Virginia HR 278: Commending Lynn Wiggins.

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17100051D 

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 278 

Offered January 11, 2017 

Prefiled January 10, 2017 

Commending Lynn Wiggins. 

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Patron-- Heretick 

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WHEREAS, Lynn Wiggins, a generous philanthropist and an admired 
community advocate who offered her leadership to several charitable 
organizations over the course of 45 years, was named First Citizen of 
Portsmouth in 2015; and

WHEREAS, the First Citizen of Portsmouth award is presented by 
the Portsmouth Service League to one resident who embodies the spirit of 
citizenship through community service; nominees are evaluated by a committee of 
former First Citizens; and

WHEREAS, Lynn Wiggins, a proud native of the Eastern Shore, 
graduated from the University of Richmond and moved with her husband, Ben, to 
Portsmouth in 1964; she taught history at Harry Hunt Junior High School and 
worked in her husband�s growing dental practice before answering the call to 
serve members of the community in need; and

WHEREAS, Lynn Wiggins joined the Portsmouth Service League, a 
volunteer organization of women who strive for the betterment of the community, 
and ably led the organization as president in 1973; and

WHEREAS, Lynn Wiggins also served as a member of the 
Portsmouth Red Cross Board of Directors and became the first woman to serve as 
chair of the administrative board of Monumental United Methodist Church; and

WHEREAS, Lynn Wiggins was the first woman to serve as 
president of the Portsmouth YMCA, where she used her organizational skills and 
open-minded leadership to steward the organization through a move to a new 
facility in Churchland, as well as oversee many successful fundraisers; and

WHEREAS, in 1999, Lynn Wiggins joined the Portsmouth Community 
Foundation, now known as the Southeastern Virginia Community Foundation, which 
works with other charitable organizations to strengthen the region; she served 
as president from 2005 to 2007 and was a member of the board until 2009; and

WHEREAS, Lynn Wiggins was officially named First Citizen of 
Portsmouth at a banquet held in her honor at the Renaissance Portsmouth Hotel 
on April 28, 2016, with proceeds of the banquet benefiting the Southeastern 
Virginia Community Foundation and the Portsmouth Service League�s efforts to 
restore the Woman�s Club of Portsmouth; now, therefore, be it 

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, That Lynn Wiggins hereby 
be commended for being named the 2015 First Citizen of Portsmouth for her 
legacy of leadership and service to the community; and, be it 

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates 
prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Lynn Wiggins as an 
expression of the House of Delegates� admiration for her mission to enhance the 
lives of all of her fellow Portsmouth reside