Greetings!
I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful fall weather! With the start of the school year, I have been keeping busy with classes, graduate school applications, and student organizations. This year especially, I feel exciting about all of the promising opportunities in store for me.
I have one very exciting piece of news to share. When I began competing in the Miss America Organization, like every contestant, I put together a resume. One of my interesting facts has always been “has yet to learn how to ride a bike”. I am happy to inform you that that is no longer true! After 21 years, I have finally learned to ride a bike. Unfortunately, I learned to ride on my friend Peige’s extremely nice triathlon bike, so when I went to ride on a normal road bike, I promptly fell over (gracefully, of course!). But I am sure that with time, I will be able to ride any bike I may come across. As you must image, I am very proud of myself.
I have several exciting events going on in the next couple of months. First, on Saturday I will be taking the LSAT, the entrance exam into law school. Since there are not joint programs for masters of human resources and juris doctorates, I am probably looking at completing my master’s degree first before continuing on to law school. This means that this exam is more like a practice test for me, because I have several years before my scores will be submitted and several more opportunities to take the test. Nevertheless, I will do my absolute best on Saturday and will remain focused for all six hours.
The Miss Pearl City titleholders and Miss Muscatine’s Outstanding Teen are also putting together a food drive over the fall months in order to help Muscatine families in need. Throughout the next couple of weeks, we will be putting donation containers in stores and community centers throughout Muscatine. Look out for additional details!
On October 23rd, the Miss Muscatine/Miss Pearl City Scholarship Program will be hosting “Pageant School – Road to the Crown” in Muscatine, IA. This should be a very exciting event! Keynote speakers include Miss Iowa 1999 Jennifer Caudle and Miss America 2009 Katie Stam Irk. These two women are such great models and they are both women that I will be honored to meet. In fact, I feel like I already have an important connection to each. Jennifer Caudle was one of my judges this year at Miss Iowa and Katie Stam has been my pageant inspiration since I watched her on the Miss America reality show three years ago. She was actually the first Miss America I saw crowned. This should be an excellent event, and I encourage anyone who in interested in pageants to attend.
Finally, November 18th through the 20th is the Iowa Mission of Mercy, a charitable dental clinic that will be held in Sioux City, IA at the Tyson Center. Over the last three years, over $1,000,000 of dentistry has been provided through the missions of mercy. I am so excited to be one of the 4,000 volunteers to help with this wonderful event. With my platform of “Making Smiles Happen: Children’s Dental Health Advocacy”, this event is especially near and dear to my heart. Please contact the Miss Pearl City/Miss Muscatine Scholarship Program if you would like to help this year.
I will provide more details about all of these events as they approach. I have a couple more events in the works, but I will just have to keep you in suspense for now!
Best,
Elizabeth
