Miss Mississippi
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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Mississippi USA.
Kimberly Morgan, Miss Mississippi 2007
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Lynda Lee Mead, Miss Mississippi 1959 and Miss America 1960
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Miss Mississippi is a scholarship pageant and a preliminary of Miss America. The contest began in 1934, has been held in Vicksburg since 1958, and provides more money than any other scholarship pageant in the Miss America Organization. [1]
Four Miss Mississippis have won the Miss America crown: Mary Ann Mobley (1959), Lynda Lee Mead (1960), Cheryl Prewitt (1980), and Susan Akin (1986).
Hattiesburg is home to nine Miss Mississippis; more than any other city/town.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Hannah Roberts[1] | Mount Olive | 22 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Classical Violin "Zapateado, No. 2, Opus 23" | 1st runner-up | Quality of Life Finalist, STEM Scholarship Award Winner, Louanne Gamba Instrumentalist scholarship | Previously Distinguished Young Woman of Mississippi 2011 and 2nd runner-up to Distinguished Young Woman of America 2011[2] |
| 2014 | Jasmine Murray | Columbus | 22 | Miss Riverland | Vocal "Something's Got a Hold on Me" | Top 10 | Quality of Life Finalist | 3rd African American titleholder, Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen 2007 and top 10 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008, American Idol season 8 finalist |
| 2013 | Chelsea Rick | Fulton | 23 | Miss Amory Railroad Festival | Vocal "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" | Top 15 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 2012 | Marie Wicks | Ocean Springs | 22 | Miss Dixie | Piano "Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2011 | Mary Margaret Roark[3] | Cleveland | 20 | Miss North Central Mississippi | Piano "Nostradamus" by Tonci Huljic | |||
| 2010 | Sarah Beth James | Madison | 20 | Miss Metro Jackson | Piano "Piano Fantasy" by William Joseph | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2009 | Anna Tadlock | McCool | 23 | Miss New South | Vocal "A New Life" from Jekyll & Hyde | |||
| 2008 | Christine Kozlowski | D'Iberville | 19 | Miss Gulf Coast | Jazz Dance | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | First Latino Miss Mississippi[2] | |
| 2007 | Kimberly Morgan | Oxford | 24 | Miss Heritage | Vocal "God Bless the Child" | Top 16 | Second African American to compete as Miss Mississippi | |
| 2006 | Taryn Foshee | Clinton | 21 | Miss Byram Tri County | Piano "El Cumbanchero" by Rafael Hernández Marín | 3rd runner-up | ||
| 2005 | Kristian Dambrino | Grenada | 20 | Miss Grenada County | Original Vocal & Piano Composition "Pearlington's Prayer" | |||
| 2004 | Jalin Wood | Waynesboro | 23 | Miss Metro Jackson | Piano "Cumana" | Miss Mississippi USA 2007 | ||
| 2003 | Allison Kellogg | Madison | 22 | Miss Madison County | Ballet en Pointe "The Magic Bird of Fire" | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1999 | ||
| 2002 | Jennifer Adcock | Hattiesburg | 22 | Miss West Central Mississippi | Piano "Rhapsody in Blue" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1998, Miss Mississippi USA 2005 and Top 10 at Miss USA 2005 |
| 2001 | Becky Pruett | Laurel | 22 | Miss Deep South | Vocal "Whatever Lola Wants" | Top 20 | Preliminary Talent Award, Quality of Life 2nd runner-up | |
| 2000 | Christy May | Pontotoc | 24 | Miss Pontotoc | Piano "Theme from The Apartment" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1999 | Heather Soriano | Philadelphia | 22 | Miss East Central Mississippi | Vocal / Dance "Trouble" from Smokey Joe's Cafe | Non-finalist Talent Award | Miss Mississippi USA 2002 | |
| 1998 | Melinda King | Waynesboro | 22 | Miss Hattiesburg | Vocal "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" | |||
| 1997 | Myra Barginear | Grenada | 23 | Miss West Central | Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville | 2nd runner-up | Allman Medical Scholarship | |
