Full-court press for diversity

Brief
July 18, 2002

Photo by Bergen Hauge

Lenny Wilkens (above left), former Seattle SuperSonics coach and current Toronto Raptors coach, gives insider tips on basketball to more than 40 children who attended the July 13 Lenny Wilkens Basketball Clinic and Community Collaborative Health Care Forum at the African American Academy on Beacon Avenue South. Cheering Wilkens on were Joyce Walker, head coach of the Garfield High School girls basketball team and the second woman to play with the Harlem Globetrotters, and Liz Thomas, president of the Greater Seattle chapter of Links, the volunteer organization that sponsored the clinic. More than 60 parents and other members of the public attended the event, which featured booths from 40 health vendors.

Photo by June Beleford

Notables included (right photo, from left) Garry Lowry, of the Comprehensive Cancer Control Partnership in the state Department of Health; Winona Hauge, longtime center and Alliance social worker who recently became community outreach manager; and Dr. George Counts, formerly of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and an infectious-diseases investigator at the Hutchinson Center. For more info on the event, contact Hauge at 206-667-1246 or whauge@fhcrc.org or visit http://www.linksinc-seattle.org.

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