hello and welcome to the show i'm doris mann graeme your host and this is education in our community you know sometimes in our lives we're fortunate to meet a person who just literally blows us out of the water i am fortunate to have as my guest this today this woman who just literally has a life of giving who has just always been a giver and we're going to hear about her life and her so happy to be with us today so half it said you are here now i know our viewers will want to hear something about the museum but before we get started with talking about the museum i'd like you to tell us a little bit about you when you know where you came from your early years if you don't mind we can't do this in the session and i am originally from texas ok born in tower texas growth capital of the world where they grow roses like cotton field oh ok i have i grew up in power to the public schools attended college in texas college in east texas state university that's now the university of texas comer live the king time frame and experiencing things that i can talk about now that i really didn't understand when i was going on the we accepted it i was have always wanted to be studious when to be the best in the class the teachers take it if you call it ok so therefore i've learned to do many things in the school working with the teachers working with the principals working with the college professors to learn what they knew about ways decided one day i would be the one given the stories from people whose lives have been they've been reared in such a way that it just impacts what they do and how they do it and we need so much more of that today now i have not known you very long as a scar but i've had an opportunity to observe you  in a few instances and i have just really been blown away by your extraordinary gift in addition extraordinary gift that most people only have during christmas or when there's a special giveaway or special time of need you seem to get up every morning with and with a with a desire to to move things forward in terms of helping someone else's life be better where did this passion for giving come from how how would you say you became i would say the ph d of giving you know first i have to say it came from god because that is one of the help is one of the gifts and that he gave to me as a young person and i have enjoyed watching it mature i think of ways i look for ways i expect ways to bend some way to help some  others and i love it and you know and because i want to do it the lord gives me the mangy gives me the know how have to do it and go to dance without anything and there wow and it is zero this is just because it's there i love i'm not giving i'm not doing i lack surprising people where they don't when they don't they they do not even know where it came from wow but that's that's what i do that's me so this isn't that can be taught this is something that just has to be real have you deep inside you need to get be able to get the job done and without worrying about who's going to get the credit yeah that's where you hit it right there because there's a tendency is a real trinity just as real as you are there's a real tendency of people when they give you know they want to get credit and you know don't forget that i gave was worth it now exactly yeah exactly and then when when you do that you're getting you lower hearing god does not get in the glory and where they're led to my salvation is the most important thing that i hare and i treat it very cautiously and i want my master to get the credit for what i do and that for hundred seventy one i was acting guy for a direction in my life and i knew i thought that i wanted to go by being probably the wife of a accomplish a minister and  and that was really working how good but i didn't somehow in that i didn't feel that there was right and that day as a law if this is now where i'm in show in the way i was the head librarian at the college in tower and on my way girl her name address and telephone number the name of the mission president because she didn't want me to be tired and loading when i got to richmond and so from that day i will cause she said you call me you met dr mclaughlin in that before right before you moved here you know how did it all come about you were the founder of the documentary mclaughlin library museum that currently is in richmond california when and how did that all happen i went to visit her one day and she was sitting there hand writing letters to do with digital supervisors throughout the united states and she was complaining about how much time this takes and i says oh no mom that's what everybody calls and i said i'll just type one error and you sign it and we'll get in the mayor she says it and came back over in showed her the letter in the envelope already stamped and that was on the way to the post office she could not believe it so when did you make that shift and from this connection building i was thinking of collecting and keeping because my profession is librarian i was director of adult services at the richmond public library and i wanted to and the history of her history live only long after she's gone and ask them god so you know i'm just amazed that not only did you think about it that it is done and it still exists today twenty five years later over gertrude avenue yes and so tell us a little bit about the workings and how you know you had the background for obviously as a librarian but just just give us briefly a glimpse into what it takes to put a library museum together what were kind of some of the steps if you will give us a couple of the steps or one loan the first is the the get people the key players involved and get them get their approval and my first key player was going to be  and i drove west as momma need to show you something that's been on my heart she says ok and i stopped the