Willow Glen can boast another Miss Junior San Jose to its credit

By Jessica Lyons

The Glen has long been affectionately known for its historic homes and playful squirrels. But now the neighborhood can add one more notable to the list: beauty queens.

A second Miss Junior San Jose, Willow Glen High senior Reyna Cervantes was also recently selected to represent the city at the Miss Junior America National Finals. But she plans to wait a year, and attend the pageant in the new millennium.

Glenite Elizabeth Dorsa was also selected as a Miss Junior San Jose, and will compete in the 1999 finals.

"I got nominated somehow, I'm not really sure who nominated me, but I filled out the nomination and sent it in and that was pretty much it," Cervantes says. She didn't even tell anyone she had entered the contest.

"I've never really won anything before and I didn't think it was real," she says.

But when a package came in the mail, carrying a Miss Junior America T-shirt and a congratulatory letter, she realized it was legit.

"I couldn't believe it," she says. "I was like, 'Wow, this is really happening.' "

When she's not competing in pageants--this is her first one--Reyna is actively involved at Willow Glen High as vice president of the leadership club, president of SADD and editor of her school paper. She also volunteers as a peer counselor at Willow Glen Middle School. After graduation, she plans to go to college and study forensic psychology.

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