These are some photos I took when Trip Martin and I went to the Debutante Ball at Pine Bluff Country Club on December 29, 1976. We were supposed to be floor marshals and escort young women down to the front, but we got there too late. Other floor marshals handled the job, so we didn't get in trouble for missing out on our assigned duty. We hung around, dressed in our tuxedos, and enjoyed the party.
George Spencer, Steve Lloyd, Mark Davis, Louis Dunklin.
Don't know who these people are.
????, Marti Bellingrath, Trip. I should know that lady's name...
Richard Freeman and Cathy Ayres.
One of the Bodie "girls", and Donald "Bugs" Simmons (with long hair).
Vickie Wineland, one of the 19 debutantes, and Trip. The other debs were Carol Tracy, Michelle Skrabanek, Janet Lee Scallion, Mary Ellen Russell, Melissa Dare Perdue, Helene Lauren Pascale, Dora Jane Oudin, Ann Oudin, Jan Nelson, Andrea Makris, Jane Ann Lloyd, Elizabeth Mann Kennedy, Karen Ann Johnson, Claire Ann Holmes, Paula Rae Henry, Fairfax Triplett Fullerton, Elizabeth Ann Dalheim, and Elizabeth Ann Case.
Trip triumphant but blurred.
Joe (?) Cook, Alfred Warriner, and somebody whose name I should know.
Laurie Pascale, whose older sister Helene was a debutante.
And the larger than life characters: Jewel Bain, "FuFa" Triplett Fullerton and son Baker Fullerton, whose sister Fairfax Fullerton was a debutante not only here but also at a New York City debutante ball held on January 1st at the Plaza Hotel. Sidelong glance from the background is being cast by Joel Chandler. Another New York connection is that Marti Bellingrath was living in New York City at this time, and Dad and I had brunch at the Russian Tea Room with her on a Sunday in October when we were on our way to Rome.
During the same week as this white debutante ball, there was also a black debutante ball held at what was then called Collegiate Plaza but later was called PJ's. Twenty young women were introduced to society at that event.
