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NANBPWC Founders’ Day Celebration Honors Educators
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
The National Association
of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc,
Toledo Club opened Women’s History Month in grand style,
holding its annual Founders Day celebration on Sunday March
5 and honoring area school principals.
The club’s 52nd
annual Founders’ Day and Women’s History Month celebration
featured the theme “Women Trailblazers in Labor and
Business,” reflecting the Association’s focus on leadership,
entrepreneurship, technology and service (which includes
health, education, employment and economic development –
H.E.E.D.).
This year’s program
honored seven Toledo Public Schools principals and, as
usual, the Sojourner Truth Award Recipient. This Sojourner
Truth honoree for 2017 was State Senator Edna Brown.
The seven honorees were:
Janice Richardson, principal of Garfield Elementary School;
Herneika Johnson, principal of Grove Patterson Academy;
Katherine Taylor, principal of Navarre Elementary School;
Martha Jude, principal of Gunckel Elementary School; Teresa
Quinn, principal of Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls; Kathy
Gregory, principal of the Old West End Academy and Angela
Hickman-Richburg, principal of Rosa Parks Elementary School.
Brown, senator for Ohio’s
11th Senate District and the Senate’s Minority
Whip, spent 32 years as an employee with the City of Toledo.
After an eight-year tenure on Toledo City Council, she was
appointed to the Statehouse in 2002 to fill a vacated seat
in the Ohio House of Representatives. She was elected to the
State Senate in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 to a second
four-year term.
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Katherine Taylor, Angela Hickman-Richburg, Kevon Snodgrass,
LaTaunya Conley, Denise Black-Poon, Kathy Gregory, Teresa
Quinn, Martha Jude, Janice Richardson
Kevon Snodgrass, LaTaunya Conley, Tyra Smith-Gabriel, Denise
Black-Poon
State Senator Edna Brown |
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She has been particularly
active in Columbus in promoting the concept of a “no excuse”
absentee voting for Ohio and in introducing legislation
addressing violence in teen dating relationships. For her
legislative accomplishments, Brown has been honored with the
Jack Wolfe Memorial Award as one of two “Legislators of the
Year.”
The NANBPWC. Inc Toledo
Club was founded in 1964. The club’s major project over the
past 50 years has been hosting the Debutante Cotillion. Club
member Wilma Brown has been the Cotillion chairman for over
30 years.
In attendance at this
year’s Founders’ Day celebration was LaTaunya Conley,
governor of the North Central District of the NANBPWC, Inc.
Denise Black-Poon is
president of the Toledo Club, Tyra Smith-Gabriel is the
chairman for the 2017 Founders’ Day Committee and Kevon
Snodgrass is president of the Youth Club. Other officers
include: BJ Tucker, first vice president; Frances Collins,
PhD, second vice president and youth advisor; Ethel Scott,
director of membership; Wanda Terrell Galloway,
corresponding secretary; Clara Brank, recording secretary;
Barbara Tucker, parliamentarian and Wilma Brown, treasurer.
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