Jackye McClure had been raped and called the YWCA's 24 hour rape crisis hotline with questions that the volunteers were unable to answer. She went on to volunteer for the crisis line, organized a speaker's bureau, and in 1979 became the driector of the Rape Crisis, presiding over a tremendous expansion of services. From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground: The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p.82-83.