Education
Wynne attended Highland Park High School and graduated there in 1931. Wynne attended The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, then Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. from 1934–1935, before receiving a B.A. from University of Texas at Austin in 1938.
He was a member, along with his brother, Bedford, of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, while attending UT.
He worked on Texas oil fields from 1938 to 1940 when he received an ensign's commission in the Navy. In the Navy, he was awarded six service stars for service in the European and Asiatic theaters during WWII.
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