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Mecca Court #73 Holds 53rd Annual Commandress
Ball and Honors Daughter Lena M. Davis, Illustrious
Commandress
Special to The Truth
Mecca Court #73 is now in
its 90th year of service to the community and
currently under the leadership of Daughter Lena M. Davis,
Illustrious Commandress.
The organization stresses
and focuses on the development of powerful leaders,
encourages health awareness and career planning among youth
and adults, provides services to help disabled and senior
citizens, provides for effective networking among its
members and other organizations, recognizes and celebrates
the historic achievement of African-American women, exerts
positive influence and utilizes role modeling for youth,
teenage mothers, high school and college students.
The organization of 12
Courts in its inception has grown to over 200 Courts located
in the United States, Canada, the Bahamas, Germany, Italy
and Japan.
Mecca Court #73, with a
present membership of 83, has been instrumental in numerous
community involvement projects over the past 90 years,
having been in the news, in the newspapers and on
television, promoting charity and benevolence within the
community and state and annually at the host convention.
This year, under the
leadership of Dt. Davis, Mecca Court has been instrumental
and very actively involved within the community which has
included donations of school supplies and book bags to
students, donations to the homeless and nursing homes,
presenting items to the Ronald McDonald House, in addition
to numerous fundraising activities, with additional
presentations and holiday donations being made in the coming
months.
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Dt. Barbara Brown, Commandress Dt. Lena M. Davis, Charlesena
H Smith, Mariah Hicks and mother LaVonna Hicks, Scholarship
Chairman Dt. LaVera R. Scott
Past Commandresses
The Illustrious Commandress and her Court |
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At their Commandress Ball
this month, Dt. Davis awarded a scholarship from the
“Charlesena Harrison Smith Scholarship Foundation” to Mariah
Hicks, a graduate of Toledo Early College High School who
is currently attending Kent State University.
Mecca Court was honored to
have elected Past Imperial Commandress – Dt. Charlesena H.
Smith – who served as the 42nd Imperial
Commandress of the Imperial Court, 2009-2011, and proud to
have six appointed Imperial Officers presently serving in
the Imperial Court.
The 53rd annual
Commandress Ball honoring Dt. Davis on October 8 at the
Radisson Hotel at the University of Toledo Medical Center
commemorated the many years of their existence, charity and
benevolence. Guests traveled from Cleveland, Elyria,
Youngstown, Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, Springfield and
Dayton, as well as from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and
Kentucky to attend the gala event.
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