European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Just a Normal Gal miss America 1990 Debbye Turner of Missouri. The new America pretty and of so poised by Martha Sherrill the Washington posts superhuman poise Means being Able to stand in Iho steamy Boardwalk in Atlantic cily n Jin a suede Lurt Scneck dress and jacket  a a couple hours of sleep in you and a Crown on your head and holding that miss America smile on your lace probably thinking Back to live hours earlier 7am, when you had to jump around on the Beach Lor a Bunch of aged photographers and now Ace them again plus lots of drilling Boardwalk types Ealing ice Cream and sizing you up out loud to everybody and nobody. You never can a sure about these Beach crowds someone threw a Beer bottle Friday night and hit miss Oklahoma on the head pretty girl Sas a Guy with custard and a shrug on his Laco pretty Gul , an old woman to her daughter Law. Pretty  says a . Oul of a Ralh photographer who d already missed thousands of soulless Cornball Gimmicky photo Ops with Debbye Turner miss America 1990 s 23-year-old veterinary Slud enl Marimba player born again Christian weigh Liller cat Lover swimsuit Competition Winner collector of surgery specimens and a woman of greatness poise Wise nya aah says a Man shooting a Quick look at Turner smiling in he Sun. You re much prettier to says to his Wile is this our third or fourth Debbie one old pageant trivia King keeps asking. Nobody Here knows How Many Debbie have been miss America. And they Don t care either. Debbye Turner a major trouper keeps it up. To bags under her eyes. Unmet liable Wax smile. A number of pageant reporters yawning in the crowd look pretty Lousy on the same amount of sleep probably Tho pageant organizers mindlessly following Hokey pageant tradition have Turner standing next to her new White Corvette. Ii she Ever gets Lime to drive it miss americas make about 200 Public appearances a year i m not hero to be a perfect person she was saying just a few minutes earlier at a press conference or to be the Ideal miss America because i Don t think that exists and it s a fallacy or someone to pretend that it does. I am just Debby Turner. And what Debbye Turner is is just a Normal person. I grew up in a comfortable Middle class Home was Given love and was taught How to work hard for goals and not be discouraged by obstacles or by what other people s opinions were of  her sentences gel very Long sometimes. She does t use notes two reporters who d both interviewed her Ono on Ono Are talking she s More articulate than i am no question one says i know. I Felt Iho same Way says the other and it s hard to take " i m a Normal person Turner said. She s always saying that bul what about the jars of Puppy fetuses that she brought Homo in Junior High years after she d tuesday september 19, 1989 decided to become a vet right from third Grade she saw a brain in formaldehyde at her school and she just went wow said her Mother. Gus sic Turner of the specimens Debbye started collecting As a kid. I though it was a Little unusual. A Teddy Bear would have been super bul she had a love Tor science and she was always curious and interested especially with the unusual " she was scheduled to graduate from the University of Missouri Columbia veterinary school in May 1990. Bul now Shell to pulling it Oil a year. I be been an animal Lover since Way Back she says she cried Al Sam Wand Lassie and brought Home sprays. When she s through with a doctoral in veterinary Medicine she says she d like to Leach and specialize in cats when she s not going on about How absolutely Normal she is Turner la is about her Loving parents her father. Frederick c. Turnerjr. Is a retired lieutenant colonel in Texas who now helps veterans find work Gussie Turner is a Counselor Al the University of Arkansas a missionary and evangelist and a Mother who lot her daughter keep a 200-Pound Marimba in the dining room. My mom taught us How to work  said Turner of being raised with one older sister Suzette and How to do things not because we re Lemale or Black or Southern but because we have what s on the inside to  she s honest. She s fair. She s human. She s a person said Gussie Turner. I think Shell make a Good miss America and a Good role Model for Young people bul not for any particular group. It s just incidental that she s Black just because we Are could t help  the Turners Are in local agreement on this Issue being Black is the very least of what i am said Debbye. I had nothing to do with it inevitably she is asked about Vanessa Williams the first Black miss America who resigned the title after Penthouse published nude photographs of her. I understand thai she was one of the Best miss americas while she was Here bul unfortunately she made a mistake said Debbye Turner. I respect her a lot. It Speaks very Well of her that she could Bounce Back and is now very  there is not apparently total Turner agreement on everything. Does Debby have a Boyfriend a reporter asked. She s got someone she likes said her Mother she s been in love with him for a Long Lime. And these Are questions you should ask  no Boyfriend Debbye said saturday night. I have school and now miss America and i think that s  Debbye. Your Mother told us last night that you have a Boyfriend. You want to talk o us about in a reporter asked sunday morning. I Don t actually have a Boyfriend Debbye answered for All those wanting he real answer. There is a person who is a very Good Friend of mine now. We dated All through High school and undergraduate but actually there s no relationship we re just Good friends. Right now i m kind of Busy. And so is  out in the Sun people keep milling by with cameras and dripping Cones. Everybody wants a picture i Debbye Turner. And everybody wants to have a picture with her. First the Guy from Chevrolet Hustles next to her and the Corvette convertible his company gave her. The Guy rom sheer indulgence hosiery which awarded her $7,500 in scholarship Money gels in the Frame. And then a couple of journalists do it she s a Down to Earth person who likes to sit and watch to on the floor says Gussie Turner of huh Shell get me for  now Debbye s holding up the Velle keys for pictures. The car door gets opened slightly. She poses appearing Lobo on the verge of dropping into the cushy leather seat. She s in a Frozen Sloop. She keeps up with the smile but is probably considering something else something More Normal like starting the thing up and hauling Inlo the crowd Down the Boardwalk and out of this place forever. Poise. The stars and stripes Page 13