By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current

Mariah Hutchinson, left, co-emcee for the Geneseo Music Festival Queen Pageant; Kelsey Dillie and Addison Dykstra, Music Festival 2024 queen candidates, visit with Tiffany Stees, vice president of the Geneseo Women’s Club, at the salad supper held Thursday, June 13, in Central Schoolhouse Inn. Each year the Geneseo Women’s Club hosts the salad supper event for queen candidates, their mothers or guests and members of the pageant committee. The Queen Pageant is sponsored by Geneseo Rotary Club. Photo by Claudia Loucks

Hanna Stroud, left, 2023 Geneseo Music Festival Queen, visits with Cathy Rothschild, Geneseo Rotary Club pageant chairman, at the recent salad supper hosted by the Geneseo Women’s club and held in the Central Schoolhouse Inn. Photo by Claudia Loucks

Guests at the Geneseo Women’s Club recent salad supper included Sara Stroud, front left, who was crowned queen of the Geneseo Music Festival in 1995; Hanna Stroud, daughter of Sara Stroud, and who was crowned Geneseo Music Festival queen in 2023; and in back, Rhonda Peterson and her daughter, Jillian Beneke, who was named a runner-up in the 2024 queen pageant held Friday, June 14, in Geneseo City Park. Photo by Claudia Loucks