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Lyda Hill
American investor and philanthropist
Lyda Hill (born 1942) is an American investor and philanthropist. She is a member of the Hunt family.
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Early life
Hill was born on 1942, in Dallas, Texas to Albert Galatyn Hill Sr. and Margaret Hunt Hill.[1] She is a member of the Hunt family.[2][3]
She attended the Hockaday School, an all-girl boarding school in Dallas, from 1952 to 1960.[4] She entered Stanford University in 1960, but left to attend Hollins University.
She earned a degree in mathematics from Hollins in 1964, and received its Outstanding Alumnae Award in 2009.[5]
Career
In 1967, Hill launched Hill World Travel, a travel agency located in Dallas.
She sold the company in 1982, by which time she had grown the company into the largest travel agency in the city and one of the largest in the country.[6] In 1970, she became President of Seven Falls, a tourist attraction near Colorado Springs, Colorado,