New Title Surprises 'Checkroom Chick'

By HARRIET HOLLIN
NEWS Staff Writer

November 16, 1957

Doris Elvanian, Business ‘58, won a contest she didn't even know she had entered.

It wasn't until Dr. Carl M. Grip, Dean of Men selected "Miss Checkroom" Monday that Miss Elvanian learned she was an entrant.

She was checking her coat at the time.

Miss Elvanian found the whole idea "very surprising," but not many other people did. Her sorority sisters, who entered her picture, thought the odds were pretty much in her favor.

In March, Theta Sigma Upsilon, chose her to represent the sorority in the Carnival Queen Contest-and she won.

This five foot two inches tall brunette is a graduate of Bartram High School.

She was a cheer leader there and has continued leading cheers at the University.

Miss Elvanian, who also is a member of the Mitten Student League likes "spectator sports." She participates in intramural sorority sports. Swimming is the one she enjoys most.

After winning the Carnival Queen contest, she was one of the girls who presented Steve Allen with a beer mug and a Theta Sigma Upsilon pledge paddle on his show "Tonight."

Appearing on television was just a little different from what she hopes to do in the future. A communications major, she is planning to write for radio and television or work in the production department.

At WRTI she has been doing what she calls "odds and ends," including work in continuity.

Miss Elvanian who weighs all of 103 pounds, laughingly, confesses that all of her hobbies, cooking is her favorite.

From her former roommate Judy Montgomery, Business ‘59, came the information that Miss Elvanian likes to engage in-practical jokes.

All summer she and several of her sorority sisters traveled around Ocean City on bicycles. They were living in a house they rented and were working as waitresses. "This," said Miss Checkroom, "was a novel experience."

(Reprinted with permission from the Temple University News)