Following in the footsteps of her sister, Mrs. Her sister Janet Annenberg Hooker was a renowned philanthropist and the principal benefactor of the NMNH of the Smithsonian Institution, donating US$5 million to the institution, that enabled them to construct their modern Hall of Geology, Gems & Minerals, named in honor of Mrs. Evelyn (1911-2005) was the seventh of eight chidren – seven girls and a boy – born to Moses Annenberg and his wife Sadie, founder of the publishing empire, Cecilia Corporation that subsequently became the Triangle Publications, whose publications included The Morning Telegrah of New York, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Daily Racing Form and the TV Guide magazine. featuring 36 cushion-cut Sri Lanka blue sapphires, accented by pear-shaped and round brilliant-cut colorless diamonds. This piece of jewelry is the Hall Sapphire and Diamond Necklace designed by Harry Winston Inc. Janet Annenberg Hooker, who donated the US$500,000 worth Hooker Emerald Brooch to the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in 1977, decided to follow suit and donated an equally impressive and exemplary piece of jewelry of her own in 1979, to enrich the collection of the National Museum. Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall, newspaper heiress, philanthropist and a connoisseur, collector and patron of the Arts, who following the example set by her elder sister Mrs. The Hall Sapphire and Diamond Necklace gets its name from the Late Mrs.
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