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Miss Teen U.S.A. Discusses Her Goals for the Next Year

Aired August 30, 2000 - 11:54 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN MORNING NEWS CO-HOST: There is a new Miss Teen U.S.A. now. Her name is Jillian Parry. She's from Newtown, Pennsylvania. Jillian won the crown last weekend. She's got a busy year straight ahead for her, and she's live today in New York.

Good morning to you.

JILLIAN PARRY, MISS TEEN U.S.A.: Good morning. How are you?

HEMMER: I'm doing just fine, thank you very much, and congratulations as well.

PARRY: Thank you.

HEMMER: In your family you're the third of four girls and you...

PARRY: Yes.

HEMMER: ... had a very interesting thing growing up. You helped to raise seeing-eye dogs. How did that work?

PARRY: Well, we started raising seeing-eye dogs when we saw an article in the newspaper. We were going to get a dog but we didn't know if we could handle the responsibility. So we thought if we raised the dog for a year and it didn't work out, we could give it back.

But we fell in love with the program when we tried it, so we raised about 13 dogs...

HEMMER: Is that right?

PARRY: ... and we're going to raise another one this year.

HEMMER: Oh, that's super, good deal. Over the next year I know you're going to be talking a lot and especially to the young kids. What's going to be your message when you go to what's expected to be at least 100 schools over the next 12 months?

PARRY: Well, the Miss Teen U.S.A.'s official cause is education and drug-prevention awareness. So I'll be working closely with the D.A.R.E. program, speaking to classrooms around the country.

HEMMER: And how old are you? PARRY: I'm 18.

HEMMER: You're 18. Headed for college next year, right?

PARRY: Yes, I am. I'm a freshman at Penn State this year.

HEMMER: All right, good -- Penn State, OK. And what are you studying?

PARRY: I'm majoring in biobehavioral health. It's biology, psychology and genetics all rolled into one.

HEMMER: What do you think can come out of this, Jillian -- now the fact that you've won and you're off and running?

PARRY: Well, I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun but also doing a lot of hard work that will hopefully make a difference for everybody.

HEMMER: And what kind of example do you hope to set?

PARRY: Definitely a positive role model who believes -- I believe in my cause a lot, so that's what's going to help me the most, because I believe in education, I believe in staying in school, and obviously I believe in staying away from drugs, and I really want to help.

HEMMER: All right. And you say you just entered this just for fun...

PARRY: Yes

HEMMER: ... now you're the winner. That's great. Hey, enjoy your year, congratulations again.

PARRY: Thank you. Thank you very much.

HEMMER: Jillian Parry, Miss Teen U.S.A., live in New York, thank you.

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