As in past year's, the event will be coordinated by the Ponca City Business and Professional Women's Club, with Mrs. Neita Rogers as chairman of the queen hostess commitee.

Entry blanks may be secured at the Rodeo office in the Chamber of Commerce, 112 North Third. Deadline for entries is 5 p.m. Friday, August 18, Mrs. Rogers said.

To be eligible a young woman must be. between the ages of 16 and 21, inclusive, and never have been married. She must have a sponsor, either a business firm, round-up club or an organization.

Contestants will be judged 50 percent on horsemanship; 25 percent on poise and personality, and 25 percent on appearance. Judges, to be announced later will be from outside the Ponca City area.

All contestants will be expected to sell advance tickets to the 101 Ranch Rodeo, but the number sold will not be used in determining the 1972 queen. The one with the greatest number of sales will receive a special gift.

Entertainment is being planed for the young women while they are guests of the Rodeo Foundation and each will have a special hostess.

Judge Rating Entrants In Horsemanship As Rodeo Contest Gets Underway

This morning seven 101 Ranch Rodeo queen contestants were practicing their pattern for judging at 4 o'clock this afternoon.

Due to the heavy rains of Thursday evening and the condition of the rodeo arena, horsemanship judging will. be in the arena at the Hatfield Stables, according to Mrs. Neita Rogers, general chairman of the queen contest.

The girls made no attempt to appear in the arena for the first performance of the rodeo; but are expected to be riding in the 8 o'clock grand entry tonight.

This noon the girls were the guests with their Ponca City Business and Professional Women hostesses at Manning's Restaurant.

Thursday noon they were entertained by the American Business Club at the QuoVadis.

Roy Collins of Broken Arrow, horsemanship judge, will give constructive criticism to each.

Collins, who owns training stables in Broken Arrow, judges several breeds in both open and 4-H shows. Reared on a ranch near Vinita, he has managed Quarter Horse ranches in Oklahoma and also in the state of Washington. He is a past president of the Broken Arrow Roundup Club and the Oklahoma Pinto Horse Association.

Before they appear at the arena tonight the girls and their hostesses will be entertained at the Sirloin Stockade.

For appearance, personality and poise judging the contestants will have an 3 o'clock brunch Saturday morning at the Oklahoma Natural Gas Office.

The queen candidates, together with the reigning queen, Gayle Harmon of Nowata, will ride in the 101 Ranch Rodeo parade at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The big moment for them will come during the Saturday evening performance, when the queen for 1972 will be crowned.

The handsome barrel racing saddle, together with bridle and reins, trophies and other gifts for the queen, runners-up, Miss Congeniality and the one selling the most tickets are on exhibit at the Chamber of Commerce office, 112 North Third.

Judging the appearance, poise and personality will be Mrs. Judy David, Mrs. Marion E. Jordan, Miss Lois Nance and Dino Economos.

Mrs. David, of Bartlesville, has been active in the Credit Women International, being a past president of the Oklahoma organization. She was elected Outstanding Credit Woman of the Year for Oklahoma in 1970.

She is a charter member and past president of the Bartlesville chapter of American Business Women's Association and is contact chairman for the Bartlesville Desk and Derrick Club.

Mrs. David, who has taken a prominent part in many civic affairs in Bartlesville, is now an accounting clerk in Central Marketing of Phillips Petroleum Co.

Mrs. Jordan is the new president of the Oklahoma Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club. A member of the Oklahoma City BPW Club the past 18 years, she has served, in many offices and headed numerous committees.

For her "bread-and-butter" job, Mrs. Jordan is district court reporter in Oklahoma City. She is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and has been appointed to the Oklahoma State Board of Examiners of Official Shorthand Reporters.

Known as "Cowboy Nance," Miss Nance was born and reared on a ranch at Justiceburg, Tex. and has been riding horses since, the "ripe old age of three weeks," she claims, as she rode on a pillow in front of her mother.

She has had her own horse since she was five years old, and has participated in rodeo's cutting horse and barrel contests. She has been guest ranch girl and judged the most typical at the Fort Worth Stack Show and has won numerous saddles,  bridles, belts, hats, etc. . Economos is well known to Oklahomans in the viewing area of television Channel 6 of Tulsa, and also to queen contestants as he has served as a judge in previous years.

He recently completed writing the life story of his father, Rabbi Spirdon Economos, who died in 1970. This is to be filmed and production is scheduled to begin in September. Filmed in Tulsa, it will feature stars from California. The story is a biographical sketch of father and son.

Rodeo Queen Candidates Results