State
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Name
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Hometown
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Age
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Talent
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Placement
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Awards
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Notes
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Alabama
|
Vickie Powers
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Mobile
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19
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Classical Vocal, "Habanera"
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Top 10
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Preliminary Talent Award
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Featured performer at Miss America 1966
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Alaska
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Karol Hommon
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Anchorage
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20
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Acrobatic & Modern Jazz Dance
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Non-finalist Talent Award
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Died in 1965 after falling from Sugarloaf Mountain
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Arizona
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Vonda Kay Van Dyke
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Phoenix
|
22
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Ventriloquism, "Together (Wherever We Go)"
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Winner
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Miss Congeniality
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Semi-finalist at America's Junior Miss 1961
Only Miss America to also be named Miss Congeniality
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Arkansas
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Karen Carlson
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Fayetteville
|
20
|
Vocal, "As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver!
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1st runner-up
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Ex-wife of David Soul
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California
|
Sherri Raap
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Fremont
|
18
|
Jazz Baton Dance & Acrobatics
|
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Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
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Colorado
|
Kathleen Knight
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Denver
|
19
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Semi-classical Vocal, "The Telephone"
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Connecticut
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Honora Bukowski
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Wallingford
|
18
|
Jazz Dance, "Bossa Nova"
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Delaware
|
Anita Gail Euban
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Wilmington
|
20
|
Popular Vocal & Dance
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Florida
|
Priscilla Schnarr
|
Hollywood
|
18
|
Vocal/Dance, "Whatever Lola Wants"
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Georgia
|
Vivian Davis
|
Augusta
|
19
|
Skit & Vocal
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Hawaii
|
Leina'ala Ann Teruya
|
Honolulu
|
18
|
Interpretive Monologue, "Footprints" from Leaves of a Grass House by Don Blanding
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Top 10
|
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Idaho
|
Judith Steubbe
|
Moscow
|
21
|
Piano, Fantaisie-Impromptu
|
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Non-finalist Talent Award
|
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Illinois
|
Patricia Quillen
|
North Aurora
|
21
|
Clarinet
|
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Finalist at the National Press Photographers' Pageant 1962
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Indiana
|
Sandra Miller
|
Bedford
|
20
|
Popular Vocal
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Iowa
|
Carol Johnson
|
Ames
|
21
|
Folk Vocal & Guitar
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Kansas
|
Sharon Margene Savage
|
Florence
|
20
|
Vocal, "Johnny One Note" & "Ritorna Vincitor" from Aida
|
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During her reign she was killed in an automobile accident near Peabody, Kansas
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Kentucky
|
Linda Sawyer
|
Louisville
|
21
|
Vocal & Speech, "Stephen Foster Medley"
|
Top 10
|
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Older sister of newscaster Diane Sawyer
|
Louisiana
|
Cherie Martin
|
Pineville
|
19
|
Toreador Dance & Baton Twirling
|
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Non-finalist Talent Award
|
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Maine
|
Ellen Warren
|
Kennebunk
|
18
|
Vocal/Dance
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Maryland
|
Donna Marie McCauley
|
Rockville
|
19
|
Interpretive Ballet
|
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Massachusetts
|
Kathleen Kenneally
|
Whitman
|
21
|
Dramatic Reading
|
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Michigan
|
Sarah Jane Noble
|
East Lansing
|
18
|
Free Exercise Routine
|
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Non-finalist Talent Award
|
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Minnesota
|
Barbara Hasselberg
|
Bloomington
|
21
|
Authentic Polynesian Dances, "Hawaiian War Chant"
|
4th runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
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Mississippi
|
Judy Simono
|
Vicksburg
|
20
|
Classical Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky
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Missouri
|
Carol Browning
|
Lee's Summit
|
20
|
Marimba & Accordion Medley
|
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Montana
|
Merilee Miller
|
Radersburg
|
20
|
Dance
|
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Nebraska
|
Sandra Lee Rice
|
Cozad
|
20
|
Dramatic Reading from After the Fall
|
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Nevada
|
Ellen Roseman
|
Sparks
|
21
|
Comedy Skit
|
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New Hampshire
|
Elizabeth Emerson
|
Somersworth
|
22
|
Comedy Reading
|
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New Jersey
|
Susan Krasnomowitz
|
Fair Lawn
|
19
|
Jazz Dance
|
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New Mexico
|
Jane Nelson
|
Tularosa
|
19
|
Original Vocal with Guitar & Tympani to the theme from Exodus
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
Later Miss Arizona USA 1965
1st runner-up at Miss USA 1965
Later Miss New Mexico World 1966
Top 7 at Miss USA World 1966
|
New York
|
Julie Just
|
Buffalo
|
20
|
Popular Vocal, "Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home"
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Non-finalist Talent Award
|
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North Carolina
|
Sharon Finch
|
Thomasville
|
20
|
Vocal & Dance with Castanets
|
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North Dakota
|
Karen Kopseng
|
Bismarck
|
19
|
Classical Vocal, "Un Bel Dì" from Madama Butterfly
|
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Preliminary Talent Award
|
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Ohio
|
Diane Courtwright
|
Columbus
|
19
|
Popular Vocal & Modern Jazz Dance
|
|
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Oklahoma
|
Jane Hitch
|
Guymon
|
18
|
Dance
|
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Oregon
|
Carol Pedersen
|
Newport
|
18
|
Dramatic Reading
|
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Pennsylvania
|
Marilyn Cutaiar March
|
Havertown
|
19
|
Toe Dance Ballet, "Dance of the Painted Doll"
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Rhode Island
|
Judy Anderson
|
Warwick
|
20
|
Vocal/Dance
|
|
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South Carolina
|
Sue Smith
|
Florence
|
20
|
Vocal Medley
|
|
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South Dakota
|
June Ann Delbridge
|
Sioux Falls
|
19
|
Piano
|
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Tennessee
|
Rita Munsey
|
New Tazewell
|
20
|
Vocal Medley & Accordion, "You Don't Know Me" & "Walkin' After Midnight"
|
|
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Texas
|
Sharon McCauley
|
Athens
|
20
|
Vocal, "Let Me Entertain You" from Gypsy: A Musical Fable
|
3rd runner-up
|
|
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Utah
|
Lois Anne Bailey
|
Salt Lake City
|
18
|
Piano, "Symphonie espagnole"
|
|
|
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Vermont
|
Jean Conner
|
Rutland
|
21
|
Popular Vocal
|
|
|
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Virginia
|
Carolyn Eddy
|
Norfolk
|
21
|
Dramatic Reading
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
Washington
|
Lauren Waddleton
|
Burien
|
19
|
Vocal. "I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady
|
Top 10
|
|
|
West Virginia
|
Ella Dee Kessel†
|
Ripley
|
21
|
Piano, "Three Preludes" by Gershwin
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
Later First Lady of WV
|
Wisconsin
|
Angela Baldi
|
Glendale
|
18
|
Piano, "On Wisconsin" in Three Variations
|
|
|
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Wyoming
|
Joan Selmer
|
Cheyenne
|
21
|
Acro-Baton Routine
|
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