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D12536-5
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- 1942-02-24 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Seventeen entrants pose in the Puyallup High School auditorium during the annual judging of queen contestants for the 1942 Daffodil Festival. For the first time, the contest was open to girls from different locales. After much deliberation from the news photographers serving as judges and finally a coin toss, seventeen year old Shirley Nieman, sixth from left, a senior at Puyallup High School was chosen as the Daffodil Queen. Her attendants were Beverly Belfoy of Stadium High, Tacoma, and Elaine Steele, Sumner High senior. At the request of the Army, there was no parade in 1942 but all other events were held March 20-22. (TNT 2/25/1942, pg. 1)
Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1942 : Puyallup); Nieman, Shirley;