Arline Webb — Martin Luther King Jack Wright Service Award（英文）

2017年2月至3月

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The annual celebration was cancelled due to the ice storm on the MLK weekend, but an award ceremony for Arline will be scheduled soon. Arline Webb is a lifelong neighbor who has lived on the 6100 block of Pershing for more than 25 years, and who grew up on the 5900 block of Kingsbury, near Andy Cross’ studio, across from what was a grocery store during her childhood.

She attended St. Roch’s School. Mother of two daughters, Erica and Alicia, Arline has regularly volunteered for many of the neighborhood’s biggest activities, including Wintermarkt, the Police/Firefighter’s Luncheon and the Annual Food Drive. Arline wanted to share her honor with others, especially those who started the “People’s Clinic”.

She said: “I will never be able to remember or name all the people who worked so hard to make the People’s Clinic the success that it was and is.

But a core group established and opened the Clinic in June, 1972.

They included Peter Muckerman, the founder, Susan Sante, his sister, Sue Hudspeth, Jerry Kropp, Chris Wright, “barefoot” David, Christine Smith, Dr. Fred Bauchard, Art Perry and myself. For almost nine years the Clinic was housed in a storefront at 6010 Kingsbury until, due to the number and variety of health services we were able to offer our neighbors, the site became too small. Thus the building at 5700 Delmar was purchased and renovated and there the Clinic flourishes to this day. For a number of years the Clinic was a free clinic, staffed entirely by volunteers.

These people, our friends and neighbors, did this because we believed our motto that “adequate health care for all is a human right.” It is quite sad that after 40+ years we still have not achieved that right in our country as a whole.

However, I would like to accept this award on behalf of all those who did believe and who did make that a reality here in our Skinker-DeBaliviere community.” SDCC Executive Director Brandon Sterling said, “Arline’s selfless efforts have not only brought us closer as a neighborhood, but have contributed to the health and well-being of a diverse group of St. Louisians.”