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25-540: The Portland Rose Society, founded by Georgiana Pittock and friends in 1888, began with a backyard rose show in Pittock's garden. The annual fundraising event drew more crowds each year. By 1904, the rose society was hosting its annual rose show along with additional festivities, including a parade and pageant. In 1905, Portland Mayor Harry Lane is remembered for his rousing speech at the Lewis and Clark Exposition , telling

50-763: A few months, dying in January, 1919. They are both buried in River View Cemetery in Portland. Pittock family members continued to live in the mansion until 1958. The mansion was badly damaged during a storm in 1962, and was eventually abandoned. Scheduled to be demolished by developers, the home was purchased by the City of Portland in 1964. Today, the Pittock Mansion is open to the public. Birth name#Maiden and married names A birth name

75-552: A fundraiser for her church. She added a judging tent to her garden and charged admission to the event. This annual event would later include a city parade. Local gardeners would empty their gardens of roses to decorate horses, floats and wagons. From these early beginnings, the Portland Rose Festival was born. The group officially established the Portland Rose Society, the oldest rose society in

100-621: A larger home in 1864, a home the family would live in for the next fifty years. Pittock founded the Portland Rose Society as an informal club of rose gardeners in 1888, and is considered the founder of the Portland Rose Festival. The first rose competition was hosted by Pittock in her large garden in Portland. She established the gardening club after a holiday of touring rose gardens and rose competitions in England. The next year, Pittock turned her backyard rose competition into

125-584: A typesetter for The Weekly Oregonian . The young couple married in June 1860. Henry became the owner and publisher of the newspaper during this time period. Between 1861 and 1878, Georgiana gave birth to nine children, six of whom reached adulthood. The couple built homes on a large parcel of land that Henry had purchased in 1856, in an area that is now called the Pittock Block in downtown Portland. The family built and lived in two cottages before moving into

150-553: Is awarded to a 14-member "royalty". Starting in 2009, the Rose Festival Foundation opened one place on the court to someone from a school outside the Portland city limits. There are drivers for the Princesses, who are chosen from each high school. The first African American driver (escort) was Sam Whitney from Benson High School in 1954. A Junior Rose Festival, focused on children, began unofficially in 1921, on

175-577: Is still in operation today. Pittock joined the Portland Women's Union in 1912 as a suffragette. The organization's mission was to support single working women. Pittock was a board member, chairman of the finance committee and the fourth president of the organization. She was also instrumental in establishing the Martha Washington Hotel, a hotel residence for single working women. By 1911, the hotel had more demand for rooms than

200-508: Is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname , the given name , or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name . The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or brit milah ) will persist to adulthood in

225-896: Is the centerpiece of the festival and the second largest all-floral parade in the United States after the Tournament of Roses Parade . More than 500,000 spectators line the route, making this flower parade the largest single-day spectator event in Oregon. The first parade, in 1907, was called the Rose Carnival, but eventually came to be known as the Rose Festival Parade and later still the Grand Floral Parade. The 1907 festival also included an "electric parade" with illuminated floats ; this evolved into

250-461: Is the masculine form. The term née , having feminine grammatical gender , can be used to denote a woman's surname at birth that has been replaced or changed. In most English-speaking cultures, it is specifically applied to a woman's maiden name after her surname has changed due to marriage. The term né can be used to denote a man's surname at birth that has subsequently been replaced or changed. The diacritic mark (the acute accent ) over

275-687: Is the only USSA -sanctioned summer race. An air show was added to the Rose Festival in 1988 and remained part of the festival through 2002. Held at the Hillsboro Airport , it was named the Rose Festival Air Show , with the name generally preceded by a sponsor's name, but after the 2002 and 15th show the Rose Festival Association decided to discontinue its relationship with the event. In 2003,

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300-631: The Portland Rose Festival . Pittock was actively involved in charities and cultural organizations in Portland from the 1870s through the early 1900s. Georgiana Martin Burton was born in Clark County, Missouri to Elwood Morgan Burton and Rhoda Ann (Hall) Burton, Georgiana Burton lived in Keokuk, Iowa , before traveling with her parents and two sisters on the Oregon Trail in 1854, from Missouri to

325-700: The Royal Canadian Navy dock along the seawall of Tom McCall Waterfront Park . The festival also hosts the Starlight Parade, a fireworks display, and carnival rides along the Portland waterfront, among other events. Dragon boat races on the Willamette River have been included every year since 1989. The Golden Rose Ski Classic is an annual ski race originating in 1936. It is the oldest known organized ski race in America, and

