UK Sweetheart Majorettes holding 50th anniversary reunion
Published 1:38 pm Friday, November 2, 2018
- The 1968 Sweetheart Majorettes were, from left to right, Nancy Carter Walton, Sally Moore Barnhart, Dee Hawkins Chavez, Nancy Bowles, Chris Carter Schultz, Kathy Norris, Debbie Castle Craft, Frankie Bratton Jeffery, Lynda Williams Closson, and Shana Turner Snook.
The University of Kentucky Marching Band admitted female musicians in the band in the fall of 1968. Along with those musicians came Flags representing the academic colleges and the Sweetheart Majorettes. There were 10 Sweetheart Majorettes and two featured Sweetheart twirlers.
Stanford High School’s own Lynda Williams Closson was one of those 10 Sweetheart Majorettes selected to twirl at the spring 1968 tryouts (with 125 twirlers trying out) for the fall debut of the 1968 UK marching band.
On Saturday, Nov. 3, during the University of Kentucky vs. Georgia football game the 1968 Sweethearts will return to celebrate 50 years of the Sweetheart Majorettes and their 50th Anniversary Reunion with the UK Alumni Band.