MORE DEBUTANTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 127, 31 May 1941, Page 12

MORE DEBUTANTES

QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE

OLD GIRLS

)ANCE LAST NIGHT

iL^i.i.^a young girls who have rejently completed their schooling made their debut into adult society last night at the Queen Margaret College Parents' and Old Girls' Association's debutante dance. They were Misses Betty Booth, June Cairney, Elaine Duncan, Helen Hogg, Pat Hartman, Lesley Jones, Mervyn Leece (Hawera), Helen Laurenson, Maureen McLaren, Valeric Madden, Joy Neale, Nancy Picot, Joan Saunders, Jean Short, Dorothy Stout, Colleen Tweedie, Barbara Wall, and Shona Wiley.

The dance was held in St. Francis Hall and there was everything necessary to make it a memorable night for the debutantes^-their own lovely frocks, the beautiful decorations of the hall, and the great number of friends and relatives present. Being a debutantes' dance, there was no shortage of young men to partner the girls, as the majority were their contemporaries and therefore under military age. There were a number, however, in uniform, including some of the members of the Parents' Association. - s

The Queen Margaret College debutante dances are always characterised by a very charming feature—the waltz which the debutantes dance with their fathers as partners after making their curtsy to the principal of their former college. Last night this little ceremony' delighted the onlookers. The girls all carried bouquets, and Miss Irene Wilson, principal of the college, who was wearing a gown of black and grey lace over gold lame, held a posy of sweet peas, which had been presented to her by the members of both associations.

Miss Wilson and Miss Edna Hatch, president of the Old Girls' Association, who wore rose pink ripple crepe, were co-hostesses. Those who received the guests were Dr. O. C. Mazengarb, president of the Parents' Association, and Mrs. Mazengarb, and the combined dance committee included Mrs. J. S. Martin, Mrs. Madden, Mrs. Mazengarb. and Mrs. A. W. Duncan, of the Parents' Association, and Misses Ernestine Winstone, Edna Hatch. K. Hoby, D. Kersley, and Mrs. V. Hopkirk, of the Old Girls' Association. Mrs. V. Hopkirk was responsible for the lovely decorations of the hall and the supper-room, and she had the assistance of members of the Old Girls' Association.