Melissa Mandak
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Melissa Mandak (born 1979) is a beauty queen who won the title Miss Connecticut USA 2005.
Mandak, who hails from Hamden represented Connecticut in the Miss USA 2005 pageant held in Baltimore, Maryland in April 2005, but failed to make the cut. The pageant was won by Chelsea Cooley of North Carolina. Mandak had placed second runner-up to Sheila Wiatr in the Miss Connecticut USA 2004 pageant a year prior to winning her state crown.
Mandak graduated from Rutgers University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and mass media. At the time of her pageant win she was working as a real estate ageant. She has also appeared as an extra in the recent “Stepford Wives” motion picture. Her long-term plan was to attend graduate college and study meteorology.
Hogan crowned her successor, Jeannine Phillips, in November 2005.
[edit] Reference
- Biography of Mandak on the Miss Connecticut USA website (accessed 2 May 2006)
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| Preceded by: Sheila Wiatr |
Miss Connecticut USA 2005 |
Succeeded by: Jeannine Phillips |
