List of débutante balls in the United States

Notable débutante balls in the United States include:

Alabama

• Birmingham
  • The Ball of Roses^[1]

A souvenir recording released by Verve Records in the summer of 1959 featuring longtime San Francisco bandleader Ernie Heckscher playing for The Cotillion at The Fairmont. The cover photo models are some of the previous winter's debutantes and their escorts

California

• Los Angeles:
  • Las Madrinas Ball^[2]

District of Columbia

• Washington, D.C.:
  • The National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball^[3]

Massachusetts

• Boston:
  • The Boston Cotillion, which benefits the Vincent Memorial Hospital.^[4]

Michigan

• Detroit
  • The Debutante Club^[5]

Missouri

• Kansas City:
  • The Jewel Ball, founded in 1954, which benefits the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kansas City Symphony.^[6]
• St. Louis:
  • The Veiled Prophet Ball, founded in 1878, which caters to the members of the Veiled Prophet Organization, a secret society of prominent St. Louisans
  • Fleur de Lis Ball, a Roman Catholic ball founded in 1959, named after the symbol associated with French kings and the city's French heritage, which raises money for the Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.^[7]

New York

• New York City
  • The International Debutante Ball, held each even-numbered year
  • The Viennese Opera Ball in New York
  • The Quadrille Ball^[8]

The Rochester Bachelors' Cotillion in 1964.

• Rochester
  • The Rochester Bachelors' Cotillion was founded in 1950 by a group of single young men from some of Rochester's social circles that wished to repay their social debt. It is a white tie ball held annually at the Genesee Valley Club.^[9]

North Carolina

• Wilmington
  • North Carolina Azalea Festival^[10]

South Carolina

• Charleston:
  • The St. Cecilia Ball^[11]

Texas

• Laredo:
  • The Society of Martha Washington Debutante Ball^[12]
• Tyler:
  • The Texas Rose Festival^[13]

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