Who Is Kathy Cassity

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One day while nursing my baby and watching </b><I><B>Jeopardy,</b></I><B> I saw an ad for a contestant search in Honolulu, and decided that would do the trick. </b></div> <div> <B>The rest fell into place with amazing ease. I was invited to the Hilton Hawaiian Village to try out two days after my 40</b><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>th</b></FONT><B> birthday, and I passed the test. Susanne said I could expect a call sometime within the next year; it came two weeks later. So much for study time! I did read up on presidents, Oscars, state nicknames and world capitals, just like they tell you to do, but other than that I was pretty much going to have to go with what I’d learned from studying, traveling, reading, living.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>I was told later that the 50</b><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>th</b></FONT><B> state had been historically underrepresented, so that may have something to do with the swiftness of my call. Glenn also said the crew thought "closed captioner from Hawaii" would make a cool introduction, since they’d never had a captioner on the show before. So I can probably thank the uniqueness of both my profession and my locale for my nearly instantaneous success in landing a spot on the show. It couldn’t have been my brilliance; after announcing that I was an English major, I proceeded to mis-identify the location of </b><I><B>A Farewell to Arms </b></I><B>in my mock game. </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>As game day approached, I developed this mortal fear of screwing up on the things I am supposed to know best. From the day I got the call, I somehow knew I would miss a Shakespeare question, probably on a Daily Double. And even though my parents had passed away, I feared embarrassing them posthumously by messing up on Bible and geography. Finally, I worried I would miss questions within my scholarly field.... I definitely worried more about missing the things people would expect me to get. I wouldn’t care if I missed something on Heavyweight Boxing; you’re less likely to buzz in when you’re clueless, so at least you don’t usually lose money on those categories. The danger categories are the things you are supposed to know.</b></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="67180803.jpg"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="a58957a0.jpg" border=0 width="149" height="122" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>To learn more about each contestant simply click on a name below.</b></div> <div> <A HREF="bailey.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Alan Bailey"><U><B><IMG SRC="49894170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="dawson.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Mark Dawson"><U><B><IMG SRC="49994170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="norris.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Trevor Norris"><U><B><IMG SRC="49a94170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="tritle.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Ben Tritle"><U><B><IMG SRC="49b94170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="brown.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Mark Brown"><U><B><IMG SRC="49c94170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="troyer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Travis Troyer"><U><B><IMG SRC="4a794170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="weikle.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Brian Weikle"><U><B><IMG SRC="49794170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="floyd.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Eric Floyd"><U><B><IMG SRC="49d94170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="mccune.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Jason McCune"><U><B><IMG SRC="49e94170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="chimka.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Jill Bunzendahl Chimka"><U><B><IMG SRC="9b393170.gif" border=0 width="147" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="lee.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Mark Lee"><U><B><IMG SRC="4a094170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="levaren.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Max Levaren"><U><B><IMG SRC="4a194170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="harrison.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Jackie Harrison"><U><B><IMG SRC="4a294170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="hale.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Kyle Hale"><U><B><IMG SRC="4a594170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="love.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who Is Faith Love"><U><B><IMG SRC="4a694170.gif" border=0 width="148" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>