This building is an irreplaceable historical community asset. - Viola Baskerville

Leadership is about how well you listen to and help others. Any success I have attained is because I listened to someone who was much wiser than myself.

With this initiative, I’m still working for the public good but in a volunteer position, rather than in an elected position. The work still requires listening and responding to others and engaging them and leveraging their energies to get things done.

In those days, for young black girls, there was the choice of singing in the choir, playing an instrument, (dancing) or girl scouting. I couldn’t dance, I was already taking piano lessons and singing in the choir, so girl-scouting fit right in.