Miss South Carolina
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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss South Carolina USA.
- Also not to be confused with Miss South Carolina Teen USA
The Miss South Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The pageant was first held in Myrtle Beach and moved to Greenville starting in 1958 and remained in that city until the 90s. Spartanburg hosted the pageant in a few different venues until new leadership took over the organization and moved the pageant to Columbia, SC in 2011. The pageant was televised since the 1960s until the 1998 pageant. Televising was resumed with the 2000 pageant and last televised in 2004.
With victories in both 1957 and 1994, South Carolina has twice won the Miss America crown.
Winners[edit]
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Ali Rogers | Laurens | 20 | Miss Laurens County | Piano "I Want You Back" | 1st Runner Up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 2011 | Bree Boyce | Florence | 22 | Miss Capital City | Classical Vocal "Tu Tu Piccolo Iddio" from Madama Butterfly | Top 12 Semi-Finalist | ||
| 2010 | Desiree Puglia | Simpsonville | 22 | Miss Pendleton | A Capella Tap Dance | |||
| 2009 | Kelly Sloan | Gray Court | 24 | Miss Hartsville | Vocal "For Once in My Life" | |||
| 2008 | Anna Perry | Florence | 23 | Miss Lexington | Piano "Rhapsody in Blue" | Non-Finalist Talent Award | Daughter of Miss South Carolina 1982- Julia Hill | |
| 2007 | Crystal Garrett | Columbia | 21 | Miss Charleston | Vocal "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard | Top 16 at Miss America 2008 | ||
| 2006 | Shelley Benthall | Florence | 21 | Miss Florence | Vocal "A Broken Wing" | Non-finalist Talent Award, Top 3 for Miss Congeniality | Previously Miss South Carolina Teen 2003 | |
| 2005 | Erika Powell | Easley | 20 | Miss Golden Corner | Classical Vocal "Time to Say Goodbye" | Top 10 at Miss America 2006 | Preliminary Talent; Bernie Wayne Performing Arts Scholarship | Later Miss South Carolina USA 2012 |
| 2004 | Ann Ashley Wood | Spartanburg | 23 | Miss Charleston | Lyrical Dance "You Raise Me Up" | |||
| 2003 | Jessica Eddins | Irmo | 24 | Miss North Charleston | Semi-Classical Vocal "And This Is My Beloved" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2002 | Kelly McCorkle | Greenville | 23 | Miss Golden Corner | Lyrical Ballet "I Believe" | Top 15 Semi-finalist | Contestant on The Amazing Race 7 with partner Ron Young (3rd place); Half-sister of Miss South Carolina's Outstanding Teen 2008- Courtney Cisson | |
| 2001 | Jeanna Raney | Inman | 20 | Miss Greater Greer | Tap Dance "Kiss Me" | Top 20 Quarter-finalist | Active International Scholarship for Business and Marketing | |
| 2000 | Heather Hudson | Lexington | 22 | Miss Tigertown | Classical Vocal "Il Bacio" by Luigi Arditi | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1996 | |
| 1999 | Danielle Davis | Greer | 18 | Miss Williamston | Vocal "I Wanna Fall in Love" | |||
| 1998 | Wendy Willis | Fountain Inn | 24 | Miss Camden | Vocal "Operator" by The Manhattan Transfer | |||
| 1997 | Janet Powers | Hartsville | 21 | Miss Southern 500 | Vocal Medley "Go Tell It on the Mountain" "Gonna Build a Mountain" & "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1996 | Angela Hughes | Anderson[1] | 21 | Miss Anderson County | Tap Dance "Sing, Sing, Sing" | Later Mrs. South Carolina America 2005 under her married name, Angela Hughes-Singleton.[2] | ||
| 1995 | Amanda Spivey | Boiling Springs | 22 | Miss Southern 500 | Saxophone Solo "The Joy of Life" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Currently a dentist in Charleston | |
| 1994 | Kristie Greene | Greenville | 24 | Miss Berea | Comedy Vocal "Exactly Like Me" | |||
| 1993 | Tonya Helms* | Miss Greater Greer | ||||||
| Kimberly Clarice Aiken | Columbia | 18 | Miss Columbia | Vocal "Summertime | Winner | |||
| 1992 | Carrie Lee Davis | Greenville | 26 | Miss Greenville | Marimba "Csárdás" | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | First Medical Doctor to compete at Miss America |
| 1991 | Ronnetta Hatcher | Columbia | 26 | Miss Columbia | Percussion | |||
| 1990 | Mary Gainey | Hartsville | 24 | Miss Liberty | Marimba "Scherzo for Marimba in C" | 1st runner-up | Competed later at Miss South Carolina USA 1990 and placed as 3rd runner up. | |
