Two Elizabethton High School seniors — Abigail Brooke Gwinn and Phoebe Elizabeth Holly — have been invited to be presentees at the 66th Annual Teen Board Presentation Dance. The dance will be held Saturday evening, Aug. 8, in Knoxville, and is one of the largest teenage (black-tie) dances in the country where teenagers and adults alike enjoy the same social occasion.
Last year hundreds of leading teenagers, as well as adults from various parts of the country, enjoyed the event, which one newspaper wrote “is emerging into one of the most elegant and auspicious occasions on the social calendar of the South.”
The Teen Board of Knoxville is a private nonprofit organization solely for teenagers in grades 9-12 with adult help. Its purpose is to get teenagers to work and take the lead in civic and welfare projects, and to lift their social and moral life to higher standards. Last year over 10,000 hours were given to civic and welfare projects for charitable organizations by the Teen Board presentees…