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Chairmen’s Connection Daughter Heads Ball of Roses 30 Years after Her Mother
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llen McCulley Faust chaired the 2013 Ball of Roses exactly 30 years after her mother, Sheard Mason McCulley, chaired the event in 1983. The 53rd annual Ball of Roses was held June 1 at the Country Club of Birmingham. Guests entered under a canopy of white lights through columns of white hydrangeas and pale pink and pink roses. The East Room was decorated with 16 columns encircled with greenery and white, peach and pale flowers. more photos at pinkThe evening began with the invitation-only Men’s Committee dinner around Tuscan-style round tables decorated with cascading hydrangeas and flowers in shades of peach, white, pink and sage green. Mrs. Bradley Hosch Anderson was the
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2013 Ball of Roses co-chairman. Sarah Norville Peinhardt was the Men’s Committee Dinner chairman, and Mary Cox Brown was the decorations chairman. Lindsey Tomlinson Druhan is the Ballet Guild president. The Alabama Ballet ballerinas performed “Swan Lake” at the event. Those attending included Frank S. and Mary Bradley Anderson, Jonathan D. and Grace Kipp, Catherine Taylor Cooper, Graham and Melody Read, John Hamilton and Bonnie Pounds, Sheard Mason and Thomas M. McCulley, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hilton-Green Tomlinson Sr., Jeffery Parker and Mary Margaret Hendry, Mr. and Mrs. Grisham, Lathrop and Garland Smith, Steven and Ashley Jackson, Colin Alexander and Liz Read, Jay and Caroline Ezell, Tucker and Kitty Brown and Mary Cox Brown. ❖
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The 1983 Ball of Roses Chairman Sheard Mason McCulley and her daughter Ellen McCulley Faust, co-chairman of the 2013 Ball of Roses. Photos special to The Journal
Billy Hiden Jr., Pat Hiden, Taylor Hiden and Billy Hiden Sr.
Hannah Bromberg was presented by her father, Eugene Brooks Bromberg.
Margaret Day Lacey was presented by her father, John Lacey.
Lindsey Tomlinson Druhan, Ellen McCulley Faust, Mary Bradley Hosch Anderson and Sarah Norville Peinhardt.
Ballet Guild Honors Officers The Ballet Guild of Birmingham recently honored its 2012-13 officers. Officers were thanked for their work on the Ball of Roses, which enabled the organization’s continued support of the Alabama Ballet. Pictured are front, from left: Grace Kipp, Lindsay Druhan, Ellen Faust and Mary Bradley Anderson. Back: Rebecca Wise, Shelton Kitchen, Jessica Thuston and Caroline Woods. ❖
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The Alabama Ballet ballerinas perform “Swan Lake” at The Ball of Roses.