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Hali Valadez and<br />
Allison Crittenden<br />
Seven high school seniors seek title<br />
of Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen<br />
The selection of the<br />
Urbanna Oyster Festival<br />
Queen is a long-standing tradition<br />
that dates back to 1960,<br />
the year before Urbanna Days<br />
became the Urbanna Oyster<br />
Festival. The first Festival<br />
Queen was crowned on a flatbed<br />
trailer on the day of the<br />
festival.<br />
The tradition of crowning<br />
a Festival Queen and Little<br />
Miss Spat began in 1966.<br />
As the Oyster Festival<br />
evolved over the years, so has<br />
the selection process for the<br />
Queen and Little Miss Spat.<br />
It originally was a type of<br />
beauty pageant, but is now a<br />
scholarship competition for<br />
the Queen contestants. The<br />
judging is based on a community<br />
service project, grade<br />
point average, a judges’ interview,<br />
a written response to a<br />
random question, and overall<br />
participation.<br />
The Queen competition<br />
Alyssa Mitchem and<br />
Jessica Dixon<br />
starts early in the summer<br />
and extends until the crowning<br />
takes place on Friday of<br />
the Oyster Festival.<br />
The crowning of the<br />
Queen at the upcoming 54th<br />
Urbanna Oyster Festival will<br />
take place on Friday, November<br />
4, at 4 p.m. at Taber Park<br />
on Rappahannock Avenue.<br />
The Urbanna Oyster Festival<br />
Queen Scholarship Competition<br />
awards scholarships to<br />
the top three Queen finishers<br />
and Miss Congeniality.<br />
Queen contestants must<br />
be a high school senior and<br />
a resident of Middlesex<br />
County. Each Queen contestant<br />
selects a girl in the first<br />
grade to compete as her Little<br />
Miss Spat. (A “spat” is a baby<br />
oyster.) The Little Miss Spat<br />
finalists are selected independently<br />
of the Queen and are<br />
judged based on their participation<br />
at an ice cream social,<br />
a judges’ interview, overall<br />
6 • <strong>Southside</strong> <strong>Sentinel</strong> • Urbanna, Va. • Nov. 3, 2011<br />
Lindsay MacKay and<br />
Iesha Lee<br />
participation, and written<br />
response to a question, which<br />
they also illustrate.<br />
The judges are not residents<br />
of Middlesex County.<br />
The seven Oyster Festival<br />
Queen contestants are Allison<br />
Crittenden, Jessica Dixon,<br />
Iesha Lee, Lara Lucas, Felicia<br />
Marsh, Emily Moore and<br />
Joey Stinchcomb.<br />
The eight Little Miss Spat<br />
contestants are Adrian Austin,<br />
Courtney Harrow, Lindsay<br />
MacKay, Alyssa Mitchem,<br />
Abigail Smiley, Hali Valadez,<br />
Catalina Warren and Sydney<br />
“Gracie” Wynberry.<br />
A total of $11,500 in scholarships<br />
will be awarded in the<br />
Queen competition. Savings<br />
bonds will be awarded in<br />
Little Miss Spat competition.<br />
Queen Scholarship sponsors<br />
include, in alphabetical order,<br />
Bethpage Camp-Resort, Bon<br />
Secours Health System, Bristow-Faulkner<br />
Funeral Home,<br />
Courtney Harrow and<br />
Lara Lucas<br />
C&F Bank, Colonial Virginia<br />
Bank, Dr. C. Ben Lennon<br />
DDS, EVB Bank, Grey’s<br />
Point Camp, Rappahannock<br />
Concrete Corp., Rosegill<br />
Development LLC, and Thurston<br />
Properties.<br />
Little Miss Spat sponsors<br />
are Ryman’s Heating & A/C,<br />
and Unique Golf Carts.<br />
Catalina Warren and<br />
Felicia Marsh<br />
Adrian Austin and<br />
Joey Stinchcomb<br />
Past Oyster Festival Queens<br />
1960- Jean Stone<br />
1961- Tommy Lou Cusimano<br />
1962- Mary Kay Mercer<br />
1963- Chalie Pierce<br />
1964- Sandra Ward<br />
1965- Frances Marie Hall<br />
1966- Barbara Davis<br />
1967- Julie Marshall<br />
1967- Joyce Bowen<br />
1968- Patrice Thrift<br />
1969- Sheila Moore<br />
1970- Debra Marshall<br />
1971- Susan Harrow<br />
1972- Sandra Hogge<br />
1973- Carolyn Norton<br />
1974- Sharon Harrow<br />
1975- Susan Crittenden<br />
1976- Kathy Redmon<br />
1977- Shannon Warren<br />
1978- Leslie Pugh<br />
1979- Diana Durham<br />
1980- Tammy Jackson<br />
1981- Michele Mankowski<br />
1982- Tara Fuccella<br />
1983- Sandra Brahn<br />
1984- Noele Mankowski<br />
1985- Kelly McMurtrie<br />
1986- Sara Townsend<br />
1987- Gloria Mercer<br />
1988- Lisa Handley<br />
1989- Connie Wright<br />
1990- Stephanie Henley<br />
1991- Genessa Dail<br />
1992- Tammy Lynn Jackson<br />
1993- Jennifer Wright<br />
1994- Addie Rowlson-Hall<br />
1995- Katie Rothery<br />
1996- Jenny Walters<br />
1997- LaNae Briggs<br />
1998- Crystle Felthouse<br />
1999- Hannah Chowning<br />
2000- Ashley Rowe<br />
2001- Kelly Proctor<br />
2002- Casey Haynes<br />
Abigail Smiley and<br />
Emily Moore<br />
Sydney “Gracie”<br />
Wynberry<br />
2003- Lily Smith<br />
2004- Brittany Jones<br />
2005- Charlee Eades<br />
2006- Kenleighe Longest<br />
2007- Maggie Ballantyne<br />
2008- Ashley Figg<br />
2009- Kendall McNamee<br />
2010- Lauren Figg<br />
2011- Who will it be?<br />
See List of former<br />
Little Miss Spats<br />
on page 9. Th e<br />
2011 crowning<br />
will be at<br />
4 p.m. Friday<br />
in Taber Park.
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