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The Links, Incorporated is an organization comprised of women of African heritage who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the identities, culture and economic survival of all people of African origin through cultural, educational and civic programs. Through our partnerships we promote activism to help bring about positive change that transcends time, race and socio-economic differences. HISTORY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER OF THE LINKS, INC. The Western Area of The Links, Incorporated developed from a nucleus of three chapters chartered in 1950. The chartering of the Los Angeles, Oakland Bay Area and San Francisco chapters connected the chain of friendship in The Links, Incorporated from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. |
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Charter Members of the San Francisco Chapter Organizer and First President: Hortense Thomas Alice Butler Lolita Coleman Willa Evans Amelia Farmer Jackieline Goosby Vivian S. W. Hambrick * Inez Henderson Lillian Nixon Mabel Sanford Jacqueline Smith ** Julia Smith Mildred Stephens Mary Stewart Thelma Toms Maude White * "SFJAZZ@SFLINKS" Fundraiser 2007 dedicated to her memory ** "SFJAZZ@SFLINKS" Fundraiser 2007 produced in her honor |
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Since 1950, the San Francisco Chapter of The Links, Incorporated has worked to provide hands-on service and support to local community-based initiatives and organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through its dedicated members, the San Francisco Chapter of The Links, Incorporated has provided thousands of volunteer
hours and significant financial support to the community for almost sixty years. |
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER OF LINKS, INC. 2007-2008 Membership CHAPTER PRESIDENT: Allison N. Metz, MD CHAPTER OFFICERS: First Vice President Isabelle Felder Gillis Second Vice President Ella Turner-Gray Recording Secretary Shirley A. Matthews Corresponding Secretary Pamela Mays McDonald Treasurer Joyce Jackson Dixon Financial Secretary Carolyn Block-Arnelle, PhD Parliamentarian Anita D. Stearns Mayo, Esq LINKS WESTERN AREA DIRECTOR: Barbara Ruffin-Boston NATIONAL CHAIR, SERVICES TO YOUTH Kelly Tanner-Jones |
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| CHAPTER MEMBERS: Sharon Bell Joan Boudoin Brown, PhD Schyleen Qualls Brown Jean Burks Kay Carney-Filmore, PhD Rosemarie Randolph Clark Beatrice Reynolds Cox Shirley Fitt Karen Bell Francois Holly Johnson Friar Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, PhD Frankie Jacobs Gillette Brenda Grant Julia Grant Marie Graves Francell Haskins Shirley Hoskins, PhD Eunice Motte Jackson Letha L. Jeanpierre Kelly Kimbrough Farris Page-King Diane Hambrick LeBlanc, MD Marilyn Metz. MD Monique Covington Moore Belva Davis Moore Fannie Wiley Preston, PhD Barbra Ruffin-Boston Bette Davis Scott Deborah Sims, EdD Pamela Stevenson Blondel Bonnie West ALUMNAE MEMBERS: Jacqueline Smith (Charter Member)** Rosemary S. Darden, EdD Marion Francois Mattie Geathers Elsie Jones Cerella Lucas, MD Marquenta Neblett-Geathers, MD Altamese Young |
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