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Mecca Court #73 2015 Commandress Ball
Special to The Truth
The members of Mecca Court
#73, Auxiliary to Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles
Mystic Shrine of North and South American and Its
Jurisdictions (A.E.A.O.N.M.S.) held their 52nd
annual Commandress Ball on October 10, 2012 at the Grand
Plaza Hotel commemorating the many years of their existence,
charity and benevolence and honoring Daughter Jeanne R.
Harris, Illustrious Commandress.
At the ball this past
weekend, the members also awarded a scholarship from the
“Charlesena Harrison Smith Scholarship Foundation” to
La’Shay Macon, a freshman at North Carolina A & T State
University.
Mecca Court #73, with a
membership of 92, has been instrumental in numerous
community projects over the past 89 years, having been in
the news promoting charity and benevolence within the local
community and the state and annually at the host convention.
The organization stresses
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
and current achievement of African-American women, exerts
positive influence and utilizes role modeling for youth,
teenage mothers, high school and college students.
The initial organization
of 12 courts has grown to over 200 located in the United
States, Canada, the Bahamas, Germany, Italy and Japan.
This past year, under the leadership of Dt. Harris, Mecca
Court was active in the following community projects:
providing school supplies and book bags to Pickett Academy
students, providing clothing and personal items to Fairview
Nursing Home and Sparrow’s Nest, presenting items to the
Ronald McDonald House, along with numerous fundraising
activities. |
Illustrious Commandress Dt. Jeanne Harris, Scholarship
awardee’s mother Shontrell Flanagan; Scholarship recipient
La’Shay Macon; Scholarship Committee Chairman Dt. LaVera
Scott; Imperial Deputy for the Oasis of Toledo Dt. Charlene
Miller
Harris and Dt. Dee Bates, past Illustrious Commandress
Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson and Illustrious Commandress Jeanne
Harris |
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Additional presentations are to come in the next months.
This year’s scholarship
recipient, Macon, a graduate of Central Catholic High
School, is an elementary education major with a minor in
psychology. She was a member of Sideline Spirit, track,
gospel choir, the African American Club, the drama club and
yearbook throughout her years in high school.
Her extracurricular
activities include Delta Gems, Toledo Stand group, a
volunteer at Living Hope Church, St. Paul Community Center
Soup Kitchen, Blankets for Moms’ House, hostess for
Celebrity Wait Dinner, Walk the Word Ministry Scholarship
committee, Open House at school and the Holland Branch
Library. She was on the honor roll every quarter for all
four years of high school.
Mecca Court’s guests for
the annual gala traveled from every major city in Ohio as
well as from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. |
