Mrs. North Dakota is Alyson Wilhelmi Downs, a Gamma Phi Beta alumna of Alpha Beta Chapter (North Dakota)! She actually volunteers with the Sorority as a regional coordinator!

I am loving of all these Gamma Phi winners this year!

Me too! And I believe we have a sister competing in the Miss Louisiana competition today!

There is at least one Kappa Alpha Theta competing in this weekend's Miss Kentucky pageant. If she wins, there will be four Thetas in the pageant!

Actually, I just looked it up - Alyson will be competing for Mrs. America, not Miss. The competition is for married women only! The way Gamma Phi's Facebook page reported it, it seemed like Miss America. Either way, congrats to Alyson!

The young lady on the left just recently became a Saintsation-NFL cheerleaders for the New Orleans Saints!!!

Off topic but we are proud of her.

Who Dat!!!!!

Does anyone have a date for the Miss America Pageant?

It's on September 15th!

The newly crowned Miss Indiana is an Alpha Chi Omega at IU.

WONDERFUL!! When I was a little girl, our neighborhood always had a clambake the weekend of the Pageant, and it was also my birthday weekend. I always counted both as a tribute to my birthday - such a conceited little kid!

Remember when the Miss America Pageant used to be such a big deal when it aired? Kind of like the annual showing of the Wizard of Oz. (This was before videotapes, kids.)

It was a highlight of the new school year. I remember slumber parties planned around it. (The pageant, not Wizard of Oz. I was terrified of those flying monkeys.)

In those old days when, if you missed a tv show, you missed a tv show until when and if it was ever shown again (remember Cinderella?). And there were only five channels and color tvs were a new fangled invention.

Remember how the contestant's gown would be described to the television audience as she promenaded down the runway-for you young'uns this was before color TV. I was a little girl, not more than a toddler really, and I could tell my mother what color dress each girl had on-I guess I could distinguish the different shades on the black and white TV and from that determine what color the dress was. I batted a thousand on my color announcements.