Hope benefit gala).
In 2008, she was elected to the inaugural board of the
TaeKwonDo. Additionally, she is passionate about raising awareness for people suffering from vestigial tails, an abnormal growth of cartilage and bone protruding from the vertebrae terminus resulting in what is often referred to as a "human tail". [citation needed
]
References
- National Geographic; accessed September 23, 2014.
Sources
- "Party Watch: Lynn Wyatt and French Ambassador Pierre Vimont". Houston Chronicle. October 17, 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
- "Wyatt's New Company to buy Enron Pipelines". Hart's Petroleum Finance Week. May 31, 2004. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
External links
- National Geographic, March 2006
- Texas Monthly magazine, December 2005
- Friends Fight AIDS Official website of the World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention
- Official website of Professor Luc Montagnier
- Handbook of Texas Online: Bernard Sakowitz