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A Dream Come True: Miss Debutante 2015
Djhream Carter
By Fletcher Word
Sojourner’s Truth Editor
Djhream Sinquis Carter was
the third debutante presented to society on Saturday night
during the 50th annual Debutante Cotillion hosted
by the Toledo Club of the National Association of the Negro
Business and Professional Women’s Clubs Inc.
After that recap of her
scholastic and extracurricular activities, including the
fact that the 16-year-old graduate of Toledo School for the
Arts has managed to accumulate almost $1 million in college
scholarships, and the later notification that she had taken
first place in the talent competition, the only matter at
issue in the highly anticipated Miss 2015 Debutante
announcement was which of the other 16 young ladies would be
named this year’s first and second runners-up.
Carter’s resume is nothing
short of breathtaking: honor roll for four years, National
Society of High School Scholars, the Principal’s Award, TSA
High Academic Award. President Obama’s Education Award; she
was accepted to 10 colleges of universities and she received
full-ride scholarships to four of them.
An accomplished vocalist,
Carter has received a TSA Music Certificate, a Toledo Opera
Scholar Award, a Mary Ann Russo Jazz Scholar Award and has
been named a New York Jazz Ensemble Vocal Scholar.
When she’s not studying,
participating in cross-country track or singing, Carter is,
naturally, volunteering with a dozen organizations and
agencies around town.
She plans on attending
Capital University in the fall.
As always, the Cotillion
was the culmination of months of activities hosted by the
NANBPWC, including an introductory tea, waltz rehearsals, an
etiquette seminar, photo sessions, a mother/daughter
luncheon and talent night. This year, due to the fact of the
50th anniversary, a reunion was added to the
calendar to bring back former debutantes.
Denise Black Poon,
president of the Toledo Club, welcomed debutantes and guests
to the special occasion and Barbara Tucker, the North
Central District advisor offered greetings.
The evening’s mistress of
ceremonies was Rhonda Sewell of the Toledo-Lucas County
Public Library who introduced the debutantes, their
presenters and their escorts to the audience.
Then the winners were
announced.
This year’s Miss
Congeniality, the award voted on by the Debutantes, was
Kyndra Gaines, who attends Notre Dame Academy. The escort of
the year was Shane Russell, Jr, who was Carter’s escort.
The winners in the talent
competition were Carter, second place finisher Derrianna
Sanderfer, of Central Catholic High School and third place
finisher Aloee Jackson, of Start High School.
Jackson and Gaines were
the second and first runners up, respectively, for the crown
of Miss Debutante 2015.
This year’s Toledo Club’s
Cotillion Committee consisted of: Cotillion General Chairman
Wilma Brown, Co-Chairman Karen Jarrett; Denise Cardwell,
Etiquette chairman; Deborah Carlisle and Beverly Tucker,
co-chairmen of the Talent Committee.
Brown, Cardwell, Jarrett
and Black Poon conducted rehearsals, along with volunteers
Larry Cardwell and Dennis Jarrett. The choreographers were
Bill Miller and Elizabeth Schlagel.
In addition to Carter,
Gaines, Jackson and Sanderfer, this year’s Debutantes
included: Arielle Bradley of Springfield High School, Shayna
Brooks of Rogers High School, Christa Cunningham of Bowsher
High School, Isis Dixson of Bowsher High School; Jalynn
Hicks of Notre Dame Academy, ShaRon Shelton of Central
Catholic High School, ShaLise of Toledo School for the Arts,
Gabrielle Skibinski of Start High School, Taylor Lonas of
Notre Dame Academy, LaShay Mason of Toledo School for the
Arts, Taylor Riggs of Rogers High School, Ausha Jade Sallee
of Early College High School and Deonne Williams of Bowsher
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Aloee Jackson, Kyndra Gaines, Djhream Carter,
Shane Russell
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