2013. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Phi Delta Kappa Education Fraternity, the Potomac Chapter of Girl Friends, Inc. and a member of Ft. Washington Baptist Church. It is believed the reason for this feel good surge is tied to peoples natural desire for meaning and significance. Dr. Beamon was the first Black candidate to run on the charter ticket as a candidate for the Cincinnati City Council. in Political Science from Yale University with honors in the first graduating class including females, followed by a J.D. For three decades she attended Assemblies and Area Conferences regularly and gave valuable advice and encouragement when officers and leaders faced difficult problems. Six years after her induction she was elected to the Executive Council as Member-at-Large. In addition, Beatty authored theJumpstart Housing Opportunities Utilizing Small Enterprises (HOUSE) Act, orJumpstart HOUSE Act, which would reauthorize the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) for eight years and require state business development agencies to set aside the lesser of $2.5 million or 10 percent of unobligated SSBCI funds for small businesses to purchase, rehabilitate, or operate affordable housing units. In 1957, The Links elected Pauline Weeden Maloney of Lynchburg, Virginia as the third national president. She is also a member of her chapters Presidents Advisory Board, an advisory group consisting of past chapter presidents created to provide ongoing guidance to the chapter. Dr. Newell-Harris has served as a medical consultant in various healthcare settings inclusive of ambulatory teaching clinics, private practice and physician foundation clinical practice. Coalition of 100 Black Women, Community Service Award Gladys Gary Vaughn 14. Rep. Demings enjoys spending her very limited free time riding her Harley-Davidson Road King Classic motorcycle. Her education also includes completing a National Institutes of Minority Health pre-doctoral fellowship at George Washington University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences examining chronic disease and family systems, a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute post-doctoral fellowship at the Howard University Cancer Center, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics studying cardiovascular and cancer epidemiology, and completing the Graduate Summer Program in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Following her distinguished career with USSS, Campbell was recruited to be the Assistant Sergeant at Arms for the Office of the Sergeant at Arms where she provided assistance, guidance, and recommendations on sensitive and/or confidential issues relating to the Sergeant at Arms. At this meeting, she was elected the first national president and continued in that office until 1953. Top Influential Women in Corporate America,Savoy Magazine As of 2022, the organization has had fourteen national presidents. The experience highlighted the need for stronger local leadership and led Congresswoman Wilson to successfully campaign for a seat on the Miami-Dade County School Board in 1992. She has traveled abroad to Africa where she has assessed methods of supporting the delivery of safe and effective health care to women. Her educational development began as a student at Tennessee State University where she earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics with honors. Educationally, President Harris holds a Masters of Public Administration degree, Bachelor of Business Administration degree, a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Government Financial Manager. . She is also the proud grandmother of two grandkids (twins), granddaughter Ellison Bennett Carter and grandson Roy Lee Carter, III. From the year of her induction into The Links, Incorporated, she has served on the Executive Council of the organization, ranging from the National Nominating Committee to the national president. The national president, Regina Frazier, conducted the service which was attended by organizing members, Atkinson, Stratton, Wright, members of the Executive Council, and other Links members from many sections of the country. Campbell has received numerous awards for her superior and outstanding performance including the George Washington University Public Leadership Award (2015) and the Department of Veterans Affairs Assistant Secretarys Personal Coin and Certificate Award (2015). Pauline Ellison 7. In addition, the lawmaker, whose mantra is Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, hosted one of the states largest job fairs, which connected thousands of Floridians to more than 100 local and national employers. Her Aunt, Jessie Mae Schultz Finley, taught her to play the piano when she was very young and her uncle, James Samuel Schultz, a merchant mariner during World War II, sponsored her matriculation at Howard University after she finished high school. degree from Temple University. Rep. Demings is an active member of St. Mark A.M.E., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Orlando (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, NAACP Silver Life Member, Florida Bar Citizens Advisory Committee, Florida Police Chiefs, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives, National Congress of Black Women, and numerous other affiliations. Maloney received more than a hundred honors and awards from national, regional, state and local organizations. From 1949 to 1950, she served as Basileus of the Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and was for many years a trustee of her church, the A.M. E. Union Church. President Fraziers meteor-like career in the Links began with her induction into the Greater Miami (FL) Chapter in 1970. In 1905, before the NAACP was founded, Du Bois co-founded the Niagara Movement, a radical Black civil rights . Her undergraduate studies were at Kentucky State College, Frankfort, Kentucky, after which she attended an intensive study program, sponsored by the Council for Legal Educational Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and matriculated for her Jurist Doctorate degree at Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C. While Dean of the College of Business at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi from 1994 to 2012, Dr. Glover led the College of Business through the accreditation process and spearheaded the implementation of the nations first Ph.D. program in Business at a HBCU. She remained an activist in the community, working as a senior aide to Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, volunteering for Senator John Kerrys reelection campaign, and working for Senator Kerry for 13 years in a variety of roles, including constituency director and political director. Since she has been a Board member, the Corporation has committed one million dollars to support the education of minority students. In addition, Smith served as 2015-17 Chair of the National Association of State Directors of Adult Education and has testified before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee representing the issues faced by adults with literacy challenges. Sarah Strickland Scott 2. Additional career highlights of Dr. Lee are listed below; Gladys Gary Vaughn was the 13th national president of The Links, Incorporated. She served several terms as president of the Southern Regional Association of School Boards. Margaret Roselle Hawkins 3. Abina, a native of Historic Selma, AL, grew up at the feet of several civil and voting rights foot soldiers and giants, where she developed a passion for fighting against social injustice. She spoke to the assembled delegations. In one of the profiles prepared by the Greater Miami (FL) Chapter for a nomination, her chapter listed President Fraziers special talents as, among others, leadership