PARTIES EXTRA: SEPTEMBER 14, 2007--MISS AMERICA DROPS BY PARTY

Candy and Tom Dulaney welcome Miss America Lauren Nelson, center, to their home. The Lawton, Oklahoma, native was in town for a number of public appearances.

THERE SHE IS…Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson dropped by the Nichols Hills home of Candy and Tom Dulaney last weekend. The Dulaneys were hosting his Phi Gamma Delta 50th pledge class reunion dinner on September 7th.

60 University of Oklahoma fraternity members and wives and dates were at the party where they all received retro tee shirts with class members’ names and nicknames on the back.

Hawaiian girls, reminders of the fraternity “FIJI Island Party” greeted the guests and handed out buttons which said “Fiji ’57, 50th reunion.”

Purple Passion punch, also reminiscent of the”Island Party” was served. The partygoers attended the OU-Miami football game the next day and went to the fraternity house afterwards. Sharon and Johnny Bozalis entertained at a barbeque that night.

BRING YOUR MALLET…. Tad Cassidy organized a group of Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club members to play croquet. There were games at 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. September 9th.

Players wore their “whites” and either brought their own croquet mallets or borrowed them from Cassidy. Cassidy also lectured the group about different games and also how to hold the mallet correctly.

There was a tent for spectators and a bar set up. Candy and Chuck Ainsworth were among the organizers.

CELEBRATION…Lauren and Tyler Harris were honorees at a dinner on September 7th given by their parents, Anne and Mark Harris and Patty and Bill Held, in the Harris home. The couple lives in Houston. They were married in August in Beaver Creek, Colo.