Miss Massachusetts
The Miss Massachusetts competition is a scholarship pageant put on annually by the Miss Massachusetts Scholarship Foundation, Inc. The winner of the pageant receives the title of Miss Massachusetts and represents the state of Massachusetts at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Women between the ages of 17 and 24 who meet residency, scholastic and character requirements are eligible to compete in local pageants, the winners of which continue on to the Miss Massachusetts pageant in Worcester each July.
Contestants at the Miss Massachusetts competition are judged in five areas: personal interview, poise and grace in evening gown, lifestyle and fitness in swimsuit, artistic expression, and on stage question. Scholarships are awarded for Miss Massachusetts, first through fourth runners-up, preliminary talent winners, preliminary swimsuit winners, non-finalist talent winner, MAO Academic Award, MAO Service Award, and MAO Children's Miracle Network Award.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Alissa Musto | Rehoboth | 21 | Miss Cambridge | Piano | Top 15 | ||
| 2015 | Meagan Fuller[1] | Attleboro | 22 | Miss Collegiate Area | Jazz Dance, "Feeling Good" | 1st runner-up at National Sweetheart 2013; Previously Massachusetts' Junior Miss 2010 and top 10 at America's Distinguished Young Women 2010 | ||
| 2014 | Lauren Kuhn[2] | Boston | 23 | Miss Collegiate Area | Piano "Valse Dramatico" by Melody Bober | 4th runner-up | STEM Scholarship Award | |
| 2013 | Amanda Narciso[3] | Taunton | 22 | Miss Cranberry Country | Tap Dance "Can't Hold Us" | 2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2011 | ||
| 2012 | Taylor Kinzler | Lakeville | 20 | Miss Norfolk County | Vocal "At Last" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Miss Massachusetts's Outstanding Teen 2008, Contestant at National Sweetheart 2010 | |
| 2011 | Molly Whalen | Middleboro | 21 | Miss Taunton | Vocal "I Just Call You Mine" | |||
| 2010 | Loren Galler-Rabinowitz | Brookline | 24 | Miss Collegiate Area | Piano "The Swan" | Miracle Maker Award | U.S. Ice Dancing Bronze Medalist | |
| 2009 | Amanda Kelly | Braintree | 23 | Miss Fall River | Vocal "Show Off" from The Drowsy Chaperone | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2008, Sister of Miss Massachusetts USA 2006 Tiffany Kelly | ||
| 2008 | Alicia Zitka | West Springfield | 22 | Miss Hampden County | Lyrical Dance "I Will Love You" by Fisher | Won national online K-mart Style competition | ||
| 2007 | Valerie J Amaral | Acushnet | 22 | Miss North Shore | Vocal "Anyway" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award, Quality of Life Finalist, Miracle Maker Scholarship Award | Miss Massachusetts' Outstanding Teen 2001; Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006; Miss America Community Service Award 2005, 2006, & 2007 | |
| 2006 | Michaela Gagne | Fall River | 24 | Miss Southcoast | Vocal "Bye Bye Blackbird" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 | ||
| 2005 | Kristin Gauvin | Worcester | 23 | Miss Apponagansett Bay | Tap Dance "Christmas Eve in Sarajevo" | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2004, New England Patriots Cheerleader | ||
| 2004 | Erika Ebbel | Cambridge | 23 | Miss Apponagansett Bay | Classical Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | 2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2003 | |
| 2003 | Melissa Silva | Fall River | 23 | Miss Southern Massachusetts | Vocal "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2002 | ||
| 2002 | Melanie Correia | Acushnet | 22 | Miss Taunton | Vocal "Big Time" | Top 10 | 2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2001 | |
| 2001 | Abbie Rabine | Wenham | 22 | Miss Southern Massachusetts/Freetown | Vocal "Via Dolorosa" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Preliminary Interview Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999 |
| 2000 | Michelle Neves | New Bedford | 23 | Miss Pioneer Valley | Vocal "I'm Afraid This Must Be Love" | Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1994 | ||
| 1999 | April Thibeault | Boston | 21 | Miss North Shore | Ballet "Reflections of Passion" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1998 | Elizabeth Hancock | Cambridge | 20 | Miss Suffolk County | Musical Theater Monologue from 42nd Street | Non-finalist Interview Award | Kentucky's Junior Miss 1996 | |
| 1997 | Samira Zebian | Westfield | 20 | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Irish Step Dance | Waterford Crystal Award for Business Marketing & Management | ||
