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Wyatt F. Jeltz

1907–1975

United States

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Wyatt F. Jeltz (1907–1975) was an American educator, philanthropist and ethnographer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. For many years Wyatt Jeltz was an assistant principal at Oklahoma City Douglass High School. Having no children, Wyatt and his wife Mattie willed their assets to establish the Jeltz Scholarship Foundation, now known as Wyatt F. Jeltz Memorial Scholarship Foundation (501(c)(3), total assets about 270,000 as of 2007 fiscal year).

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