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Florida Memorial University Endowment Fund

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The Carmen Hamm-Davis Endowed Scholarship

On November 23, 1999 the Dade County (FL) Chapter of The Links, Inc. established a scholarship endowment at Florida Memorial University (FMU) to benefit African-American students seeking a college degree. A gift of $5,000 was initially presented at the school's Donations Day Program. The funds are to be a perpetual scholarship with interest from the corpus used for the scholarship program. The gift will allow the school's endowed scholarship fund to receive matching funds at a rate of 100%.

This partnership was later expanded to include the Carmen Hamm-Davis Endowed Scholarship at FMU, in memory of Carmen Davis, the 6th President of the Dade County (FL) Chapter of The Links, Inc. To date, the chapter has contributed more then $40,000 to the FMU Endowment Fund.

Florida Memorial’s legacy, history and traditions reach back to 1879. The school is a culturally diverse institution, transforming lives and helping to create a future for people from many races, ethnicities, countries, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds. Members of the Board of Trustees, administration, faculty, staff, students, and alumni take every opportunity possible to express pride in the institution.

Florida Memorial University is one of the oldest academic centers in Florida and the only Historically Black College in South Florida. It is also the birthplace of Lift Every Voice and Sing, the Negro National Anthem, written in the early 1900's and composed by James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson of Florida Memorial College. The Institution is a private four year co-educational liberal arts college located in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Scholarships

The Clara B. Knight College Scholarship Program was established in 1986 to perpetuate the memory of Clara B. Knight, a charter member of the Dade County (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. Each year the chapter awards funds which enable students to attend the college or university of their choice.

Clara Louise Brown Knight received her early education in the public schools of Miami-Dade County and upon graduation from high school, attended Bethune-Cookman College and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education. She also received a Master of Science Degree with a major in Guidance and Counseling from Barry University.

Clara had a love for teaching and children. Her jolly spirit, coupled with firmness and care, was always in the foreground as she went about her teaching duties at Dunbar Elementary School. Later, when she became a counselor, this gift was even more prominent as she guided her counselees at Charles R. Drew, Poinciana and Holmes Elementary schools.