European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes faces a no places i monday september 19, 1994 for alabamian anything is possible a from the associated press. A deaf dancer from Alabama won the 68th annual miss America. Pageant on saturday becoming the first woman with a disability to Wear the Crown. Heather Whitestone a 21-year-old Birmingham native was the Only contestant to win two preliminary competitions in the swimsuit and Talent categories at the pageant in Atlantic City . Her platform was youth motivation anything is possible. A. / \. Quota a a a. Miss Virginia Cullen Johnson was the first runner up. Whitestone was born with hearing but lost most of it after a reaction to a diphtheria tetanus shot when she was 18 months old. She seemed not to realize she had won when the first runner up was announced. A i turned around to miss Virginia and she said a you won a a Whitestone told a news conference. Then she started crying and ducked her head to receive the Crown from the departing miss America Kimberly Aiken. As she returned to the stage after walking Down the runway Whitestone signed a i love  \ Whitestone who had an interpreter with her at the news conference and read the lips of Host Regis Philbin during her onstage interview said she did no to think it would be hard for a deaf woman to be miss America. A i think ill do it Fine a she said. A i mean look at us we re doing just fine.�?�. At least one previous miss America contestant was deaf Jennifer Wall Steiner a classical pianist from Washington state was one of 10 finalists for the Crown in 1989. A a it a time the american Public realized that people with disabilities can do the things people who done to have them can a said Aiken who travelled 20,000 Miles a month during her reign. Whitestone enchanted the judges with her Talent routine a 2-minute Ballet performed to the song via Dolorosa. Alt Hough she cannot hear the music she counts beats in her head and synchronizes her dance moves to reflect changes in pitch a for example a leap to coincide with a Crescendo. When she performed in preliminary Competition the crowd in the Atlantic City convention Center gave her three thunderous ovations before she was finished and another at the end. The same thing happened saturday night. She also won a swimsuit preliminary becoming the 28th woman in pageant history to win two preliminary events and the 14th to go on to win the Crown. A Junior accounting major at Jacksonville state University in Alabama Whitestone wants to become a certified Public accountant and a dunce teacher. A her winning the miss America Competition will give inspiration to deaf children that they can also fulfil their dreams of who they want to be whether it be miss America or a lawyer or a teacher a said Sherry Duhon a spokeswoman for Gallaudet University in Washington d.c., the worlds Only Liberal arts University for the deaf. The second runner up was miss new Jersey Jennifer Makris third runner up miss Georgia Andrea Krahn and fourth runner up miss Indiana Tiffany storm. Other finalists were miss Montana Yvonne Dehner miss Kansas Trisha Schaffer miss Mississippi Rebecca Blouin miss Ohio Lea Mack and miss Texas Arian Archer. Model Cheryl Tiegs olympic Speed skater Dan Jansen and pianist Michael Fri skin headed the panel of celebrity judges chosen to Crown the new miss America. For the first time contestants in the swimsuit Competition were allowed to go Barefoot instead of walking Down the runway in High heels. Pageant president Leonard Horn said the heels were eliminated in favor of a production number in which contestants posed on a simulated Beach which he called a More natural setting. A the pageant had its detractors. A american indians were upset Over the use of an Indian burial scaffold for a dance routine by miss South Dakota. Kristi Lynn Bauer in the Talent Competition. They called it sacrilegious but she resisted Calls to drop the routine. Fewer than 10 people turned out for a much publicized protest thursday. The pageant began in 1921 and has been held annually every year since with the exception of 1928-1932 and 1934. Miss Alabama Heather Whitestone who is deaf signs Quot i Tove you Quot to the crowd at the Atlantic City . Convention Center after winning the miss America pageant on saturday night. Firm to comb Phoenix a the Breck girl beckons again. A wave of nostalgia for the Bug running pastel portrait Campaign for hair products prompted the dial corp. 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