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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.
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"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."
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'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