Miss Massachusetts
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- For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Massachusetts USA
The Miss Massachusetts competition is a scholarship pageant put on annually by the Miss Massachusetts Scholarship Foundation, Inc. The winner of the pageant receives the title of Miss Massachusetts and represents the state of Massachusetts at the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Women between the ages of 17 and 24 who meet residency, scholastic and character requirements are eligible to compete in local pageants, the winners of which continue on to the Miss Massachusetts pageant in Fall River each June.
Contestants at the Miss Massachusetts competition are judged in five areas: Personal Interview, Poise and Grace in Evening Gown, Lifestyle and Fitness in Swimsuit, Artistic Expression, and On Stage Question. Scholarships are awarded for Miss Massachusetts, first through fourth runner-ups, preliminary talent winners, preliminary swimsuit winners, non-finalist talent winner, MAO Academic Award, MAO Service Award, and MAO Children’s Miracle Network Award.
The current Miss Massachusetts is Valerie Amaral.
[edit] Winners
Year | Name | Hometown | Local Title | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
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2007 | Valerie J Amaral | Acushnet | Miss North Shore | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award, QoL finalist, Miss Miracle Maker Scholarship Award | Miss America Community Service Award 2005, 2006, & 2007; Previously Massachusetts Outstanding Teen 2001 | |
2006 | Michaela Gagne | Fall River | Miss Southcoast | |||
2005 | Kristin Gauvin | Worcester | Miss Apponagansett Bay | Cheerleader, New England Patriots, Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2004 | ||
2004 | Erika Ebbel | Cambridge | Miss Apponagansett Bay | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | 2nd runner up at National Sweetheart 2003 | |
2003 | Melissa Silva | Fall River | Miss Southern Massachusetts | |||
2002 | Melanie Correia | Acushnet | Miss Taunton | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 2003 | 2nd runner up at National Sweetheart 2001 | |
2001 | Abbie Rabine | Wenham | Miss Southern Massachusetts/Freetown | First runner-up at Miss America 2002 | 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 | First known Euro-African contestant at Miss America (Cape Verdean descent) | |||
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 |
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Miss America Miss Massachusetts |
Miss USA Miss Massachusetts USA |
Miss Teen USA Miss Massachusetts Teen USA |
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