The Merrill-Palmer Institute will hold a high tea on Saturday, June 4 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the President’s Ballroom of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Dearborn, to honor the late Mary-Agnes Miller Davis for her inspirational commitment to the youth of Detroit.  Tickets are $125 per person; contributions are tax deductible. 

            Proceeds for the afternoon tea will support an endowment benefiting the annual Metro Teen Conference, which celebrates its 22^nd year in November. For further information contact Kathryn Bryant Harrison, Committee Chair, Vice President and Chief Public Affairs Officer, AAA at (313) 336-1170. 

            Davis, a social worker by profession, founded the Metro Teen Conference along with the CoEtte Club of Detroit.  

            The Metro Teen conference is designed to help teenagers understand they make choices in life and provide teens from diverse backgrounds an opportunity to share, learn, and understand different points of view. 

            The conference brings Detroit area teenagers together from diverse backgrounds to spend the day discovering what they have in common. The diversity isn’t limited to race, but also includes economic background, inner-city, suburban and those from public and private schools.  The students will be put in small groups of six to eight people for topical discussions. 

           Wayne State University is a premier institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 12 schools and colleges to more than 33,000 students in metropolitan Detroit.