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My mom, and a founding investor in Tennisplayer, in 1938 as a freshman at Bennington.
Cynthia Yandell, a founding investor in Tennisplayer.net, passed away on October 2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 89. And yeah she also happened to be my mom.
Mom was born in her family’s New Hampshire summer house on Lake Winnipesaukee in 1920. Her family descended on both sides from first generation New England leaders, among them Governor William Bradford of Plymouth plantation, and the dissenting Anglican cleric, the Reverend John Cotton, who immigrated to Massachusetts in 1633.
Her father, Tracy S. Lewis, a Connecticut industrialist and yachtsman, died suddenly in the first year of her life. Subsequently her mother, Grace Meacham Lewis, married George Jenkinson, a Yale educated oil executive and decorated World War I veteran, whom she had known since the summers of her own youth in New Hampshire.
In 1924 Mom’s family moved to Denver, Colorado and Mom adopted Jenkinson as her maiden name. A decade later in 1933, my grandfather’s oil business career took them all to Tulsa. Mom went to a school in Tulsa called Holland Hall for 2 years before going to boarding school in the east, graduating…