Oakwood University - Acorn Yearbook (Huntsville, AL)

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Queen Contest runner-up- Carol Lindsey runner-up- Barbara Holland Q. 3 Barbara Holland, Delores Bryant, and Carol Lindsey were the three fin- alists chosen at O.C.'s first U.S.M. Banquet Queen Contest held on Novem- ber l7, l963. The banquet queen whose name was not disclosed until the night of U.S.M. Banquet was chosen from among the three finalists. Each participant was iudged on her charm, wit, and talent. Barbara Holland, a senior Elementary major, displayed her dramatic talent when she rendered a brief monologue entitled I Stand Accused, Delores Bryant, a iunior Mathematics maior, modeled a black shift dress which she wore interchangeably with matching coat and stole. Carol Lindsey, a freshman pre-nursing student, garbed in a stiff brocade gown, depicted the pathos of Amy Lowell's poem, Patterns. Other beauties who entered the contest were Juanita McPherson, Adele Seay, Joirthel von Phul, Kathleen Hall, and Jacquelyn Croumel.

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