Blind Beauty Contest Judge Sees Inner Beauty
Submitted By: BizarreNews
Article Date: 04/07/2000
URL: http://www.goofball.com/news/20000407_bizarre
EDMONTON - The Miss Alberta Beauty Contest selected a blind judge in order to fulfill their new emphasis on personality, and intelligence over bathing suit aesthetics. Harold Grace who had lost his vision some fifteen years earlier was just as surprised to be asked, but he felt he could sense their personalities based on how they sounded. When a contestant was answering a question I would listen to how they would project their answer, the emphasis in their voice and the firmness of their tone, he replied. Bathing suits and evening gowns were replaced by interviews, and written exams. Grace currently works at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.