PRYOR DAILY TIMES (PRYOR, Okla.)
PRYOR, Okla. — There's no place like home, even when you're Miss America.
“It’s so good to be home,” Miss America Jennifer Berry told Oklahoma Farm Bureau members at their annual convention last weekend.
The Jenks native told her story of the road to Miss America and promoting her platform of intolerance against drunken driving and underage drinking.
Berry has always wanted to be a teacher and has completed her internship. She said the pageant system allowed her to earn more than $30,000 in scholarships.
Miss America’s platform came from an incident in her own life. When she was a teenager, a friend named Kristin went to Grand Lake with five other teens. Kristin was killed when the driver, who was drunk, lost control of the car.
“She died from a decision, not from a disease,” Berry said. “That was a hundred percent preventable.”
Berry joined Mothers Against Drunk Driving at age 17. That year, she also won fourth runnerup in her first pageant and “a little scholarship.”
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