Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (Mad Hatter) Tea and Board of Director's Dinner

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2022 Board of Director's dinner at Mesh restaurant in Louisville, KY to welcome our special guest, Dr. E. Quinn Peeper, Chairman of the National Board of Directors. 

(All images provide by Sarah Herron Photography)

The Kentucky Branch celebrated the 2022 Queen's Platinum Jubilee Birthday Tea, the first time it has been held since 2019. The beautiful event was celebrated at historic Oxmoor Woods Farm, tracing 230 to five generations of the Bullitt family. The family was influential in the formation of Kentucky and houses the largest library inside a private home in Kentucky. Our branch members and guests were welcomed by Bullitt family heir and long-time E-SU member, Mr. Lowry Watkin's Jr. 

This year at the tea, the Branch celebrated the 2022 class of scholars attending TLab programs at Oxford, Edinburgh, and Shakespeare's New Globe Theater. The scholars included Kayla Daley an English Teacher from Assumption High School, Rayleigh Deaton a junior at the University of Kentucky, Beth Ewing a Social Studies Teacher from Owensboro Kentucky, Elayne Harrington, a student at the University of Louisville, Katie Blackerby Weible, a Theater Teacher at Dupont Manual/YPAS High School, and Rebecca Liford-Hibbard an ELA and Theater/Director Teacher at Corbin High School. Scholarships and travel stipends were awarded. 

A special award issued by Executive Director Karen Karpowich, with the designation of Kentucky Branch Scholar Champion, was awarded to O. Grant Bruton, Esq., Kentucky's first E-SU scholar to study at Christ's Hospital in 1948.  This first time award was presented by special guest, Dr. E. Quinn Peeper, Chairman of the National Board of Directors. 

A lovely luncheon was served and the board of directors, members, and guests toured the home while enjoying numerous activities including a piano performance by Dr. Peeper, a Shakespeare performance by Kentucky Branch Champion and National Shakespeare Competition Third Place Winner, Kathurre Miriti, presentation of the hounds from Long Run Woodford Hounds, the color guard presented by the Kentucky Society of Colonial Wars, and performances by the Sacred Heart Madrigals, Carolyn Cooke (bagpiper), and Jessica Hayden (harpist).  Special guests also included Dr. Karen Blair Brand, President of the Central Pennsylvania Branch.

Respectfully, Kate S. Nitzken, President

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