The Links, Incorporated is an organization of accomplished, dedicated
women who are active in your community. The Links members are news makers, role
models, mentors, activists and volunteers who work toward the realization of
making the name "Links" not only a chain of friendship, but also a chain of purposeful
service.
The Nashville Chapter
During the summer of 1952, several couples from Fisk University joined Bess
Faulkner and her husband, who was the chaplain at Fisk, for a vacation at the
Faulkners’ summer home in Wildwood, New Jersey. One of the couples from
Nashville was Mr. and Mrs. Arna Bontemps. During that summer vacation, Bess
met Sarah Scott.
Sarah told Bess all about the Philadelphia organization, named The Links,
that she had co-founded with Margaret Hawkins in 1946. She encouraged
Mrs. Faulkner and her friends to start a chapter in Nashville.
On November 17, 1952, Jessie Vann, a national Officer of the Links, Inc.,
organized the Nashville Chapter at Goodwill Manor, home of Ivanetta Davis,
on the campus of Tennessee State University. There were 17 charter members.
The 17 charter members were Alberta Bontemps, Georgia Boyd, Pearl Creswell,
Ivanetta Davis, Bess Faulkner, Lurelia Freeman, Mildred Freeman, Marie Johnson,
Minerva Hawkins, Hazel Pannell, Ruth Redd, Marian Roberts, Margaret Simms,
Jessie West, Edith Work, Charlie Mae Singleton and Elizabeth Walker. And
so the Chapter began, dedicated then and now to community service. We
now have 37 Links members.
It is fondly remembered that this organization would not only be social,
but also cultural. The motto, “friendship and service”, defined
it as an organization that could only be a positive one for the Nashville community.
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