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The Cotillion 53rd 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 21 at the Inverness
Country Club as part of its run-up to the 2018 Cotillion.
This year the Toledo Club is presenting 27 young debutantes
to society on Saturday May 26 at the Stranahan and the
Mother-Daughter Luncheon is a perennial prelude to the main
event.
In an unusual twist, this group of 27 young women includes
three sets of twins: Courtney and Terri Draper, Kambrea and
Karla McCarney and Tiana and Tiara Jones. Another young
woman has a twin brother who will participate in the escorts
contingent..
This past weekend, Cotillion Co-Chairman Karen Jarrett
opened the event and served as mistress of ceremonies.
Toledo Club Chaplain Tommie Lee McGhee offered the
invocation and after the preliminaries, lunch and a poem by
Etiquette Chairman Denise Cardwell, 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 53
years ago, addressed the attendees on some of the issues
they will face this year.
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