Miss Somebody
from
West Virginia
Is Twins!
The latest "unknown" beauties to be
discovered by Family Weekly are sisters
who look so much alike that even their
father has trouble telling them apart
Dark-eyed, delicately featured Janet Kesler struck me
immediately as the kind of girl I was searching for to
be family weekly's 12th Miss Somebody.
But a difficulty aroae: folks in Beckley, W. Vs., told me, "There's an
other one just like her." And how right they were for I found that Janet
has an equally lovely identical twin sister, Judith. (Even their father,
Clarence E. Kesler, sometimes has trouble telling them apart.)
So, to stay out of double trouble, I recommended that FAMILY WEEKLY
present twins as its Miss Somebody cover girls for the first time since the
series began in 1960.
Despite the inevitable problems that result from looking alike, the 17-year-old
beauties enjoy being twins. In fact, they share a companionship
and mutual regard that is rare among sisters and even unusual among
twins. Their consideration for each other was particularly apparent in
their decision not to apply to attend the International Girl Scout Roundup
in Vermont last summer. They felt both would not be accepted, and each
preferred to forgo the pleasure if the other couldn't enjoy it, too.
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In the Healer kitchen, the twins help their
mother make a pie. That't Judy on the left.
Janet (left) and Judy show their father their new Girl Scout uniforms.
Photos and Text by OZZIE SWEET
That was a lot to give up, for Janet and Judy have been active in Scout
ing ever since they became Brownies at seven. Both girls have earned the
Curved Bar, highest award in Intermediate Scouting, and they have par
ticipated in a wide variety of Girl Scout activities including a rifle
marksmanship course that earned them sharpshooter badges.
But the twins don't always do everything together. Each is very definitely
a different personality, and they pursue individual interests. For instance,
in the last few months, Janet has been in the senior play and the all-state
chorus, while Judy has been prom queen and attendant to the high school's
Centennial Queen (West Virginia is currently celebrating its 100th year
of statehood). Only on rare occasions do the girls double date.
The Kesler twins' happy facility for keeping their individuality while
remaining the closest of pals is evident in their plans for going away to
school this autumn. Judy, who wants to be a schoolteacher, will enroll at
Marshall University. Janet will become a student nurse at St Mary's Hos
pital. Both institutions, however, are in the same city, Huntington, W. Va.
And so, although Janet and Judy will be going their separate ways
they'll stiU be together.'
The twins, their parents, and brother Larry.
Another brother, dark, lives in New Mexico.
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Janet fixes Judy's hair in the bedroom they
share with a menagerie of stuffed animals.
COVER:
Camera trick weren't needed to get this
picture. Ossie Sweet's two models were
twins, Judith (left) and Janet Kesler,
Family Weekly's latest Miss Somebodies.
His story about the girls appear above.
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