Today the festival organization includes the Ambassadors Club Board of Directors headed by Chairman, Judge Eugene Bryson, Vice Chairman, Mr. Don Updegraff, and approximately forty Directors. The Board's main function is to finance and administer the festival. There are grand balls, such as the Cotillion, Plantation Ball, Military Ball and Zeta Honors Classic which gives scholarships to outstanding high school students. The renowned Barksdale Air Force Base Open House and Air Show is the yearly climax, attracting as many as 300,000 who can inspect Air Force aircraft up close while observing such greats as the Thunderbirds or Blue Angels. Sports events are plentiful with G.U.M.B.O. games for the physically challenged, sailing, skydiving, softball, soccer, rugby, tennis, golf, and bowling tournaments.
Soccer attracts families from four states to participate.
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