NAVAJO COMA. COLL. LffiRAR? TSATLM BRANCH POST OFTICB 3 I CHINLE, A2 84503 /r * '<*K fitelJ Carolina JlttMati Joiccm^ PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY ^ uBifldta| CoBMBkstlvi BridfM ^ .? ~? : LRD A In Action FROM MISS LUMBEE TO MISS UTAH dMghrer of lii^i Mr*. Jim H. IfJ'lM" BY LEW BAKTON I met Miss Utah 1980 twenty-two years ago. She was several days old, quite cute and chubby, and occupied a twin crib right beside that of her identical twin sister. Jean and Joan Bullard were the lovely little daughters of my boss (Mr. S.M. Bullard) and my cousin (Mrs. Rosa Una Dial Bullard.) I presented the cuddly, tiny curies with a silver dollar each for luck, dollar coins which they still have in their baby books today. For whatever reason or reasons, some good fortune baa come the way of both girls. For one thing, Jean and Joan still sing beautifully together, and do it every time they get a chance to spend some time together. They also play piano and dance divinely. But love and career have finally separated them, tho perhaps just temporarily. Joan is now happily married and has a cute little daughter of her own. Jean will be receiving her double-music-major degree from Brig ham Young University later this year. Meanwhile, Jean, who started taking band the year she was in the fifth grade, has continued her musical education until the present. She hopes to make it home in time for the Lumbee Home- , coming 1980, but doesn't know as yet whether her tight schedule and favora ble flight connections will allow it. She . will be here in spirit, tho, however it turns out. Naturally, we are all happy for Jean-and for ourselves--at L.R.D.A. It is quite a leap upward from Miss Lumbee to Miss Utah. And for the first time, a former Miss Lumbee will be in competition with other beautiful women from all over the United States in the Miss America Pageant In 1959 when 1 suggested a Miss Lumbee Beauty Pageant in a newspaper article, a fellow newsman (non-Indian) ridiculed the idea imprint. I'd just like to see his face now I I've always contended that our Lum bee women are among the most beautiful and most talented in the world. And my own second cousin Jean Bullard proves my point. Not even to mention the Lumbee lady who won the Miss Robeson County title a few years ago..,to shock the dominant society out of its wits! The Lumbee lady declined to accept the title, choosing rather the Miss Lumbee crown. Jean has both feet on the ground. When asked in the Miss Utah Pageant what she would like to say to other young people, she replied realistically, "Take advantage of every opportunity. You may never have another one." When asked where she would like to go if she had an opportunity to go anywhere in the kvorld, she unhesi tatingly answered, "The Holy Land." Jean demonstrates a special care toward elderly people, her grandmother Ms. Ina BullarJ"H?,