By Elizabeth Clarke, LCU News
PINEVILLE, La. (LCU News) – The Miss LCU pageant will be held Oct. 16 during Homecoming Week and for one judge it will feel like even more of a homecoming.
“I’ve done my homework,” said Judy Griffin Perkins, Miss Louisiana College 1966. “I’ve been researching what judges do, and what questions we can ask.”
Perkins, a vocal music/music education major who sang an operatic aria for her talent, refelected upon her own time competing in the Miss LC pageant. Perkins said the contestants today are fortunate because they can move on to the Miss Louisiana competition.
“At that time, the student body voted on the 16 contestants,” she said. “Ten were selected for interview, tea and talent. We met in President (G. Earl) Guinn’s home. Mrs. Guinn was such a fantastic hostess.”
After being chosen Miss LC in 1966, Perkins felt challenged to be the best representative of the school for life. She said she and her husband, Larry, who she met as a student, have done their best to give back to the school from the many blessings they have received in their lives.
They have established several scholarships and routinely give to the Board of Visitors, which supplies scholarship money to deserving students. In addition, Larry was chosen for a Distinguished Alumni award in 2022.
The couple has also “adopted” 17 students over the years at Kilgore College. They come over to the house and are like family, and call them Gigi and PawPaw.
“We do lots of fun things all the time,” Perkins said. “That’s what life is all about—sharing.”
