A relay team poses for a photograph at Balch School, within Peck Park. Clarence Gatliff was the pool’s supervisor. [...]
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A relay team poses for a photograph at Balch School, within Peck Park. Clarence Gatliff was the pool’s supervisor. [...] Norma May Dalton was born March 24, 1905, the seventh and youngest child of Isaac and Laura Dalton. She grew up in Lowell and Marietta, Ohio. Norma joined her sister Grace in Detroit, Michigan in 1926, after the death of her mother. She attended classes at Wayne State University and graduated from Marinella School of [...] [...] Francis M. More in Omega Psi Phi and the Nu Omega chapter [...] Honors received by Francis M. Dent. [...] Norma’s husband, Clarence Gatliff, was a swimming coach at the Brewster Center, a recreation center for black youth in Detroit, Michigan. According to a biography written to commemorate Norma’s 80th birthday celebration, Norma was involved in helping to organize and fundraise for the Rifle Club and other art, swimming and field and stream events. Clarence [...] [...] Norma received a gift certificate for her first lesson at the Arthur Murray Dance School in 1960, noting on the accompanying letter “this is how it started.” The school had three Detroit locations at that time: 19480 Livernois Ave., 1209 Washington Blvd., and 16641 E. Warren Ave. It is unclear at which location Norma took [...] [...] In a catalog for an African Art Fund Drive held on April 12, 1965, the beginnings, purposes, and achievements of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History are printed. The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History was organized by Carter G. Woodson in Chicago, September 9, 1915, with George [...] [...] This photograph is of some of the organizers of the Hurray for Black Women event held September 18, 1976. Left to right are: Geneva G. McNeal, Publicity Chairperson; Dr. Elizabeth Hood, General Chairperson; Norma M. Gatliff, Co-chairperson and Ticket Chairperson. The event was held at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan and was presented by the [...] [...] The Friends of African Art was formed to encourage and fund the creation of an African Art Gallery at the Detroit Institute of Arts. According to a program for the First Friends of African Art Awards Luncheon saved by Norma, the FAA was “organized in 1962 as a special committee of the Detroit Branch of [...] [...] |
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