Tuesday, November 16, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
Freshman from Omaha wins
Miss Black UNL pageant
By Jeff Goodwin
When Rosalind Moore
started school at UNL last
August, she never thought
that three months later she
would be chosen Miss Black
UNL.
"I had no idea," she said.
"I can't believe it."
Moore won her title Sun
day night in the ballroom of
the Nebraska Union. It was
the third consecutive year
a Miss Black UNL pageant
has been held.
Carla Johnson
Kimbrough, chief coordina
tor of the pageant, said
she was pleased by the
way the contest turned
out.
"Last year there were
more people, but the people
here tonight were very in
terested," Johnson
Kimbrough said.
Johnson-Kimbrough said
the number of contestants
in this year's pageant -eight
- was slightly smaller
than in the previous two
years.
Johnson-Kimbrough said
anyone who wanted to
could enter the pageant.
However, contestants were
required to attend all the
practices and activities spon
sored by the pageant, she
added.
Moore, a freshman from
Omaha majoring in journal
ism and the performing arts,
said she entered the contest
to help support black stu
dents at UNL.
"I wanted to bring the
black community together,"
Moore said. "1 thought
I was a good spokesperson
for the black community.
I'm just happy to win."
Moore said she believes
the contest was a good
experience, and that it
would have been even if she
hadn't won.
"It was a very worth
while experience," she said.
"I gained a lot of friends
out of this. It's been very
rewarding."
Moore said she intends
to be active in her new
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Rosalind Moore, newly crowned Miss Black UNL,
breaks into a smile as last year's Miss Black UNL,
Doreen Charles, right, congratulates her.
role as Miss Black UNL. lighted bv a speech bv
i intend to get out
and meet people," she said.
"I want to get the black
community to come toget
her as one."
Moore's comments
reflected the theme of the
pageant
Rise .
through Unity." The
concept is taken from a
poem by poet Maya
Angelou.
In addition to talent,
contestants were judged on
poise, an introduction of
themselves to the audience,
a question-and-answer sec
tion and an interview that
took place before the con
test
Doreen Charles, Miss Black
UNLof 1981.
Charles paid tribute to
those who came before her.
"We, the descendants of
great black aueens. must
"And Still P no let down,' Charles
Arhivmnt sald- We are wftat we
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were."
Moore's victory allows
her to compete in the Miss
Black Big Eight pageant,
which will be at UNL in
February.
The second runner-up
in the contest was Macy
Williams, a senior from
Morris., Okla. The first
runner-up was Andrea Kim-
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Pets laid to rest
Cemetery isn't typical
By John Koopman
About three miles east of Lincoln
on 0 Street, Pat Strnot owns and
operates a combination cemetery, cre
matory and funeral home. It looks
just like a regular cemetery, only
smaller. Because there are no people
buried there, only animals.
Strnot opened the Rolling Acres
Pet Cemetery, Crematory and Funeral
Home, 400 S. 134th St., in 1978
after running into a great deal of trouble
finding a suitable resting place for one
of her own dogs.
"Most pets which die at the veteri
narian's office or at the Humane Society
are simply taken to the city dump,"
she said.
Strnot operates the cemetery just
three miles from the Lincoln city
limit because of a city ordinance pro
hibiting the burial of animals within
that limit. Although cremated animals
may be buried inside the limit, Strnot
believes the ordinance was originally
enacted to prevent the spread of hoof-and-mouth
disease.
Strnot said the same companies
that make headstones, plaques, statues
and caskets for humans also make them
for animals. Caskets start at $38, $10
for small pets and birds, and plots
vary according to location. There is
a separate section for cats if the owners
desire, and another fenced-in area
for horses.
For those who want their pet taken
care of but don't have much money,
there are group cremations and group
burials. Cremations start at $38 and
burials at $20.
Many people are so attached to
their pets that they provide a burial
site for them while they are still alive,
she said.
While some people think only
rich older people bring their pets to
a pet cemetery, Strnot said that's a
misconception.
She said older people are usually
very attached to their pets, especially
a widow or widower who owned the
pet before the i; -mse died. The pet
will remind them of their late spouse
and when the pet dies, it's as if the
last remaining spirit of the spouse
is gone. Strnot said that she tells be
reaved owners that if it will help for
them to believe they will be reunited
with their pets in heaven then they
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