Miss America 2014
 

Miss Missouri 2014- Shelby Ringdahl. Kappa Alpha Theta at TCU. She was just crowned this evening.

Miss Oklahoma is Kelsey Griswold, a Gamma Phi Beta from our Oklahoma City chapter!

Miss Alabama 2013, Chandler Champion (isn't that a great name?) is a Zeta Tau Alpha at Bama.

I read there were 3 Gamma Phi Betas in the Top 10 of the Miss Oklahoma pageant. G Phi represeeeent!

Most of the State pageants for Miss America are in June, so I'm sure will be adding to this list.
And, OF COURSE, Miss Oklahoma (America) is GREEK. Almost always is!!!

(Here I throw in a shoutout for the current Miss America, Mallory Hagan, who's a Pi Phi from my chapter!) :D:D:D

The 2012 Miss Texas America is Danae Couch, a Kappa Alpha Theta from Baylor.

The 2013 Miss Texas competition happens soon and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Meagen Morrison, an ADPi from Sam Houston State. I'm sure there are many other Greek contestants--hopefully one of us will win Miss Texas and go on to Miss America!

Mallory will be on ABC's "The Bachelorette" this coming Monday, June 17th. She will be judging their Mr. America-type competition in Atlantic City.

It looks like, Miss North Dakota is a Kappa Alpha Theta from UND. She was crowned last night!

http://www.examiner.com/article/laur...th-dakota-2013

Miss Montana is Sheridan Pope, a Gamma Phi Beta from our Gamma Mu chapter at Minnesota State - Moorhead!

Miss New Jersey Cara McCollum appears to be Kappa Alpha Theta from Princeton.

Miss Minnesota, Rebecca Yeh, Alpha Xi Delta, Ohio Northern

SURELY we'll have a Chi Omega Miss Mississippi with all of these competing:

http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps6a5e55cf.jpg

Miss New Hampshire 2013, is Samantha Russo. An AEPhi alum

Miss Georgia - Carly Mathis - Tri Delta
Miss Tennessee - Shelby Thompson - ADPi
Miss Ohio - Heather Wells - DZ
Miss Indiana - Terrin Thomas - Alpha Chi Omega
Miss Wyoming - Rebecca Podio - Tri Delta

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.

Very impressive. Entire generations have no idea what a handy skill this was. Didn't they tend to wear pastels back then?

Miss America was an event that my Mom and I would sit and watch.....it was THE event we looked forward to. I remember the years that Heather Whitestone and Tara Holland won most clearly....don't remember why, but they've ranked as two of my favorites in the two decades or so of me watching, along with Laura Kaeppler. It's been fun watching friends of mine compete at Miss Nevada in the past couple of years...and they've had fun doing it.

Yes indeed. Didn't one of Judy Blume's books have a chapter where the characters watch the Miss America pageant? I want to say the book was It's Not The End Of The World but I could be wrong.

I think I remember that book. The main character had a sister who was a senior and perfect, and they lived in a rich neighborhood but the mom worked as a cleaning lady. A kid at the high school died.

Miss Kentucky is an ADPi from University of Kentucky. She was crowned last night!

full list
 

Miss Missouri- Shelby Ringdahl (Kappa Alpha Theta)
Miss Oklahoma- Kelsey Griswold (Gamma Phi Beta)
Miss Alabama- Chandler Champion (Zeta Tau Alpha)
Miss North Dakota- Laura Harmon (Kappa Alpha Theta)
Miss Montana- Sheridan Pope (Gamma Phi Beta)
Miss New Jersey- Cara McCollum (Kappa Alpha Theta)
Miss Minnesota- Rebecca Yeh (Alpha Xi Delta)
Miss New Hampshire- Samantha Russo (Alpha Epsilon Phi)
Miss Georgia- Carly Mathis (Delta Delta Delta)
Miss Tennessee- Shelby Thompson (Alpha Delta Pi)
Miss Ohio- Heather Wells (Delta Zeta)
Miss Indiana- Terrin Thomas (Alpha Chi Omega)
Miss Wyoming- Rebecca Podio (Delta Delta Delta)
Miss Kentucky- Jenna Day (Alpha Delta Pi)
Miss Illinois- Brittany Smith (Delta Gamma)
Miss California- Crystal Lee (Delta Delta Delta)
Miss South Dakota- Tessa Dee (Alpha Phi)
Miss Mississippi- Chelsea Rick (Chi Omega)
Miss Florida- Myrrhands Jones (Delta Delta Delta)
Miss Idaho- Sarah Downs (Zeta Tau Alpha)
Miss Arkansas- Amy Crain (Delta Delta Delta)

Miss Illinois, Brittany Smith, is a Delta Gamma from Purdue University. She too was crowned last night!

Miss California
 

Stanford Tri Delta Crystal Lee was crowned Miss California last night.

Miss South Dakota is Tessa Dee, an Alpha Phi from University of South Dakota. (EO just tweeted a picture of last year's winner, another APhi, putting the crown on her.)

Chelsea Rick, Miss Mississippi is a Chi Omega (Chi Delta/Millsaps)
Brooke Mosteller, Miss South Carolina is a Chi Omega (Epsilon Lambda/Furman)