| 1996 | Lori Flick | Boston | 24 | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Interpretive Gymnastics Dance "Prologue from Beauty and the Beast" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1995 | Marcia Turner | Cambridge | 21 | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Piano "Souvenirs d'Andalousie, Op.22" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk | Top 10 | ||
| 1994 | Sharon Lee | Somerville | 24 | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Classical Vocal "O Mio Babbino Caro" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1993 | Ellen Fitzgerald | Saugus | 22 | Miss Bay State | Vocal "Vision of Love" | |||
| 1992 | Lisa Desroches | New Bedford | 21 | Miss New Bedford | Character Ballet en Pointe "Can-Can" | Top 10 | ||
| 1991 | Melissa Bloemker | East Boston | 20 | Miss Greater Boston | Harp Solo "Tango & Rumba from Suite of Eight Dances" by Carlos Salzedo | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1990 | Marissa Laakso | Randolph | 24 | Miss Bay State | Character Tap Dance "Mr. Bojangles" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1989 | Janette Elman | Attleboro | 22 | Miss Greater Attleboro | Russian Cossack Dance | |||
| 1988 | Diana Steckler | East Boston | 22 | Miss East Boston | Vocal | |||
| 1987 | Aurelie McCarthy | East Boston | 24 | Miss East Boston | Marimba "Hava Nagila", "William Tell Overture", & "Joplin On Wood" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Former Executive Director of the Miss Massachusetts pageant | |
| 1986 | Kathleen Callahan | Revere | 23 | Miss Boston | Popular Vocal "Come Rain or Come Shine" | Toured with the 1987 Gillette Miss America Show Troupe | ||
| 1985 | Lisa Kleypas | Carlisle | 20 | Miss Tri-County | Original Vocal Composition & Guitar "Love You Are My Wings" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Romance novelist | |
| 1984 | Margaret O'Brien | Weymouth | 26 | Miss Cape Cod | Vocal Medley "The Man that Got Away", "The Man I Love", & "My Man" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | National Sweetheart 1983 |
| 1983 | Holly Mayer | Brookline | 26 | Miss Merrimack Valley | Dance / Baton Twirling "Medley from Gypsy" | Non-finalist Talent Award | National Sweetheart 1982, Mother of Miss New York's Outstanding Teen 2011 Lauren Molella, Sister-in-law of Miss New York 1989 Lisa Molella,[4] | |
| 1982 | Lisa Scorgie | North Attleboro | 23 | Miss Attleboro | Violin Solo "Fantasy of Russian Folk Songs" | |||
| 1981 | Deborah Salois | North Andover | 19 | Miss Methuen | Vocal "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" from Ain't Misbehavin' | |||
| 1980 | Amy Linder | Lowell | 22 | Miss Methuen | Piano Solo "Piano Sonata" by Alberto Ginastera | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1979 | Lisa Matta | Brockton | 20 | Miss Boston | Jazz Dance "Slow Dancing" | |||
| 1978 | Rowena Humphrey | Worthington | 20 | Miss Northern Berkshire | Ballet en Pointe "Love Story" | |||
| 1977 | Janice Ould | Boston | 25 | Miss Methuen | Semi-classical Vocal "One Kiss" from The New Moon | |||
| 1976 | Deborah Guastella | Methuen | 22 | Miss Merrimack Valley | Vocal "Your World And Mine" | |||
| 1975 | Cynthia Carpenter | Wayland | 22 | Miss Marlboro | Classical Piano "Malagueña" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1974 | Susan Sadlier | Lowell | 22 | Miss Newburyport/Coast Guard | Musical Comedy Skit "I'm the Greatest Star" | Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | ||
| 1973 | Rena Walmsley | North Attleboro | 20 | Miss Attleboro | Dramatic Soliloquy from "Funny Girl" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1972 | Marie Semas | Taunton | 18 | Miss Taunton | Piano & Vocal Performance of Original Composition | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1971 | Deborah O'Brien (de) | Foxboro | 22 | Miss Foxboro | Classical Vocal "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1970 | Diana Dohrmann | Boston | 21 | Piano "The Kid From Red Bank" by Count Basie | ||||
| 1969 | Georgina Hossfeld | Burlington | 22 | Miss Burlington | Piano "Grieg's Concerto" & "Bumble Boogie" | Top 10 | ||
| 1968 | Catherine Monroe | Lynnfield | 20 | Miss Woburn | Recitation w/Sign Language & Dance "What the World Needs Now Is Love" | 1st runner-up | ||
| 1967 | Maria Lynn Chaffee | Waltham | 18 | Miss Woburn | Ballet & Jazz Toe Dance "Do I Hear a Waltz?", "Georgy Girl", & "One of Those Songs" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1966 | Carol Kennedy | Worcester | 19 | Miss Northboro | Jazz Ballet Dance "Can-Can" | Top 10 | ||
| 1965 | Mabel Bendiksen | New Bedford | 18 | Miss New Bedford | Dramatic Reading & Folk Singing "The Hazards of Nuclear Fallout" & "What Have They Done to the Rain" | |||
| 1964 | Kathleen Kenneally | Whitman | 21 | Miss Brockton | Dramatic Reading | |||
