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Negative shows a group of men and women participating in the 1986 y-Walk. They are walking on Almaden Boulevard and are crossing West San Fernando Street in a crosswalk. Some of the people are wearing tee shirts that read: "Walk for women. YWCA 1986" and some are carrying balloons. Joleen Callahan is in this group. She is the women on the right in the leading pair of women. There are barricades up on West San Fernando Street possible indicating that the street is closed off. A sign is visible rising from the roof of the tall white building in the background that reads: Hotel DeAnza On envelope: "1986 Y-Walk." "Executive Director Faith Rein (the top job had been renamed again) and President Sarah Janigian launched two annual events that heaped public attention on the association: the Y-Walk downtown in 1984, in which volunteers enlisted sponsors to raise money for YWCA programs; and TWIN, Tribute to Women and Industry, in 1985." From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground: The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p.87. "Volunteer Joleen Callahan's hiking group, formed at Cambrian in the mid- 1970s, was still tramping the trails in 2005, the last vestige of adult programming at YWCA-West Valley, as the Cambrian Center would be renamed. Callahan herself still served on the YW board of directors." From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground: The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p.68 1986 Scanned with Epson Perfection V700 photo; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3
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