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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 19, 1965
Beauty Pageants Take Work
What makes a beauty pageant?
It is pretty girls, lights, glamour, excitement, tears and triumph. But the real story of a beauty pageant is untold hours spent by civic minded men and women preparing each minute detail.
The Miss Lawrence-KU pageant will be held on March 26, but the planning and work began January 12th. On that day the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce selected Dick Randolph to be the chairman of the 1965 Miss Lawrence-KU pageant. At the same time the subchairmen were also selected.
THESE MEN were immediately
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faced with a problem. How to finance the $900 cost of the program. They also had to find a location for the contest, design and print programs, select the girls, and gain public support for the contest.
Randolph and his sub-chairmen decided to sell sponsorships of the various contestants to local merchants. The merchants rallied behind the Miss Lawrence-KU pageant, and within a week and a half the necessary money had been raised.
The pageant was only 61 days away and obstacles still loomed in their way. The girls had not been selected; the judges had not been contacted; the location had not been found, and the publicity had not been started.
EACH OF the sub-chairmen attacked a different problem. John Rouse, the entries chairman, went right to work selecting 30 girls in Lawrence to compete for the title Miss Lawrence-KU.
Rouse went to the local merchants, and to Miss Emily Taylor. KU dean of women, for help. By March all of the girls had been selected and most
of them had been photographed for the program.
About this same time, Charles Bratton had contacted five local people to act as judges for this year's pageant. Win Grantham has secured the Lawrence High Auditorium as the location.
Also, at this same time, Dick Randolph, Charles Bratton and Cathy Bergstrom, last year's Miss Lawrence-KU, had been going from civic groups, to sororities, to local meetings and even to the city council session to inform people about the pageant and to ask their support in making this year's the best ever.
A PARADE through downtown Lawrence was planned. The Junior Chamber of Commerce have secured convertibles for the 30 girls, and a marching band was secured. The parade will be held at 10:00 p.m., Saturday, March 20th.
The judges' tea will also be held the same day in the Hotel Eldridge. Today all that remains is the pretty girls, the lights, the glamour, the excitement, the tears, and the triumph.
GOOD GRIEF, we finally got the mess cleaned up and now we're having a GRAND OPENING. It's Saturday, March 20th, but you can register for the free prizes beginning Thursday night. There'll be goodies to eat and drink Saturday and all of our Office supplies, stationery, Hallmark greeting and contemporary cards and party stuff. So, Good Grief, come on down for the fun.
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SIXTH ANNUAL PARADE OF QUARTETS Saturday, March 20, 1965
8:00 p.m.
High School Auditorium, Lawrence, Kansas
ALSO FEATURING:
THE FABULOUS KIPPERS
Kansas City Quartet
THE AQUA-TONES, Lawrence, Kansas International Medalists, Sweet Adelines, 1962,'63,'64
THE RIP-CHORDS, Topeka, Kansas One of the Fine Young Quartets in the Central States District SPEBSQSA
THE LAWRENCE CHAPTER SWEET ADELINE CHORUS Current Region 7 Medalist Chorus
AND
THE LAWRENCE BARBERHAWK CHORUS The Renegades are, of course, current second place International Medalists, SPEBSQSA, from Chicago, Ill.