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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. – As part of a renewed Lincoln effort to encourage more support from community and civic organizations, the Bucks County chapter of The Links, Inc. contributed $3,000 toward student scholarships and are exploring ways to partner with the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU).
Members of the Links chapter made the presentation Thursday during a campus luncheon with University Interim President Richard Green, Ph.D., Board of Trustees Chairwoman Kim Lloyd ’94, also a Delaware Valley chapter member and Kevan Turman ’01, MSR ’08, interim vice president of Institutional Advancement.
“Just as Langston Hughes ’29, a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and Thurgood Marshall ’30, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., constantly fostered a friendly, competitive spirit between each other as friends and school mates, we are hoping other organizations see this gesture by The Links, Inc. and are inspired to be partners with Lincoln University as well,” said Lloyd, who also donated $3,000 to her endowed scholarship.
Among Bucks County Links members present included: Bucks County Links, Inc. President Tayna Longino, Pamela Joynes, Deborah Camp-Frye, Rose Miller, Linda Bodley, Gloria Brown and Millicent Brown.
Longino said that ‘services to youth’ is one of the group’s “facets” or goals which encompass efforts to raise scholarship dollars and also promote awareness and sustainability of HBCUs. The group has been offering scholarships every year since 1967.
She explained that the proceeds from its annual Intergenerational Legends Tea event in December funded the Links contribution to Lincoln. The event featured a keynote address by Sheila Y. Oliver, Speaker Emeritus for the New Jersey General Assembly and a 1974 Lincoln graduate, who spoke about ways to uplift and empower girls and young women.
“Our Bucks County chapter has several members who are products of HBCUs and one is alumnus of Lincoln University,” she said. “Our goal is to partner with Lincoln in an ongoing fashion.”
Longino said that Lincoln might possibly provide college mentors for young people involved with its youth council, which is funded by Goldman Sachs, one of their corporate sponsors. The youth council visits firms on Wall Street in New York and federal offices and agencies in Washington, D.C.
President Green called the Links’ support “a welcomed and important gesture.”
“We need your help,” he said. “Our students need your help!”
By Eric Christopher Webb ’91, Director, Office of Communications & Public Relations