With Deepest Sorrow In The Passing Of Madam Glover-Spencer, Sister In The Movement

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the untimely passing of Greater Baltimore Urban League's (GBUL) Guild President, Madam Kim Glover-Spencer on Thursday, March 17, 2022.

Graduating Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts: Early Childhood Education from Coppin State University, she retired as an educator after 32 years of service. Mrs. Glover-Spencer possessed excellent communication and leadership skills, networking with teachers, parents, school and district administration and community organizations to advance teaching practices and the development of 21st Century skills. She has conducted staff development and trained teachers in the Baltimore City Public School System Systemic Gifted and Talented School Wide Enrichment Program. To enhance the quality of education, she collaborated with agencies such as CHAI, Irvine Nature Center and Parks and People, and developed and scribed grants to fund activities, projects and instructional programs at Cross Country Elementary-Middle School. 

Elected as the President of the Greater Baltimore Urban League's Guild in 2019, she had the amazing propensity to more than double the Guild's membership, year after year. Mrs. Spencer recruited and joined nine of her immediate and extended family and friends as new members. She served on the fundraising committee and the Executive Board of Directors for GBUL for the past four years as secretary. She was unambiguously selected by the president to aid her in many internal and external projects including the second phase of assessments, selections and the interviewing of potential executive administrative employees of GBUL. Given Mrs. Glover-Spencer's keen wisdom, empathy, character, and experience, GBUL's President and CEO bade for her support as one of her personal advisors. 

In addition to serving on the BOD and as President of the Guild, she was the co-lead in securing a $300k state funded bond bill to support the preservation of the historic Orchard Street Church (OSC) build by free and enslaved Black people. She organized and chaired the Save Orchard Street (SOS) committee which focuses on raising funds for renovation, repairs and the preservation of the historic Orchard Street Church. Mrs. Glover-Spencer continued to utilize her communication and leadership skills to enhance the programmatic needs and significantly enhance the lives of our participants and everyone she'd serve. During her tenure as an educator and in her later years as president, she collaborated with public and private agencies to provide health related and educational events to the community on behalf of the Urban League and was recognized receiving many honorable awards: 
 

• Recognized by Govans’ Elementary School as the Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
  
• Recognized by Cross Country E/M School as the Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2005.
  
• Created a Gifted and Talented After School program at Cross Country for students who were identified as above average learners. 
  
• Implemented a Green Space Environment Club that led to Cross Country School Certification as a Maryland Green School. 
  
• Who's Who Among American Teachers 2005-2006. 
  
• Honored as a Teacher of the Year Finalist by Chesapeake Bay Trust in 2007. Trained Staff of Cross Country in the BCPSS Systemic Gifted and Talented Education Program and served as the Program Manager. 
  
• Awarded for Outstanding Service to the BCPSS Systemic Gifted and Talented Education Program in 2006. 
  
• Honored by Maryland State Department of Education for Outstanding contributions and leadership in Gifted and Talented Education for the 2007/2008 school year.
  
• An Honoree for Greater Baltimore Urban League’s 2020 Whitney M. Young Annual Gala.
  
  Mrs. Glover-Spencer was an active member of Micah Mission AME Church. 
  
  "Mrs. Kim" as she was affectionately called, loved teaching, learning about Black History and had a Juneteenth celebration with her family every year. She loved gardening and plants. 
  
  LOVED by so many, she leaves to cherish her husband Karl Spencer, daughters Kiobie and Natalie, son William and very special grandchildren so dear to her heart, Malachi and Bailey, her sister and best friend Mrs. Denise Harper and Mr. Barnett Harper, cousin Esther Oliver and dear friend of 30 years Mrs. Charlene Graham, all of whom have become acting officers and members of GBUL's Guild Auxiliary, and wealth of family and friends throughout GBUL. She was fondly loved and adored by the entire Movement family. There is not a soul that met her who did not love Madam Spencer. 
  
  
  
  Sorrowfully Submitted, 
  
  Tiffany Majors, President and CEO 
  Ricky D. Smith, Chairman 
  Stacia Mobley, Vice President Guild 
  Greater Baltimore Urban League's Board of Directors, Guild and Young Professionals
  
  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. John 14:2
  
  But now I will heal and mend them. I will make them whole and bless them with an abundance of peace and security. Jeremiah 33:6 ​