[7] Also in 1960, she addressed a public hearing of the Federal Communications Commission, on the subject of Black representation in television and radio production and programming: "The influence that broadcasting has on education, science, art, commerce, and the moral welfare of our country concerns all of us, and obviously lies at the root of these public hearings," she declared.

[8] She was also a regional director of Delta Sigma Theta, and one of the founding officers of the Friends of the Lynchburg Public Library, when it started in 1966.

[1][11] Polly Fletcher married dentist Henry P. Weeden in North Carolina, and moved with him to Lynchburg in 1950.

Polly Weeden Maloney died in 1987, in Lynchburg, aged 82 years, survived by three daughters.

[12] She is one of the educators depicted in a three-panel mural by Ann van de Graaf, titled "Lord Plant My Feet on Higher Ground".