Winter 2012 - Wayland Baptist University Alumni Association

Page named Miss WBU
newly crowned Miss Wayland shows her heart for missions
Story by Jonathan Petty
Amanda Page has a plan.
Being Miss Wayland wasn’t part of it.
Page moved to Plainview to live with and care
for her 93-year-old grandfather, longtime Plainview businessman
John Page, as well as continue her education.
She has taken no fewer than 19 hours per semester
since starting school and will graduate from Wayland
Baptist University with her bachelor’s degree in English
next May, completing her degree in three years. She
plans to attend graduate school, earn her master’s and
doctoral degrees and find a position teaching college
English by the time she is 30. All the while, continuing
her humanitarian work which, to this point, has included
starting a nonprofit organization to benefit the homeless
in Bend, Org. – a fairly impressive resume for a 23-yearold.
Throw in the fact that she writes a blog targeting
college women and promoting college life, sings, plays
the ukulele, and never fails to get her grandfather to Mc-
Donald’s in time for breakfast with his friends, and you
can see why spending time rehearsing and competing
for the title of Miss Wayland was not high on her list of
priorities … until someone talked her into it.
“As you can tell,” Page smiled, “I like to overcommit
a little bit.”
The daughter of Garry and Ann Page, Amanda grew
up in Plano. While familiar with Plainview and Wayland
the thought of pursuing her education at the West Texas
school never really crossed her mind even though her
father and uncle, J. Don George who pastors Calvary
Church in Irving, are both WBU graduates.
“I grew up coming to Plainview every year for my
whole life,” Page said. “We would come the July 4 week
because my grandfather’s birthday was July 5 so we
would make a big family trip. I knew Wayland, I knew
Plainview, but I don’t know why I just never thought
about coming here.”
After graduating from high school, Page attended a
school in Florida. Her sister was a student there at the
time, but Page didn’t feel like Florida was the place for
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