Heather+Whitestone

__**   H   e a t    he  r  Whitestone    **__ ** By Savannah,Erin ,Kylie ,BryannaS,Megan L

Heather Whitestone was the first deaf Miss America. Born:Feb 24,1973. She was not born deaf she became deaf at 17 months of age .She lived in Dothan for the first 11 years of her life. She went to school and made it all the way up to college. She also won alot more pageants,like Miss Alabama. She is also a talented ballet dancer. Not many dancers are deaf. It is harder since they can't hear the music. She has to feel vibrations in the music. Her own mother taught her sign language.Heather thought she was a normal kid, and she had no friends except for another deaf girl. Heather's mother, Daphne, was getting an idea to have Heather to go to school if she learned how to move to music. After she learned how to she became a dancer. Heather also had temper tantrums. She got in trouble alot and the principal called her mother.Then she went back to Florida and people said that she needs to know 2,500 words but she only knew 250 at the time. Heather played a sport called " Orienteering" where you got dropped some where and had to find your way out with a compass.For that game she was very good at it and she became state champion. A long time came and Heather noticed her parents were always arguing. Her parents finally got divorced, they were not happy that they were married. **** Years later she became Miss JSU in 1992. Then if you win Miss JSU you can become Miss Alabama, and she won Miss Alabama. After that she entered The Miss America pagent. She won Miss America. ** ** Miss Virgina pointed to her to tell that she had won Miss America. She was the first Miss America to have a disability. On June 8,1996 she got married to John Macallum.4 years later she had a son named James, and in 2001 she had a son named John. **** She is alive still. Even though she is deaf she has acomplished many things. She feels her biggest accomplishment is being a mom. Since she had a son in 2000 and 2001 she is still living right now. And she is still inspirational to her children and should be to everybody. So if you ever meet her give her the "I love you" sign, she'll know what y ** ** our talking about! Refences:Heatherwhitestone Inspirational Miss America Martine G. Bates ** Referenes: [|http://www.heatherwhitestone.com] References: Listening With My Heart, written by Heather Whitestone