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On July 16, when 26 college-bound young women curtsied at the Fine Arts Foundation’s Summer Debutante Ball, not every escort walked with the spring of youth in his step.

Proud grandfathers and uncles took their place with younger brothers, teenage cousins and, yes, a boyfriend or two, at this outdoor ceremony conducted on the University of Denver Campus Green.

Photo 1: Mitchell Cassidy looked splendid in the tuxedo that he wore to see his sister, Erin, left, presented at the Summer Ball. With them is April Oldenburg, who’ll be attending CSU with Erin. Photo 2: Debutantes Jessica Fox, left, and Kelsey Smith, right, were classmates at Kent Denver School and received best wishes from Lisa Burke, center, whose son, Arthur, was one of Jessica’s escorts for the ball. Photo 3: Clockwise, from left, tiara mistresses Caitlyn Alberts, Rienne Hartman, Lauren Rainey and Courtney Gosselin. Photo 4: The Summer Debutante Ball begins with a grand march that positions the honorees and their presenters on the University of Denver Campus Green. Photo 5: Briana Overgaard, with her father, Wade James Overgaard, is a graduate of Highlands Ranch High School and will attend Colorado State University. Photo 6: Co-chairwoman Margaret Bell was escorted to the presentation by her husband, the Rev. John Henry Bell, Jr. Photo 7: Nancy Stamper, the Fine Arts Foundation Citizen of the Arts for 2005, on the arm of her husband, John. Photo 8: Katharine Lamb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Davis Lamb of Greenwood Village, is a graduate of Kent Denver School, where she was a photographer for the school newspaper and tutored in both Summerbridge and Open World Learning, a program to help girls from low-income families develop their computer skills. She will attend Colgate University. Photo 9: Brian Wylie and his daughter, Erin, a graduate of Machebeuf High School who will study holistic medicine at the University of Colorado. Erin’s hobbies include playing guitar, soccer and tennis. Photo 10: Not even a broken arm could keep tiara mistress Lauren Rainey, pictured here with her grandfather, Bob Melland, from having a great time at the Summer Debutante Ball. Lauren attends Homestead Elementary School in Centennial, plays soccer with the Power Puffs and swims with the Homestead Hurricanes. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up. Photo 11: Cindi Burge, left, and Margaret Bell chaired the Summer Debutante Ball, proceeds from which are awarded, in the form of cash grants, to a host of cultural arts organizations in the Denver area. Photo 12: Cherry Creek High School graduate Kelly Parker, presented by her father, Brad, will soon start classes at the University of Kansas. Kelly also was a Central City Flower Girl. Photo 13: Katherine Thomas, presented by her father, Pete, is a graduate of Mullen High School, where she was on the National Honor Society and National Spanish Honor Society. In addition she was captain of the school’s soccer team for four years. She’ll be pre-med at Boston College with the goal of becoming an orthopedic surgeon. Photo 14: The debutantes take their places in preparation for the Grand March to the Sturm Hall patio where Dr. Charles Tate III introduced them to a crowd assembled on the Campus Green. Photo 15: Mary Jo Barcheski and her father, Richard, were at the front of the line, leading the 25 other debutantes and their presenters to the Sturm Hall patio. Mary Jo edited the student newspaper at Smoky Hill High School where she lettered all four years in cheers and lacrosse. She’ll pursue a journalism degree from the University of Wyoming. Photo 16: Members of the Summer Debutante Ball’s Class of 2005. Photo 17: Chairwomen Cindi Burge and Margaret Bell surrounded by the debutantes of 2005. Photo 18: As a student at St. Mary’s Academy, Megan George, left, participated in numerous community service projects, including working in a soup kitchen and nursing home and taking mission trips to help the poor in Kentucky and South Dakota. Her goal is to become a hair-and-makeup designer for the film industry. Carolyn Healey, right, was senior editor of the Cherry Creek High School yearbook, played field hockey and volunteered on behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She will major in business at CU-Boulder and hopes to start her own retail business.

Speaking for debutante ball chairwomen everywhere, Cindi Burge said the Summer Ball committee discourages debs from having their boyfriends serve as either first or second escort because “We don’t want them to be in a situation where he breaks up with her the night before the ball.”

