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BY DAWN ELLEN BOYD
County Attorney David Clegg has been hooked on
pageants since childhood.
Now, as president of the Miss Brunswick County
Pageant, Inc., he will donate his expertise and enthusiasm
to improve the county's Miss North Carolina
preliminary pageant.
Clegg said he first became aware of pageants as a
child when his teacher won the Miss Sanford pageant.
In 1964, when Clegg was a second grader, a Miss Sanford
went on to become Miss North Carolina. "My other
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her blood-red Olsmobile Toranado with the official Miss
North Carolina seal on it. 1 was hooked."
The girl he dated in high school went on to become
Sanford's Junior MLss. Clegg laughed, "Going to the
prom with the Junior Miss was more than anyone could
ask for!"
A girl Clegg dated when he attended HampdenSydnev
College in Virginia won the Miss Rohobeth Beach
pageant and went on to compete in the Miss Delaware
pageant. "Because I knew a contestant. I was in constant
contact with pageants," Clegg said. "I began meeting
people involved with pageants and really liked them. I
enjoyed the travel end of it and began to see the scholarship
end of it for the first time."
Clegg went on to pursue a master's degree in theater
and speech, and later a law degree, from the University
of South Carolina (USCl. He joined a Jaycec chapter at
the school and found himself involved in nnuennls nonln
The club founded the Miss USC pageant, a preliminary to
the Miss South Carolina pageant.
"Every year Miss USC has been a finalist," Clegg
said. "I,ast year she became Miss South Carolina."
Being the business manager for Miss USC got Clegg
even more involved in the pageant world. He became a
certified judge for the Miss South Carolina pageant.
South Carolina pageants Clegg lias judged include
Miss Columbia, the S.C. Queen of Cotton pageant, and
Miss Charleston.
Clegg laughed, "last year I was on the panel cf
judges that chose Miss liberty?Sherri Thrift. She was
first runner-up in the Miss America pageant this year.
She was delightful. Her clogging routine had a lot of
showmanship."
Clegg was also 0.1 the panel of judges that chase the
last two winners of the Miss Fayetteville title. Both went
on to become Miss North Carolina.
He has "dabbled" in the Miss USA pageant, including
coaching a friend who captured the title of Miss
North Carolina-USA in her first pageant appearance.
Besides judging and coaching, Clegg has also
ernceed and produced pageants, and designed clothes for
contestants
He designed an entire pageant wardrobe for Miss
Spivey's Corner two years ago She didn't become a
finalist for Miss North Carolina, but she was spotted in
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Clegg thinks Miss Brunswick County can be a strong
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"Miss Brunswick County 1986 will be a very luckyyoung
woman," said Clegg. "She will have competed in a
pageant before the toughest and most accomplished
panel of judges to have judged the pageant in manyyears."
Clegg also plans to give the 1986 winner plenty of
county-wide exposure. "Next year you'd have to live
under a rock not to know who Miss Brunswick County is,"
he asserted. "I want everybody to know who she is. She
won't iust visit one end of the county?she will have been
all over."
Belinda Jacobs, the present Miss Brunswick County,
was a strong contender in the Miss North Carolina
pageant, according to Clegg. "There is no doubt in my
mind she won the evening gown competition in the
pageant," he said. "She was flawless. People knew
Brunswick County was there."
The Miss North Carolina pageant is the oldest and
largest Miss America preliminary pageant in the country.
Clegg thinks that young women who enter the Miss
Brunswick County pageant should do so liecause they
want to represent the county, not just as a stepping stone
to becoming Miss North Carolina. "It's true you get to
travel, wear fabulous clothes and be the center of attention,"
he said, "but you must earn them. If you had the 50
Miss North Carolina preliminary winners in a room you
could pick out the ones that really wanted to do it by their
attitudes."
Contestants can further career opportunities by taking
part in pageants. Clegg said, "The primary goal is not
to be Miss America but to learn how to market one's
self."
Clegg cited the case of a girl who applied for a job as
a flight attendant with Piedmont Airlines anil was turned
down. "She became Miss North Carolina-USA," he said,
"and they called her. She's now chief flight attendant."
The Miss Brunswick County pageant was sponsored
in the past by the local Jaycees. Now, follow ing the example
of the Miss Columbus County pageant. Miss
nruiiawim vuuiny. int., is a non-prom suite Cllltneri't
organization
'*1 liuve been pleiinvil at the level of generosity of pec
pie and businesses we have approached lo donate mone;
to us," said Clcgg "We are in Rood shape financially."
The new Miss Brunswick County will receive i
scholarship of at least $800.
She will also wear an offieal Miss Americt
preliminary crown that CIcrr purchased at this year')
Miss America pageant in Atlantic City and donated lo thi
county pageant.
Miss Bruaswick County 1986 will lie crowned Satur
day, I)ec 14, at Shallotte Middle School.
CleRR believes the pageant system looks out for rnort
titan just another pretty face. "I don't think the Miss
America Pageant is sexist at all," he explained. II
recognizes them not only as women, but as individuals
with their own personalities, their own opinions and their
own ambitions."
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