May 21, 2001, Laura Sullivan.
Color parade honors the USNA company with the highest academic and athletic scores during the year. They are known as the Color Company. This company then gets to pick a female to be its "Color Girl." The Naval Academy buys her dress after the Color Company's commander has chosen the "Color Girl."
The "Color Girl's" duties include handing the color flag from the previous year's company this this year's color company, kissing the Color Company's commander if he is her boyfriend or fiance and accepting flowers and a string of pearls from school officers.
She can also join the Association of Color Girls of the Naval Academy who have a luncheon once a year.
In 2001, however, there was a problem because the commander of the Color Company was Josette Fedor, a woman.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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