University crowns new Miss UNCP

By Nathan Walls
Editor

Robyn Baker was officially crowned the new Miss UNCP at a Nov.
20 ceremony. A 19-year-old sophomore from Northfield, N.J., Baker takes over from Aja Locklear, who resigned the title on Oct. 27.

Baker has already represented the university at several functions including being a guest at the grand opening of the new Pembroke Municipal Building on Nov. 12 and attending the Miss Kinston-
Lenoir Pageant on Nov. 22.

She was Mistress of Ceremonies for the campus-wide Holiday
Social Dec. 3 and will be a judge for the Peterson Elementary
School Pageant in Red Springs Dec. 4.

Pageant Executive Director and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Diane Jones congratulated Baker at the crowning ceremony.

“Miss UNC Pembroke has to be well spoken,” she said. “She has to be concerned with the issues facing our nation today. Miss UNCP must be a well-rounded individual. She must be socially conscientious, dynamic, interested in higher education and physically fit.

“We know that Robyn will reign with pride and represent this university with poise and dignity.”

Baker, a music education major, thanked her family and friends for encouraging her to enter the pageant. She will reign until the 2004 Miss UNCP Scholarship Pageant on Jan. 29.

“I can’t wait,” she said. “I promise that my final performance as Miss UNCP will be a memorable one.”