President Ralph N. Paulk was the keynote speaker during the annual Ohio Black Women’s Leadership Caucus breakfast on Jan. 17 at the Greek Orthodox Community Center. Nearly 30 Tiretown Golf Club members attended the Significant Black Males event.
Altogether, 13 men were honored. And four Tiretown members – Daphne Dingle, Connie Roberts, Kelly Edwards and Darlene Elliott – are among the OBWLC members to help organize the 36th annual event.
Paulk, who began his fifth term as president of the country’s largest Black golf club, delivered a message of hope and community service to highlight an event themed “Men Standing on the Battleground.”
Paulk is one of several current Tiretown Golf Club members to be recognized by the OBWLC – including 2025 honorees Clarence Mitchell Jr. and Larry Thomas, Vice President Clarence Tucker, Willie McCall, Les Carney, Will Blake, Joe Patterson, Al Bragg Jr., David Brown (former Scholarship Committee chairman), Michael Buckner, Rodney Dingle, Bishop Ben Drone, Rev. Art Green, Berry Hubbard, Charles Parnell, Roland Pennington, Johnnie Player, Jerry Roberts,
Woody Williams, Terry Williams, Frank Williams.
