Newspaper clipping: 1960 Peach Queen Will Be Crowned

Title: Newspaper clipping: 1960 Peach Queen Will Be Crowned
Accession Number: 2023.23.15
Accession Date: Feb. 15, 2023
Accession Creator: David Lovegrove
Depositor: Found in collection
Description: Article giving details about the 1960 Peach Festival beauty pageant, including a lists of groups and contestants
Date: 1960
Format: newspaper clipping with photographs
Storage Location: General Archive Box #5 Folder #4
Text: 1960 Peach Queen Will Be Crowned This Evening
By CARL H. MAY
Journal Staff Writer
GREER -- One of twenty-eight beautiful girls will be crowned queen of the fourth annual South Carolina Peach Festival tonight at the Coronation Ball in Greer High School gymnasium.
Finals in the beauty pageant will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Greer High School auditorium.
Group C evening gown competition will kickoff tonight's judging. This will be followed by judging in groups A and B swim suit competition.
Ten semi-finalists will be chosen, after which the group will be eliminated to the top five. From this five will come the Peach Queen for 1960, who will represent the fresh fruit industry in the state.
Thursday night at the high school auditorium, the contestants, all queens in their own right and representing various towns, counties and organizations in the state, were put through the beauty pageant preliminaries.
Group A evening gown contestants included: Delores Wallace, "Miss Beaufort"; Renee Williamson, "Miss Conway"' Beth Brockman, "Miss Duncan"' Diana Brannon, "Miss Greer"' Maxine Threatt, "Miss Jefferson"; Hilda Howard, "Miss Lyman"; Kay Winsett, "Miss Marion"; Carolyn Freeman, "Miss Seneca"; and Rickey Harvey, "Miss Sumter."
Group B evening gown lovelies included: Joyce Walters, "Miss Bishopville"; Carron Smith, "Miss Campobelloe"; Sandra ray, "Miss Clinton"; Maxine Hunter, "Miss Easley"; Phyllis Greene, "Miss Hampton County"; Elaine Smith, "Miss Spartanburg"; and Mary Alice Broadnax, "Miss Taylors."
The Group C swim suit competition was saved for the final phase of the preliminaries. this group included: Dianne Wilson, "Miss Charleston"; Benni Knight, "Miss Fountain Inn"; Yvonne Chappell, "Miss Greenville"; Dianne Mangum, "Miss Mullins"; Doris Keith, "Miss Pickens"; Judy Penland, "Miss Rock Hill"; Joyce Ann Betts, "Miss Timmonsville"; Barbara Anne Linder, "Miss Barnwell": and Claudette Keeney, "Miss Bennettsville."
The queens appearing Thursday night in the evening gown competition will don swim suits tonight for the judges. The swim suit queen Thursday night will appear in evening gown tonight.
During change of groups, Miss Carron Smith played several selections on the accordion and Miss Judi Klipfel, "Miss North Carolina," sang several songs. Both were well received by the audience.
Johnny Batson, master of ceremonies, introduced the visiting queens from the stage. They included in addition to Miss Klipfel the following:
Jeannette Ardell, "Miss Dixie"; Tootsie Dennis, "Miss South Carolina"; Loretta Friddell, South Carolina Farm Bureau Queen; Norma Ann Buchanan, North Carolina Rhododendron Queen; Gloria Penney, International Tobacco Queen; Carolyn Melton, Miss Universe of South Caroline; Nancy Purvis, "Miss Florida"; and Anne Goldsmith, the 1919 [1959] Peach Queen.
Judges are: Miss Mary E. Murphy of New York City, Jerry Ball of Charlotte, Willie Hand of Orlando, Fla., Miss Purvis and Miss Ardell.
After the 1960 queen is selected, she will be crowned during the Coronation Ball by Miss Goldsmith. The Coronation Ball starts at 9:30 tonight.
Everybody loves a parade. And Thursday afternoon's 95-unit parade was no exception. Everybody liked it. Especially the kids as the Hejaz clowns performed and distributed candy along the route.
Over 100 beautiful girls, most of them queens. several marching bands and drum majorettes added color and interest to the 30 professional floats as the huge parade wove down W. Poinsett Street through the downtown section.

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TRIO OF QUEENS: These three Spartanburg area queens are preparing to display their talents and beauty in the evening gown competition Thursday night in the fourth annual S. C. Peach Festival at Greer. They are (left to right): Carron Smith of Campobello, Phyllis Greene of Forest City, N. C., and Elaine Smith of Spartanburg. Miss Greene is "Miss Gaffney."

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TWO IS GOOD COMPANY: These two beauties, Hilda Howard of Lyman (left) and Beth Brockman of Duncan smile prettily for the photographer during the preliminary competition at Greer Thursday night. Finals start tonight at 7:30 at Greer Senior High School auditorium.
Relation: Related sources are all from the 1960 Peach Festival and are kept in same archival box; 1960 Peach Festival program; 1960 Peach Festival brochure; Photograph: Peach Festival, 1960 Peach Queen Judy Penland; Newspaper clipping: Queens' Banquet Given Saturday By Kiwanis Club; Newspaper Clipping: Pretty Waves From Beauties At Greer; Newspaper clipping: Contestants at barbecue luncheon; Newspaper clipping: Nine Good Reasons For Cheering; Newspaper clipping: Greer's Peach Festival Has Event-Packed Day; Newspaper clipping: Lovely Floats Adorned By Lovely Ladies