National Court of Queen Shenandoah IX draws stateside retinue
A national pageant in Winchester gathers 35 states for Queen Shenandoah IX. Featuring Her Majesty, Miss Helen Ames Washington of Overbrook, Pa., and a long list of titled princesses and escorts appointed by governors from Virginia to California. The event centers on the annual fete glorifying apple trees with a royal retinue and military escort.
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Henry M. Baker
Glendobbin
Frederick County
Shenandoah IX
The
Union
United States
Winchester
Queen Shenandoah IX
Helen Ames Washington
Overbrook
George Washington
Harry C. Stouffer
Courtfield Avenue
Goodyear
Reliance
Hradley Stadium
Overbrook, Pa
House of Washington
George Lafayette Washington
Winchester Hosts Queen Shenandoah IX Social Court
Social functions for the court in Winchester showcase a suite of events from luncheons and dinners to dances and a royalty portrait. Queen Shenandoah IX, Miss Helen Ames Washington, is feted by Kiwanis, Winchester Country Club, and local hosts including Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd.
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Anne Brooke Kern
Grace Elizabeth Boserman
Winchester Country Club
Richard Evelynn Byrd
Miss Washington
William E. Cooper
Winchester
Miss Helen Ames Washington Named in Overbrook Event
Miss Helen Ames Washington of Overbrook Pennsylvania tops a list for an upcoming event with ties to JesuisH and related activities noted in the local notices.
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival’s Rise to Fame
The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival began in 1924 with Winchester citizens and the Shenandoah Valley. Queens from 1924 to 193? introduced the festival to Eastern America and beyond, with Mary Wise Boxley and Miss Patricia Dacre Morton among noted queens. Over the years, the festival drew international attention, fueling demand for Shenandoah apples.
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Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah
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Washington Queen
Handley High School
Claudel
France
Princess
Frederick
Sarah Kendall Baker
Grace Elizabeth Bosserman
Miss Dorothy Cooper
Jane Porterfield Myers
Anne Dudley Field
Queen’s Chorus
Harrisonburg — Teachers’ College Glee Ub
Staunton Military Academy
Princess Texas
Virginia Wilmot Roberdeau
Austin
R. S. Sterling
Princess Virginia
Gertrude Murrell
Richmond
John Garland Pollard
Pennsylvania
Matilda Louise Brill
Philadelphia
Gifford Pinchot
Princess Florida
Margaret Bathzell
Marianna
Doyle E. Carlton
Prince
Tennessee
Mary Jane Dulaney
Bristol
Henry H. Horon
Princess Nevada
Elda M. Frick
Minden
F. B. Balzqr
North Carolina
Martha Tillery
Raleigh
Maryland
Alice Rinehart Cahill
Clear Spring
Albert C. Ritchie
South Dakota
Evelyn Bulow
Pierre
Warren Green
Georgia
Louise Robert
Atlanta
Richard B. Russell, Jr
Rhode Island
Saidy L. Gardiner
Wakefield
Norman S. Case
New Hampshire
Bettina Rollins
Newport
John G. Winant
California
Maxine Doyle
San Francisco
James Rolph, Jr
Vermont
Ethel
Melin
Craftsbury
Stanley C. Wilson
Princess Maine
Jeannette Quimby
Portland
Ralph D. Brooks
City
Porta
Gardner
Princess District of Columbia
Geraldine Jacoby
Rhode Island Avenue
Luther H. Reiche Herfer
Board of Commissioners
Princess Michigan
Maxine Weaver
Traverse City
Wilber M. Brucker
Kansas
Emilie Ewers
Independence
Harry H. Woodring
Iowa
Harriet Urback
Dubuque
Dan W. Turner
Princess Colorado
Miss Beatty Kent Harrison
Pueblo
William 4. Adams
West Virginia
Mary Youell
Hinton
William G. Conley
Utah
Euphemia Smith
Salt Lake City
George H.rm
Illinois
Jacquelin Goddard
Riverside
Louis L. Emmerson
Connecticut
Elsie McCarthy
New Haven, Reas
Wilbur L. Toss
Princess Arkansas
Eleanor Benson
el Dorado
Harry Parnell
Princess Indiana
Caroline Conlon
Terre Haute
Rry G. Leslie
New York
Elizabeth Kribbs Cochran
LeRoy
Roy P. McPherson
New York State Horticultural Society
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Princess Mississippi
Mary Margaret Fugler
Jackson
Martin S. Conner
New Jersey
Virginia Hope
Fanwood
A. Harry Moore
Wyoming
Maurine Lane
Laramie
Robert D. Carey
A. M. Clark
Alabama
Frances Feagin
Ridgeway
B. M. Miller
New Mexico
June F. Joyce
Carlsbad
Arthur Seligman
South Carolina
Mabel Mercer
Rock Hill
I. C. Blackwood
Princess Delaware
Helen Williams
Millsboro
Gov
C. Douglass Buck
Her Majesty
Queen Shenandoah
Ardly
Winchester Kiwanis Club
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Princess Winchester
Jane Gray Stouffer
Courtfield
Avenue
Eastern
America
Shenandoah III
Free State
Shenandoah-Potomac-Cumberland
Priscilla Bridges
Hancock, Md
Virginia
Shenandoah IV
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Boyce
Clarke County
Laurence D. Tyson
Knoxville
Tenn
Roanoke
Mary Wise Boxley
Shenandoah V
Suzanne Pollard
Shenandoah VII
Handley Stadium
Shenandoah VIII
Patricia Dacre Morton
Miss Morton
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