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Negative shows Jenifer Williams speaking while standing next to a staircase in a home-like setting. Three other women are sitting in chairs listening. The woman in the foreground is Joleen Callahan. On flap of paper cover for negatives: "November 1986." Jenifer Williams was a high-tech manager whose mother Iola served as San Jose's first black vice mayor. Jenifer would rise to YWCA president. From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground: The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p. 86. "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 Certer 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 1986-11 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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