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| Friends of deFremery Board Treasurer, Phyllis Lun, pictured left, is so committed to the health and well being of the children in West Oakland and the park that even after her retirement as deFremery Center Director -- she still drives in all the way from Newark each week to volunteer. Mrs. Lun has always been engaged in the community, having received the Girl Scouts highest honor, awarded to only 4 others nationwide. |
| Friends of deFremery Board Vice President, Glenda Deloney, has lived in West Oakland for years. Her family is deeply rooted in the community and her love for the community keeps her devoted to sustaining the park. |
| Friends of deFremery Board Secretary, Myra Allen, is a West Oakland native who attended MacClymonds High School. Her children grew up benefiting from the services at deFremery park and she is thrilled by the opportunity to give back to her neighborhood park. |
| Friends of deFremery Board Member, Hasheem Bason, is a passionate environmental activist. A single father of four children, Mr. Bason knows first hand the need for greater depth and diversity in children's programs. |
| Friends of deFremery Board Member, Leslie Biggers, was drawn to the board because a family member, Dorothy Pitts published a book about deFremery park. Her illumination of the rich history of the people and the place was magnetic for Ms. Biggers. |
| YOUR NAME HERE FRIENDS OF DEFREMERY WANTS TO ADD YOUR TALENT AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS! JOIN US TODAY! |
| Coming in 2011 Oakland: Let's Shake Up Our Image and Shape Up Our City By Going for Guinness! Picture shaking your groove thing alongside 20,000 of your neighbors. Can't see it? Well just wait until we pull together our most creative talent from the oldest to the youngest, in every neighborhood in the city, to create Oakland's original line dance. Once we have the moves together, we'll spend a year teaching the dance to everyone in the city. Then we'll need our writers to think up the best name. Will it be, "The Oaktown Shuffle" or maybe "The O-Town Slide"? Whatever we call it, YOU need to be involved, when we come together and beat the world record for the most people doing an original line dance together!!!!!! |
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| Friends of deFremery Board President, Henry Linzie, pictured left, is well known throughout the West Oakland community. In addition to his 30 years as an organizer of the Black Cowboys parade, and long career distributing literature with the Oakland Bookmobile, Mr. Linzie has been providing essential services to childern at deFremery park and recreation center for more than five years. |
