I still remember driving home one Saturday afternoon;
the date was September 15, 1984, to be exact. I was only
vaguely aware of the radio until the newscaster announced
that Miss Utah, Sharlene Wells, was one of the ten finalists
for that evening s Miss America pageant.
Although I knew only a few specifics about Sharlene, I
certainly knew who she was. She was the reigning Miss Utah,
BYU homecoming queen, Holiday Bowl queen, a former
Utah Junior Miss, and a daughter of Elder Robert E. Wells of
the First Quorum of the Seventy, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Associates at the publication
where I work had encouraged me to publish an article about
LDS pageant winners. I had resisted, insisting that readers
expected more from us than reports on beauty pageants.
Perhaps you can tell that I have never put much stock in
the beauty pageant system and, by inference, beauty pageant
contestants, I have tended to dismiss bathing beauties with a
wave of the hand and the notion that, collectively, they rely
too much on looks and not nearly enough on brains, person-
ality, talent, and character.
Nevertheless, I found myself watching the Miss America
t that evening (a first for me), and I admit that, de-
y preconceived bias, I was thrilled when Gary Collins
called out Sharlene s name as the new Miss America. It al-
most seemed like a blow for the little man, or girl--a girl
from Utah, and a member of the Church, no less.
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