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Concordian, October 5, 1984 Page 11 Clippings of Callie's pageant experience Miss Utah wins Miss America title Herald Staff and Wire Reports the 10 finalists. ATLANTIC CITY. N.J. - Miss The crowning of Wells, a 20-year- Utah. Shurlent1 Wells, a Mormon who old resident of Salt l-ike City, ends a sjys shu has "absolutely no skeletons year that saw Vanessa Williams. 21. in the closet." of Millwood. N Y . become the first w.is crowned black to win the contest and the first Miss America ' woman to relinquish the crown after 19115 Saturday Penthou.se magazine published nude nijiht. ending the photographs of her — taken before most scandalous last years contest, in its September of ihe pageants issue. C3 years Wells was crowned by her prede- I'm a Mor- cessor, Suzette Charles. 21. of Mays mon from Utah Landing, who replaced Williams in and that should July Charles also is black say it all." Wells "I feel absolutely no burden be- said Well* cause I have lived my life above re- Miss Ohio. Melissa Bradley, 23; of proach I have followed my values 'Mansfield, who was once accused of seven days a week." Wells said I ^shoplifting, was chosen as the first have absolutely no skeletons in the runner-up closet- I'm absolutely happy about The second runner-up was Miss that." Mississippi. Kathy Manning. 22. of For her talent competition, Wells, Drew Miss Minnesota. Lauren Susan who lived for 11 years in South Amer- G£een, 26. of Minneapolis, was third ica, sang a medley of Paraguayan riyjner-up.'and Miss Texas. Tamara folk songs and played a gold-colored Hext. 2\. of Fort Worth, was the Latin American classical harp. CP News S«rvlc« fourth runner-up. Wells, an aqua-eyed strawberry Miss North Dakota Callle Northagen of Grand Forks stands with Miss Miss North Dakota, Callic Northa- blonde, stands 5-feet-8 and weighs Texas, Tamara Hext, and Miss Hawaii, Debbie Nakanelua, during a gen of Grand Forks, failed to make Please %tt PAGEANT, IDA practice. U.S./ World Briefs vs Callie Northagen appeared in m many newspapers during her experience at the Miss America pageant. Clockwise from top left: The Grand Forks Herald announces pageant results; a local paper in Atlan- tic City shows Northagen and West Virginia's Melanne Penn- ington relaxing during the con- Af test; The Grand Forks Herald Misses on the beach caught Northagen in action State misses competing for Miss America are shown Mon- during the talent competition, day on the beach in Atlantic City, NJ. They are, from left. Miss Minnesota, Lauren Gre«n; Mlu North Dakota, Collie she performed "Malaguena"; A Norihagen; and Miss South Dakota, Debra Cleveland. brief from the West Central Tribune of Willmar, Minn., features Northagen, Miss Min- nesota Lauren Green and Miss South Dakota Debra Cleveland..