The Cotillion 52nd
Annual Mother-Daughter Luncheon
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
The Toledo Club of The National
Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s
Clubs, Inc, held its annual Mother-Daughter Luncheon on
April 29 at the Inverness Country Club as part of its run-up
to the 2017 Cotillion.
This year the Toledo Club is
presenting 25 young debutantes to society on Saturday May 27
at the Stranahan and the Mother-Daughter Luncheon is a
perennial prelude to the main event.
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This past weekend, Luncheon
Chairman Karen Jarrett opened the event and served as
mistress of ceremonies. Club President Denise Black-Poon
offered the welcome and after the preliminaries and lunch,
all of the debutantes and their mothers, or guardians, were
introduced and asked to describe their relationships.
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 General Chairman Wilma Brown, who has helped to
guide the event since the onset 52 years ago, addressed the
attendees on some of the issues they will face this year.
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