Miss Massachusetts
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- For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Massachusetts USA
The Miss Massachusetts competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss America pageant.
[edit] Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Local Title | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Michaela Gagne | Fall River | Miss Southcoast | |||
| 2005 | Kristin Gauvin | Worcester | Miss Apponagansett Bay | Cheerleader, New England Patriots | ||
| 2004 | Erika Ebbel | Cambridge | Miss Apponagansett Bay | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2003 | Melissa Silva | Fall River | Miss Southern Massachusetts | |||
| 2002 | Melanie Correia | Acushnet | Miss Taunton | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 2001 | Abbie Rabine | Wenham | Miss Southern Massachusetts/Freetown | first runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Preliminary Interview Award | |
| 2000 | Michelle Neves | New Bedford | Miss Pioneer Valley | Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1994 | ||
| 1999 | April Thibeault | Boston | Miss North Shore | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1998 | Elizabeth Hancock | Cambridge | Miss Suffolk County | Non-finalist Interview Award | Previously was Kentucky's Junior Miss 1996 | |
| 1997 | Samira Zebian | Westfield | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Waterford Crystal Award for Business Marketing & Management | ||
| 1996 | Lori Flick | Boston | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1995 | Marcia Turner | Cambridge | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1994 | Sharon Lee | Somerville | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1993 | Ellen Fitzgerald | Saugus | Miss Bay State | |||
| 1992 | Lisa Desroches | New Bedford | Miss New Bedford | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1991 | Melissa Bloemker | East Boston | Miss Greater Boston | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1990 | Marissa Laakso | Randolph | Miss Bay State | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1989 | Janette Elman | Attleboro | Miss Greater Attleboro | |||
| 1988 | Diana Steckler | East Boston | Miss East Boston | |||
| 1987 | Aurelie McCarthy | East Boston | Miss East Boston | Non-finalist Talent Award | Former Executive Director of the Miss Massachusetts Pageant | |
| 1986 | Kathleen Callahan | Revere | Miss Boston | Toured with the 1987 Gillette Miss America Show Troupe | ||
| 1985 | Lisa Kleypas | Carlisle | Miss Tri-County | Non-finalist Talent Award | Romance novelist | |
| 1984 | Margaret O'Brien | Weymouth | Miss Cape Cod | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | Previously was the winner of the National Sweetheart Pageant in 1983 |
| 1983 | Holly Mayer | Brookline | Miss Merrimack Valley | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously was the winner of the National Sweetheart Pageant in 1982 | |
| 1982 | Lisa Scorgie | North Attleboro | Miss Attleboro | |||
| 1981 | Deborah Salois | North Andover | Miss Methuen | |||
| 1980 | Amy Linder | Lowell | Miss Methuen | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1979 | Lisa Matta | Brockton | Miss Boston | |||
| 1978 | Rowena Humphrey | Worthington | Miss Northern Berkshire | |||
| 1977 | Janice Ould | Boston | Miss Methuen | |||
| 1976 | Deborah Guastella | Methuen | Miss Merrimack Valley | |||
| 1975 | Cynthia Carpenter | Marlboro | Miss Marlboro | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1974 | Susan Sadlier | Lowell | Miss Newburyport/Coast Guard | Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship recipient | ||
| 1973 | Rena Walmsley | North Attleboro | Miss Attleboro | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1972 | Marie Semas | Taunton | Miss Taunton | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1971 | Deborah O'Brien | Foxboro | Miss Foxboro | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1970 | Diana Dohrmann | Boston | ||||
| 1969 | Georgina Hossfeld | Burlington | Miss Burlington | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1968 | Catherine Monroe | Lynnfield | Miss Woburn | 1st runner-up | ||
| 1967 | Maria Chafee | Woburn | Miss Waltham | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1966 | Carol Kennedy | Worcester | Miss Northboro | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1965 | Mabel Bendiksen | New Bedford | Miss New Bedford | |||
| 1964 | Kathleen Kenneally | Whitman | Miss Brockton | |||
| 1963 | Lila Saldani | Attleboro | Miss Attleboro | |||
| 1962 | Karen Behn | North Dartmouth | Miss New Bedford | |||
| 1961 | Nona Smith | Fairhaven | Miss New Bedford | |||
| 1960 | Brenda Crovo | Reading | Miss Cambridge | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1959 | Sharon Faught | Holyoke | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1958 | Patricia Nordling | Lexington | ||||
| 1957 | Daly Hirsch | Boston | ||||
| 1956 | Jewel Smerage | Boston | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1955 | Virginia Maffucci | Watertown | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent | ||
| 1954 | Judith Drake | Fairhaven | ||||
| 1953 | Lois Feldman | Natick | ||||
| 1952 | Barbara Graves | Milton | ||||
| 1951 | Mildred Almeida | New Bedford | ||||
| 1950 | Britta Berg | Boston | ||||
| 1949 | Gloria Curelli | Roslindale | ||||
| 1948 | Barbara Laughton | Reading | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1946 | Rae Nichols | Malden | *birth name was Urania Nicolaides | |||
| 1945 | Ruth Thomas | Belmont | ||||
| 1944 | Lucille Descoteau | Lowell | ||||
| 1943 | Mary McAnulty | Roslindale | ||||
| 1942 | Paula Bordman | Natick | ||||
| 1941 | Betsy Taylor | Cambridge | ||||
| 1940 | Polly Connors | Bedford | 3rd runner-up | |||
| 1937 | Claire Nevulis | South Boston | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| 1936 | Marion Flynn | Norwood |
[edit] External links
| Massachusetts Pageantry | |
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| Miss America Miss Massachusetts |
Miss USA Miss Massachusetts USA |
| Miss America's Outstanding Teen Miss Massachusetts's Outstanding Teen |
Miss Teen USA Miss Massachusetts Teen USA |
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