Charm Class To Launch Activities For Rodeo Queen
Contest EntrantsActivities for the 1968 contestants
for the title of 101 Ranch Rodeo queen will begin Wednesday evening
when the seven young women will attend a charm class.
For the second year, the personal development committee of the
Ponca City Business and Professional Women's Club is, serving as the
hostess group.
The committee has employed Mrs. Juanita Herron to conduct the
charm class, as she did last year. It will be 7:30 p.m. in the
Conestoga Room of the Pioneer National Bank.
The girls are to be judged 25 percent on pose and personality and
25 percent on attire. The other 50 percent is on horsemanship.
Saturday will be the first caravan sponsored by the 101 Ranch
Memorial Trail Riders, and all queen contestants, together with
their individual hostesses, will make the trip, riding in the
air-conditioned bus.
They also will make the second booster trip, scheduled for,
Saturday September 7.
On Tuesday, September 10, the young women will be special guests
of the BPW Club at its regular meeting.
The seven hopefuls will ride the pattern for judging of their
horsemanship Friday afternoon, September 13.
Saturday there is an 11: 50 a.m. luncheon in the Chariot Room of
the QuoVadis. Here they will be judged on poise, personality and
attire. Judges will be Bob. Brown and Miss Patt Winter of KOTV,
Channel 6, Tulsa, and Don Walton of KFBI, Wichita.
The ceremony of announcing the 1968 queen of the 101 Ranch Rodeo
will be in the arena prior to the grand entry of the opening
performance.
The queens will be seen in the rodeo parade Saturday at 2 p.m.,
and again in the Cherokee Strip Diamond Jubilee parade Monday
afternoon.
For their busy Saturday, rooms at the QuoVadis are being provided
for them through the courtesy of Continental Oil Company.
Past 101 Ranch Rodeo queens are being invited to some of the
activities, according to Mrs. Neita Rogers, chairman of the personal
development committee.
Serving as co-chairman with Mrs. Rogers is Mrs. Sandra Thompson.
The queen contestants and their individual hostesses are, in the
order in which they entered, Janie Roby, Mrs. Vera Baker; Sue
Thompson of Perry, Miss Flora Cohlman; Diana Miller, Tonkawa, Mrs.
Johnny Day; Jayne LeGrand, Mrs. Patricia Gandy; Nancy Hatfield, Mrs.
Barbara Pentzer; Sue Thorpe, Mrs. Mabel Petty, and Linda LeGrand of
Sedan, Kan., Mrs. Ruby Prouty.
Other members of the personal development committee who will be
assisting in the activities are Mrs. Earlene Johndrow, Mrs. Anne
Kinneberg, Mrs. Dorothy Miles, Mrs. Velma Sanders, Mrs. Cleo Stagner
and Mrs. Edith Tindel.
Patt Winter |
Bob Brown |
Don Walton |
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Saturday Luncheon
Final Event Before Selection Of Rodeo Queen
The suspense for the seven 101 Ranch Rodeo candidates
will end at 7:30 p.m. At that time the new queen will be
announced and the trophy saddle presented to her.
First and second runners-up will each receive a
trophy, as will Miss Congenially, selected by the girls
themselves.
Though ticket sales will not count toward the queen's
title, the girl selling the greatest number will be
presented a trophy buckle and the runner-up also will
receive a buckle.
Horsemanship will be judged at 4 p.m. today at the
rodeo arena. Saturday noon there will be a luncheon in
the Chariot Room of the QuaVadis Motor Hotel,
where the young women will be judged on poise,
personality and appearance.
Judges at the luncheon will be Patt Winter and Bob
Brown from KOTV, Tulsa, and Don Walton of television
station KFDI.
Miss Winter, a native of Kansas City, Mo., is a
graduate of Monticello College, St. Louis. She has a
degree in special education from the University of Tulsa
and currently is working on her master's, specializing
in audio logy. She has toured with a cast of special
play for deaf children.
Brown, who was one of the luncheon judges last year,
received a B.S. degree in journalism from Tulsa
University last spring. He and Dino Economos won an
award for a student film at the Foothills College Film
Festival in California. Brown wrote the script and
starred in the film.
Walton is better known in his radio personality of
Donnie DoDad. He is production manager of KFDI, having
been with the station for the past 3112 years.' Prior to
going into radio work, Walton was in newspaper
advertising.
Walton said of himself "I play the guitar and sing once
in a while and have even been known to write the worst
songs that were ever written. "
Also attending the luncheon Saturday will be the
members of the personal development committee of the
Ponca City Business and Professional Women's Club,
serving as the hostess group.
Queens of former years have been invited. They are
(maiden names) Carole Muchmore and Bessie Cales,
co-queens of 1960; Priscilla Wilson, 1961; Joy LeGrand,
1962; Sandy Scott, 1963; Linda Smith of Blackwell, 1964;
Jensie Fronkier, 1965; Jeanne Roby 1966, and Terry
Hewgley and Deanna Johns, Blackwell, 1967 co-queens.
Those seeking the title this year are, in the order
they entered the contest, Janie Roby, Sue Thompson of
Perry, Diana Miller, Tonkawa, Jayne LeGrand, Nancy
Hatfield, Sue Thorpe and Linda LeGrand of Sedan, Kan. |
ALL QUEENS, the candidates for 101 Ranch Rodeo queen were guests at a
luncheon Saturday in their honor. Pictured there are, from left, Jayne
LeGrand, Janie Roby (who won the title), Linda LeGrand, Diana Miller,
Sue Thompson, Sue Thorpe and Nancy Hatfield. Absent were Diana Johns and
Terry Hewgley.
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101 RANCH RODEO QUEEN is Miss Janie
Roby , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Roby, 1920
Willow. Miss Roby was a finalist in the National Finals
Rodeo queen contest in 1967. |
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FIRST RUNNER-UP in the Cherokee Strip
queen contest was Miss Sue Thorpe, shown receiving her
trophy Saturday night from her BPW Club hostess, Mrs.
Mabel Petty. |
MISS CONGENIALITY, Miss Nancy
Hatfield, is shown receiving her trophy Saturday night
from from her hostess, Mrs. Barbara Pentzer, as a
prelude to the Cherokee Strip rodeo performance. |
