By Justin Lofton
Staff Writer
ADA—During a visit to Ada on Wednesday, Miss Oklahoma Taylor Treat thanked the Ada Rotary Club for their community involvement.
“The first thing I want to say is, ‘Thank you,’ to all of you because I know you do so much for this community and we really do need wonderful people like you to keep these programs running,” Treat said. “You represent service above yourself and that’s what I try to teach and implement into our schools.”
Treat, a proponent of service learning, recently won the Miss Oklahoma pageant and will be representing the state at the Miss America pageant in January.
“My platform is service learning and it’s teaching these kids of the importance of, not only service outside the classroom, but service inside the classroom,” Treat said. She said service learning allows children to understand what they’re learning on a practical level and also teaches the value of serving.
“It amplifies why they’re in school and the fact that the things they learn in school they will use when they get older so that hopefully one day when they’re our age and your age, they can continue to use what they’ve learned in the school systems to help other people,” she said.
Treat pointed out that Oklahoma has produced more Miss Americas than any other state in the country, adding jokingly to a Texas fan in the Rotary club, “We love telling Texas that, too.”
Treat said one of the interviewers of the coming Miss America Pageant will be Rush Limbaugh, saying the interview was the hardest part of the competition.
“You’re in the room with people who are going to just nail you with questions and you have no idea what to expect,” Treat said. “You have 10 minutes to get out what you want to say and somehow, I have to direct that interview. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to do that with Rush Limbaugh but I’m definitely going to try.”
Miss Ada 2010 Jamie Drawbaugh and Miss Ada's Outstanding Teen Kaile Radford made their first official appearances after their crowning Monday night.
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Miss Oklahoma 2009 Taylor Treat speaks at Ada Rotary Club at the Aldridge Hotel Wednesday. (Photo by Richard R. Barron)
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