This has to rank as one of the three worst queen crownings I ever shot. When two out of three of the main players have their eyes closed and you can’t even SEE the eyes of the third person, then you should hang it up.
The April 10, 1967, Missourian caption under this photo said Mrs. Steven (Janet Brasier) Curtis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Braiser of Robertsville, is pictured as she was crowned Sagamore Queen in festivities Saturday evening at the annual Sagamore Ball held at the Arena Building. Officiating at the coronation was, at left, Miss Sandra DeClue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas DeClue of Hazelwood. Miss DeClue has been editor this year and last of the Sagamore, college yearbook, in which Mrs. Curtis will be featured. At right is the queen’s escort, her husband.
Convoluted Missourian style
Married women usually didn’t didn’t have first names in The Missourian: they were always Mrs. Steven Curtis, never Janet Curtis. I’m sure it threw the society editor for a loop when she had to figure out what to call a married college woman. Even as a married woman, she was still identified as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. so-and-so. Notice that her husband didn’t have his lineage traced.
The shot of them approaching the steps is a nicer picture, but I guess you had to have the actual moment of coronation.
Photographer usually tipped off
Someone generally came up to the photographer in advance to let him know who the winner was going to be so we could be in the right place. We had to do it without being obvious. In this case, I wonder if I didn’t get the advance warning. That would be odd, because I shot for both The Sagamore and The Capaha Arrow while I was working at The Missourian.
Women with crowns
- The Queen of England
- Washington School crowns king and queen
- The steamboat Delta Queen visits Cairo
- Jand Dunklin, 1967 Senior Prom Queen
- 1966 SEMO Homecoming Parade
- Linda Stone, 1966 Senior Prom Queen
- 1967 College High Junior-Senior Prom
- Francis Elisabeth Hopkins Dunlap was basketball queen
- Miss Cape Girardeau 1967
- Anne Buchanan, cheerleader and queen candidate
- Carol Ann Browning, 1964 Miss Missouri
I have the years 1968-1973 of the SEMO Sagamore. Is there anyplace that would like to have them for posterity or to display them? Some archive somewhere? They are bulky and heavy a represent a time gone from this digital age and after 40-45 years, they need to go out of my possession.
1967 Prom Queen was Jane Dunklin NOT Judy.
You are absolutely correct. I had classmate Judy in mind when looking at her sister, Jane. I’ll correct it in the story.
Thanks.
Do you have pictures of the 1968 Sagamore Ball?
I found a copy of the yearbook from 1967 and I wonder who was the band who played at this ball there’s a photo in the yearbook of a band with no caption