240 Winter .. Festival Queen Winter Festival crown goes to Kersey The first winter snow came only two days before Michelle Kersey was crowned Winter Festival Queen during ceremonies Thursday night, January 31. Attendants Pam Pipkin, a senior business management major from Jackson, Tennessee and Pam McFarland, a junior elementary education major from Carlisle, looked on as Kersey received the crown at half time of the Harding - Arkansas Tech basketball game. "I was really shocked," exclaimed Kersey. "I didn ' t expect it in the least! " Nominated by the basketball team and elected by the student body, Kersey related , "For the basketball team to pick you is a big honor, but to have the student body pick you out of three girls is a great honor'" An elementary education major, Kersey will marry Rodney Betts in August before finishing school next May. She hopes to teach second grade in a Christian school. "My one goal," she said, speaking of long range plans, "is to have a Christian home and to raise my children ·as I feel like I've been raised - with God as the number one factor. " tnffi Winter Festival Royalty ,r - -..,....... . Michelle Kersey • Winter Festival Queen
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