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ENDORSED BY
NYS Assemblyman
NICK PERRY
NYS Senator
KEVIN S. PARKER
Former Council Member
DR. UNA CLARKE
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NAUW Brooklyn Branch
celebrates 65 years
rights and health care.
She said she presented the honorees
presented with their awards, along with
Joann Griffin, NAUW Brooklyn Branch
president, and Elva Brooks, NAUW
Northeast sectional director. Dr. Lisa
Clark, member, presented the scholarship
awards
Travelling from her home state of
Delaware, Brooks was delighted with
the Brooklyn Branch’s “extraordinary
vibrancy and great spirit,” according
to Flateau.
She said the fundraiser provided
four new college scholarships and two
continuing scholarships for students
already matriculating. The six recipients
were: Zeinabou Abdou, Nia Beasley,
Amanda Bent, Kiera May, Kiara
Perry and Gianni Tucker.
Flateau said many elected officials
sent letters of support, proclamations
and citations.
They comprised: Congresswoman
Clarke; New York State (NYS) Attorney
General Letitia James; NYC First Lady
Chirlane McCray; NYS Senator Roxanne
Persaud; Brooklyn Borough President
Eric Adams; Councilman Robert
Cornegy, Jr.; and NYS Assemblyman
Tremaine S. Wright;
Flateau said NYS Senators Kevin
Parker and Roxanne Persaud passed
resolutions in the Senate.
Newly-elected NYC Public Advocate
Jumaane Williams presented citations
in person, Flateau said.
She said NAUW Brooklyn Branch
paid a special tribute to the landmark
U.S. Supreme Court Brown vs. Board
of Education decision that “separate
but equal” services are unconstitutional.
The ruling, which took place in 1954,
coincided with the founding year for
NAUW Brooklyn Branch, Flateau said.
She said special recognition was
extended to NAUW members who
organized the event: Flateau; Alice
Blair, Juanita Saldivar and Samantha
Joseph-Corrian.
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The National Association of University
Women (NAUW)-Brooklyn Branch
on Saturday celebrated its 65th anniversary
with a “very lively and inspiring”
Scholarship and Awards Brunch
at Top Civic Center, 1098 Utica Ave.,
Brooklyn.
According to Adele Flateau, corresponding
secretary and event co-chair,
one of the key highlights was the presentation
to Dr. Una S. T. Clarke, the
Jamaican-born former New York City
Council Member and member of the
City University of New York (CUNY)
Board of Trustees, by NAUW officials, as
well as by Clarke’s daughter, Congresswoman
Yvette D. Clarke.
The younger Clarke, representative
for the 9th Congressional District in
Brooklyn, praised NAUW for its hard
work and sounded the “clarion call for
civic engagement, the historic imperative
for voting, and the urgency of Census
2020 participation,” Flateau said.
“Dr. Clarke, the first Caribbean-born
female member of the NYC (New York
City) Council, was escorted to receive
the Harriet Tubman Distinguished
Service Award by Aiden Pursoo, the
Honorary Consul General Designee for
Grenada,” Flateau said.
“I’m working harder for you now
than I did before retirement,” Flateau
quoted Dr. Clarke as saying. “I am
proud to receive this award in Harriet
Tubman’s name, because she was a
dreamer and a woman of action.”
Using the theme, “Honoring Our
Pioneers and Celebrating Today’s Activists,”
Flateau said the NAUW honored
four “Legacy” Honorees, who have
devoted more than 50 years of service
to the organization.
They were: Doris Alexander, the only
surviving founding member from 1954;
and Doris Douglas, Wimberly Edwards
and Fannie Porter (posthumous).
Flateau said the four “activist” honorees
represented leaders and innovators
in the fields of politics, education, civil
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