This year was last for pageant's retiring director Hoke
By Meg Thilmony
Saturday July 12, 2008
Daniel Williams
Sandy Hoke, center, jokes with 2007 Miss Moultrie-Douglas Katie Schweighart after this year's pageant in the Arthur High School gym. Hoke is retiring as director.
ARTHUR – The moments preceding the start of the Miss Moultrie-Douglas pageants are a flurry of activity: little boys jostling each other, young women dressing in a cloud of hairspray and nervous chatters.
There are trophies to arrange, microphones to check and contestants to direct on two sticky summer nights when judges choose the next Little Miss, Little Mister, Junior Miss and Miss Moultrie-Douglas. But in the midst of it all, pageant director Sandy Hoke is calm and efficient, even when forced to move the pageant into Arthur's high school gym because of heavy rains.
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