Subject:  Getting to Know Georgie Borchardt! |
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Date Posted: 13:33:04 06/23/04 Wed
Many of you may be familar with my pageant experiences, so I'll concentrate on what you probably don't have a clue about! LOL :-)
I attended college, for one year, when I was 21 -- I'm 57 now -- and had a 1.75 GPA. That's not even a "C" average! Quit to get married, which many of "my generation" did at the time.
Worked for "Ma Bell" for awhile. then became a professional clown and magician for 11 years. (Yes. You read that right! "Clown" and "Magician"! LOL) My stage name was "Bunkins" and stories about me and my "business" (Fun & Fantasy Limited -- I also did costumed singing tlelgrams!) were featured in several books and magazines written specifically for children's entertainers including: "The Success Book" and "The Birthday Party Business". My biggest "claim to fame" as Bunkins was when I appeared at a Muscular Dystropy Telethon in chicago with Ed McMahon and Ernie Banks! I "retired" after the birth of my son in 1982.
However, I always wanted to "learn" and following my divorce, "dropped out of the real world" for nine years -- from 1987, when I was 40 - 1996 -- to finish college! the kids and I moved to Arkansas and I attended school there -- straight through. Associates, Bachelors, Masters, and 18 credit hours beyond that. I'm the first in my famiy to have a college degree! Aslo brought my GPA up from 1.75 to a 3.79 in grad school! :-)
It was during the time I was in school that Amy began competing in pageants and everything snowballed from there.
Over the years, in "real life", I've worked mostly at newspapers and magazines -- that's why I chose Journalism as my undergraduate major. After college, I was Marketing Director for a large financial firm who helped developed an Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course and had the "honor" of meeting and working with Mr. Palmer the couuple times he came in to review the course and for the Grand Opening. The same group also brought in Maynard Ferguson and Pete Foutain for concerts while I was there so I was involved in those organizational activities too.
OH! And some "pageant trivia" most of you don't know..... I've "met" 4 Miss Americas and actually "worked with" 2 of them! I was introduced to both Judi Ford (1968) and Erika Harold (2002). Marjorie Vincent (1991) and I worked together on projects for the financial company listed above as well as a couple things for Miss Illinois when she worked for the TV station in Peoria. And, Debbye Turner's (1990) mother, Gussie, was MY ACADEMIC ADVISOR at Arkansas State University! I was writing for the college newspaper the year Debbye was crowned (She won as Miss Missouri but her hometown was Jonesboro, AR) and was asked to follow the pageant, interview her parents, and covered her travels around Arkansas for one of two official "Miss America Homecomings"! Her mother, Gussie, and I became friends and, when Amy began competing, she became my "pageant mother mentor"! She passed away in 1995 and I was honored to have attended her funeral. She was an outstanding lady!
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