NAMES IN THE NEWS : Miss Universe Tells Aspirations
From Times Wire Services
Mona Grudt, Miss Universe 1990, says she wants to do serious things with her life and hopes that will prove the pageant is serious business.
Grudt, 19, said she wants to be a pediatric nurse and “help the poor children in Africa.
“I will try to make girls believe this is more than a beauty contest, and that you have to be something more than empty inside to win this,” said the auburn-haired Miss Norway, nicknamed the “beauty queen from Hell” after the name of her hometown.
Miss USA was first runner-up in Sunday’s pageant and Miss Colombia second runner-up.
Carole Gist, a 20-year-old student from Detroit, represented the United States and was the first black American to compete in the pageant. She took her runner-up status with grace.