Bachelors' Ball ruled Rochester's young adult social scene from the '40s to the 80s

Bachelors' Ball ruled Rochester's young adult social scene from the '40s to the 80s

It was the grand soiree of each holiday season in Rochester, with young couples in formal attire dancing and drinking punch. The event was known as the Bachelors’ Ball, a somewhat quaint tradition hosted by college men back in town for Christmas, and chaperoned by their parents. The men invited as dates young ladies who had also been away at school, or who were studying in Rochester. For nearly four decades, from the 1940s to the 1980s, the Bach…