Glassboro Orchid Club to Recognize Scholarship, Community Leaders on May 9
Photo courtesy Glassboro Orchid Club Facebook
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GLASSBORO – Six high-achieving local high school students and others will be recognized at the Glassboro Orchid Club 63rd annual Scholarship Luncheon, which will be held at Holiday Inn, 1 Pureland Drive in Swedesboro at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 9.
Under the theme “Embracing Evolution to Shape to Shape Our Legacy: Honoring Service and Empowering Scholars,” the Glassboro Orchid Club will also recognize Senior Honoree Joyce Allen, the past president of the New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs and special honorees the Buffalo Soldiers and Motorcycle Club of South Jersey.
Scholarship recipients include two students from Washington Township High School, two from Glassboro High School and one each from Clayton High School and St. Augustine Prepatory School in Richland.
They include:
*Juson Stewart, Clayton High School — GOC Dr. Dolores M. Harris Scholarship
*Spencer Cade, Washington Township High School — GOC Carmen Johnson Scholarship
*Miriah Corbett, Washington Township High School — GOC Scholarship
*Dorian Kelsey, Glassboro High School — GOC Scholarship
*Tyler Bright, Glassboro High School — GOC Scholarship
*Daniel Lopez, St. Augustine Preparatory School — GOC Scholarship
Clyde Hughes, editor and founder of Front Runner New Jersey.com, will be the keynote speaker for the event.
Tickets are available at 856-417-5565, 609-636-5358 or any Glassboro Orchid Club member.
The Glassboro Orchid Club’s Denise Williams currently serves as 32nd national president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC). She has led the national organization since August 2024, leading one of the nation’s oldest and most influential Black women’s organizations.
Williams now stands at the forefront of a 128?year legacy of service, advocacy, and community uplift. The NACWC—founded in 1896 and known for its historic motto “Lifting as We Climb”—has long championed civil rights, education, and economic empowerment for African American women and families.
Her installation during the organization’s 128th National Convention marked a new chapter for the federation, which continues to unite local clubs across the country in programs focused on youth development, social action, and leadership. Under Williams’ leadership, the NACWC emphasizes its modern theme, HER: Harnessing Excellence and Resilience, a call to strengthen unity and expand the organization’s national impact.
Williams now oversees a national board and network of regional and state presidents, guiding initiatives that honor the organization’s founders—figures such as Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett—while addressing contemporary challenges facing Black women and communities.
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