| 1996 | Kari Litton | Pontotoc | 23 | Miss New South | Vocal "Cry" | Top 10 | ||
| 1995 | Monica Louwerens | Greenville | 21 | Miss Magnolia | Vocal "Vanilla Ice Cream" from She Loves Me | Top 10 | Rembrandt Award for Mentorship | |
| 1994 | Rebecca Blouin | Batesville | 23 | Miss Dixieland | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | Top 10 | ||
| 1993 | Lenena Holder | Booneville | 24 | Miss Magnolia | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1992 | Kandace Williams | Tupelo | 23 | Miss Tupelo | Vocal "Ain't It Good" from Children of Eden | |||
| 1991 | Mary Allison Hurdle | Holly Springs | 24 | Miss DeSoto County | Classical Vocal "Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta" from La Rondine | 4th runner-up | ||
| 1990 | Beth Howell | Clinton | 21 | Miss Dixie | Magic Act | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1987 | |
| 1989 | Cherry Busby | Tupel | 19 | Miss Tupelo | Vocal "My Funny Valentine" | |||
| 1988 | Carla Haag | Hattiesburg | 23 | Miss Dixie | Vocal Medley "Here's to the Band" & "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1983 |
| 1987 | Toni Seawright | Moss Point | 23 | Miss Mississippi University for Women | Popular Vocal "I'm Going All the Way" | 4th runner-up | First African American Miss Mississippi | |
| 1986 | Kimberly McGuffee | Mendenhall | 23 | Miss Lamar County | Popular Vocal "Inseparable" | Top 10 | ||
| 1985 | Nan Sumrall | Hattiesburg | Miss Hattiesburg | Successor to crown. Known now as Nan Kelley, host on Great American Country TV. | ||||
| Susan Akin | Meridian | 21 | Miss University | Vocal "You're My World" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1984 | Kathy Manning | Drew | 22 | Miss University of Mississippi | Country Vocal "Crazy" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Miss Mississippi USA 1987 and Top 10 at Miss USA 1987 |
| 1983 | Wanda Geddie | Hattiesburg | 24 | Miss William Carey College | Vocal "More Than You Know" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1982 | Dianne Evans | Taylorsville | 22 | Miss William Carey College | Vocal "Stormy Weather" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1981 | Karen Hopson | Vicksburg | 21 | Miss Vicksburg | Character Ballet en Pointe "Overture from Annie" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Her mother is the vice president of the Miss Mississippi Corporation and her father is the chairman of the Miss Mississippi Board of Trustees. |
| 1980 | Donna Pope | McNeil | 24 | Miss Picayune | Ballet "Overture from Oklahoma!" | 2nd runner-up (tie) | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1979 | Sherye Simmons | Jackson | Successor to crown | |||||
| Cheryl Prewitt | Ackerman | 22 | Miss Starkville | Vocal / Piano "Don't Cry Out Loud" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1978 | Cheri Brown | Meridian | 21 | Miss Oxford | Popular Vocal "Evergreen" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award (tie) | Miss Mississippi USA 1980 | |
| 1977 | Mary Donnelly | Oxford | 19 | Miss University | Vocal "The Good Songs" | Wife of Miss America Chairman of the Board, Sam Haskell | ||
| 1976 | Bobbye Wood | Hattiesburg | 19 | Miss William Carey College | Vocal "Starting Here, Starting Now" | |||
| 1975 | Mollie Magee | Mendenhall | 19 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Popular Vocal "Lights on the Hill" | Contestant at Miss Teenage America 1972 | ||
| 1974 | Diane Bounds | Gulfport | 21 | Miss Mississippi State University | Popular Vocal "When You Smile" | |||
| 1973 | Kathleen Coole | Gulfport | 19 | Miss Mississippi State College for Women | Vocal Medley "Everything's Alright" & "I Don't Know How to Love Him" | |||
| 1972 | Glenda Meadows | Richton | 23 | Miss Richton | Vocal Medley "Am I Blue?" & "I'd Rather Be Blue" | |||
| 1971 | Jennifer Blair | Tupelo | 21 | Miss Mississippi State University | Popular Vocal "I Wish You Love" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1970 | Christine McClamroch | Columbus | 21 | Miss Columbus | Vocal Medley "Cabaret", "Try to Remember", & "You'll Never Walk Alone" | 3rd runner-up | ||
