University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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WITH PRIDE, WE PRESENT . The 1950 Kentuckian Queen Kentucky's Queen of Queens . . . a ravishing brunette from Miami, Florida . . . freshman in Home Ec . . . 5' 8 tall with flashing brown eyes . . . creamy complexion . . . only l8 . . . Pat likes painting, sewing, and horseback riding . . . crazy for salt-water sports . I. . a touch of temper seldom shown . . . energetic and studious . . . soft-spoken, with a contagious laugh and instant, piercing charm . . . she reigns with grace.

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WE HAD AN EYE FOR BEAUTY . . . . And pretty girls were hardly hard to find . . . so numerous were they, we had queens for everything . . . but above and beyond the rest, stood the coveted honor of being chosen for the KENTUCKIAN beauty court . . . unquestioned distinction . . . pride of every mother's son in o cord coat, commonly called a student . . . the rivalry this year was heated . . . sororities squealed as one voice when their candidate . . . in filmy gown . . . ambled down the runway at Memorial Hall . . . the field totaled thirty-one . . . but only the seven luscious lovelies on these pages . . . were in the money . . . Dolls, man, DOLLS! . . . The judges . . . Frances Mason, fashion co-ordinator for H8.S Pogue Company, Cincinanti . . . L. P. Gorian, director of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios, Cincinnati . . . Wanda Boyd, advertising manager for Wolf-Wile Company . . . and Fred Fugazzi, Lex- ington city commissioner . . . showed good taste . . . as any fool can plainly see. . . . The Coronation Ball . . . spon- sored by L.amp 8. Cross for the KEN- TUCKIAN . . . was howlingly success- ful . . . beautifully staged , . . the Queens were properly presented . . . to anxious throngs . . . and joyous screams acclaimed the winnahs . . . AND cracked the plaster of the Union's tired, sound-proof ballroom. . . . Portraits ofthe beauties . . . on the following pages . . . were taken bY BARTON BATTAILE, Lexington Dh0tographer who also has an eye for beauty. ck. 6 V . , ,, . ,, 4 . ,. 'f' 5 Q Al The seven beauties . . . after the Lamp 8. Cross sponsored contest . . . managed a charming smile . . . after an evening of charming smiles . . . from their ranks, would be picked a Queen . . . and ONLY the judges knew. And beauty was crowned at the Lamp 81 Cross dance . . . it took L8.C prexy Nichols and Editor Patrick to place the crown on Queen Pat's lovely head . . . and even so, they got it crooked . . . efficiency . . . so rarely seen.

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THE TITLE CHANGES . . Like her predecessor, Miss Nancy Brewer, Kappa Alpha Theta from Mayfield, Pat took the campus by storm when she enrolled as a freshman last fall. A Lexington Herald-Leader photog- rapher, impressed with her striking beauty, plastered her all over the Sunday picture section as the typical coed arriving at UK. Since then, nobody has made the mistake of calling Pat typical. Sweet and unassuming, in spite of her great popularity and KENTUCKIAN fame, her Patt Hall neighbors regard her as nothing less than a goddess. Modest to the point of distraction, loyal and completely sincere, sparkling wit, hard-working, and above all, BEAUTI- FUL, Pat represents the perfect fusion ot brains and beauty in the modern American girl. Kcntucky's top two beauties, Pat and lXla 'CY Chatter like ordinary coeds in the Fine Arts Lounge. Dream-children of Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta, respective- ly, lucky is the college man who squiras either of these comaly coeds to a campus function, 5-