| 1989 | Kimilee Bryant | Greenville | 23 | Miss Berea | Classical Vocal "Je Suis Titania" from Mignon | Preliminary Talent/George Cavalier Talent Award 1988 MAP | Broadway actress and opera singer, www.kimileebryant.com | |
| 1988 | Anna Reynolds | Greenwood | 23 | Miss Greenwood | Vocal "Mack the Knife" | daughter of Miss South Carolina 1957 | ||
| 1987 | Nancy Humphries | Myrtle Beach | 21 | Miss Myrtle Beach | Piano Solo "The Stars and Stripes Forever" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Competed later at Miss South Carolina USA 1990 and finished as 1st runner up. Former co-host of Access Hollywood | |
| 1986 | Dawn Smith | Columbia | 22 | Miss Liberty | Classical Vocal "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Smith's sister was brutally murdered prior to her competing at Miss America. The murder story and the murderer taunting her family after the attack was reported by the media and filmed as a movie. Competed in (and won) "Pageant Rewind" on What Not to Wear, against two other 1986 top-10 finalists. |
| 1985 | Sherry Thrift | Westminster | 23 | Miss Liberty | Clogging "Are You From Dixie?" | 1st runner-up | Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1980 | |
| 1984 | Vicki Harrell | Columbia | 22 | Miss University of South Carolina | Piano Solo | |||
| 1983 | Dalia Garcia | Columbia | 21 | Miss South Congaree | Vocal "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" | |||
| 1982 | Julia Hill | Florence | 26 | Miss Duncan-Lyman-Wellford | Classical Piano "Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, 3rd Movement" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Mother of Miss South Carolina 2008-Anna Perry | |
| 1981 | Jill Rankin | Columbia | 21 | Miss Columbia Northeast | Figure Skating "Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major" | |||
| 1980 | Donna Jewell | Columbia | 19 | Miss Cayce-West Columbia | Vocal "Have I Stayed Too Long At the Fair?" | Pageant Coach | ||
| 1979 | Jane Jenkins | Johns Island | 23 | Miss Charleston | Vocal Medley "The Party's Over" & "Send in the Clowns" | Has written a book Bare Feet to High Heels on her ilfe. | ||
| 1978 | Mary Diane Toole | Aiken | 17 | Miss Aiken | Ballet "Pas de Quatre" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1977 | Catherine Hinson | Rock Hill | 22 | Miss Rock Hill | Saxophone Medley "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" & "Flight '76" by Walter Murphy | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1976 | Lavinia Cox | Latta | 23 | Miss Rock Hill | Piano Medley "The Man I Love" & "Sunny" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1975 | Cynthia Anthony | West Columbia | 22 | Miss Lexington | Classical Vocal "Chacun le Sait" from La fille du régiment | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1974 | Cheryl Von Lehe | Charleston | 18 | Miss Charleston | Vocal "Oh Babe, What Would You Say?" | |||
| 1973 | Fran Riggins | Easley | 21 | Miss Easley | Vocal "All the Things You Are" | |||
| 1972 | Bonnie Corder | Columbia | 21 | Miss Columbia | Vocal Medley "My Man's Gone Now" "Let Me Sing" & "I'm Happy" | |||
| 1971 | Pamela Inabinet | Swansea | 21 | Miss Columbia | Tap Dance "Puttin' on the Ritz" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, featured dancer on the 1972 Miss America Pageant telecast | ||
| 1970 | Claudia Turner | Spartanburg | 19 | Miss Spartanburg | Vocal "Once Upon a Time" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1969 | Brantlee Price | Newberry | 19 | Miss Newberry | Vocal "Got A Lot O' Living To Do" | |||
| 1968 | Rebecca Smith | Clover | 19 | Miss Clover | Semi-Classical Vocal "America the Beautiful" | |||
| 1967 | Peggy White | Fountain Inn | 23 | Miss Laurens | Organ Medley "Spanish Flea" & "Flight of the Bumblebee" | |||
| 1966 | Barbara Harris | Simpsonville | 21 | Miss Columbia | Classical Vocal "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Former Mayor of Morris Township, New Jersey, Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1965 | Nancy Moore | Aiken | 18 | Miss Aiken | Piano Solo "Variations on There She Is" | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | Later married US Senator from South Carolina, Strom Thurmond |
| 1964 | Diana Sue Smith | Florence | 20 | Miss Florence | Vocal Medley of Popular Songs | |||
| 1963 | Carolyn Gaines | North Augusta | Miss North Augusta | Popular Vocal | ||||
