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The Samford Crimson
Volume 75 Number 9
Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
Wednesday, October 31, 1990
Blanton crowned
Miss Samford
By Andrew Dier
Staff Reporter
Freshman. Christie Blanton beat
23 contestants to be crowned Miss
Samford University 1991 last Thurs¬
day evening.
The Jacksonville, Fla., music
education major receives a $500
SGA scholarship and an array of
gifts and contributions from local
businesses.
Blanton is -now eligible to com¬
pete in the Miss Alabama pageant
next June.
The winner of that contest goes to
Atlantic City to compete for the title
of Miss America.
The top finalists were 1st runner-
up Beth Richardson, sophomore,
Birmingham; 2nd runner-up Paige
Waldrop, freshman, Birmingham;
3rd runner-up Andrea Green, jun¬
ior, Huntsville and 4th runner-up
Debbie Wilgus, sophomore. Win¬
ter Park, Fla.
Others receiving recognition were
Suzannne Brown and Dana
Glasscock, winners of overall tal¬
ent and swimsuit awards respec¬
tively.
The ceremonies began with the
presentation of the 10 finalists from
the Wednesday night preliminar¬
ies. In this group, along with Blan¬
ton and the four runners-up, were
Julie Benton, Lara Evers, Susset
Osaba, Tara Siegfried and Carrie
Till is.
Special entertainment included
, songs by 1990 Miss Samford Uni-
Hall brings experience
By Cindy Usry
News Editor
Ethel Hall is a
veteran educa¬
tor whose ca¬
reer has
spanned from
elementary to
college class¬
rooms.
versity Paige Sutton, 1990 Miss
Alabama and Mistress of Ceremo¬
nies Resha Riggins and S
Brown.
Sutton hit the high notes with
“Rendition of Star Spangled Ban-,
ner.” She described he/ experience
of being Miss Samfortr as an “awe¬
some privilege.”
.Sutton will compete with Blanton
in the Miss Alabama competitor
She will represent the city of Point
Mallard.
Brown, a senior from Opelika, sang
her award-winning “Break it to Me
Easy” by Juice Newton.
Life with the title “Miss Samford”
has not yet been any different, says
Blanton. She admits it is weird
when roommate Jenifer Strickland
and other friends introduce her as
“Miss Samford” rather than by her
first name. The new Miss Samford
prefers to be called Christie, she ex¬
plains.
Pageants such as the Miss Samford
University competition are not just
beauty contests anymore, Riggins
said.
Portions such as the interview are
becoming increasingly important.
In the interview competition, top¬
ics ranged from censorship to juve¬
nile delinquency.
Blanton spoke of the positive
aspects of foreign exchange pro¬
grams.
Blanton’s talent performance was
a piano combination of “Little White
Donkey” by Ibert and "Prelude” by
Gershwin.
Christie Blanton wins the Miss Samford University Pageant.
Photo by Andy Ruble
'It's /unfair.
scj>Ools can
the problems
to assume the
eradicate all of
of society.'
Ethal Hall
Candidate
and getting
the kind of
improve¬
ments ev-
wantsj
ove
tern will
involve the
tents ev-
r
у
4> n e
/ants in the
vcrajl sys-
socicty as a
whole.
She is competing for the District 4 seat on
the Alabama Board of Education on Tues¬
day, Nov. 6.
Hall, 62, of Fairfield is the Democrat in¬
cumbent in the race. She is opposed by
Republican Raymond L. King, 55, of
Hoover.
Hall was elected to the board four years
ago.
Prior to serving on the board, she taught
English at old West Field High School.
Hall has also worked in a federal pro¬
gram directed at preventing students from
dropping out of school.
She was a University of Montevallo as¬
sociate professor of social work and a Uni¬
versity of Alabama associate professor of
social work before retiring.
Hall said Alabama schools have made
gains in improving quality the past 10
years but there is much work to be done.
This work, she said, will demand experi¬
enced leadership.
Hall said education is a complex subject
“The schools are mirrors of society. It's
unfair and unrealistic to assume the schools
can eradicate all of the problems of soci¬
ety,” Hall said. “The home, churches,
businesses - all of us have to play our part
if our schools are going to^e as good as
they must be.”
Hall has received the endorsement of A-
Vote which is the political wing of the
Alabama Education Association.
The incumbent said she believes school
teachers must be tested before they start
teaching, "just as physicians and lawyers
are tested.”
She docs not, however, encourage man¬
datory teacher evaluation with a paper and
pen test
“Many teachers know content But get¬
ting what you know across to the kids is a
key and the best way to judge if that is
being done is through observations and
assessments,” Hall said.
(Charles J. Dean,
В
'ham News, contrib¬
uted to this story.)
King, hopes to fulfill dream
By Brian Still
Editor
Raymond L.
King, associate
dean of the Or-
lean Bullard
Beeson School of
Education, is
campaigning for
the District 4 seat
'The home, the church and
school should be the hub of
every community.'
Raymond King
Candidate
on the Alabama Board of Education.
King, 55, said his reason for wanting the seat
is that his. “own dream for the state of Ala¬
bama has always been to have the best educa¬
tion system in the United States.”
He said Alabama is on the "threshold..of
taking some great positive steps which could
result in turning a minimum program of
education...into an outstanding program of
education for all our children.”.
He began his career as a teacher at Barrett
Elementary school in Birmingham and later
became a school principal in the Auburn and
Mobile areas. He is the former assistant
superintendent of the Midfield School Sys¬
tem and is currently the director of education
workshops, professor of education and asso¬
ciate dean of the School of Education.
King has a wife, Barbara, and two children,
Chris, 20, and Jenny, 18.
King said+tc supports the testing of teachers
before they are hired. “With an investment
(of S2.7 billion for education], the public has
the right to demand an accounting of [their]
money.
, “Many othfer
professions re¬
quire similar li¬
censing or certi¬
fying processes
requiring testing
before entering
the profession,
and continued re¬
quirements for
professional
improvement, development and advance¬
ment,” King said. “Most educators favor an
entrance test for beginning teachers to assure
they have mastered basic requirements needed
for the profession.” - '
He said parents should fallowed to 9end
their children to any schoofthey wish if it did
not violate federal law, but problems would
be created such as the high cost of transpor¬
tation and the fact being the best schools
could not accept everyone who. applies.
However, he said he would try to make
every school a “school of choice, because
good schools build good communities.”
“The home, the church and the school should
be the hub of every community,” King said.
Increasing parental involvement in schools
is one of King’s priorities. “I plan to ask for
space in all local newspapers to write a col¬
umn after each School Baud meeting, in¬
forming parcnis...of all aefion taken by the
[School Board].” >
King would like to see the State and Local
Please see King page 2.
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