| 1969 | Jane Foshee | Hattiesburg | 19 | Miss Hattiesburg | Vocal / Soft Shoe Dance "Makin' Whoopee" | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1967 | ||
| 1968 | Mary Mills | McComb | 19 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Piano Comedy Presentation "Habanera" & "La Poupée Valsante" by Fritz Kreisler | |||
| 1967 | Joan Myers | Forest | 20 | Miss Mississippi College | Speech & Display of Original Art "Doctor Zhivago" | 1st runner-up | Featured performer on the Miss America 1968 telecast | |
| 1966 | Robbie Robertson | Hattiesburg | 20 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Dramatic Reading "Adam Bede" by George Eliot | Non-finalist Talent Award | Top 10 at Maid of Cotton 1966 | |
| 1965 | Patricia Puckett | Columbus | 20 | Miss Columbus | Vocal "I Ain't Down Yet" from The Unsinkable Molly Brown | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Featured Performer on the Miss America 1966 telecast |
| 1964 | Judy Simono | Vicksburg | 20 | Miss Vicksburg | Classical Ballet "Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty" | |||
| 1963 | Jan Nave | McComb | Miss Mississippi State College for Women | Contemporary Dance | ||||
| 1962 | Charlotte Ann Carroll | Walthall | 19 | Miss Eupora | Comedy Song & Dance Routine "Olive Oyl" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1961 | Annice Jernigan | New Albany | 21 | Miss University of Mississippi | Piano Medley | |||
| 1960 | Patricia McRaney | McComb | 20 | Miss McComb | Speech & Art Presentation | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1959 | Betty Porter | Brookhaven | Successor to crown | |||||
| Lynda Lee Mead | Natchez | 20 | Miss University | Original Dramatic Act "Schizophrenia" | Winner | |||
| 1958 | Margie Wilson | Itta Bena | Successor to crown | |||||
| Mary Ann Mobley | Brandon | 19 | Vocal Medley & Dance "Un Bel Di" & "There'll Be Some Changes Made" | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award | Contestant at Maid of Cotton 1958 | ||
| 1957 | Mary Allen | Yazoo City | Dance & Art Presentation | |||||
| 1956 | Martha Tisdale | Hattiesburg | Drama | |||||
| 1955 | Carolyn Cochran | Lucedale | Dramatic Monologue | |||||
| 1954 | Celeste Luckett | Clarksdale | Drama | Contestant at Maid of Cotton 1955 | ||||
| 1953 | Suzanne Dugger | Picayune | Vocal Medley & Dance "Bill" & "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" | 4th runner-up | ||||
| 1952 | Dora Livingston | Yazoo City | ||||||
| 1951 | Jessie Morgan | Newton | Ballet | Top 15 | ||||
| 1950 | Annie Roberts | Hattiesburg | ||||||
| 1949 | Katherine Wright | Pascagoula | Dramatic Sketch "Hagar" | 1st runner-up | ||||
| 1948 | Virginia Hollingsworth | Kosciusko | ||||||
| 1947 | Kitty Bailey | Oxford | Painting | |||||
| 1946 | Lennie Nobles | Greenwood | Dance | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1945 | Harriet Carr | Marks | Stand-up Comedy | |||||
| 1944 | Sarah Topp | Tupelo | ||||||
| 1943 | Arminta Scott | Corinth | ||||||
| 1942 | Dorothy Fox | Columbus | Miss Congeniality | |||||
| 1941 | Madeline Smith | Winona | ||||||
| 1940 | Carolyn Simon | Greenvill | Successor to crown | |||||
| Martha Tickel | Vicksburg, Mississippi | |||||||
| 1939 | Doris Coggins | Baldwyn | Miss Congeniality | |||||
| 1938 | Frances Sykes | Aberdeen | ||||||
| 1937 | Virginia Riley | West Point | ||||||
| 1936 | Rachel Smith | Booneville | ||||||
| 1935 | LeFrance Boyett | Sumner | ||||||
| 1934 | Madolyn Hardy | Belzoni | No Miss America 1934 pageant | |||||
| 1933 | Dorothy Ely | 24 | Top 18 | |||||
| 1927 | No Miss Mississippi | Phyllis Hunt competed as Miss Biloxi. | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss Mississippi | Mabel Riley competed as Miss Biloxi. | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss Mississippi | Laurice McFarland competed as Miss Biloxi and placed as a Finalist. | ||||||
| 1924 | No Miss Mississippi | Vivian Ruth Shaddinger competed as Miss Biloxi and Mabel Batson competed as Miss Jackson. | ||||||
References
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- ↑ http://bedistinguished.blogspot.com/2012/01/get-to-know-hannah-roberts.html
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
