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Show WYLLIS DORMAN-LIGH Elected 1976 of New York, Wyllis Oorman-Ligh is frequently asked, "What brought you to Utah?" Unabale to resist the truth, she tells the questioners,"A truck". A friend who was returning tQ her home in Salt Lake City needed help driving a rental truck from Maine to Utah. Wyllis had seen little of the West and the trip sounded like a lark and a splendid vacation. She came, she saw and she stayed! A native City impressed her with its climate, scenery and relaxed style of living. But mostly, it seemed a place where government was reachable; where change was possible. Salt Lake Wyllis 1937 to parents now born in Brooklyn on February 21, She received her Bachelor of Arts from City UniversiLY of with majors in Political' Science and Psychology and a was deceased. New York minor in Business Administration. She has done graduate studies in Psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York City; Fine Arts at Newark State, Union, New Jersey and Human Wyllis has followed Resources Management at many fields of endeavor. station manager, artist, writer, stage jazz, modern classics, opera, dance, ballet gas the U of U. Pottery instructress, She enjoys performer. and theatre. Living in Greenwich Village, N.Y. Wyllis developed a concern for an She became neighborhood housing and communi ty development. expert in the above. Living in Salt Lake's Central City, she became involved in the same problems. Democrat, she supported the ERA, and is a member of the Utah Equal Rights Coalition, Women's Political Caucus, Utah Housing of and Alliance, Associaton NAACP, NAHRO, (National Housing Redevelopment Organization), Central City Neighborhood Council and Central City Food Co-op. A Deciding was a to loud She served and for the House of Representatives, and winning, for community development of all kinds. she member of the Social Service Appropriations, Labor and Business, Industrial Development and Consumer committees. as Manpower Concerns 176 run voice a |
