Oakwood University - Acorn Yearbook (Huntsville, AL)

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First Place - Delores Bryant 1 I E A f P 1 4 1 e4.i

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A star studded sky, two mirrored lakes spanned by a bridge, muraled mountains, and an array of flowers composed the Palace Gardens, created by the U.S.Nl. as setting for the annual banquet. For one sweet night we put away the cares mundane of daily life, and we soared up the heights of pleasure seldom found except in dreams. We experienced the ioy of music sweet and lights so soft that we forgot the trials and tasks inherent in our lives. We spent an evening frivolous, like gossamer which fell amid a sea of smiles, and for that night our hearts were free, wrapped mistily in tenderness, all born of good companionship, and after the end of the night, that feeling stayed and grew. Guest entertainers from Huntsville Carol Hartie paints a picture through poetic expression Queen Delores is presented to her court Uakwood Lgoilege Library 1 Huntsville, Ala. 35806 ini. . an- ur' - -- -ss Y-wvss nx:ssww 1: .,f .1

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Queen Contest runner-up- Carol Lindsey runner-up- Barbara Holland Q. 3 Barbara Holland, Delores Bryant, and Carol Lindsey were the three fin- alists chosen at O.C.'s first U.S.M. Banquet Queen Contest held on Novem- ber l7, l963. The banquet queen whose name was not disclosed until the night of U.S.M. Banquet was chosen from among the three finalists. Each participant was iudged on her charm, wit, and talent. Barbara Holland, a senior Elementary major, displayed her dramatic talent when she rendered a brief monologue entitled I Stand Accused, Delores Bryant, a iunior Mathematics maior, modeled a black shift dress which she wore interchangeably with matching coat and stole. Carol Lindsey, a freshman pre-nursing student, garbed in a stiff brocade gown, depicted the pathos of Amy Lowell's poem, Patterns. Other beauties who entered the contest were Juanita McPherson, Adele Seay, Joirthel von Phul, Kathleen Hall, and Jacquelyn Croumel.