Miss Alaska
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- For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Alaska USA
The Miss Alaska competition is a scholarship pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alaska in the Miss America pageant.
Alaska has placed only once in the state's forty-eight year participation at the pageant, when Joslyn Tinker was selected for the Top Ten. One Miss Alaska won a preliminary swimsuit and another won a talent award. Several other delegates have been awarded non-finalist and special scholarships.
Miss Alaskas 1975 and 1978, Cindy Suryan and PJ Gentry, were popular Anchorage television and radio personalities for many years, but it was the eighties that produced the biggest crop of high-profile winners. Miss Alaska 1981, Laura Trollan, worked in local television as an Anchorage weather broadcaster. Miss Alaska 1982 became an award-winning realtor and business woman, achieving recognition for The Kristan Cole Team. Miss Alaska 1984, Maryline Blackburn, pursued a career in music and has received critical acclaim as a recording artist. Miss Alaskas 1985 and 1986 went on to establish successful careers in modeling: Jerri Morrison as a plus-size supermodel, most recognizable for her catalog work for Nordstrom and JC Penney, and Kristina Christopher-Taylor as a TV and print model featured in several national campaigns. Perhaps the most renowned contestant not to win Miss Alaska was Sarah Palin, who competed for the state title as Miss Wasilla in 1986, eventually becoming Alaska's first female governor.
[edit] Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Local Title | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Stephanie Wonchala | Eagle River | Miss Chugiak/Eagle River | |||
| 2005 | Rebecca Hayes | Anchorage | ||||
| 2004 | Christina Reasner | Sterling | ||||
| 2003 | Blair Chenoweth | Anchorage | Future Miss Alaska USA 2007 | |||
| 2002 | Peggy Willman | Anchorage | Miss North Star | |||
| 2001 | Eugenia Primis | Eagle River | Miss South Central | Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship | ||
| 2000 | Audrey Solomon | Anchorage | Miss University Center | Bert Parks Non-finalist Scholarship award; Non-finalist Talent | ||
| 1999 | Shannon Kelly | Palmer | Miss South Central | |||
| 1998 | Joslyn Tinker | Soldotna | Miss Alyeska | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Former Alaska's Junior Miss 1994 |
| 1997 | Michelle Titus | Fairbanks | ||||
| 1996 | Christine Buschur | Eagle River | Miss Cook Inlet | |||
| 1995 | Stacey Storey | Eagle River | Miss Chugiak/Eagle River | Future Miss Alaska USA 2003 | ||
| 1994 | Patricia Marlow | Eagle River | Miss Anchorage | |||
| 1993 | Rebecca Nyboer | Anchorage | Miss Alyeska | Nonfinalist Talent Award | ||
| 1992 | Keri Baumgardner | Eagle River | Miss Anchorage | |||
| 1991 | Beth Gustafson | Palmer | Miss Denali | |||
| 1990 | Holly Salo | Kenai | Miss Mat-Su Valley | |||
| 1989 | Christine McCubbins | Kenai | Miss Denali | |||
| 1988 | Launa Middaugh | Wasilla | Miss South Central | |||
| 1987 | Teresa Murton | Anchorage | Miss Anchorage | |||
| 1986 | Jerri Morrison | Anchorage | Miss Northern Lights | |||
| 1985 | Kristina Christopher-Taylor | Anchorage | Miss Talkeetna | |||
| 1984 | Maryline Blackburn | Anchorage | Miss South Central | Nonfinalist Talent Award | Selected and traveled with USO | |
| 1983 | Jennifer Smith | Soldotna | Miss Soldotna | |||
| 1982 | Kristan Sapp | Wasilla | Miss South Central | |||
| 1981 | Laura Trollan | Juneau | Miss Juneau | |||
| 1980 | Sandra Lashbrook | Eagle River | Miss Chugiak-Eagle River | |||
| 1979 | Lila Oberg | Palmer | Miss Willow Area | |||
| 1978 | Patty-Jo Gentry | Valdez | Miss Fairbanks | |||
| 1977 | Lisa Granath | Kenai | Miss Greater Kenai | |||
| 1976 | Kathy Tebow | Anchorage | Miss Anchorage | Non-finalist Talent | ||
| 1975 | Cindy Suryan | Kodiak | Miss Kodiak | |||
| 1974 | Darby Moore | Kenai | Miss Kenai | |||
| 1973 | Virginia Adams | Anchorage | Miss Anchorage | |||
| 1972 | Deborah Wood | Kodiak | Miss Kodiak | *listed as Linda Ann Hogue in Miss America program from 1972? | ||
| 1971 | Linda Smith | Anchorage | Special Judge's Award | |||
| 1970 | Virginia Walker | Kotzebue | Miss Kotzebue/Arctic Circle | First Miss America contestant from above the Arctic Circle | ||
| 1969 | Gwenn Gregg | Anchorage | Miss Northern Lights | |||
| 1968 | Jane Haycraft | Fairbanks | Miss Greater Fairbanks Area | |||
| 1967 | Penny Thomasson | Spenard | ||||
| 1966 | Nancy Lorell Wellman | Fairbanks | Miss Greater Fairbanks Area | |||
| 1965 | Mary Ruth Nidiffer | Anchorage | Miss Alaska Methodist University | |||
| 1964 | Karol Hommon | Anchorage | ||||
| 1963 | Colleen Kendall | Anchorage | Miss Alaska State Fair | |||
| 1962 | Mary Dee Fox | Anchorage | Miss Greater Anchorage | |||
| 1961 | Jean Ann Holm | Fairbanks | ||||
| 1960 | June Bowdish | Anchorage | ||||
| 1959 | Alansa Carr | Ketchikan | ||||
| 1958 | Stuart Johnson | Douglas City | ||||
| 1950 | Maxine Cothern | Fairbanks | ||||
| 1937 | Marguerite West | |||||
| 1922 | Helmer Liederman | disqualified |
[edit] External links
| Alaska Pageantry | |
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Miss USA Miss Alaska USA |
| Miss America's Outstanding Teen Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen |
Miss Teen USA Miss Alaska Teen USA |
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