Miss Alabama marks milestone with celebration

100 Years of Style Miss Alabama Marks Milestone With Celebration

The Miss Alabama Organization celebrated in style May 21 at The Club in recognition of its 100th anniversary.

The milestone occurred last year, but due to COVID limitations, the celebration was rescheduled for this year.

Twenty-seven former Miss Alabama titleholders, including Miss America 1995 Heather Whitestone and Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs, were present, as was Miss America 1987 Kelly Cash of Tennessee and Miss America’s Outstanding Teen 2022 Marcelle LeBlanc of Birmingham. Other attendees came from as far away as the West Coast.

Presented around the perimeter of the Gold Room were mannequins wearing wardrobe pieces brought by the various Miss Alabama titleholders for display. Before the seated dinner, attendees were able to visit with the former titleholders and take photos.

The large crowd in the grand ballroom included many local and state volunteers, current and former titleholders and contestants and their families, scholarship donors, sponsors and many others.

The evening’s program began with a video welcome and greeting from Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.

The program was a walk down memory lane and consisted of live talent presentations as well as videos from the Miss America competition. A grand 5-tier anniversary cake featuring a Miss Alabama crown at the top was created by chef Michael Glenn. A photo gallery of each Miss Alabama titleholder lined the ballroom of The Club.

Miss Alabama volunteers Judy Tedford and Lynn Martin created two large quilts made from each pageant’s commemorative T-shirts going back four decades. These quilts are being auctioned to raise money for scholarships for this year’s candidates. The quilts will be awarded to the highest bidder at the Miss Alabama competition, which takes place June 29 to July 2 at Samford University’s Wright Center. Tickets for this year’s pageant, “A Centennial Celebration,” are now on sale and can be purchased by calling 205-871-6276.

The nonprofit Miss Alabama Organization is one of the largest scholarship programs within Miss America, awarding well more than $100,000 annually in cash scholarships in addition to in-kind tuition scholarships from colleges and universities across the state.

Among those attending were Nan Teninbaum, president and CEO of the Miss Alabama Organization, with husband, Phil; Amanda and Daniel LeBlanc, Tammy and Rick Towns, Irene Collins, Lindsay Kessler, Betty and Don Mosely, Lori and Sean Adams, Monica and Scott Smith, Lisa and Chris Meadows, Virginia McDorman, Amie Beth Shaver, Tricia and Jeff Tapley, Amanda and Bronson McGriff, Rebekah and Todd Harmon, Anna Bella Foster, Kimberly and Brad Stockard, Abbie Stockard, Madeline Rigdon, Anna Kate Lucas, Nora Chapman, Roye Annette Flowers, Daphne Gray, Stephanie Ward, Betty

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A Nod to the Ballet

2022 Ball of Roses Celebrates Young Women With Dinner and Dancing

Tyler and Dorsey Higginbotham, Anne Evans and Michael Nix

Sixty young women were presented to patrons of the Alabama Ballet during the 62nd Annual Ball of Roses on June 4 at the Country Club of Birmingham.

Guests entered the ballroom to be greeted by a backdrop of coral, pink and white florals designed by Carole Sullivan. As the crowning touch, satin pointe shoes were placed among the floral designs as a nod to the ballet. Members of the Alabama Ballet Company were present, as well, to mix and mingle with attendees.

The evening began with the debut of this year’s presentees in a seated dinner for members and guests of the Men’s Committee, private patrons of the Ballet Guild of Birmingham. The event continued with a formal presentation, followed by an evening of dancing for guild members and family and friends of the presentees.

Dorsey Cox Higginbotham served as the 2022 Ball of Roses chairman, with Eleanor Hodges Tolbert serving as co-chairman.

Louise McClure Pritchard and Jenna Stanke Bissell co-planned the Men’s Committee dinner.

Caroline Simpson Poellnitz and Lillian Jones Falkenburg served as greenery chairs, coordinating the gathering of the greenery from the private gardens of donor homeowners around Mountain Brook and the greater Birmingham area.

Ann Evans Nix is the guild’s 2022 president.

Among those in attendance that evening were Mr. and Mrs. Guy Allen Weatherford Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James Seldon Andrews, Mrs. T. Robert Bentley III, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Jolly Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson Noble III, Mr. and Mrs. George Malcolm Taylor, Mrs. William W. Featheringill, and Mr. and Mrs. Brian Bruce Sullivan. ❖

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Lucy Walthall, with grandparents Robert and Martha Walthall