| 1962 | Evelyn Ellis | Greenville | 19 | Miss Columbia | Interpretive Dance - Toe & Ballet "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" & "Gigi" | 3rd runner-up | Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1961, featured performer on the 1963 Miss America Pageant telecast | |
| 1961 | Janet McGee | Greenville | 20 | Miss Greenville | Vocal "Ave Maria" | |||
| 1960 | Edith Sandra Browning | Greenwood | 19 | Miss Greenwood | Comic Dance / Pantomime "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1959 | Nettie Dennis | Moncks Corner | 19 | Miss Moncks Corner | Vocal | 2nd runner-up in 1961 Miss Dixie Pageant | ||
| 1958 | Gene Wilson | Charleston | Miss Charleston | Vocal "If I Loved You" | Non-finalist Talent award | 2nd runner-up in the 1960 Miss Dixie Pageant | ||
| 1957 | Cecilia Colvert | Greenwood | Miss Greenwood | Pantomime / Vocal "C'est si bon" by Eartha Kitt | Competed in the 1958 Miss Dixie Pageant; mother of Miss South Carolina 1988 | |||
| 1956 | Marian McKnight | Manning | Miss Manning | Comedy Sketch "The Monroe Doctrine" | Winner | |||
| 1955 | Martha Chestnut | Conway | Miss Conway | Piano | Crowned Miss Dixie in 1956 | |||
| 1954 | Polly Suber | Greenville | Miss Whitmire | Monologue "Air Corps" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1953 | Miriam Stevenson | Winnsboro | 20 | Miss Greenwood | Tap Dance | Semi-finalist | Later Miss South Carolina USA, Miss USA and Miss Universe 1954 | |
| 1952 | Mary Griffin | Florence | Miss Florence | Classical Vocal | Semi-finalist | Placed 1st runner-up in the 1953 Miss USA Pageant representing Myrtle Beach, represented the United States at the 1953 Miss World Pageant where she placed sixth. Also competed in the 1952 Maid of Cotton Pageant. | ||
| 1951 | Joyce Perry | Conway | Miss Conway | Comedy Vocal "Sewing Machine" | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1950 | Carolyn Fowler | Lyman | Miss Lyman | |||||
| 1949 | Barrie Wingard | Columbia | Miss Clinton | |||||
| 1948 | Esther Greene | Greenville | Miss Greenville | |||||
| 1947 | Margaret Griffin | Spartanburg | Miss Spartanburg | Classical Vocal | ||||
| 1946 | Anna Morse | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||||
| 1945 | Margaret Seible | Columbia | Miss Columbia | Drama "Life with a Southern Mammy on an Old Plantation" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Received the first ever Non-finalist Talent Award at the Miss America Pageant. | ||
| 1944 | Virginia Owens | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||||
| Gloria Mae Grisso | Columbia | Competed as Miss Columbia in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1943 | Janelle Strange | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||||
| Sarah Nina Harvin | Columbia | Competed as Miss Columbia in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1942 | Nelle Owens | Columbia | Miss Columbia | Dance | ||||
| Sarah Virginia Pulliam | Columbia | Competed as Miss Columbia in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1941 | Gloria Missel | Charleston | Miss Charleston | Vocal | ||||
| Miriam King | Charleston | competed as Miss Charleston in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1940 | Vonadora Baker | Dillon | Miss Lakeview | Recitation | ||||
| Mary Eleanor Parrish | Dillon | Tap Dance "Cocktails for Two" | Preliminary Talent Award | competed as Miss Myrtle Beach in the Miss America Pageant | ||||
| 1939 | Margaret Shealy | Clinton | Miss Clinton | Vocal "Especially For You" | ||||
| LaBruce Sherrill | Competed as Miss Myrtle Beach in the Miss America Pageant | |||||||
| 1938 | Margaret Land | Chester | Miss Camden | |||||
| 1937 | Wayring Smathers | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||||
| 1927 | No Miss South Carolina | Claudia Harvin competed as Miss Charleston in the Miss America Pageant and placed as a semi-finalist | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss South Carolina | Dorothy Brickman competed as Miss Charleston in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss South Carolina | Agatha G. Schachte competed as Miss Charleston in the Miss America Pageant |
* Succeeded to the crown after Miss South Carolina won Miss America
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Meet Miss South Carolina 1996". Miss America Organization. Archived from the original on July 6, 1997. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
- ^ "2005 Mrs America". Retrieved July 9, 2010.
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