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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 the 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 79, has been instrumental in numerous
community involvement projects over the past 92 years,
having been in the news, in the newspapers and on
television, promoting charity and benevolence within the
community and state, and annually at the host convention.
This year under the
leadership of Dt. Scott, Mecca Court has been instrumental
and very actively involved within the community which has
included obtaining and distributing formal dresses and
beauty secrets to an area high school and junior high school
girls, donations to a senior center and neighborhood
library, in addition to other fundraising activities, with
additional presentations and holiday donations being made in
the coming months.
At their Commandress Ball
this past weekend, Dt. Scott awarded scholarships from the
“Charlesena Harrison Smith Scholarship Foundation to Aaliyah
Colbert and Jason Johnson, Jr. Colbert, a 2018 graduate of
Whitmer High School, is currently attending Defiance
College; Johnson, a 2018 graduate of Sylvania Southview High
School, is currently attending Alabama A&M University. Both
recipients exemplify the true characteristics of community
service, and their referrals speak highly of their
individual value and aspiring goals.
Mecca Court was honored to
have the elected Past imperial Commandress Dt. Charlesena H.
Smith – who served as the 42nd Imperial
Commandress of the Imperial Court, 2009-2011 – and proud to
have six appointed Imperial Officers presently serving in
the Imperial Court.
The 55th annual
Commandress Ball honoring Dt. LaVera Scott at the Park Inn
by Radisson Hotel on October 13, commemorated the many years
of Mecca Court’s existence, charity and benevolence. Guests
traveled from Cleveland, Elyria, Youngstown, Akron,
Columbus, Cincinnati, Springfield and Dayton, as well as
from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky to attend this
gala event.
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