Troy University - Palladium Yearbook (Troy, AL)

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Southern Beauties Alabama, the beautiful landscapes, beautiful cities and towns, and beautiful girls. Troy State has been blessed with beautiful girls, but not necessarily confined to Southern girls. With an in- flux of state and county Ju- nior Misses and finalists in other beauty pageants, Troy had beautiful girls represen- tative of throughout the Unit- ed States and some foreign countries. The South has a heritage of fine beautiful belles and al- t hough she cannot claim all of the beautiful girls at TSU, her claims are substantial. The student body at Troy State saw Yolanda Fernandez, 1982 Miss TSl become Mis Ala- bama. With this new crown. Yolanda returned to Troy to give up her title as Miss TSl ' to 1st Runner-up Juaneyaa Wilkins. A native of Florida, Ms. Fernandez made Troy her new home. Almost the en- tire student body sat glued to the television set to see Yo- landa compete and claim 3rd Runner-up in the Mist Amer- ica Pageant. Cindy Willis, a junior from Montgomery, Alabama, chosen Miss Homecoming by popular vote. Her court con sisted of Sue Horvath, Diane Arnzen, and Becky Redd. Pat Griffin captured the hearts of the audience with her talent presentation of They Could Not in the L983 Miss 7 Si pagent. Her title of Miss TSU gave her the p portunity to compete in the 1983 Miss Alabama Pageant. Stephanie Hii made head- lines iftei receiving the title of Miss National 71 •- Other girls torn f ■ for titles varying from W . melon Queen to Sational ■ theart for their fraterni TSl ' had the opportunity of harboring many beautiful ladies and held true to the saying that the South has the most beautiful women in the world. cm fV i

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Miss TSU 1982 Juaneysa Wilkins 16 Miss TSU 1982

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Miss Alabama 1982 Yolanda Fernandez 18 Miss Alabama