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University Daily Kansan, August 28, 1984
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KU student crowned in contest
Miss America pageant next
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
On the night of the Miss America pageant, some KU students will watch the televised finals. Others may study or drink.
One student will stand beneath dazzling lights on an Atlantic City stage, competing in the most famous beauty contest in the country.
Nancy Cobb
Cobb travels to Atlantic City with much of her battle already won.
country.
Nancy Cobb, Wichita junior, was crowned
Miss Lawrence in November and earned a
ticket to the Miss America contest on Sept. 15
by winning the Miss Kansas title July 14 in
Pratt.
"You are competing theoretically with 80,000 girls," she said. "You've got to feel like a winner if you're even there."
Lawrence to juggle her schoolwork with local and state appearances as Miss Kansas.
IF COBB WINS, her physical therapy studies at KU will be replaced with a grueling year of travel that will seldom allow her to be home. If she loses, she will return to
heard of Cobb's musical talent and wanted her to enter the Miss Wichita pageant. She entered and won.
Cobb is enrolled for the fall semester and plans to attend the first few days of classes. She leaves for New Jersey on Sept. 8.
As Miss Wichita, Cobb was first runner-up in the 1983 Miss Kansas pageant. But it was as Miss Lawrence the following year that Cobb won the state title.
"You've got to be prepared to win," she said. "But I see it as jicing on the cake."
'You are competing theoretically with 80,000 girls. You've got to feel like a winner if you're even there.'
Nancy Cobb, Miss Kansas
The ingredients in that icing include a $25,000 college scholarship, about $150,000 for national appearances and countless job offers from around the country. As a winner of local and state contests, Cobb already has won almost $8,000 for school expenses.
Cobb's talent entry, a song titled "I Love New Orleans Music," was so popular with pageant officials that they asked her to use it in the Miss America contest. Cobb, who accompanies herself on the piano, called the song "Rockin' and Described" and described it as "a real crowd pleaser."
THE $25,000 SCHOLARSHIP was one attraction that paved Cobb to the Miss America pageant, she said. Another was the pageant's emphasis on talent. She was first told of the contest by a pageant representative who had
FOR THE MISS AMERICA pageant, Cobb will have a hefty crowd to please. Besides the 50,000 member audience in Atlantic City's Convention Hall, millions of television
viewers will watch the final night of competition. Cobb will compete before a panel of judges that includes artist LeRoy Nieman and entertainer Pearl Bailey.
The national pageant this year is plagued by controversy. In July, contest officials asked Vanessa Williams, crowned Mrs America in 1963, to relinquish her title after sexually assaulting a woman with another woman were published in the September issue of Penthouse magazine.
Cobb agreed with the decision to demand Williams resignation. She said the Penthouse photographs, taken before Williams became Miss America, exploited the pageant winner — something the Miss America pageant directly opposed
Cobb also said that the woman who became Miss America must be prepared to serve as an ideal for others. Role models are not things of the past, she said.
"You've always got to have your hairbeards," she said. "Superman hasn't."
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