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Community Celebrates 80th Birthday of Geraldine Talley Hobby

Community leaders gathered to celebrate Geraldine Talley Hobby’s 80th birthday, honoring her legacy as one of the first Black students to desegregate Norfolk schools and her decades-long career uplifting youth through education.

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NORFOLK

Geraldine Talley Hobby celebrated her 80th Birthday with family, friends and well-wishers at the Slover Library on Saturday, June 7. Talley Hobby became a History Maker when she entered the all-white Northside Junior High School In 1962 as one of the 17 Black students to desegregate the Norfolk Public Schools under federal court order. She is now retired from a long and productive career in education in the Washington, D.C. area, where she uplifted generations of young people under her tutelage. In photo, she is shown in white second from left with U.S. Congressman Bobby Scott who delivered a certificate of acknowledgement; NJG Publisher Brenda H. Andrews; and Norfolk Councilman J.P. Paige. Written greetings were read from Norfolk’s Mayor Kenneth Alexander.