Sharlene Wells Hawkes (born 16 March 1964), from Salt Lake City, Utah, was Miss America 1985.
Hawkes (née Wells), was born in Asunción, Paraguay and spent most of her childhood in South America.
Hawkes is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). She attended Brigham Young University from which she graduated in 1988. She was crowned BYU's Homecoming Queen in 1983. She is a singer and released an album called Songs of the Morning Stars in the mid-1990s. She also plays the piano and the harp.
Hawkes is the daughter of Robert E. Wells, a former general authority of the LDS Church, and Helen Walser Wells. She is married to Robert A. Hawkes. They have 3 daughters and a son.
She was a horse racing and college football, reporter with ESPN. Hawkes currently serves as Executive Vice President of Story Rock Electronic Publishing, and President of its military division, Remember My Service, producing historical records for each military personnel.
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“Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I wolde no lenger in the bed abide
If that I felte his arm over my side,
Til he hadde maad his raunson unto me;
Thanne wolde I suffre him do his nicetee.
And therfore every man this tale I telle:
Winne whoso may, for al is for to selle;
With empty hand men may no hawkes lure.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)