The Annual Polly Frye Raffle is open to all VPPA members. Raffle tickets are sold and there is a drawing on the last day of Convention. You do not have to be present to win.
Polly and her husband Charles bought the Dean-Kaylor studio from Mr. Lupton Kaylor and it reopened on March 1, 1951 as Charles and Polly-Photographers. The next year they attended their first Virginia Professional Photographers convention. Polly was the first women in Virginia to receive a Certified Professional Photographers Degree. During the course of her career she also earned the degrees of Master Photographer and Craftsman Photographer from the Professional Photographers of America. She earned Fellow of Photographer from the Virginia Association the highest degree awarded by the state. At the Virginia Convention in February 2012, Polly was crowned "Queen of the Convention" for her sixty years of dedication to the association. During those years she not only served as president but was the first executive secretary and recently retired after 24 years as executive treasurer. She treasured the lasting friendships made during those years.
