Baton Rouge Assembly will introduce 9 debutantes | Entertainment/Life

The Baton Rouge Assembly will introduce this year’s nine debutantes to the wives of the Assembly members and their guests at a tea on Wednesday at the Baton Rouge Country Club.

The Assembly’s annual ball, at which the debutantes will be formally presented, will take place Nov. 28 at the Baton Rouge Hilton. 

The honorees are:

• Melissa McCoy Bofinger, daughter of Lacy Waguespack Bofinger and George Warren Bofinger III, a graduate of St. Joseph’s Academy and student at Mississippi Sate University in Starkville
• Lillian Michelle Higgins, daughter of Michelle Meaux Higgins and John Miles Higgins, who graduated from West Feliciana High School and attends Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee
• Glynes Elizabeth Hill, daughter of Mollie Poche Hill and John Hill III, a graduate of Episcopal School of Baton Rouge and student at the University of Georgia in Athens
• Sally Elizabeth Hurst, daughter of Elizabeth Treppendahl Ewing, James Bradley Ewing and Clinton McKinley Hurst, who graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy and attends the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
• Catherine Seal Lindsey, daughter of Dr. Timothy Ray Lindsey Sr. and Laura Seal Lindsey, a graduate of West Feliciana High School and student at LSU
• Brooks Sidney Madison, daughter of Tracey Little McMains, Andrew Tyrone McMains, Tara Montgomery Madison and John Meek Madison, who graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy and attends University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
• Grace Kelley Pipsair, daughter of Jill Zeringue Carter, Stuart Frank Carter, Sarah McKee Pipsair and Christopher Brent Pipsair, a graduate of St. Joseph’s Academy and student at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville
• Adeline Estelle Rome, daughter of Dr. Byron Robert Rome and Marci Madatic Rome, who graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy and attends LSU
• Maddox Grace Saurage, daughter of Laura Nunnally Saurage and Henry Norman Saurage IV, a graduate of St. Joseph’s Academy and student at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama

The Baton Rouge Assembly was founded in 1961 by nine Baton Rouge men who grew up together when the city was just a small town. Baton Rouge grew rapidly after World War II, and these men realized that old family friends were losing contact with one another. To bring them back together, these nine founders established the Assembly as an organization whose purpose was, and still is, to provide social contact among families who had established residence in the area before 1910.

Brett Mason is the 2026 chairman of the Baton Rouge Assembly. Chris Jones is the Assembly ball chairman and Dr. Ryan Boone the Assembly assistant ball chairman.