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Local THE BATTALION Page 3 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1981 Miss Texas A&M tumbles toward pageant title re 'P^ldnj inglo Slots, ie Priori' of By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Staff Sheri Ryman, reigning Miss sTexas and former Miss Texas &M University, will compete for he title of Miss America Satur day. The pageant will be telecast ive from Atlantic City, N.J. on NBC at 9 p.m. The Hospitality Committee in .conjunction with MSC Video will display the pageant on a 72-inch video screen in the main lobby of the MSC. Ryman, picked by an Illinois * computer expert to win the Miss America Pageant, won the talent competition and a $2,500 scholar ship Wednesday by performing a gymnastics-jazz routine to the mo tion picture theme “Close En counters of the Third Kind,” the same routine she performed in pageants. the Miss Texas Pageant. Miller has picked Ryman, a na- George Miller, a professor of tive of Texas City, to win the con- business systems and analysis at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, has used a computer and information about previous win ners to correctly predict the win ners of the last two Miss America test at odds of 6 to 1. Miller says the first runner-up will be Miss Massachusetts with 8 to 1 odds followed by Miss Georgia with 9 to 1 odds. The winner of the Miss America Pageant will receive $20,000 in cash and prizes. Ryman is attending North Texas State University on a one-year scholarship — one of her Miss Texas prizes — but plans to return to Texas A&M to complete her degree. She is majoring in indust rial distribution, a program offered at only a few universities. After graduation, she plans to work in the field of engineering sales. Ryman was accompanied to the contest by native Texan Rita Jen- rette, the ex-wife of former South Carolina Rep. John Jenrette, who lost his re-election bid after in volvement in the federal govern ment’s Abscam bribery investiga tion. Mrs. Jenrette is following Ry man to report for a news service on the pageant from the contes tant’s perspective. Although Ryman is the first Texas A&M student to be crowned Miss Texas in the Miss America competition she is not the first beauty pageant winner to come from the University. Kim Tomes, Class of‘77, was crowned Miss USA 1977 and went on to compete for the title of Miss Uni verse in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. myi the Unit*! ling of al islyoverca J king “0| ity motto re I’ve I Ryman now a student at North Texas State Miss Texas,Sheri Ryman By DENISE RICHTER Battalion Staff Miss Texas 1981 may be an Aggie at heart, but in the Miss America Pageant she will be refer red to as a student at North Texas State University in Denton. Sheri Ryman entered the Miss Texas competition as Miss Texas A&M University. However, when she won the Miss Texas crown, she also received a one-year scho larship to NTSU. “Every contestant, when she enters the Miss Texas Pageant, signs a statement that she will accept all gifts of the pageant should she win or place,” said Lindsey Keffer, director of institu tional advancement at NTSU. “We’ve been doing this (offer ing the scholarship) for seven years,” Keffer said. “It’s all done by contract — no other school can offer a scholarship to the winner of the Miss Texas Pageant.” The NTSU scholarship pays for all fees, tuition, board, a private room and books, he said. Keffer said attending NTSU will be a convenience for Ryman since, as Miss Texas, she is re quired to make appearances around the state. “The professors all know that as Miss Texas; Sheri has a grueling schedule of appearances and events to attend,” Keffer said. “When she came up to pre register, we set her schedule up so she only has classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also, her profes sors are very understanding — if she misses an assignment or a test, they’ll give her the opportunity to make up what she missed.” The industrial distribution ma jor has said she will return to Texas A&M to finish her degree, but she said her year at NTSU will affect that. “This will probably postpone my graduation by a year, ” Ryman said. “Only five schools in the na tion offer the industrial distribu tion program and North Texas isn’t one of them.” However, Keffer said Ryman is listed as an industrial distribution major at NTSU. “We don’t offer a program by that name but we do offer similar courses,” Keffer said. “We’ve worked with her schedule very carefully — she should be able to transfer back to A&M with out any difficulty.” AGGIES! Douglas Jewelry Today s Almanac United Press International Today is Friday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 1981 with 111 to follow. The moon is moving toward its full phase. The morning star is Mars. 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