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Middleton Alumni To Meet Oct. 6
Seated, left to right, are Elmer Owens, Jr. (Class of 1962), mother, Florence Owens (Middleton Adult Class of 1962), and Wayne Anthony Owens (Class of 1971). Standing, left to right, Dr. Rev. Cynthia Owens Brown (Miss Middleton of 1963), Sheila Owens Henry (Class of 1969), Jackie Owens Dupree (Class of 1966), Gail Owens (Brandon High School, Class of 1977), Linda Owens (Miss Middleton of 1968) and, top center, father, Elmer Leroy Owens (Hillsborough County Adult Class of 1972).
Women Of Color Golf Journey To Scotland To Honor PGA Hall Of Famer, Golf Legend Dr. Renee Powell
From left to right, in front are: Vasti Amaro, Nina-Dawne Williams, University of St. An- drews President, Sally Mapstone; PGA Hall of Famer, Dr. Renee Powell; WOCG Founder, Clemmie Perry; Sandra Braham, Colette Glover-Hannah, and Marcelle Jackson. In the rear, Gary Hartfield.
The George S. Middleton High School Alumni Associ- ation will hold its monthly meeting Saturday, October 6, 2018, at the Tampa Police Department District Office on N. 22nd Street. The 2019 Scholarship Ball Planning Committee will meet at 9:30 a. m. and the alumni associa- tion meeting will take place at 11 a. m.
Luvator Nelson is pres- ident of the alumni associa- tion and Phan Opeyi Boston (Miss Middleton of
1965) is chairman of the Alumni Association Scholar- ship Ball Planning Commit- tee.
The April 26-27, 2019 Miss Middleton, Homecom- ing Kings & Queens Scholar- ship Ball will honor all alumni who earned these ti- tles when they were students. Shown in this photograph are two former Miss Middle- tons who are sisters in the Owens Family. Seven members of this family grad- uated from Middleton.
Representatives of the Tampa-based Women of Color Golf (WOCG) organiza- tion recently journeyed to St. Andrews, Scotland - the ‘home’ of golf - to participate in a historic celebration to honor golf legend, Dr. Renee Powell.
“This pilgrimage to St. An- drews, the ‘birthplace’ of golf to honor Dr. Renee Pow- ell, who is golf royalty, was an exciting honor and pleas- ure for all of us,” says Clem- mie Perry, founder of WOCG, a non-profit program that introduces education, leadership, health and net- working opportunities via recreational golf to women of color.
Dr. Powell, a member of the PGA Hall of Fame and the second Black woman on the LPGA tour, was honored with a residence hall by the Uni- versity of St. Andrews. Powell Hall, a five-story building,
has 205 rooms and was un- veiled by the institution’s principal (president), Sally Mapstone.
She is also the first Amer- ican to have a residence hall named in one’s honor at the University. This recognition is not the first bestowed upon Dr. Powell by the presti- gious 600-year-old institu- tion where Prince William and Kate Middleton at- tended.
In 2008, Dr. Powell be- came the first woman golfer to receive an honorary degree from the University of St. An- drews and in 2015 she was one of seven women to be nominated for honorary membership of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. An- drews.
During a VIP dinner cele- bration to commemorate her honor, Dr. Powell recog- nized the significance of ac- cepting this recognition on
foreign soil.
“Here I am – a Black
American, female golfer that is coming over to Scotland re- ceiving this huge honor in the Home of Golf. That sends very powerful messages.”
Dr. Powell, now 72, began her professional career in 1967, playing in more than 250 tournaments around the world. She and her father, William “Bill” Powell, are the only father/daughter duo in the PGA Hall of Fame.
Since 1980, she has taught golf in the United States, Africa and Europe and is cur- rently the head professional at Clearview Golf Course in Ohio, which was built and de- veloped by her father after he was unable to play other golf courses due to racism.
Dr. Powell is also the founder of Clearview HOPE, a year-round rehabilitation program that teaches golf to female veterans.
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