The other family-oriented addition to the 2005 ball was the father-mother waltz. It was danced once everyone had taken their seats in a beautifully decorated tent, immediately before LePetit Gourmet’s dinner service began. Earlier, the traditional father-daughter waltz had taken place on the patio outside DU’s Sturm Hall.

Le Jardin de L’Amour was the ball’s theme, and the 26 debutantes carried Biedermeier round hand-tied bouquets of nerine lilies, dahlias, and Moscow roses, all in shades of pink.

The co-owners of Bouquets, BJ Dyer and Guenther Vogt, used pink snapdragons, lilies, aster, hydrangea, ginger, anthurium and Italian ruscus foliage to create the floral hedges that flanked the presentation stage. The pink color scheme continued throughout the tent.

Dr. Charles William Tate III, whose mother, Vivian, was a founder of the Summer Debutante Ball, was master of ceremonies. In addition to the debutantes and chairmen, he introduced the Citizen of the Arts for 2005, Nancy Stamper; receiving line escorts Christopher Burge and Austen Carpenter; and tiara mistresses Caitlyn Alberts, Courtney Gosselin, Rienne Hartman and Lauren Rainey.

The 2005 debs are:

Mary Jo Barcheski, who was editor of the Smoky Hill High student newspaper and will attend the University of Wyoming; Amelia Bowman, who swam, played lacrosse and ran cross-country at Cherry Creek High and will attend DU; Corinne Cahen, a cheerleader and dance team member at Creek who will study interior design at Arizona State University; Hayley Campbell, also a Creek grad who has been a counselor and assistant nurse at Geneva Glen summer camp and will be pre-med at CU-Boulder; and Erin Cassidy, a Denver Christian High alum planning to double-major in creative writing and Spanish at Colorado State University.

Also, Jessica Fox, a two-time state tennis champion from Kent Denver who’ll soon be off to

Claremont McKenna College; Megan George, a graduate of St. Mary’s Academy who’ll attend Whittier College with the dream of becoming a film industry hair-and-makeup designer; Allissa Goldstein, a Creek graduate whose artwork was considered for a KBCO radio CD. She’ll attend Lake Forest College.

Carolyn Healey, also from Creek, where she was senior editor of the yearbook, plans to major in business at CU-Boulder; Ali Kaiser made National Honor Society and the Foreign Language Honor Society at Green Mountain High and is off to Trinity College for a degree in accounting. Katharine Lamb was photographer for the Kent Denver student newspaper and will attend Colgate University, while Carolyn Luppens was a National Merit Scholarship finalist at The Taft School.

She’s taking a year off to travel and get her EMT certification and then will go to St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M.

Kathryn McKenney chaired the Future Givers Ball during her senior year at Creek and will major in business at CU-Boulder. Stephanie Moore was active in choir and theater at Arapahoe High and hopes to become a psychologist following graduation from Chapman College. April Oldenburg, also from Arapahoe High, was a cheerleader and School Citizenship Award winner; her dream is to become a doctor and be part of a research team that finds a cure for AIDS or breast cancer.

Briana Overgaard made all-state choir while at Highlands Ranch High School; she will be a psychology major at CSU. Creek graduate Kelly Parker hopes to become a sports agent after completing studies at the University of Kansas.

Katie Rundles received honors in French at St. Mary’s Academy and is considering a major in meteorology at Gonzaga University. Andrea Sepenzis, a graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon, will study political science, philosophy and literature at Northeastern University in Boston; Christy Sexton made National Honor Society at Denver Christian and hopes to teach elementary school after finishing up at Westmont College.

Allie Shpall played lacrosse and field hockey at Kent and will play lacrosse at Hamilton College. Classmate Kelsey Smith is off to Colorado College, where she’ll continue her tennis career; Katie Thomas captained the Mullen High soccer team and will be pre-med at Boston College. Genny Turner was an honor roll student in George Washington High’s International Baccalaureate program and will study marine science at the University of Puget Sound.

Erin Wylie was in the National Honor Society at Machebeuf High and will study holistic medicine at CU-Boulder, while her cousin, Jaclyn, yearbook photographer at St. Mary’s Academy, is off to St. Louis University to major in education or design.

Society editor Joanne Davidson can be reached at 303-809-1314 or jmdpost@aol.com.