16 • Thursday, January 12, 2012
Social
Assembled for the Holidays
OVER THE MOUNTAIN Journal
The 69th Annual Holiday Assembly was Dec. 16 at the Country Club of Birmingham. Twenty-nine young ladies were presented at the ball. Photos special to the Journal
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he 69th annual Holiday Assembly was Dec. 16 at the Country Club of Birmingham. The season began with a motherdaughter tea at Mountain Brook Club in September. On the night of the ball, the presentees and their dates enjoyed a seated dinner in the dining room. Escorted by their fathers, the young women were presented in the East Room. Presentees are high schoool juniors and have a mother, grandmother or aunt who was previously presented at the Holiday Assembly. The presentation was followed by a dance with guests and friends with music by Familiar Faces. Presented at the Holiday Assembly were: Lillian Wakefield Bowron, daughter of Mrs. Harold Alfred Bowron III and the late Mr. Bowron; Sarah St. Clair Bowron, daughter of Mrs. Leah Harper Bowron and Mr. Thomas Whitwell Bowron II; Margaret Russell Bromberg, daughter of Mrs. Anne McMillan Bromberg and Mr. Frank Hardy Bromberg III; Caroline Grace Carmichael, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Donald Carmichael Jr.;
Among those presented at the Holiday Assembly were from left: Sarah Reed, Lily Bowron, Addie Clark and Lamar Cooper.
Elizabeth Ashley Carmichael, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Troy Carmichael; Adrienne Lange Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lange Clark; Lamar Bickley Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Lawrence Cooper Jr.; Matilda Lillian Culp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Newton Culp III; Marguerite MacRae Edmonds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryson Glass Edmonds; Claire Elizabeth Fox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hanlon Fox Jr.; Catherine Taylor Gardner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lucien Gardner; Margaret Stabler
Greene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Keller Greene; Carolyn Youmans Grenier, daughter of Mrs. Celeste Crowe Grenier and Mr. and Mrs. John Beaulieu Grenier; Virginia Davis Hutchinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neal Spence Hutchinson; Mary Rebecca Lankford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edward Lankford Jr.; Frances Caroline Lee, daughter of Mrs. Natalie Hicks Lee and the late Mr. Donaldson Bramham Lee; Sarah Frances Matheson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Thornton Matheson; Carolyn Davis McCalley, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Winston Tilley McCalley; Adelaide Elizabeth Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mixson Miller Jr.; Sydney McClure Newton, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robins Jeffry Newton; Laura Elizabeth Patrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Benjamin Patrick; Ann Catherine Perry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Payne Perry; Kendall Caroline Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Scott Reed; Sarah Lawrence Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lawrence Reed; Mallie Moughon Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Gordon Robinson III; Emerson Monteray Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Delano Smith IV; Mary Kyle Spurlock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dixon Spurlock; Philippa Bainbridge Straus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Samuel Straus; Isabelle O’Neal White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Tryg Hoff and Mr. and Mrs. David Hart White Jr.; and Mary Frances Yeilding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Owen Yeilding. ❖