c c that shit i can see that be in the back the madam a glass and library museum and she looked at me she says emma what color you cop really really rare are the tears flow because i knew that this was something they see who's interested in she was a teacher growing up so she knew the value of education and i would tell them what i wanted to do and and it's real and needs and needs and need a good right off i'll give you a tax letter just give me a good dose camera i need this to come up and this was in the eighty eight and i says in eighty nine i want this building to be burning and i says i have many things in my garage that i've been saving in and it happened i passed and passed away and  the missionaries across the sea i mean she's been a good support it so in our national church we wanted this to be an international work that would do it and so i sent out letters to all the supervisors and mrs if you have any day really did it started to come and one of our promise passes that was a bishop someone had been made of him his cap with his family given it to this historian ok and he saw me he says you need this in the library and he sent it back from the east coast me to day twenty five years later they're still getting things that are coming again and things and and there was a young lady a old lady in san francisco that attended all of the conventions  and i heard about i was telling about it she says well baby i have some some magazines and some whole truth magazines and said like the come over i says she says what's your favorite food she says i love hand in the hand you are and that's a book about your life and yes this woman has not only done all the wonderful things you're hearing about her now but so much so that someone has already written the book the first probably of many more to come because she is such a wonderful woman and it's called heaven's missing angel the life of emma sanders clark so this is an amazing book and it will be available on march twenty eighth at the gala event and now there's something else that you're not telling our the twenty eighth of march on twenty fifteen mrs m o'clock will be conferred with double doctorate degrees in humanities and divinity and talking about your book in the ladies and gentlemen someone who is very very special very very precious to the community to her church to all of those who come her way so i would encourage you to be there the tickets will be available you can go to the website that's on on  soon to be dr imogene clarke but before we before we do that you also have written a book you were an author as well and you've written a book tell us a bit about the the name of the book we know about the woman who the book was about what was the name of the  worried me how i would do it when i would have time to do it how i could do it in six months time and and the young lady came to the to the desk and i says she was talking about writing i said i want to write a book so bad but it must be out i must have it out before may this is maybe we could do it well this is about and i told her she was so excited i want you to know that she came with me i get the teachers i get my tape things that like you to share quickly because believe it or not we're coming to the end of our time as karl rove i'd like you to share with our viewers one of the at least one of the milestones while your during your tenure at the richmond library there's something that's been written i don't know if it's still there but you were responsible yes we are various people in the city of richmond that was one of the accomplishments but i think in taking the richmond museum of history that was at the time in the the library that and then i think just being a woman to lead people and being able to be in a city where people love and respect me right i have friends that probably know non a but you know this is i could go on talk of the world or since we're running out of time one of the things that i want people to see and hear is dedication and stick to it is that tenacity to make things happen it's a quality that just just is losing all over you and it's a beautiful thing not only within your church within your personal life within the community and in the library and so you do what you want to do apps that's true and involve i have young people to enjoy this even come into my house i have things for them to do every day now this is what i don't want to make sure that doesn't happen before we leave because it's almost time to go but you look into the camera and give them a number of where they can reach you to get more information from you or if they want to visit the museum how they could contact you to have a special point meant to come in and see the museum that's located at two fifty three  in richmond could you share that with our viewers now please yes you may do one of two ways you may go to the mclaughlin library museum that our web site you may call me when zero four zero  one one three eight and i will give you immediate attention and then at the end of the converse cesa now say i love you and that's the truth and that's the truth mrs clarke you are a jewel i am happy and honored to have met you you have made some changes in my life i've always been a giver and you know i thought i was doing something in the given that i was doing but i know i've got to step my game  tremendously and understand that it can be done and it is what you ultimately want to do and i appreciate your life and the life that you have served and giving back not only when it's been exemplary in what you've done but in what you do for others so we're looking forward to march twenty eighth yet when it does say in the gala and we're going to all the be there in our beautiful grounds in and i encourage viewers to be there with us i'm going to be i'm seeing that that afternoon i want you to join us