{"id":19237,"date":"2026-05-01T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=19237"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:03:49","slug":"girlfriends-celebrate-65th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/girlfriends-celebrate-65th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Girlfriends Celebrate 65th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Paul Hubbard, MSW, BD Chair Maritime Academy<\/em>
\nSpecial to The Truth<\/em><\/p>\n

The Toledo Chapter of Girlfriends celebrated their 65th anniversary on April 18 at Brandywine County Club and Golf Club. The Girl Friends also hosted an Empowering Women in the workplace Brunch.<\/p>\n

At the Brandywine dinner\/dance over 200 people enjoyed salmon, chicken and a reasonable priced cash bar. Most of the women were dressed in Gold.<\/p>\n

Caroline Lewis served as the chair of the Dinner Dance. The DJ kept the dance floor active with all the line dances. Greetings were given by Lisa Dubose, the Girlfriends president, and Marie Bush, PhD, a past Girlfriend president. State Rep. Elgin Rogers gave a resolution from the State of Ohio and Lucas County Recorder Mike Ashford gave greetings from Lucas County.<\/p>\n

The National President of the Girlfriends, Elizabeth (Beth) Espy, flew in from Atlanta to speak. Beth Espy has roots in Toledo; her grandfather was Dr. Duffy a dentist. Dr. Duffy was a member of Toledo Boule as I am a current member. Beth’s grandmother, Helen Duffy, was a founding member of the Toledo Girl Friends. The Toledo Girl Friends were sponsored by Detroit and Cincinnati Girl Friends.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Dubose and Elizabeth Espy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Girlfriends is one of the oldest social organizations of African American Women in the United States, founded in New York city in 1927 with the purpose of friendship, social activities local civic services. The Toledo Girlfriends were installed November 12, 1960.<\/p>\n

The Toledo Girlfriends have an Endowed Scholarship at the University of Toledo, they have sponsored the Alvin Ailey Dance Troop here in Toledo. They have partnered with The Buffalo Soldiers, Kitchen for the Poor and Mom’s House as well as many other Toledo civic projects.<\/p>\n

They are also members of the NAACP, Toledo Art Museum and UNCF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Paul Hubbard, MSW, BD Chair Maritime Academy Special to The Truth The Toledo Chapter of Girlfriends celebrated their 65th anniversary on April 18 at Brandywine County Club and Golf Club. The Girl Friends also hosted an Empowering Women in the workplace Brunch. At the Brandywine dinner\/dance over 200 people enjoyed salmon, chicken and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,250],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[345],"class_list":["post-19237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19241,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions\/19241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19237"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}