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;" !•; ©harrup -SUBURBAN Thwnday, Augu* 12, 1976 Model of the year for 1976, Sherry Joy Michalski, is a Plymouth resident who hopes one day to open her own dance studio. (Photos by Cynthia Abatt) Top models win By LORAINE McOJSH Fourteen-year-old Lori Lahnala and 19year-old Sherry Joy Michalski walked away from the "Model of the Year" pageant with titles, trophies, new crowns and a host of prizes/* Lori, one of the youngest in the competition. took the title in the junior pageant, facing 25 others in the 14-17 age division The young miss will be entering the ninth grade in Garden City's Burger Junior fligh School next fall .1 Sherry Joy. of 11449 Aspen, in Plymouth, won over 68 other contendere in the senior division before a capacity frowcTtn Southfield's Raleigh House this week The pageant, now in its,sixth year, is sponsored by Louise Bums Wright Tops 'N' Talent Agency and Pamela Roberts. It is open to all girls, with o^ without modeling experience, and regardless of marital status The contestants were judged on a walkon which displayed their fashion and modeling know-how and the veraaUllty they New book out could display for photographic modeling In addition, the senior contestants wrote their own scriptdevised their own costume and pulled together their own props for a 60-second TV commercial. FOLLOWING LORI in the Junior Pag eant. Pamela Sterling, a student in Livonia's Bently High School took the first prize for best fashion modeling. Fifteen year-old Kim Tomaszak. from St. Clair Shores, won the prize for best photographic modeling. In the senior division, Linda Reizen. of Huntington Woods won the best fashion modeling title, and Kathy Digon. of Madi son Heights, took the award for best photographic modeling Master of ceremonies for the event was WXYZ's Jack McCarthy while a panel of 12 judges tallied up the girls' scores. Lori won a scholarship to the Barbizon School of Modeling, which she is sure shC is going to use. and a scholarship to the Michigan School of Beauty she's not too f Gundella doesn't find ghosts in graveyards By TIM RICHARD "Detroit's just as spooky as London or New Orleans." said Gundella the witch, who has a love affair with the metropolitan area. There's a connection: What makes ghosts la people. And what makes metropolitan Detroit fascinating is people, said the witch from Garden City. Gundella makes her case in her new book. 1Tie Werewolf of Grotew Pointe and Other Stories." which is schfduled to be in bookstores my day. "Werewolf" 111.96 in paperback. Earsight Productions. 110 pages) contains 26 stories and myths, all of a nature at least slightly spooky ONE STORY-takes place in a church yard in Farmington. It was related to Gundella by a local resident because H actually happened to him. That story first appeared in her column in Observer It Eccentric Newspapers. "Some go back to Indian legends, like the make goddess of Belle Isle.'' Raid Gundella. bubbling \ "Another is the Red Dwarf—Naki Rouge." she laid. "Tt» most recent sight ing of the dwarf was March lof this yeer by a Detroit Edison limnbn." Other stories occur at Peche Isle in the „ Detroit River, the Sister Wands in Lake the site of the Renaisafcnce Center in Detroit. L'Anse C^euse (now St. Shores). Mount aetnens. Lincoln Park, the Roeedale Park section of northwest Detroit. Ann Arbor. Ypaflanti and River Rouge , 1 The characters range from Indians to • modem artists. French ribbon farmers to Jurt plain homeowners. THEY DONT occur in graveyards. - f - 4:'; "That's the least likely place to find a ghost." Gundella said, eyes glowing. "If I ghost haunts, it's because he wants to com municat^. and who's it going to communicate with in a graveyard" "If anyone sees a ghost and it Isn't a figment of their imagination, it's because the ghost wants to communicate or doesn't know it's dead." "Werewolf' is Gundella's first book of this sort, although in her 22 years as a school teacher, she has written children's books and teacher manuals Sociologist Mar cello Truzzi. Eastern Michigan University specialist in the study of witchcraft, wrote the book's Introduction. He calls it "an important contribution to regional and urban folklore." ' ' , V ' \ 'THE WAY I happened to write the book." Gundella said, "is that I've always been Interested in folklore. H»e story about Idols at the Renaissance Centerthat *as in my history book in third grade in Tawas". • Roman Babiak. head of Earsight Produc lions, once suggested that Gundella lead a ghost tour of New Orleans and lamented it was too bad there ooulch't be such a tour of the Detroit area. "I said I could write a book!" Gundella responded. "He sai
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