THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, June 23, 1996 TAG: 9606210218
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 11 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ERIC FEBER, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: 59 lines
Thomanita L. ``Nita'' Booth will be Chesapeake's official representative in the Miss Virginia Pageant next week in Roanoke, but she will not be the only Chesapeake woman in the competition.
Four other Chesapeake women will be traveling to Roanoke as well, representing other cities, colleges or festivals. They are Patrice Griffin, Adell Healy, Beth Howell and Stacey Moseley.
Here is a brief look at the four other Miss Virginia contestants from Chesapeake:
Patrice Griffin, the 21-year-old daughter of Pattie L. and Richard Griffin Jr., won the 1995-1996 Miss Norfolk State University Pageant.
The 1992 graduate of Indian River High School is a senior at Norfolk State University majoring in communications and journalism.
She will sing the spiritual ``He Looked Beyond My Faults'' for her talent. Her pageant platform is education and she is an educational intern at Ruffner Middle School in Norfolk.
Marie Adell Healy, the 18-year-old daughter of Juanita and Robert Healy, is the winner of the 1996 Miss Suffolk Tri-County Festival Pageant.
She is a 1995 graduate of Western Branch High School and is currently a sophomore at the Portsmouth campus of Tidewater Community College majoring in science/psychology. After college she has hopes of entering medical school.
For her talent, she will perform her own arrangement of George Gershwin's ``Rhapsody In Blue'' on the piano. A volunteer at the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, her platform us ``Total Wellness for Children.''
Elizabeth A. ``Beth'' Howell, the 22-year-old daughter of Linda and Copy Howell, is the winner of the 1996 Miss Hampton-Newport News Pageant.
A 1991 graduate of Great Bridge High School, she graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg last year with a degree in music education. She is currently chorale director of Southampton County middle and high schools.
A former Miss Chesapeake, Howell will perform ``The Laughing Song'' for her talent and will discuss cancer education and awareness for her pageant community service platform.
Stacey Renee Moseley, the 20-year-old daughter of Garland and Jackie Moseley, is the winner of the 1996 Miss Norfolk Pageant.
She is a 1993 graduate of the Professional Children's School in New York City, attended New York University for two years and is currently a junior on the dean's list at Old Dominion University, where she is majoring in women's studies.
An actress who has already appeared on national network television, off-Broadway shows and feature films, she will perform the Broadway song ``I'm Not Through'' in the talent competition.
An advocate of AIDS awareness, she will champion the cause of AIDS research and tolerance and sexual health issues as her community platform for the pageant. ILLUSTRATION: Photos
Griffin
Howell
Moseley by CNB