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Miss Thompson is an member of Gamma Xi Chapter at Murray State University.

Murray's Chelsee Thompson is Mountain Laurel Queen

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Posted on Jun 3, 2005

Chelsee L. Thompson of Murray was crowned the 2005 Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival Queen during the 75th annual Memorial Day weekend festival in Pineville, Ky. She represented Murray State University [Kentucky] and was the first queen named from MSU since 1995.

Thompson is a junior elementary education and French major at Murray State. She is the daughter of Tony and Krista Thompson. Her pageant escort was Drew Kennedy Thompson.

She held the title of 2004 Miss Murray State University and also formerly reigned as queen over the Murray Calloway County Fair.

The four-day festival was held at Pine Mountain State Resort Park May 26-29, and attracted visitors from all across Kentucky as well as neighboring states Tennessee and Virginia. Contestants are comprised of entrants from Kentucky’s colleges and universities.

The prestigious Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival is billed as the oldest continuous event of its kind in the United States. The coronation pageant began in 1931 as a tribute to Dr. Thomas Walker, the first European to enter Kentucky and who, along with a party of explorers, visited the present site of Pineville in 1750. It has been held annually since then except for the years during World War II.

© Murray State University 2005

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(Kentucky) Governor Fletcher (Delta Epsilon Chapter of Delta Tau Delta - The University of Kentucky) crowning pageant winner Chelsee Linn Thompson (Gamma Xi Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta - Murray State University)