Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, January 16, 1992 TAG: 9201170100
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ALMENA HUGHES NORTH CORRESPONDENT
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
AWARD SURPRISES NAACP MEMBER
When Linda Webb moved to Roanoke from her home in Franklin County in 1985, she says, she saw some things that needed to be done in the community and thought the NAACP would be a good way to do them.About four years ago, she joined the Roanoke branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and soon was pitching in wherever she was needed.
Last year, in addition to being treasurer, Webb headed both the organization's Martin Luther King Day celebration and Life Membership banquet and worked on coordinating its Jubilee Day celebration.
This year, she again is working to put together the Martin Luther King Day festivities on Jan. 20.
On the first day of 1992, Webb's contributions were formally recognized. At its annual Freedom Day celebration, Webb received the NAACP's Support Award.
"I was really surprised," Webb says. "I've done a lot, but I felt like there were others who deserved it more."
She says she finds it challenging to coordinate events because it involves working with so many different personalities.
"It requires a lot of patience and tact," she says. "But I'm basically a patient person, and I enjoy it."
Webb also gets to practice patience and tact in her job as a buyer for Gardner-Denver Mining and Steel and in her memberships in the Purchasing Management Association, American Business Women and High Street Baptist Church.
She says she spends most of her free time traveling, shopping or visiting her parents, Tommy and Virginia Webb, in Franklin County on weekends.
Also listed in 1991 in Who's Who Of Women Executives and the recipient of an award for Outstanding Young Woman of America 1991, Webb says the NAACP's honor "made me very happy."