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The Battalion
Page 9
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Former Miss TAMU and current Miss participate in the Miss Texas-USA pageant
Bryan-College Station Stephanie Smith will June 26 in San Antonio.
Miss B-CS needs $2,000
for shot at state pageant
Loupot backs former Miss TAMU in new quest
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
She’s already earned the right to
compete in the Miss Texas USA Pag
eant, but now Stephanie Smith is fac
ing a different challenge — raising
the necessary funds to enter the con
test.
Smith, a senior biomedical science
major from Dallas, currently holds
the title of Miss Bryan-College Sta
tion and will attend the pageant
June 26. Her only problem is fund
ing — she needs approximately
$2,000 to compete in the contest.
Because it was difficult trying to
raise the money and maintain her
grade point ratio, Smith enlisted
the help of an A&:M former student
— Judson Loupot, Class of ’32 and
owner of Loupot’s Bookstores.
“I think people will want to help
her,” Loupot said. “She’s done all
the hard work. Now she has the op
portunity to show it. I’m not going to
let $2,000 keep her from doing that.
We’re not asking for $50, just any
thing anyone can help her with.”
Smith held the title of Miss Texas
A&M from 1988-1989. She said
when she entered the pageant her
sophomore year, it was the first time
she had ever entered a pageant.
“Miss A&M is how I first got star
ted,” Smith said. “I had never en
tered a pageant before. I was never
one of those girls who did pageants
for a living. Tliere’s not a lot for girls
to do at A&M. It caught my eye. It
was something I could do.”
Smith said being Miss Texas A&M
was both hard work and a good
oportunity because it helped her
grow as a person and gain confi
dence in dealing with others.
After graduation she hopes to en
ter medical school — either South
western, Baylor or A&M. She said
Tour guide says Texans brag
too much, changes program
AUSTIN (AP) — After Clare
Scherz took over as director of the
State Capitol Guide Service last year,
something became apparent as she
studied the tour’s finer” points.
Texans brag too much.
So, no longer will more than
150,000 Capitol tourists each year
hear that a Texas state senator set
the record for the longest filibuster.
Nor will they have to listen to
claims that we have the tallest capitol
building.
It’s just not so, says Scherz, a na
tive Texan.
“Louisiana is taller, and Illinois
has the tallesit domed Capitol,” she
said. “It's a little taller than the U.S.
Capitol, but not enough to matter.”
The rewritten Capitol tour in
cludes more references to Indians in
Texas history and contributions of
some Mexican-Americans to Texas
in the war against Mexico.
“I don’t like things in the tour that
make Texas sound like it’s trying to
rag,” Scherz said. “1 don’t like that
erception of Texans as being bom-
asticbraggers.”
Scherz, whose husband is the
president of a local bank, started a
college career at the University of
Texas at age 35 (she is now “more
than 50”), and was studying for her
doctorate in English and teaching
undergraduate English classes when
a friend told her that the tour direc
tor’s job was available.
She supervises 25 to 40 college
students, depending on the season,
who work for minimum wage, unless
they are bilingual. With the large
number of foreign visitors to the Ca
pitol, the guide service likes to have
the ability to give tours in Spanish,
French and German, if necessary.
Besides giving tours — which are
always free and also include the Gov
ernor’s Mansion — Scherz estimates
that half of the guides’ time is spent
doing research to answer questions
about Texas. Scherz said she loves
the job but lamehts that even with
thorough preparation, an ordinary
.day can turn nasty.
Take last Wednesday, for exam
ple.
The tours usually visit the House
and Senate chambers. But in the
morning, the House and Senate
were in session. Later, legislative
committees tied up the rooms.
“We had nowhere to take all these
people who had made reservations.
“You get caught between the rules
of the Legislature and people who
are demanding to go in this place or
that.”
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she wants to be an obstetrician or gy-
necolegist someday.
There are two different pageant
systems. The Miss Texas USA Pag
eant is the stepping stone to the Miss
USA Pageant. A similar contest, the
Miss Texas America Pageant, leads
to the Miss America Pageant in Sep
tember.
Smith said the two pageants are
basically the same, except competi
tion ends at the Miss America Pag
eant, and the winner of the Miss
USA Pageant goes on to compete in
the Miss Universe Pageant.
Of the 100 women entered in the
Miss Texas USA Pageant, 13 will be
selected during the preliminary
week as contestants for the televised
contest June 26. Five of these will be
chosen as the finalists and one will
win to represent Texas in the Miss
USA Pageant next February.
The last five Miss USA Pageant
winners have been from Texas.
The Miss Texas USA Pageant is
divided into three competitions:
swimsuit, evening gown and onstage
interview.
Smith said the responsibility of
Miss Texas A&M was to represent
the University at various functions
where she was called upon to speak.
She said holding the title of Miss
Texas USA would be no different
because basically she’d be a spokes
man for the state.
However, winning Miss Texas
USA would alter her educational
plans because she wouldn’t be able to
attend medical school immediately,
but it would be worth it because
she’d be able to compete in the Miss
USA Pageant.
“Obviously, it would put my
schooling back another year, but I
think it would be worth it,” she said.
“Two years out of your life is not
asking so much when you gain so
much from that experience. After
that I would go back to medical
school.”
Smith hopes to raise $2,000,
which would cover her entry fee into
the pageant, her plane fare and
other pageant costs, including hotel
and food costs, opening number cos
tumes and television costs.
Smith has raised almost one-third
of what she needs.
Donations can be either dropped
off at any Loupot’s Bookstore, as
long as the money is accompanied
with an envelope with the donor’s
address on it, or mailed to Stephanie
Smith, in care of T. Becker, Box
8096, College Station, 77844.
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