350-642: The United States as a formal gardening organization in 1907, and established the annual tradition of a judged, flower competition. Pittock was actively involved with local women's and children's organizations. She founded the Ladies Sewing Society in 1887, which eventually became the Women's Relief Society . Members would sew baby clothes and sell them at local events to raise money to support other charities in town. Pittock's favorite charity

375-456: The e is considered significant to its spelling, and ultimately its meaning, but is sometimes omitted. According to Oxford University 's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , the terms are typically placed after the current surname (e.g., " Margaret Thatcher , née Roberts" or " Bill Clinton , né Blythe"). Since they are terms adopted into English (from French), they do not have to be italicized , but they often are. In Polish tradition ,

400-467: The 2020 and 2021 parades, but the parade would return in 2022. Georgiana Burton Pittock Georgiana Martin Pittock ( née Burton; November 14, 1843  – June 12, 1918) was an Oregon pioneer and community leader based in Portland, Oregon . She founded the Portland Rose Society in 1888. The society's annual rose show grew into a rose parade and pageant by 1906, and was the foundation for

425-545: The Merrykhana Parade but after a two-season suspension was renamed the Starlight Parade in 1976. Since 1930 a queen has been selected from a court of high school seniors from each school in the area. The members of the court are called princesses. For a brief period starting in 1997 they were officially called "ambassadors", but the term "princesses" was reinstated in January 2007. A college scholarship

450-679: The Oregon Territory. According to Burton family lore, young Georgiana was picked up by local Native Americans , when she became separated from her party while crossing the plains. She was returned to her family along with an offer to purchase the girl, which the family declined. The family continued on to Oregon without further mishap. When they reached Oregon, the family initially settled in Milwaukie, Oregon before moving to Portland in 1857. Pittock attended Portland Academy . While in her teens, Pittock became engaged to Henry Pittock ,

475-567: The building could provide, and a new hotel was built. In 1909, Pittock and her husband, Henry, hired architect Edward T. Foulkes to design a 16,000-square-foot, French-Renaissance style mansion for the couple and their extended family on their 46-acre estate. The wooded property was in the West Hills area of Portland known as Imperial Heights. The home was built 1,000 feet above sea level, with commanding views of Mount St. Helens and Mount Hood. Oregon craftsmen and artisans were hired to construct

500-436: The city's east side, and included its own parade and junior court. It became an official part of the Rose Festival in 1936. The festival's annual Junior Parade takes place in the city's Hollywood district . The Junior Parade has grown to an event involving nearly 10,000 children, making it the world's largest parade for children. During Fleet Week , ships from United States Navy , Coast Guard , Army Corps of Engineers and

525-506: The home, mainly using materials from the Pacific Northwest . Construction was begun in 1909 and completed in 1914. Pittock suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed in 1913. An elevator was hastily added to the construction plans, so that Pittock could move easily around the large mansion. Four years later, on June 12, 1918, Pittock died from complications of the earlier stroke. Her husband, Henry, survived her by only

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550-500: The large crowd that Portland needed a "festival of roses". In 1906, the first Rose Festival and Flower Parade was held in Portland. Pittock and neighbors contributed roses from their gardens to decorate floats, wagons, people and horses for the parade. In 1907, the Portland Rose Festival Association was incorporated and Portland hosted its first official Portland Rose Festival. The Grand Floral Parade

575-405: The normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some reasons for changes of a person's name include middle names , diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and gender transition . The French and English-adopted née is the feminine past participle of naître , which means "to be born". Né

600-498: The show was reorganized as the Oregon International Air Show , with different sponsors and no longer a Rose Festival event. No festival was held in 1917 and 1918 because of World War I or from 1942 through 1945 because of World War II . From 2007 to 2016, the festival began with the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade . The parade was cancelled in 2017, but returned in 2018. COVID-19 pandemic concerns canceled

625-570: Was The Baby Home , a Portland orphanage for abandoned babies. She supported the Boys and Girls Aid Society , a home for abandoned and abused children. She was also involved in the Parry Center for Children , which began as a home for children orphaned on the Oregon Trail. She was actively involved with the Fruit and Flower Daycare Center , the first daycare center in Oregon, which opened in 1906, and

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