Norwich NAACP head Jacqueline Owens is to step down from her role in December.
The 79-year-old has been the president of the organization for three decades and will continue to work for the cause through other methods.
Owens stated that when she took over, the organization was a small group. As Norwich's NAACP president, the organization increased membership and received local, state, and national awards and honors, including the UCFS Palmer-Davies Award, City of Norwich Humanitarian Award, NAACP W.E.B. DuBois Life Time Achievement Award, Liberty Bank Willard M. McRae Community Diversity Award, and Prince Hall Mason's Silver Eagle Award.
For the past 15 years, the Norwich NAACP has participated in the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technology, and Scientific Olympics with Norwich Free Academy. Winners from this advance to the national competition. The program is one Owens enjoys the most because she works with children. She says as she teaches them, she learns herself.
Her decision should not come as a surprise as she has mentioned retiring in the past few years. Leo Butler, Diversity Director of Norwich Free Academy, praised Owens for her work ethic. He has worked with her to help create a diversity program for the school.
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