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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1981
Miss Texas A&M tumbles toward pageant title
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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.
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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.”
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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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In 1777, troops of Gen. George
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In 1973, the regime of Socialist
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