Chapter Beginnings
Charter Members
Seated left to right: Margaret brown, Beryl O. Brooks, Rose Terry Brown, Barbara Campbell (evans), Gloria Y. Hughes and Marion Wilson
Standing Left to Right: Valeria Sellers, Constance Williams, Alyce Bledsoe, Doris DAvis, June Everett, and Kathleen Page
On November 6, 1966, The Links, Incorporated chartered the Harbor Area (CA) Chapter.
Ms. Rose Terry Brown and Ms. Beryl O’Kelly Brooks were the organizers of the women in the Long Beach - Carson - Compton Area who began the chapter. The chartering officer on November 6, 1966 was Ms. Josephine Smith. The following twelve names imprinted on the charter are:
Alyce Bledsoe**
Beryl O’Kelly Brooks**
Margaret Brown
Rose Terry Brown
Doris Davis
Barbara Campbell (Evans)
June Everett
Gloria Y. Hughes
Kathleen Page
Valeria Sellers
Constance Williams
Marion Wilson
Past Presidents of the Harbor Area Chapter
1966-1967 Rose Terry Brown
1967-1968 Beryl O’Kelly Brooks
1968-1971 Kathleen Payne
1971-1973 Barbara Nichols Evans
1973-1975 Gwendolyn Tucker
1975-1977 June Everett
1977-1979 Alyce Bledsoe
1979-1981 Barbara Nichols Evans
1981-1983 Gloria Young Hughes
1983-1989 Ruth B. Hayes
1989-1990 Janet Mason
1994-1996 Shirley Miller
1996-2000 Minnie L. Douglas
2000-2004 Beverly E. Mosley
2004-2008 Katherine B. O’Kelly
2008-2010 Doris Robinson
2010-2012 Doris Robinson
2012-2014 Beverly Mosley
2014 - 2015 Adrienne Konigar-Macklin
2015 - 2018 Alicia Jacobs
2018 - 2022 Valerie Amos Green
2022-2024 Natalie Nagthall
2024-2026 Rhotunda Conda
FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE LINKS, INCORPORATED
Charter Members of the Phiadelphia Club
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 inter-city club. This organizing meeting of The Links was not a spontaneous action. In 1945, Link Hawkins had conceived the idea of a group of clubs composed of friends along the eastern seaboard and had spent many hours with Link Scott in thinking, planning and discussing the possibilities of such an endeavor.
The two women envisioned an organization that would respond to the needs and aspirations of Black women in ways that existing clubs did not. It was their intent the club would have a threefold aim--civic, educational, and cultural. Based on these aims, the club would implement programs, which its founders hoped would foster cultural appreciation through the arts; develop richer inter-group relations; and help women who participated to understand and accept their social and civic responsibilities.