and organizational skills and public skills. In the four years of her term, President Fraziers dynamic, visionary and creative actions more than validated her chapters insightful citations. Pauline Ellison 7. She didnt go straight to college after graduation which was a grave disappointment to her mother, but did eventually get there after getting married, having four children and getting divorced. Many of her activities were youth or family-oriented. The Links is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. Barbara Simpkins was a grandmother and proud mother of two sons Monti Lemans Simpkins and Lubara Dixon Simpkins. Some materials for the display were made available through the kindness of Alice Spraggins, former president of the Washington (DC) Chapter, and Susan Davis of President Maloneys Lynchburg (VA) Chapter. She has also received honorary degrees from Wilberforce University in Ohio and Livingston College in North Carolina. Her audiences have included faith-based and professional organizations as well as local, regional and national medical organizations. The Durham (NC) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated Historical Overview The Durham (NC) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated was chartered on October 11, 1958 as the seventy-seventh chapter of the national body. Successfully pushed for the creation of 75 new liquor licenses, 80% dedicated to disenfranchised neighborhoods, resulting in the creation of dozens of new restaurants and hundreds of jobs in local Boston communities. In addition to her college work at Howard University where she was elected to Beta Kappa Chi National Honorary Scientific Society, Ellison attended the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Together, they published and edited a community newspaper, the Pacific Leader. She is a member of the, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., The Links, Inc., and a Life Member of NAACP. (CREES), of the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. The Links Incorporated - Founding Members On the evening of November 9, 1946, Margaret Hawkins and Sarah Scott, two young Philadelphia matrons, invited seven of their friends to join them in organizing a new type of inner-city club. Developed a comprehensive, culturally competent, medically accurate, and age appropriate sexual education and health curriculum, which was successfully adopted as a permanent part of the Boston Public Schools wellness policy. She became journalist of her chapter the same year and was elected chapter secretary in 1974. Community Service Award, SCLC Dr. . Congresswoman Beatty is active in The Links, Incorporated, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Columbus Urban League, The American Heart Associationwhere she previously served on the boardand numerous other organizations. President Pauline Maloney was a great American woman. Her brother, the late Thirlee Smith, Jr., was the first full-time African American reporter at theMiami Heraldand a long-time educator for Miami-Dade County Public Schools, who was responsible for implementing African-American history into the districts curriculum. Academy of Game Changers, Spelman College She is a member of the Advisory Boards of WHMM-TV in Washington, D.C. and the African-American Institute in New York City. The 80-year . The Links programs, but by the end of her presidency in 1962, the organization had been set on its present course of action. In further tribute to President Maloney, a memorial display was placed in The Links headquarters during the November 1987 meetings of the national committees and The Links Foundation. Her challenge to The Links is that a major program for The Links, Incorporated, by the year 2000 should be the establishment and ongoing functioning of a Black Family Institute. This Institute should be a separate and permanent research center which would formulate goals and develop programs which attack mega-problems, and would furnish government, civic organizations, and Links programs the most recent expert knowledge on the Black family. (Ellison: Twenty-fifth Assembly Minutes, p. After graduating in 1931, she was appointed to teach art in the Camden, New Jersey schools. During this same period, Ellison was also pursuing her community interest in young people by founding the Northern Virginia Chapter of Jack and Jill and serving on the board of directors of Burgundy Farm Country Day School and the United Way. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Community Service Award She was the first African American to serve as the Chair of the Board of United Way of America. A loving mom, friend, leader, and volunteer, Sutherland passed on June 24, 2015. On the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, she worked with members of both parties to keep the American people safe from foreign threats and crafted bipartisan legislation to assist in securing American elections. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty is a native Ohioan with a strong history of connecting people, policy and politics to make a difference. Stratton was a member of the Hostesses, the Sunday Niters, Friends of Fellowship, the Mothers Study Club, Book and Theater, Bidders, and Jack and Jill. Link Scott did graduate study in the field of guidance and received her masters degree from Columbia University. After the untimely death of Gilchrist in 1990, the Center was renamed The Scott-Gilchrist Quality of Life Center and Purnell became the Director. The following year she was appointed by the U.S. Department of State as Leader-Specialist in the International Education Exchange to Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and France. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State University. After her term as national president, Scott served for a time as national director of the Service for Youth program facet. In June of that year, the Philadelphia Board of Education awarded her a four-year scholarship to the Womens School of Design, later known as the Moore Institute of Art. Her academic areas, Administration and Supervision of Educational Institutions, helped establish the foundation of her life as an educator civic leader churchwoman, wife and mother. The Links was founded in Philadelphia when two young black women, Margaret Hawkins and Sarah Scott, invited seven friends to join them in forming a new type of intercity club. Campbell was appointed Special Agent in Charge of the Liaison Division within the Office of Government and Public Affairs in 2014 where she secured all diplomatic and official passports. She is a member of 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington D.C. and is an Elder in the Church. Kelli is from Cleveland Ohio (an unwavering Browns fan!) A native of Chicago, Illinois, Esi graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire with a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering Sciences. Marion Minton was also born in Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania. She has been awarded nine honorary degrees and innumerable honors. She entered the Cincinnati school system in 1931 as a teacher at Douglass School and soon moved to Jackson School as assistant principal, becoming its principal a short time later. President Frazier served as an honorary chair of the 1989 LDEF Equal Justice Dinner in New York City. Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Cuyahoga Community College She grew up in New Orleans and graduated from Xavier Preparatory High School there. Having been surrounded by a large musical family and a host of talented friends early in life, Sutherland combines her music with her love for young people, and has used her talents to direct youth choirs in local churches. 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