CORONATION TO OPEN CUP REGATTA FRIDAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200260008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 15, 1955
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Coronation to Open
Cup Regatta Friday
The ?24th running of the
President's Cup Regatta will be
launched 'Friday night with ,a
coronation, colorful Aqn:a-Pag-
eant and .? illuminated . boat
parade. .,
, The festivities will get under-
. : way at Hains Point at 7:30 P. m.
with ap hour-long band' concert
' by -the Navy School of ' Music
band: d i r e"c t e d by Lt.-Cmdr.
? John McDonald.
' The 'School'' of Music ?band
will be shore-based, for the con-
cert, but at 8:80,p. m. the Show
will switch to a barge anchored
? I
off the Point.
,.. There, "Melise? Ross, "an 18-
year-old' with blue eyes- and
4 honey-brown ? hair will be
a crowneclothe 21st queen of the
. -." Regatta. Edgar Morris, chair-
? man- of the' coronation coin-
' mittee, ' will' introduce. the
? queen's court. ? . ?
? Queen Melise, the-daughter
of. Brig. Gen. and _Mrs.. Stoyte
0. Ross, will be 'attended hy
Catharine ?Cabell, ,daughter of
T`Gen:* and Mrs. Charles P.
- Cab-ell; , Beverly Bland, 'daugh-
, ter--"bf -Mrs. Julius Castigliola;
Elizabeth Barnes, daughter. of
? Navy Capt. and Mrs. Robert
McCumber Barnes; Elizabeth
. Burger, daughter of -Maj. Gen.
,, and Mrs. . Joseph , C. Burger;
Elizabeth Thatcher; daughter of
)Mai. Gin. Gen. and Mrs. Herbert B.
tThatcher; Jacquelyn McCart-
, new, daughter of John N. MC-
Cartney, and Deborah , Giide?
? daughter of ?Mr. and Mrs.i
? ? Granville 'Gude. ,
. Queen Melise will reign un-
til after the last of a two-day
- 4series of powerboat race,
when she'll have, to abdicate to
? leave for classes at the Uni-
? versity of Florida. .One of her*
attendants will take over her
duties during the sailing races
Sept. 24 and 25.
. After the coronation, the
Aqua-Pageant will swing into
an hour-and-a-half pr ogr a in
presided over by Bryson Rash,
WMAL television personality:
Included in tice eight-act show
will be the Justin Lawrie Sind-
ers; a 72-voice chorus with
Lindsey ergen and Annette
May as soloists; the Jumping
Jacks, an Air Force .singing
group, and the ?Air Force bag-
pipe band and novelty acts.
Horace Walker, geneKal chair-
man of the Regatta, will intro-
duce several of the drivers who
will compete in -the Gold Cup
speedboat races oh Saturday
and Sunday.
Swimming and diving acts
originally scheduled for the
Aqua-Pageant we r e canceled
last ? week after the District
Health Department warned
that the polluted . Potornac
would endanger the health of
the performers.
The illimiinated boat parade
is scheduled to start at the
conclusion, of the pageant,
about'-10 p. 'm. More than two'
dozen brightly _ illuminated
boats* will take part in , the
parade. An innovation this year
will' be colored spopights,
which will Play upon the boats,
is they ,pass. 'Art Lamb, Of
WTTG?TV will describe the
parade
judges for the Boat Parade
will be Harold A. Long, Ray-
mond J. Lassonde, J. Stanley
Long and District Court Judge
Richmond B. Keetch. ,
Standing room for the .band
concert, .coronation and' Aqui-
Pageant.wilt be free. Seats will
be available, at $1 each. .
Tickets fort the -powerboat
races- aie' selling at Si for sea-
wall?seats..-and ? $2.5.0,i,:for rbox
seats. The races start at 10 a. m.
Saturday and noon on Sunday
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