May Pageant Memo

All future princesses or those that are thinking about running in 08 are welcomed to attend both princess meetings listed below. This will give those future representatives a clear idea on expectations and the process to run in the DRYL Queen’s Pageant in 2008.

The Pageant is once again asking Delegates for help in distributing and selling raffle tickets to offset the cost of the Pageant and to help promote the event on August 11^th. Please see Peggy Zielinski or Toni Nespola for your tickets tonight.

Sunday, May 20, 2007 @ Wissinoming YC – Princess Meeting with Commodores

Commodores dress code is summer dress whites

Princess dress code is sun dress, dress shorts or slacks

Wednesday, June 6, 2007 – Interview & Public Speaking Seminar – Wissinoming Yacht Club

Commodores are not required to attend this meeting

Wednesday, August 8, 2007 – Preliminary Judging at Cannstatters

The 2007 Pageant Theme is a Retro 70’s theme so be creative and come out and have some fun. The club that uses the Pageant Theme will earn an additional 10% of points going towards the total score for Best Decorated Club Award.

The scoring will remain the same as last year.

The breakdown is as follows:

50% Pageant Interviews

40% Evening Pageant Questions

10% DRYL/Club Activities

This means that each time a princess visits a club for an opening day, club picnic or attends a Pageant meeting she will need to get a signature from the hosting club’s commodore and Pageant Committee member in a book that will be provided to her. The dates of eligibility are April 1 thru Wednesday, August 8, 2007. Every contestant has the potential to be crowned Miss DRYL Queen. This Pageant is and always has been about the well rounded individual.

I want to make sure I am clear that each princess will only receive credit for 24 events as last year.  This does not mean that she is required to attend 24 events!!!!!  The Queen's Pageant Committee would like all of the princesses to be active but not to the point that girls are traveling to 2/3 clubs a day.  We do not want that!  I prefer that princesses attend 1 club event a day so you can stay and enjoy the club's events of the day and there is no pressure to coordinate times and rides.   

Please note that any home club event that she attends she will receive credit for as long as she gets a signature from the commodore and another club officer that was present at the event.

If there are any questions or concerns related to the 2007 Pageant or information in this memo, please contact me directly by phone or e-mail.

Toni Nespola

215-741-9711 Home

215-266-1013 Cell

drylqueen@aol.com 

The forms for the 2007 Pageant have been distributed. The Program book form will follow next month.