Parnell, Gray reign at Krewe Ball

Boutwell Auditorium was transformed into a Mardi Gras-style carnival in February for the 48th Annual Beaux Arts Krewe Ball. 

King Leighton Calhoun “Foots” Parnell III and Queen Caroline Nabers Gray descended on their thrones, followed by the presentation of Ladies in Waiting Virginia Hagood Drennen, Mary Virginia Grisham, Mary Elizabeth Hobbs and Virginia Gilder Smith as well as the other princesses.

Queen Caroline, a graduate of Mountain Brook High School, is a junior at Vanderbilt University, where she is majoring in European history and minoring in studio art and corporate strategy, and has also studied at the London School of Economics and in Florence, Italy. She is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Eugene Gray and the granddaughter of Marguerite Jones Harbert and the late John Murdoch Harbert III, and Mary Evelyn Gray Schollian and the late Euel Dean Gray. She wore the dress her mother wore as queen in 1982.