SOCIAL
20 • Thursday, December 13, 2018
OVER THE MOUNTAIN JOURNAL
A ROARING GOOD TIME
Photos by Dee Moore
Seventeen Young Ladies Presented by the Debutante Club of Birmingham
From left: Mildred Eugenia Stutts, Catherine Brevard Harmon, Anna Catherine Gillespy and Morgan Ann Dommerich Lineberry.
Sarah Grace Lindsey, Julia Wittichen Smith, Catherine Wheelock Giti Ahmad and Helen Oliver Little.
Mary Keller Greene, Margaret Allyn Pratt Given, Ellen Elizabeth deBerniere Given, Evalyn LeBlanc Bargeron and Alice Brantley Sanders.
Mary Lucile Baker, Julia Grace Garrison, Anne Holloway Somerville and Katherine Gail Durkee.
T
he Debutante Club of Birmingham honored 17 young ladies with an elegant 1920s-themed party at Mountain Brook Club. The event, “A Roaring Good Time,” celebrated the debutantes and their escorts and paid homage to the Debutante Club’s beginnings in 1929. The honorees wore long white gowns and all other guests wore black, which added to the vintage feeling of the evening. The honorees and escorts for 2018 were: Catherine Ahmad and Sam Brinkley, Cile Baker and Fisher Wells, Evalyn Bargeron and Clayton Sharp, Katherine Durkee and
Tucker Deaton, Julia Garrison and Will Barranco, Anna Catherine Gillespy and Austin Garrett, Ellen Given and Richard Wetherill, Mallie Given and Tyler Heath, Mary Keller Greene and Will Hargrove, Cate Harmon and Ben Kingsbury, Sarah Grace Lindsey and Landon Renner, Morgan Lineberry and Michael Clark, Oliver Little and Warren Lightfoot, Brantley Sanders and Ryan Fredella, Julia Smith and Peyton McDougal, Annie Somerville and Zander Mason, and Emmie Stutts and Will Edwards. Guests arriving at the soirée were met by
an antique roadster parked beneath a canopy of white lights on the lawn at the Mountain Brook Club. The exterior of the classic white building was accented by silhouettes of dapper gents and flappers along with the image of the iconic billboard from the movie “The Great Gatsby.” Inside, the Mountain Brook Club was transformed into a 1929 party by Robert Logan of Backstage Designs. The inspiration for the décor was the artist Erté, famous for his lavish Art Deco designs for theater and film. The living room featured a hand-painted panel depicting a marble staircase to the Gatsby mansion. The staircase was flanked by
potted palms, which were repeated in all the entryways. Down the hall, a flapper’s feathered headpiece adorned the beaded doorway to the dining room. The young ladies and their dates dined together at an ornate single table with towering white hydrangeas that were connected by silver beaded strands. Sparkling silver ornaments marked the place settings for the table. After dinner, the debutantes and their guests were led into the ballroom by music from The Maxx, from Atlanta. They danced until midnight under a vintage silver mirrored ball and strings of twinkly white lights. ❖