From The Vault: WCPO's Jay Shatz tells 'How I spent a day with Miss America Carolyn Suzanne Sapp'

It was May 1992 and Jay Shatz, a WCPO reporter, didn’t hide his excitement. “Quite frankly, this is what I had in mind when I enrolled in journalism school: the back seat of a Rolls-Royce limousine, Miss America and me,” Shatz told his TV audience that day. Shatz figured he had drawn a Golden Ticket – spend a day with Carolyn Suzanne Sapp while the beauty queen visited Cincinnati on a promotional tour. Ride alone in the back seat of a limo with the 25-year-old Hawaii native, accompany her to a school to meet spellbound kids, to the Kenwood Towne Center to meet parents and sell the sponsor’s clothing line and watch her do it without ever taking off her sparkling crown (“tacky and cheap looking,” Shatz said) and her warm, inviting smile (real).