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Courtney Draper Crowned Miss Debutante 2018
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
Twenty-seven young women and their supportive escorts were
presented to the City of Toledo during the annual Debutante
Cotillion. This rite of passage is sponsored annually by the
National Association of Negro Business & Professional
Women’s Club, Inc; (NANBPWC) Toledo Club, and was held on
Saturday, May 26 at the Stranahan Great Hall with over 350
guests in attendance.
Dressed in various white ball gowns, each debutante received
a string of pearls, and completed the escort waltz and
parent waltz. |
Nakiya
White, first runner up; Christa Parker, second runner up;
Miss Debutante Courtney Draper |
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Debutante 2018 is Courtney Draper. She currently attends
Toledo School for the Arts and earned first place in the
talent competition. Debutante Nakiya White currently attends
Central Catholic High School and earned first place runner
up. Debutante Christa Parker currently attends Springfield
High School earned second place runner up.
NANBPWC Toledo Club officers are: Frances Collins, PhD,
president; Denise Black Poon, first vice president; Alexii
Collins, 2nd vice president; Marquita Scott
Chong, director of membership; LyCynthia Jones, recording
secretary; Tommie Lee McGhee, chaplain; Mironda Harris,
corresponding secretary; Barbara Tucker, financial secretary
and parliamentarian; Wilma Brown, treasurer, and cotillion
general chairman.
The cotillion’s purpose is to present outstanding young
ladies to society clothed with the finer thoughts of living
and endowing with a complete sense of responsibility, and
accomplish culture, charm, talent, and congeniality. This
year’s mistress of ceremonies was Denise Cardwell, the
club’s Debs-In-Waiting and Etiquette chairman.
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