McCann enjoys reign as queen
By ROY CHURCH
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:54 PM EDT
“Look, Mommy, a princess!”
Joanna McCann, 20, will step down as the 2007 Wabash County Festivals Scholarship Pageant queen on Friday night after hearing those words many times over the past year.
“It was fun being a role model for those little girls,” she said Wednesday.
“It was awfully hot at some of those parades, but it was kinda fun,” said McCann, who will be a sophomore at Taylor University this fall.
“I loved every part of it (being queen),” she continued. “I got to meet girls from all over the state and one became a very good friend.
“I also got to see Wabash from a new perspective. I saw how supportive Wabash is.
“And I saw how much history Wabash has.”
McCann has spent the summer working as a gardener for the Charley Creek. She is a biology major at Taylor, but more interested in the healthcare field. She wants to become a physician's assistant.
Last year she went on to finish as the first runner-up in the Indiana State Festivals Pagaent in Indianapolis.
A 2007 graduate of Northfield High School, she is the youngest of five children of Jim and Chris McCann.
On Aug. 1 she is traveling to Peru (the country) to see her new nephew, the son of Paul and Megan McCann, missionaries in the Peru jungle.
She will then move back in at Taylor around Aug. 22.
There are 15 contestants vying for the 2008 Wabash County Festivals Scholarship Pageant queen title. The pageant is at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Honeywell Center's Ford Theater.
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