Three vie for crown

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Aug 13, 1997 by Joan Gilmore

Three candidates for Miss America have Oklahoma ties and will be in town Friday for a homecoming at Oklahoma City University. Miss Oklahoma, Miss Colorado and Miss Arkansas, who will vie for the Miss America crown on Sept. 13 in Atlantic City, will be joined by a former Miss America, Jane Jayroe Gamble, at 1 p.m. for a news conference.

Miss Oklahoma Kelli Masters is a student in the OCU School of Law. Miss Arkansas Stacy Freeman is a 1997 graduate of OCU and Miss Colorado Regina Flores is a former OCU student. They will gather in the foyer of the Petree Recital Hall at OCU to be presented with portraits that hang permanently at the university.

OCU may brag about its tradition of winning pageants, with three OCU students having been named Miss America, 17 named Miss Oklahoma, three named Miss Arkansas, two named Miss Colorado and one named Miss Illinois. Chicago, here they come Going to Chicago for the OU-Northwestern football game? Then the OU Sooner Club of Chicago has a deal for you! Members of the club are joining with the OU Association in sponsoring a series of events at the Westin Hotel. The game will be Saturday, Aug. 23, at Soldier Field but the pre- game stuff begins Thursday, Aug. 21, with a pep rally in the hotel - - which is on Michigan Boulevard, Chicago's wonderful street of shopping. A social gathering from 5:30-7 p.m. is planned Friday, Aug. 22, and a pre-grame coffee is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. on game day. Bus transportation to the game will be available from the hotel beginning at 9:30 a.m. for the 11 a.m. kickoff. Buses will depart from the stadium to return to the hotel 30 minutes after the game. Game tickets are available for $30 from Ticket Masters (312) 559- 1212. Tickets also are required for the pep rally and the bus. For additional information, call Debby Faulkner at (405) 325-1710. Go, Sooners! Guthrie's Autumn Magic Turn back the pages of time at the annual Autumn Magic celebration in Guthrie on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5, 6 and 7. Western movies, cowboys, classic cars and lots of family fun are coming to Guthrie sponsored by the Oklahoma Arts Council, Guthrie Convention and Visitors' Bureau and the festival committee. Autumn Magic is all about early western movies when the good guys wore white hats and rescued the ladies just in time for the movie to end. And Tom Mix (a look-alike, that is) will be wandering around town just like he did in the early days. Also on tap are a barbecue dinner and dancing under the stars, a classic car show, a Pro Bull Riders Tour Challenge at the Lazy E Arena, two plays, a living history reenactment, lots of western movies, cowboy poets, crafts and antique markets and, of course, great food vendors. All during that weekend, great western movies will be shown. At Pollard Theatre, the play will be Noises Off, a riotous comedy, and at the Preservation Playhouse, Blackbeard will be swashbuckling and singing his way into your hearts. For additional information, call (405) 282-1948. Mark your calendars for a great weekend. Lyric costumes, sets Lyric Theatre has two warehouses to clean out to make room for more storage, so here's your chance. Set pieces, props, costumes from the `50s to the present day, backdrops, furniture and much more will be offered for Sale II. The dates are Aug. 21-24; the time is 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and the place is 310 NE 31 St., a warehouse. This will be an excellent place for schools and area colleges to purchase items for upcoming productions. In addition, a number of furniture pieces and household goods have been donated by theater patrons specifically for this sale so the general public will find many things of interest. Just visiting the warehouse and wandering around could be a real nostalgia trip for those of you who've followed Lyric productions since the theater began 35 years ago. Brahms celebration The national Brahms Centennial Celebration will be observed right here in Oklahoma City, Sept. 18-21. Four days of concerts, recitals, lectures, a soiree and singers from across the country will be featured. For a full schedule of events, contact Dr. Nettie Williams, executive director, at 525-6551. The grand finale in this tribute to Johannes Brahms will be the presentation of Ein Deutsches Requiem, Opus 45, conducted by B. R. Henson, at the Civic Center Music Hall. Featured will be the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brahms Centennial Chorus. Tickets are available. Joan Gilmore welcomes your comments and contributions. You may reach her by phone at 278-2842, by fax at 278- 2890, or by e-mail, dpage