Milford chronicle., 1962-09-14
Delaware's Flaxen- haired beauty

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has only one regret from 1T all.
would have like to have been
| in the top ten finalists, and had
another chance ito be on television
again, she smiled. 1t was a tough
| job to judge the girls - they were
all so wonderful, she said. That's
job l wouldn't have wanted. The
judges choice was not the same
pick Alice would have made. l
didn't have a chance to meet the
new queen, Alice said, but | am
very happy for her and wish her
every success during her reign.
Top honors went to 2O-year-old
Jacqueline Jeanne Mayer, Sandus-
ky, Ohio, new Miss America
of 1868.
Alice would have crowned Miss
Oregon, brunette Marty Wyatt.
Marty and l got to be good
friends, Alice said OF all the girls
she was a real person.
l probably shouldn't say tn i S,
she explained, but SO much pres
sure was on us that you had to be
half-fake a lot of the time and
gushy to everyone. Marty was all
ways herself, never Artificial and
real cute, too Alice has settled
down to reign as Miss Delaware.
She rs a student at Wesley College,
where she registered Monday for
her last semester at the t wo year
school. The pageant was great fun,
and real experience, but don't
think it's the kind of thing you
could enjoy more than once, she
confessed
Miss Nancy Hopkins, 16, will
serve ON Farm Journal magazines
Teen Board for the coming school
year, according to Gertrude
Dieken, Women's Editor of til e
Publication. Miss Hopkins is h e
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. William
~ Hopkins, Green Acres Farm, r.
ID. /, Lewes. She is one of the 100
outstanding teenage girls from all
over the country chosen for their
leadership in rural activities. Teen
Board members are featured in
September's Farm Journal Maga-
zine Miss Hopkins was elected to
National Honor Society, president
of her Methodist Youth Fellow
ship, and was past president f
Future Homemakers of America.
She is also vice-president of Broad
kill All Club.
LIT. Ned Maull, of Lewes, with
274 points, is now the 1862 Senior
sailing champion of the Lewes s
Yacht Club, which has now ended
it's Both season of sailbOat compe-
tition Second is Bill Poulterer,
IFI, also of Lewes. one of til e
younger Delaware Bay and River
pilots, who chalked up 267. In 3rd
place is Bill Reardon, of Whining
ton, and Lewes Beach with 26S.
Richard Beebe, son of Dr. and Mrs
James Beebe, Jr., is Junior champ
ion with ESQ points. Third is IL
year-old Miss Connie Marshall f
Wilmington and Lewes Beach. with
274, and Donnie Morris, of Wilm-
ington and Lewes Beach, is third
with 273. All were sailing Super
Sailfish, the club class boat.
In the final Top Ten Series, Cap
tain t. Rowland Marshall, III, Of
Wilmington and Lewes, won fir 8 t
position in Rookie" in 37.42. Ned
Maull in .Bonito" placed second in
37.53, Tim Bayard was third in 49,
IL in "Corsair," and Donnie Rear
don, of Wilmington as also in Tim,
was fourth in Gladys" in 3S35. in
the Senior series. Richard Beebe in
"Ruja' won the Junior contest in
27.42, Connie Marshall in Rookie"
was second in 28.17, Donnie Nor
ris in Jed Lyn II" was third in
28.85, and Nick Carter, of Lewes,
was fourth in Sea Star" in 2S.05.
The annual meeting of the Lew
es Memorial Commission was held
in Lewes on Wednesday, August 29,
at the call of the chairman, Harold
w. T. Purnell, of Georgetown. Af-
ter an inspection of the exhibits
and the building, the members con-
vened for their business meeting in
the Lewes Commissioners council
room in the new town hall in
Lewes. The agenda of the business
meeting included consideration of
the building upkeep. the. budget for
the fiscal year, the election of Of
ficers and the extension of the dis
plays to the second floor of the
building which as recently vacated
by the Lewes Library. All the pre-
yious officers were reelected as
follows: Honorable H. w. t. Pur-
cell as chairman, Mrs. d. Anthony
Potter of Lewes as vice chairman,
and Mr.. Leon deValinger, Jr., State