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For Tracey Brown, breast-cancer awareness is a most worthy cause – a cause that she was able to promote at the recent Miss America Pageant, where she received a scholarship in recognition of her work on behalf of cancer patients.
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The 19-year-old Brown competed as Miss Idaho in the pageant, which was held in Las Vegas last January. As a result of her community service, she won the Miss America Quality of Life Award, which included a $3,000 scholarship.
Brown has created a Whitworth chapter of Relay for Life, which fields teams of runners, joggers and walkers who collect pledges for each mile they cover in sponsored runs, and is currently working to create breast-cancer license plates in Idaho. Funds raised from the plates will help with medical costs for women with breast cancer.
Although Brown is a native of Fresno, Calif., she has spent most of her life in Post Falls, Idaho, and has been competing in pageants since high school.
At Whitworth, Brown has a double major in communications and political science, with a minor in biblical studies. She is taking a year off to work for her causes, but will return to Whitworth in fall 2006.
"Whitworth's emphasis on both mind and heart helped me to grow so much in my relationship with Christ," Brown says. "Leaning on Him is always vital, but His love and strength were especially apparent to me during the stressful competition weeks at Miss America."
After graduation, Brown wants to pursue a master's degree in journalism and to become a national-broadcast news reporter.
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