Dinner honoring Leon F. Marsh, Sr. (seated) for fifty years of Lodge work. He is shown with his wife, Vivian Osborne Marsh (seated), and his grandchildren from his first marriage to Viola Marsh: Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Frederick Marsh (grandson and wife, on the left), and Dwight Colbert and Leslie Marsh Colbert (granddaughter, on the right). Vivian Osborne Marsh was born in Houston, Texas, and received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Anthropology at the University of California in Berkeley. She founded the Berkeley campus’ Kappa chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She went on to found several other chapters. Two major projects she organized were the Traveling Library, which provided books to rural portions of Georgia, and Teen Lift, which provided opportunities for underprivileged teenagers to visit events such as symphonies and operas. She was involved in many civic organizations and on February 21, 1981, the mayor of Berkeley honored her contributions by declaring it to be Vivian Osborne Marsh Day.
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African American families Marsh, Vivian Osborne, 1897-1986 Marsh, Leon Frederick, Sr., 1881-1968 Marsh, Christopher Frederick, 1949-2005 Colbert, Leslie Marsh
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