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50th Annual Mother-Daughter Luncheon
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
The Toledo Club of The
National Association of Negro Business and Professional
Women’s Clubs, Inc, celebrated the upcoming 50th
Anniversary of the Cotillion with its annual Mother-Daughter
Luncheon on April 25 at the Inverness Country Club.
This year the Toledo Club
is presenting 17 young women to society on Saturday May 23
at the Stranahan and the Mother-Daughter Luncheon is a
perennial prelude to the main event.
This past weekend, Club
member Karen Jarrett, luncheon chairman, opened the event
and served as mistress of ceremonies. Club President Denise
Black-Poon offered the welcome and after the preliminaries
and lunch, each of the debutantes and their mothers, or
guardians, were introduced and asked to describe their
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Cotillion Chairman Wilma Brown,
Sha'Ron Shelton, and Club President
Denise Black-Poon |
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After the tearful expressions of mutual love and gratitude,
the young women were apprised of the next step in the
Cotillion event – the talent show – by talent co-chairmen,
Deborah Carlisle and Beverly Tucker.
Closing out the luncheon,
Cotillion Chairman Wilma Brown, who has helped to guide the
event since the onset, addressed the attendees on some of
the issues they will face this year.
Next Saturday, as part of
this year’s celebration of the Cotillion’s Silver
Anniversary, a reunion of past debutantes is on the
calendar.
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