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Shafer, Anne Whalen was born on August 22, 1923 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
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Anne Whalen Shafer
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Anne Whalen Shafer, American volunteer civic worker. Recipient Race Relations award Mid South Peace and Justice Center, Memphis, 1996, Alumni Achievement award University Memphis, 1998, Woman of Achievement award, 2001, Peter Cooper award, 2002; named one of Women Who Made a Difference, Mattie Sengstacke Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, 1994; grantee: Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Federation, Wainscott, New York, 1995-1996.
Education
Bachelor of Liberal Studies in Community Development, Memphis State University (University Memphis), 1982.
Career
President, consultant, Colonial Neighborhood Association, Memphis Center for Neighborhoods, Memphis, since 1980. Secretary, past president, founder, Colonial Acres Neighborhood Association, Neighborhood Watch, Memphis, since 1980.
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Membership
Member, officer, Church Women United, since 1960, Mid South Peace and Justice Center, 1970, W. Tennessee History Society, 1980. Delegate Tennessee Constnl. Convention, 1965; chair Memphis City Beautiful Commission, 1964-1966.
Project director Memphis Panel American Women, 1973-1975. Founder, executive secretary Yellow Fever Memorial, Martyrs Park, Memphis, 1966-1973. Member League of Women Voters (past president local chapter many committees, other offices), Chickasaw Bluffs Conservancy Memphis, Public Issues Forum Memphis.
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Married Robert W. Shafer, June 5, 1948.
Education
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1982