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2024 Links Scholarship Application

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Our Mission

Our mission is to serve the unmet needs of the community providing educational, civic, and cultural activities and transformational programs that enrich the lives of our community and our members

2023 - 2025 Leadership Team

Sonya Wofford

President

Chan Abney

Vice President

Whitney Walker

Recording Secretary

Carmen Richardson

Treasurer

Juliet Byrd

Financial Secretary

Chioma Deere

Corresponding Secretary

Lisa Jones

Nominating Chair

Judith Edwards

Parliamentarian

Dwinette Feemster

Program Coordinator

Tricia Thompkins

Immediate Past President

History of The West Palm Beach (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated

In the fall of 1968, Ella S. Clayton suggested to some of her friends that The West Palm Beach (FL) Chapter, The Links Incorporated program was needed in the West Palm Beach Area. And so it was the fourteen social and civic-minded women, enchanted by the ideals of the national organization, soon met at the home of Italia S. Walker. With optimism, enthusiasm and the guidance of Link Southern Area Director Maud K. Reid, they began preliminary plans for the establishment of the West Palm Beach Chapter.


On Saturday, February 8, 1969, the West Palm Beach Chapter was chartered and fourteen members were inducted, at the home of Clifton G. and Hisetta S. Dyson, 801 3rd Street, West Palm Beach. Link Lillie W. Fannin, Greater Miami Chapter President, assisted Link Reid with the chapter chartering and membership induction ceremonies. The Greater Miami Chapter was the sponsoring chapter.

Recognition Timeline

Recognition at the 35th Southern Aea Conference

Awarded several recognitions at the 35th Southern Area Conference on April 9th, 1999 in Charlotte, North Carolina
2005

Recognition award for “Best Practices” for Umbrella Programming

Chapter received recognition award for “Best Practices” for Umbrella Programming at National Assembly in Detroit during the Southern Area’s Breakfast’s “Parade of Stars” along with other chapters with Childhood Obesity programs. 2010
2017

3rd place Program Award at the 41st National Assembly

Received a 3rd place Program Award at the 41st National Assembly in Indianapolis, IN in July 2018 for the "Shades of Pink" Breast Cancer Awareness Program.
2019

2nd Place (Health and Human Services) for ‘Shades of Pink’ Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign

Dedicated to Reducing Racial Disparities - 45th Southern Area Conference in Orlando, FL (May 2019)
1999

Recognition from the School District of Palm Beach County

Received recognition from the School District of Palm Beach County for the Services to Youth Facet’s Links Young Ladies Program. The award was presented as part of the Non-Profit Business Awards Breakfast on October 19th, 2005 at the Kravis Center of the Performing Arts.
2010

Certificate of achievement at 44th Southern Area Conference

Received a certificate of achievement at 44th Southern Area Conference in Atlanta, GA in May 2017 for our integrated program, "Art About Us and By Us”.
2018

1st Place (National Trends and Services) for Our Voice, Our Vote

Empowering the Next Generation - 45th Southern Area Conference in Orlando, FL (May 2019)
2019

The West Palm Beach (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated Past Presidents

West Palm Beach (FL) Chapter, The Links Incorporated Members

Chanthina Bryant Abney
Karen Leslie Alleyne
R. Eileen Baccus
Rosalyn Dawson Baker
Verdenia Crutchfield Baker
Destinie Baker Sutton
Monica D. Barnes
Sia Baker Barnes
Courtney M. Beacham
Antoinette Bond
Juliet Byrd
Delores Oliver Calloway
De Anne Harris Collier
Sheree Davis Cunningham
Nicole Jewel Daggs
Chioma Rucshana Deere
Kalinthia R. Dillard
Judith Byers Edwards
Anita Diane Farrington
Dwinette Johnson Feemster
Leslye M. Fraser

Pamela J. Hall
Shawn R. Henderson
Brett Carra Hobbs Wilson
Flora McFarland Handy Jackson
Lisa Anjanette Jones
Gillian Ebanks Knowles
Rosalind Denise Lewis
Jennifer Faye Mazyck-Brown
Jerilyn V. McCall-Corlew
Brenda J. Moore-Pirtle
Pamela E. O’Neal
Ava Lora Parker
Sandra Marguerite Powery Moses
Penelope Rahman
Carmen C. Richardson
Kori Searcy
Jacqueline Sanders Smith
Salesia Vanette Smith-Gordon
Sheneka Se’Toya Spencer
Angela Cooper Sweeting
LaMargo V. Sweezer-Fischer

Whitney Cunningham Walker
Constance Priscilla Ward
Sharon Jones Warren
Erica Morgan West
Carolyn L. Williams
Cynthia A. Williams
Ethel Isaacs Williams
Sonya E. Wofford