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Miss Oklahoma
The Miss Oklahoma competition selects a winner to compete on behalf of Oklahoma in the Miss America pageant. Miss Oklahoma has won the Miss America crown on five occasions. Also, in the years when city representatives were common, Norma Smallwood won, competing as Miss Tulsa, giving the state of Oklahoma a total of six crowns. Oklahoma is also one of three states to win back to back Miss America titles. Megan Gold of Edmond was crowned Miss Oklahoma 2022 on June 11, 2022 at the River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She represented Oklahoma and competed for the title of Miss America 2023 at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut in December 2022. Gallery of past titleholders File:Norma Smallwood.jpg, File:Jane Jayroe 2008.png, File:Susan Powell 2008.png, File:Shawntel Smith 2008.png, File:Jennifer Berry holding crown (cropped).jpg, File:Lauren Nelson.jpg, File:Makenna Smith.png, Results summary The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelsey Griswold
Kelsey Elizabeth Griswold, is an American pageant titleholder from Tulsa, Oklahoma who was named Miss Oklahoma 2013. Biography She won the title of Miss Oklahoma on June 8, 2013, when she received her crown from outgoing titleholder Alicia Clifton. Griswold's platform is promoting self-worth and acceptance among children during her year as Miss Oklahoma. Her competition talent was a vocal rendition of “Everybody Says Don't.” Kelsey was the second runner up to Miss America in 2014 and won the Swimsuit segment. Griswold is an honors graduate of Union High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma,); Graduate-BFA (cum laude), Oklahoma City University. Griswold also studied Shakespeare and classical acting, and stage combat (with an emphasis on fencing) at Kingston University in London. In 2015 she made her television acting debut in an episode of ''Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" is a song and single by Ian Dury. It was originally released as a Stiff Records single, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emoly West
Emoly Ann West (born January 6, 1986) is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Oklahoma 2010 and was fourth runner-up in the Miss America 2011 Pageant on January 15, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada. West competed at Miss Oklahoma as Miss Edmond LibertyFest, and it was her fifth try for the title. She had previously been second runner-up to Miss Oklahoma 2009 and fourth runner-up to Miss Oklahoma 2008. At the time of her selection as Miss Oklahoma, West was a senior at the University of Central Oklahoma, majoring in Dance and minoring in Broadcast Journalism. Her talent is Ballet en Pointe, and she has studied many types of dance, including jazz, tap, lyrical, modern, and hip hop since the age of 4. She has also been teaching dance since she was 14. Her platform was Leadership and Character Development. With her parental family West attends the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss USA
Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the entrant from United States in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operated both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA, until 2020, when the organization announced it was licensing operation of the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants to Crystle Stewart, Miss USA for 2008. The pageant was owned by Donald Trump from 1996 to 2015 and was previously broadcast on NBC. In September 2015, WME/IMG purchased the pageant from Trump. In 2020, for the first time, the FYI network broadcast the competition. In October 2022, JKN Global Group acquired the pageant from WME/IMG. The current Miss USA is R'Bonney Gabriel of Texas, who was crowned on October 3, 2022, at the Grand Sierra Resort, in Reno, Nevada. History The Miss USA pageant was conceived in 1950 when Yolande Betbeze, winner of the Miss America pageant, refused to pose for publicity pictures while wearing a swimsuit. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss America 1996
Miss America 1996, the 69th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 16, 1995 and was televised by the NBC Network. Results Placements Order of announcements Top 10 # # # # # # # # # # Top 5 # # # # # Awards Preliminary awards Quality of Life awards Non-finalist awards Other awards Delegates Judges *Kristian Alfonso *Kylene Barker *Barbara De Angelis *Jerry Orbach *Bruce Jenner * Holly Robinson *Vera Wang References External links Miss America official website {{Miss America 1996 Delegates 1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone o ... 1995 in the United States 1996 beauty pageants 1995 in New Jersey September 1995 events in the United States Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss America 2022
The Miss America 2022 competition was held on December 17, 2021. This was the 94th Miss America competition and was held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, as the Miss America Organization celebrated its 100th anniversary. It was the first Miss America since 1954 that was not televised, but it was streamed on Peacock. There were several technical glitches within the stream throughout the show, causing many viewers to complain on social media about the production value. Miss America 2020, Camille Schrier of Virginia crowned her successor, Emma Broyles of Alaska, at the end of the event. Broyles is Alaska's first Miss America title in the history of the pageant and the third Asian American to win the Miss America title, following Angela Perez Baraquio in 2001 and Nina Davuluri in 2014 and the first of Korean descent to win the Miss America title. Background On April 8, 2021, the Miss America Organization announced a three-year contract with Mohegan Sun to host the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss America Award Winners
