Today was the first ever UPSES Festa Queens Royal Tea in Point Loma. The Portuguese Festa has been going on for 102 years and 106 girls have been crowned Queen of the Festa. Many of these queens gathered today at the Portuguese Hall for a Royal Tea.
The queens who attended the tea (as seen in the group picture below): Front row (starting from the left): 1945 Queen Florence Neto Garcia, 1969 Queen Cheryl Rose LaGamma, 1967 Queen Jeanne Virissimo, 1961 Queen Agnes Colergo Freitas, 2012 Queen Lizzy Simas, 1939 Queen Mary Martin Correia (standing behind the Coroa), 2012 Queen Nazaré Simas, 1958 Queen Hilda Brenha Gicante, 1949 Queen Lorraine Silva Lewis, 1940 Queen Lucille Medina Machado, 1980 Queen Lynn Souza DeMaria. Back row: 2010 Centennial Queen Karinna Feliciano, 2009 Queen Juliette Simoes, 2007 Queen Danielle Drummond, 2006 Queen Loriana Madruga, 2003 Queen Crystal Correia, 2003 Queen Corrina Correia, 2000 Queen Tiffany Ribeiro (in front of Corrina Correia), 1999 Queen Jeanette Simoes, 1998 Queen Nazaré Freitas Judd, 1990 Queen Desirée Silveira Thierry, 2001 Queen Lynnae Keltner McCarty, 1971 Queen Michele Miller Arterberry, 1995 Queen Denise Feliciano Kendrick, 1993 Queen Jodette Virissimo Goebel; 1989 Queen Kristen Balelo, 1965 Queen Cathy Silva Dellenbach, 1987 Queen Kristie Pringle Durment, 1985 Queen Evelyn DaRosa Feliciano, 1982 Queen Claudine Mattos Espinosa, 1975 Queen Sharon Garcia Fischer, 1978 Queen Maria Freitas Epsten, 1972 Queen Cathy Silva Neves, and 2005 Queen Amanda da Rosa
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I go the Portuguese Festa every year so that’s really awesome how you got so many of the major queens together.
Bravo!