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Black History
Month SOUL FOOD LUNCHEON
Special to The Truth
The Toledo Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, The University of
Toledo and The Study Hour Club will celebrate Black
History Month by hosting its second annual Soul Food
Luncheon on Saturday, February 7 from noon to 2:00 p.m.
at the Student Union Auditorium on the campus of The
University of Toledo (UT).
Donations of new and gently-used children’s books featuring
multicultural characters will be collected at the luncheon
for the Real Men READ-y program, founded by the African
American Leadership Council of United Way of Greater Toledo
in partnership with Read for Literacy. This powerful
initiative coordinates adult male volunteers who read to
African American early literacy-aged boys in Toledo Public
Schools. Please bring a book/s to the luncheon.
The program’s guest speaker will feature UT’s Willie L. McKether,
PhD, anthropologist, historian, oral history expert,
associate dean in the College of Languages, Literature and
Social Sciences, associate professor in the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology. The keynote address will focus
on his work in Toledo, Ohio as founding member of the Edrene
Cole African American Oral History Collection housed at the
Kent Branch Library of the Toledo-Lucas County Public
Library, whose namesake is in honor of late educator and
Toledo Links member Cole.
Willie L. McKether,
Keynote speaker
In addition to McKether’s address and a soul food lunch, musical
selections are scheduled to be performed by the
University of Toledo Gospel Choir.
Tickets to attend the Soul
Food Luncheon are available for purchase at $20 per person.
For more information or for ticket information,
please contact Erin Thomas at 419-530-5214 or via email
erin.thomas@utoledo.edu
To learn more about the Toledo (OH) Chapter of The Links,
Incorporated visit us online at
www.toledolinks.net
To learn more about The Study Hour Club, please email
jackcrock@yahoo.com
(Tickets are also sold via individual Links and Study Hour
members)
The Toledo Chapter of The
Links, Incorporated
The Links, Incorporated
celebrates 69 years as a women's volunteer service
organization committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring
the cultural and economic survival of African-Americans and
other persons of African-American ancestry. A premier
international service organization with more than 12,000
members in 274 chapters located in 42 states, the District
of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, its legacy
of friends providing service that changes lives, established
by the original circle of nine friends in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania in 1946, is alive and well. The Toledo Chapter
was founded in 1972.
The Study Hour Club
On October 3,1933, sixteen women met
at the home of Mrs. Leo V. English (Elizabeth), under the
leadership of Mrs. Bessie Marsh with the avowed purpose of
reading, studying, reviewing and/or discussing books,
current events and topics of interest which might enhance
the cultural and mental development of the group. This
group named itself "The Study Hour Club" and adopted
"Strive to Excel" as its motto. Not content simply to
broaden their own horizon through the pursuit of
excellence, from the beginning members of The Study Hour
Club sought to enrich the life of the community by
sponsoring public meetings, featuring such notables as
Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen's, E. Simms
Campbell Phillipa Duke Schuyler and Camilla Williams. The
club also presented talented local individuals and groups.
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