| 1963 | Lila Saldani | Attleboro | Miss Attleboro | Original Dramatic Monologue "A World of Darkness" | ||||
| 1962 | Karen Behn | North Dartmouth | 18 | Miss New Bedford | Dramatic Reading | |||
| 1961 | Nona Smith | Fairhaven | 18 | Miss New Bedford | Dramatic Reading | |||
| 1960 | Brenda Crovo | Reading | 20 | Miss Cambridge | Vocal Medley "Bill" & "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" | Top 10 | ||
| 1959 | Sharon Faught | Holyoke | 21 | Dramatic Reading & Vocal | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1958 | Patricia Nordling | Lexington | Vocal / Piano "Exactly Like You" | |||||
| 1957 | Daly Hirsch | Boston | Drama | |||||
| 1956 | Jewel Smerage | Boston | Vocal Medley from The King and I | Top 10 | ||||
| 1955 | Virginia Maffucci | Watertown | Dramatic Monologue "Solitary Confinement" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1954 | Nan Cowan | |||||||
| 1953 | Lois Feldman | Natick | Ballet | |||||
| 1952 | Barbara Graves | Milton | ||||||
| 1951 | Mildred Almeida | New Bedford | Fashion Modeling Skit | First known Euro-African contestant at Miss America (Cape Verdean descent) | ||||
| 1950 | Britta Berg | Boston | ||||||
| 1949 | Gloria Curelli | Roslindale | Dance | |||||
| 1948 | Barbara Laughton | Reading | Vocal "The Moon Belongs to Everyone" | Top 15 | ||||
| Barbara McGrath | Boston | Competed as Miss Boston | ||||||
| 1946 | Rae Nichols | Malden | Birth name was Urania Nicolaides. | |||||
| Paula C. Jerome | Boston | Competed as Miss Boston | ||||||
| 1945 | Ruth Thomas | Belmont | ||||||
| Claire Thibadeau | Boston | Competed as Miss Boston | ||||||
| 1944 | Lucille Descoteau | Lowell | ||||||
| Paulina McKevitt | Boston | Vocal "Goodnight, Wherever You Are" | 1st runner-up | Competed as Miss Boston | ||||
| 1943 | Mary McAnulty | Roslindale | ||||||
| Helena Frances Mack | Boston | Samba Dance "Cae Cae" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Preliminary Talent Award | Competed as Miss Boston | |||
| 1942 | Paula Bordman | Natick | ||||||
| 1941 | Betsy Taylor | Cambridge | ||||||
| 1940 | Polly Connors | Bedford | 3rd runner-up | |||||
| 1937 | Claire Nevulis | South Boston | Vocal / Tap Dance | Top 16 | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1936 | Marion Flynn | Norwood | 18 | Miss Long Beach | Stage Name Marion Rosamond | |||
| 1935 | Rita Mae King | Leominster | Competed as Miss Leominster | |||||
| Mary Stanley | Quincy | Competed as Miss Quincy | ||||||
| 1933 | Elsie Taylor | 17 | Top 18 | |||||
| 1927 | No Miss Massachusetts | Ethel Beatrice Pierce, Miss Boston and Martha E. Hick, Miss Pittsfield finished as Semi-finalists in the pageant. Also representing Massachusetts were: Muriel E. Bowers, Miss Lynn; Dorothy M. Rawson, Miss Worcester; and Marion Howarth from Fall River who competed as Miss New England. | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss Massachusetts | Representing Massachusetts were: Mary "May" Mudge, Miss Boston; Mary Robinson, Miss Lockport; Rosa Lee Irving, Miss Portsmouth; and Muriel Borek, Miss Springfield | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss Massachusetts | Nina Wolff competed as Miss Boston and Katherine Kearns from Newton competed as Miss New England. | ||||||
| 1924 | No Miss Massachusetts | Mildred M. Prendergast was married and allowed to participate in all the activities of the pageant as Miss Boston but was not considered for any competition prizes. She and her lawyer husband later sued the pageant because she had won Miss Boston as an openly married woman. The outcome of the case is not known. | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Massachusetts | Representing Massachusetts were: Margaret Black, Miss Boston; Doris George, Miss Cambridge; Elizabeth McClure, Miss Gloucester; and Mildred Salisbury, Miss New Bedford | ||||||
| 1922 | No Miss Massachusetts | Representing Massachusetts were: Charlotte Trowbridge, Miss Boston; Helen Lynch, Miss Fall River; and Alice Burke, Miss New Bedford | ||||||
References
- ^ Allen, Paige (June 29, 2015). "Attleboro woman headed to Miss America competition". The Sun Chronicle. Attleboro, MA: United Communications Corporation. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Rhodes, George W. (July 2, 2014). "Attleboro resident third runner-up in Miss. Mass. pageant". The Sun Chronicle. Attleboro, MA: United Communications Corporation. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ "Bridgewater and Raynham residents receive awards in Miss Massachusetts contest". Taunton Daily Gazette. Taunton, MA: GateHouse Media. July 2, 2013. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ "Lauren Molella named Miss New York Outstanding Teen". SI Live. June 19, 2011.