National League of Junior Cotillions
Lake Lanier Chapter
Welcome
Enrollment for the 2024-2025 Cotillion Season is now open. We are only accepting 50 First-Year students, strictly 25 boys and 25 girls. We will email you if your child is accepted or waitslisted. Year Two is by invitation only.
Welcome to the National League of Junior Cotillions Lake Lanier Chapter. We are honored to serve students in our area by teaching them basic manners and etiquette that will benefit them throughout their lives.
Karen Muratore, Director
1705 Millside Terrace, Dacula, Georgia 30019
Please check this page for updates, including class status.
Announcements
National League of Junior Cotillion is a THREE-YEAR curriculum designed to give young people instruction and practice in the courtesies that make life more pleasant for them and those around them. The first-year program places emphasis on etiquette, manners, and character education, as well as on dancing. The social and character education components of the program include rules of proper telephone courtesy, acknowledgments of gifts, introductions, receiving lines, participating in group settings, polite conversation, paying and receiving compliments, sports etiquette, first impressions, dress code for all occasions, manners in the home and in public places, table manners, formal place settings, skills involved in being a guest, hostess or host, and many other areas of social behavior. Other topics covered are the ethics involved in the areas of having honor, dignity, respect, honesty, fairness, a caring attitude, accountability, and citizenship.
Enrollment for the 2024-2025 Cotillion Season is now open. We are only accepting 50 First-Year students, strictly 25 boys and 25 girls. We will email you if your child is accepted or waitslisted. Year Two is by invitation only.
If you are on a cell phone, please press the three gray lines at the top right of the page. If you are on a laptop, the menu will be vertical on the left side of the screen.
For a description of each class, please see the "CLASSES" tab before registering.
Click on the "REGISTRATION" tab and fill out the registration. To secure your spot in advance please pay the $50 deposit. It will be subtracted from your balance. The overall cost for the program is first-year class is $469, second-year class is $594
Classes fill quickly. We will accept students in the order we receive registrations. Your registration is only complete once a non-refundable payment has been made. You can hold your spot with a small deposit.
2024 /2025 Class Dates
Year One
Meets 2 PM-3:30 PM.
Class One Introduction Class September 29th
Class Two Autumn Class October 27th
Class Three Winter Class January 5th
Class Four Valentine's Class February 9th
Class Five Magnolia Class/Parent's Dip Into Dance March 9th
Grand Spring Ball May 3rd
Year Two
2024 /2025 Class Dates
Meets 4 PM-5:30 PM
Class One Back to Basics September 29th
Class Two First Impressions October 27th
Class Three Instructional Dinner November 17th
Class Four Dress For Success January 5th
Class Five Table Skills and Dining February 9th
Class Six Social Networking March 9th
Grand Spring Ball May 3rd
About Director
Karen Muratore moved to Georgia in 2020. She is a University of Tennessee, Haslam School of Business graduate and a mother of three children ages 31 to 18. She worships at Free Chapel Gwinnett. Karen spends her days enjoying pickleball, golf, bird watching, needle arts, and interior and table-top design. She decided to become a National League of Junior Cotillion director to help adolescents overcome social awkwardness after Covid.