Miss Connecticut USA

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The Miss Connecticut USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss USA pageant. This pageant is directed by Crown Productions, who took over the pageant in 2003.

Despite a number of semi-finals placements in the 1960s, Connecticut is overall one of the least successful states at Miss USA. From 1969 until 2002, not one Miss Connecticut USA had placed at the national competition. This spell was broken by Alita Dawson, who placed 4th runner-up. Dawson was one of three former Miss Connecticut Teen USAs to win the Miss crown (although a former Miss Wisconsin Teen USA also won this competition).

[edit] Results summary

First runners-up: Diana Zabicki (1962), Pat Denne (1966)
Fourth runner-up: Alita Dawson (2002)
Top 15: Andrea Todd (1954), Joyce Trautwig (1960), Florence Mayette (1961), Janice Shilinsky (1968), Elizabeth Wanderman (1969)

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss USA	Notes
2008	Jacqueline Honulik	Fairfield	21
2007	Melanie Mudry	New Hartford	26
2006	Jeannine Phillips	Lisbon	22
2005	Melissa Mandak	Hamden	26
2004	Sheila Wiatr	Rocky Hill	24
2003	Michelle LaFrance	Orange	24
2002	Alita Dawson	Hamden	22	4th Runner-Up	Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1997, Miss Teen All American 1998
2001	Amy Vanderoef	Bristol	26
2000	Sallie Toussaint	Hartford	25		Miss World USA 1997, semifinalist at Miss World 1997
1999	Christina Damico
1998	Kristina Hughes	Pawcatuck
1997	Christine Pavone	Shelton	23
1996	Wanda Gonzalez		24
1995	Traci Bryant	New Haven
1994	Mistrella Egan	Danbury
1993	Alison Benusis	Ridgefield			Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1991
1992	Catherine Sanchez
1991	Valorie Abate				Miss Connecticut 1992, 1st runner up at Miss Oktoberfest 1991
1990	Allison Barbeau-Diorio				Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1987
1989	Lisa Vendetti	South Windsor
1988	Cathy Galasso	Hamden
1987	Jolene Foy	Clinton
1986	Jennifer Benusis	Ridgefield
1985	Adrianne Hazelwood	Hamden			Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 1984, top 10 in Miss Teen USA 1984, and first Miss Teen USA state titleholder to win a Miss USA state title.
1984	Lynne Scalo	Bridgeport
1983	Mary Seleman	Swansea
1982	Maureen Szekeres
1981	Kelly Thompson
1980	Kristine Wilson
1979	Mary Beth Lombardi
1978	Martha Szabo
1977	Sue Crone
1976	Rozalyn Ralph
1975	Michele Menegay
1974	Valerie Cappello
1973	Wendy Vecchiarino
1972	Diane Stevens
1971	Diane Turetsky
1970	Patricia Matthews
1969	Elizabeth Wanderman			Semifinalist	semifinalist in Miss World USA 1971 as Miss New Jersey
1968	Janice Shilinsky			Semifinalist
1967	No Pageant Held
1966	Pat Denne			1st Runner-Up
1965	Elizabeth Matusko
1964	Patricia Powell
1963	Gail Dinan				semifinalist in Miss American Beauty 1965, title of usa rep to Miss International pageant
1962	Diana Zabicki			1st Runner-Up
1961	Florence Mayette			Semifinalist	represented Vermont in Miss World USA 1961, did not place
1960	Joyce Trautwig			Semifinalist
1959	Jayne Burghardt
1958	Dorothy Dillen
1957	Rosemary Galliotti
1956	Dorothy Bailey
1955	Jane Bartolotta
1954	Andrea Todd			Semifinalist
1953	Beverlee Burlant
1952	Jo Kuhlmann