NAMES IN THE NEWS : Rose Parade Outshines Reagan
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MOBILE, Ala. — America’s Young Woman of the Year, Kirstin Huxhold, has met celebrities such as former President Ronald Reagan and George Lucas during her one-year reign, but says the highlight was being in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena.
The college student from Kirkwood, Mo., was in Mobile to turn over her crown to the new America’s Young Woman of the Year, who will be named July 14.
During the past year, Huxhold said, “I had to balance traveling with the America’s Young Woman of the Year program and going to school. I attended the University of Illinois, where I studied music and education.”
But the best, she said, was the Rose Parade, in Pasadena.
“My whole family got to go and we spent a couple of days there, and it was just incredible to see all the floats,” said Huxhold.
The Mobile-based contest was previously known as America’s Junior Miss but changed its name before Miss Huxhold’s selection last summer.
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