142:’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1992, she was honored with a benefit dinner in recognition of her five decades of service to journalism. Funds raised at the event went to the McGarrity Memorial African-American Scholarship Fund, which helps African-American students. The evening included "proclamations from many of California's most prominent politicians praising her for years of service to the community."
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The event honored the well known couple's recent marriage, on
December 30, 1977 in Chester. Active in communications and civic circles in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, the bride is Elizabeth 'Libby' Clark, a nationally known journalist and public relations consultant. Mr. Fegsan, member of a large
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sustained while inspecting a sub-division he was building; and on
December 30, 1977 to John E. Fegan,who owned a chain of tuxedo rental stores, whose marriage was annulled after one year. During the decade from 1957 to 1967, she maintained a professional and personal relationship with the author,
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Clark was married four times: in 1942 to Samuel
William, a steel worker and pool hall owner in Chester, Pennsylvania, until they divorced in 1947; in 1955 to Walter Stanley, an aircraft worker and gas station owner in Los Angeles, whose marriage was annulled in 1956; in 1970 to Jim Allen, a major
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for 50 years. Her column, "Food For
Thought," which injected political awareness into food articles for a grass roots audience, was syndicated in 150 newspapers by Amalgamated Publishers, Inc. From 1989 to 1994, she published "The Plum Book," an annual ‘Who’s Who’ in the Los Angeles/Southern
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One of her public relations associates was the author, William Karl Thomas, who, in 2013, published a novel titled “Cleo,” based on his ten-year professional association with Miss Clark during the 1950s and 1960s. In it he describes her personal friendships with famous personalities
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Speaking of Cupid, etc., ye old
Chronicler has the pleasure of revealing the marriage news this week of Libby Clark and Jim Allen The popular pair decided to join the marital ranks a few Sundays ago, and hied off to Tulare, where Jim's brother Rev. Andrew Lee Allen read the
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Funeral services for Libby Clark, the Grande Dame of the Black press, were held Jan. 30 in the Chapel of Roses at the
Simpson Funeral Home in Inglewood. Clark, believed to have been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, died in her sleep on Jan. 23. She was 94 years
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Wednesday at LAC/USC Medical Center following an accident that necessitated two brain operations. Allen was the husband of Libby Clark, nationally known public relations consultant. The couple had been married only eight
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Clark also applied her journalistic skills to public relations when she became the first
African-American licensed to own a public relations firm, Libby Clark Associates, in California; she went on to operate the firm for 50 years. In 1969,
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California black community, and distributed it freely to politicians and community leaders as a community resource. She also edited and co-wrote the
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