Emperor

The Emperor is the only position that exists at more than one site. It is also among the oldest traditions. The Emperor (or Empress) is the person who traditionally presides over the Passionfruit, and is usually quite knowledgeable about tradition.

Carlisle

At both sessions, the Emperor and Empress have traditional headgear that are passed down to succeeding royalty. First Session's Emperor and Empress have a crown and a tiara respectively. Second Session instead has two crowns handmade from colored duct tape for both the Emperor and the Empress.

The role of the royalty at Carlisle is to act as sort of student administrators. For example, when there was a conflict about Goth Day, the Empress made the final verdict. Their main duty is to run every aspect of Passionfruit. It is traditional for the Emperor to make the first toast, and the Empress, the last. The Emperor and Empress are responsible for coming up with devirginizations/den00bifications to initiate those to those who are new to the site or were absent the year before.

Quite some time ago, the Empress and Emperor were referred to as the "juice coordinators" who would traditionally purchase a large amount of Passionfruit juice for the whole circle. Then, people realized the ineffectiveness of this and started to bring their own juice, soda, water, etc., to Passionfruit. In addition, upon the departure of Gary Noritz, who facilitated finding and purchasing cases of passionfruit juice, the drink became difficult to obtain. However, for Passionfruit 10.1, Liam McNamara, the Jesus for the session, managed to acquire several containers of passionfruit juice. (Passionfruit juice is available at some farmer markets, as well as supermarkets such as Whole Foods).

• 2001

  First Session:

  Second Session: Owen Gentry and Pammy Woodward

• 2002

  First Session:

  Second Session: Lizzie Wade

• 2003

  First Session:

  Second Session: Laura and ???

• 2004

  First Session:

  Second Session: Annie and George

• 2005

  First Session: Franklyn and Nabil

  Second Session: Ben and Tini

• 2006

  First Session: Ali Greenberg and Matt Carroll

  Second Session: McKenzie Hull and Holly Murray

• 2007

  First Session: Kimmi Cheng and Clara Pelaez

  Second Session: Mike Schumacher and Jackie Mora

• 2008

  First Session: NEW: Ryan Heaney and Ross "Sarge" Slaughter

  Second Session: Allie Prescott and Rachel Hull

• 2009

  First Session: Alex "Jake" Jacobsen and Jeanette Kim

  Second Session: Jake Meyers and Eddie Cytryn

• 2010

  First Session: Rosalie Nathans and Albert Han

  Second Session: Patrick Kennedy and Micaela Rodríguez

• 2011

  First Session: Colin Mark and Evan Chernack

  Second Session: Julia Gureck and Jonathan Kirby

• 2012

  First Session: Michelle Kim and Bobby Zipp

Lancaster

The Emperor/Empress is the person who makes the first speech at Passionfruit. There can be more than one; for example, in 06.2 there were two, and at 05.2 there were four (two males and two females, in reference to The Chronicles of Narnia).

• 1998

  First Session: ?

  Second Session: Jon Rin and ?

• 1999

  First Session: Michael Mishkin and ?

  Second Session: ?

• 2000

  First Session: Elspeth (Beth) Kursh and Tom Weingarten

  Second Session: Rose Ginsberg and Daniel Vitolo

• 2001

  First Session: Ken Levin and Chelsea Seachord

  Second Session: Kayla Armstrong and Deb Streusand

• 2002

  First Session: Maura Spiegelman and "The Original" Andy Bartholomew

  Second Session: Belle Saxton and Andy "UnAndy" Schlesinger

• 2003

  First Session: Natalie Bau and Tim Hwang

  Second Session: Maddie Morrison, Tom "Lord of Lemmings" Wilson, and Jai Dhyani

• 2004

  First Session: Liz and Dave

  Second Session:

• 2005

  First Session: Alyssa Gottschlich

  Second Session: Will Colmer, David "Pickle" Kotsonis , Marley Teter, Nikka Rosenstein

• 2006

  First Session: Alexa "Lexxie" Kottmeyer and Aliza Alperin-Sheriff

  Second Session: Alexander James Maestro Quinones Leroy Bangs a.k.a. QB, Colin Mahaffey

• 2007

  First Session: See below.

