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Mecca Court #73 54th Annual Commandress Ball on
October 14 Honored Dt. Lynn E. Townsend, Illustrious
Commandress
Under the leadership of
Dt. Lynn E. Townsend, Illustrious Commandress, the daughters
of Mecca Court #73, Toledo, OH are proudly serving in their
91st year. The Court honored Townsend, on
Saturday, October 14 at the All Occasions Banquet Hall and
commemorated the many years of the organization’s existence,
charity and benevolence
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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 and current 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 involved in numerous
community projects over the past 91 years, having been in
the news, in the newspapers and n television, promoting
charity and benevolence within the community and state and
annually at the host convention.
This year, under the
leadership of Townsend, 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,
presentation of items to the Ronald McDonald House, a
donation to the American Heart Association at the luncheon
in May, in addition to numerous fundraising activities, with
additional presentations and holiday donations to be made in
the coming months.
At their Commandress Ball
on Saturday, October 14, the members awarded a scholarship
to Walaa Kanan from the “Charlesena Harrison Smith
Scholarship Foundation.” Kanan, a graduate of Toledo Early
College High School, is in her first year at the University
of Toledo in the Social Work program and is minoring in
disability studies. She has sophomore standing because of
college credits she earned at TECHS. In high school she
participated in many student organizations such as community
wellness, Young Women for Change and Youth to Youth. She is
currently past of a number of organizations on campus.
The Court expressed their
pride in having Past Imperial Commandress, Dt. Charlesena H.
Smith, who served as the 42nd Imperial
Commandress of the Imperial Court, 2009-2011, and in having
four appointed Imperial Officers presently serving on the
Imperial Court.
Guests traveled from
Cleveland, Elyria, Youngstown, Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati,
Springfield and Dayton as well as from Kentucky, Michigan,
Illinois and Indiana to attend the gala event.
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