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id ’ E iheri Ryman, 19, the reigning Miss Texas
we ll H- i&M University, was crowned Miss Texas
1981 at the Miss Texas Pageant held in Fort
Worth Saturday.
Texas A&M coed wins
Miss Texas pageant
By DENISE RICHTER
Battalion Staff
Miss Texas 1981 has a message for Aggies: “I would
ike to thank the Aggies for their support. It was great
|yng up on stage and hearing the whoops from the
iggies in the audience. It really helped a lot, know-
ng;they were behind me.”
Sheri Ryman, 19, the reigning Miss Texas A&M
niversity, Saturday was named Miss Texas at the
mblusion of the Miss Texas Pageant which was
eleivised from Fort Worth. In September she will
roresent Texas in the Miss America Pageant held in
kfljjntic City, N.J.
-.'Ryman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darwin J.
Hyman, is a junior industrial distribution major from
Texas City.
'tT’m going to prepare for the Miss America
^geant the same way I did for the Miss Texas
Pageant,” Ryman said in a telephone interview from
i ’t. Worth. “I’ll be preparing my wardrobe, keeping
with current events and working on my gymnas-
routine.”
For the talent competition in the Miss Texas
'agpant, Ryman performed a gymnastic-jazz routine
d the theme from “Close Encounters of the Third
wind.”
Although she sprained her ankle during the talent
hearsal Wednesday, Ryman performed her gym-
astics routine in the pageant’s talent competition. “I
a blister on the bottom of my right foot so I was
lying to avoid putting my weight on it. By doing
[hat, I landed wrong and sprained my ankle. I had to
p it wrapped for the competition, but I wasn’t
Wen conscious of it.”
She will perform the same type of gymnastics-jazz
routine in the Miss America Pageant.
The 1981 pageant was the third Miss Texas
Pageant in which Ryman had competed. She first
competed in the state pageant at 17 as Miss Big
Thicket. Last year she was among the 10 finalists as
Miss Bay Area.
Ryman was named Miss Texas A&M at the conclu
sion of the two-day Miss Texas A&M University
Scholarship Pageant held February 21-22.
“The Miss Texas A&M Pageant is one of the best
preliminary pageants in the state,” Ryman said. “It’s
so well-organized and well-run — I heard a lot of
good things about it from other people at the" (Miss'
Texas) pageant.”
As Miss Texas, Ryman will have to spend a year at
North Texas State University.
“This will affect my education a great deal,” Ry
man said. “Only four schools in the whole nation
offer the industrial distribution program and NTSU
isn’t one of them. I’ll try to take courses that can be
used in my major, but this will probably postpone my
graduation by a year.”
After her year at North Texas, Ryman plans to
return to Texas A&M to complete her education.
Upon graduation, she plans to work in the field of
engineering sales where, as she told the audience
Saturday night, she hopes “to become an Aggie
asset, not an Aggie joke.”
Ryman is not the first beauty pageant winner to
come from Texas A&M. Kim Tomes, Class of‘77, was
crowned Miss USA 1977 and went on to compete for
the title of Miss Universe in Santo Domingo in the
Dominican Republic.
JPrivate sector increases
gifts to public universities
v
Raising money from the private sector — an activ-
ty given added importance by President Reagan’s
budget cuts — is now drawing greater emphasis
unong public universities that have depended on
itation. iPrivate support for many years,
of an if The University ofTennessee System completed a
jbjlityii-taee-year “Tennessee Tomorrow” fund-raising
latioii er am P a ig n last September that produced $57 million
d be foil§'f ts — $22 million more than the goal, a universi-
I , y spokesman said.
1 ^ ,1, The Tennessee System received 13 gifts of $1
■ to nolfljjjiUion or more f r om corporations and individuals,
t Md.u md faculty and staff contributed $1.3 million to the
or botli'iampaign, he said.
iage to& “Corporations that had policies of not supporting
ocrity in publicly assisted universities are now financial sup-
jut it m ?°rters of programs at the University ofTennessee,”
Jr Mc( ia ^ university President Edward J. Boling. “The
^ r in diversity is stronger and is in a better position to
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withstand the shock of sudden economic fluctuations
in the state and nation. ’
The money raised by Tennessee was earmarked
for educational, public service and research prog
rams like scholarships, salary supplements for out
standing professors and library materials which can
not be financed by state appropriations and student
fees.
At Texas A&M University private giving has in
creased every year for the last 10-12 years, said Dr.
Robert L. Walker, vice president for development.
Walker said Texas A&M received more than $26.8
million during the 1980 calendar year, which was
$2.5 million more than the year before.
The largest single category contributing to that
figure was alumni giving, he said, an area in which
Texas A&M leads among public institutions. Former
students gave $9.5 million to Texas A&M in 1980.
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