  Second Session: Alexa Fredston-Hermann and Julia "Juice" Revzin

• 2008

  First Session: See below.

  Second Session: Noelle Aly, Caroline, Maddy Jennewein, Julie Leghorn

• 2009

  First Session: See below.

  Second Session: Daniel Tracht, Lena Beckenstein, Bee Lockwood

• 2010

  First Session: See below.

  Second Session: Declan Kennedy

Trinity

Main article: Trinity (Session 1)

In 07.1, the Emperor position of First Session was replaced with a new trio of positions called the Trinity, based on the Catholic Holy Trinity and in reference to the verse in Don McLean's "American Pie" which goes:

"And the three men I admire most

The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost

They caught the last train for the coast

The day the music died."

The Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost now fill the roles of Emperors of Passionfruit and execute the Last Supper.

Saratoga Springs

These are the Emperors and Empresses listed by year of reign. Two Emperors and two Empresses are crowned each session just to make sure at least one comes back the following year. This tradition began in 2005 when Riley O'Neill was the only one to return of four royalty chosen. It was passed down to Session 2 when David "Bex" Becker and Lina Huo (First Session Royalty) attended the Second Session Passionfruit of 2006 and told Youngin Lim to pick four, just in case.

• 2005

  Session 1: Keane Tzong, Julia Wagner, Claire Kelley, Alex Micciche

  Session 2: Nick Fabiani, Stacy Toesland

• 2006

  Session 1: Riley O'Neill

  Session 2: Youngin Lim, Zemelia Miller

• 2007

  Session 1: David "Bex" Becker, Jay Margherio, Charlotte Coates, Lina Huo

  Session 2: Primary: Edison Huff, Stef Siller Secondary: Mike Feblowitz, Hilary (the lovely) Ludlow

• 2008

  Session 1: Gage Wright, Zach Gerstein, Neha Srivastava, Liv Stillman

  • Replaced by: Peter Yang, Jesse Muse, Aliya Dincer, Rachel Lin

  Session 2: Bill Landis, David Clemens-Sewall, Christine Maroti, Gaby Garbasz

• 2009

  Session 1: Will Pearl, Mark McGurrin, Sabrina Zeller, Laura Spake

  Session 2: Primary: Alex DeBerardinis and Sam Kwan, Secondary: Nick Kwan and Jennie Robbiano

• 2010

  Session 1: Young Guang, Max Hengeveld, Katrina Ungewitter, Ivy Shen

  Session 2: Primary: Aaron Forrest and Sophia Keskey, Secondary: Matt Simon and Sarah Woolf

• 2011

  Session 1: Aaron Wan, AJ Langevin, Emily Gartenberg, Gwen Luvara

  Session 2: Primary: Muki Barkan and Haizen Poole, Secondary: Brandon Nguyen Peter Pak and Camille Goering (Brandon missed the session due to scheduling conflicts, Peter took over from being third in line)

Princeton

At Princeton, it was decided that the Passionfruit Emperor and Empress should come from different CTY sites to show the combining of sites within the Princeton site. Together, the sites create a happy family. The royal family of 2009 was...

• 2009

  Emperor: Julie of Lancaster and Rachel Hall of Carlisle

  Empress: Johnine Licht of Siena (she also attended Lancaster 08.1)

Johns Hopkins

Beginning in 10.2, The Emperor/Empress of JHU wears a "crown," which in reality is a comically large blue and yellow sparkly hat. At Passionfruit, the reigning Emperor/Empress crowns their successor by passing on said hat. The transition of BLAMMO divinity is also incorporated into Passionfruit, and involves the passing of the Most Epic Tome of BLAMMO to the next God/Goddess.

• 2009

  Session One:

  Session Two: Katelin Schutz, Kitty Bernardo (two Empresses, no Emperor)

• 2010

  Session One:

  Session Two: Trinity King

• 2011

  Session One:

  Session Two: Karl Heinlein