I was at opensecrets.org and ran a bunch of searches to see who gave how much to Mitt Romney in the 1st quarter. It only lists people who gave $200 or more. One of the searches I ran was to see who, in zip code 84014, gave to Mitt. What do I see? Sharlene Hawkes gave $300.00, and listed her employer as Story Rock. I seem to remember that name . . .
I next google Sharlene Hawkes Storyrock and see a link for linkedin, click on that, see a business listing with a link to my company, click on that, see a link to about us and then our management team, click and there she is, Sharlene Hawkes, Miss America 1985, former ESPN sportscaster, and the chick my roommate Gavin Washburn went on a date with in about 1987 back at Utah State, home of the mighty Aggies.
I don't remember that much about it really. I know Sharlene Wells was speaking at some convocation, and Gavin said we should go and maybe he would ask her on a date, seeing as she was Miss America and stuff, even though as a BYU grad she was a little bit beneath us, and a little to old. He tried to talk me into asking her out, but it seemed a little far fetched to me, not to mention if I had asked her out and she had accepted, then what? no money, no car, no confidence.
I do remember getting there and the place was pretty full, and I don't know if there was some delay or something, but I remember we got up to the podium and said some retarded things, maybe like "Paging Mr. Minh, Mr. H.C. Minh, please return to lingerie" or things like that. Some people laughed at us most ignored us, but we thought it was funny.
Finally she got there gave her speech, and then left. Gavin said he was going back stage, but I had no faith in his crazy scheme so I left, probably for home. He went back stage, met her, asked her on a date and she accepted, and a couple of days later they played tennis together. Now I find she claims Centerville as her home.
The internet is wacky. What did people do without it.