The most frequently presented Miss America awards are for preliminary talent and swimsuit. The talent award was introduced in 1936, and the swimsuit award in 1940. In the 2000s, preliminary awards for evening gown and interview were briefly introduced but were discontinued after two years as it was felt that they made the semi-finalists too predictable. Other awards include Miss Congeniality, given out in the early years of the pageant and re-introduced at Miss America 2006, and the Quality of Life Award for a contestant's platform, first awarded in 1989. Preliminary awards Preliminary on stage interview/Social Impact Pitch award Preliminary talent award Preliminary swimsuit award There have multiple instances of ties for this preliminary award. This occurred at Miss America pageants in 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1972, 1979, 1987, and 1993. This award was discontinued since the Miss America 2019 competition and was replaced with state titleholders participating in a live int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Frazier
Georgia Lynn Canady (née Frazier; born April 20, 1992) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who was crowned Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen 2009 and Miss Oklahoma 2015. She competed for the Miss America 2016 title in September 2015 and placed in the Top 10. Pageant career Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen Frazier began entering beauty pageants at a young age. In her fourth try for the state title, she was crowned Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen 2009. With her platform “Mentoring Works! You’re a Thumb-Body” which encouraged children to celebrate being unique, like a thumbprint, Frazier competed for the Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2010 title. Competing as an adult After her teen title, Frazier began competing in the main Miss America system. She was crowned Miss Oklahoma State Fair 2011 and competed for Miss Oklahoma in June 2011 where she made the Top 15. In July 2011, she won the Miss Okmulgee County 2012 title and sang " My Man" in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise O'Brien
Louise O'Brien (1928–2016) was an American vocalist. The 1950 Miss Oklahoma (and 4th runner-up in the subsequent Miss America pageant), she is best known for her many television performances on talk and variety shows of the 1950s and 1960s, most notably during the Jack Paar era of ''The Tonight Show''. Early life O'Brien was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Oklahoma State Penitentiary warden Edward Patrick O'Brien. Her earliest performances were for the inmates there. She also had her own local radio and TV shows while in high school. After winning Miss Oklahoma, she attended Tulsa University and shuttled back and forth to Hollywood to appear on several early shows before becoming a regular on ''The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom'' and Liberace's brief daytime show. Death According to family members, O'Brien died January 25, 2016 in New York City at age 87, and is survived by children Christopher and Maureen Lane, brother Harold O'Brien and sister Mildred O'Brien. Filmogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Preslar
Casey Preslar Urwin is a beauty pageant contestant who won Miss Oklahoma 2002 and was second runner up at Miss America 2003 where she came in second in the swimsuit competition and first in talent. She began entering pageants in 1997 as a means of paying for school. She graduated from Oral Roberts and lives in Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city .... References American beauty pageant winners Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Miss America 2003 delegates Oral Roberts University alumni {{Oklahoma-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Bryant
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer known for anti-gay activism. She scored four "Top 40" hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses" which reached No. 5 on the charts. She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the Florida Citrus Commission. In the 1970s, Bryant became known as an outspoken opponent of gay rights in the U.S. In 1977, she ran the "Save Our Children" campaign to repeal a local ordinance in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Her involvement with the campaign was condemned by gay rights activists. They were assisted by many other prominent figures in music, film, and television, and retaliated by boycotting the orange juice that she promoted. Though the campaign ended successfully with a 69% majority vote to repeal the ordinance on June 7, 1977 (Dade County restored the ordinance in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Anne Jayroe
Jane Anne Jayroe-Gamble (born October 30, 1946) is a well known broadcaster, author and public official and former American beauty queen from Laverne, Oklahoma, who was Miss Oklahoma in 1966 and Miss America in 1967. Jayroe worked as an anchor in TV news in Oklahoma City and Dallas-Fort Worth broadcast media markets for 16 years. Later, Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating appointed her to serve as his Secretary of Tourism and Recreation in his Cabinet. She served in that position from 1999 until 2003. Jayroe has authored numerous articles and books and was spokesman for The Presbyterian Health Foundation. Early life and education Jane Anne Jayroe was born on October 30, 1946 to Pete Jayroe and Helene Smith Jayroe in Clinton, Oklahoma. Jayroe grew up in Sentinel and Laverne, Oklahoma. She has one older sister, Judith Jayroe Wieser Elmore. Pageantry As a student at Oklahoma City University, she entered the university’s pageant through her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, and then w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss America 2007
Miss America 2007, the 80th Miss America pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on Monday, January 29, 2007, making it the first time that the pageant was held on a weekday, rather than the traditional Saturday since 1927's contest. The pageant was broadcast live on CMT from the Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Aladdin Resort and Casino, only the second time that the pageant has been held outside Atlantic City. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, outgoing titleholder Jennifer Berry crowned Lauren Nelson as her successor. Both titleholders are from Oklahoma, only the second occurrence of two consecutive winners from one state. The last time that two titleholders from the same state won in consecutive years was 1959 and 1960, when Mississippi did the honor. Selection of contestants One delegate from each state was chosen in state pageants held in mid-2006. Prior to competing in state pageants, the majority of delegates first were re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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