Miss Arkansas
Type | Beauty pageant |
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Location | |
Membership | Miss America |
Key people | Kelly Bales (President) |
Website | Official website |
The Miss Arkansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss America pageant. Arkansas has won the Miss America title three times (1964, 1982, 2017).
Claudia Raffo of Jonesboro was crowned Miss Arkansas 2018 on June 16, 2018 at Robinson Center Auditorium in Little Rock, Arkansas. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2019 on September 9, 2018 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Gallery of past titleholders
Eudora Mosby, Miss Arkansas 2005 Amber Bennett, Miss Arkansas 2006 Sarah Slocum, Miss Arkansas 2009 Alyse Eady, Miss Arkansas 2010 Savvy Shields, Miss Arkansas 2016 and Miss America 2017
Results summary
The year in brackets indicates the year of the Miss America competition the award/placement was garnered.
Placements
- Miss Americas: Donna Axum (1964), Elizabeth Ward (1982), Savvy Shields (2017)
- 1st runners-up: Rebecca McCall (1946), Frances Anderson (1962), Karen Carlson (1965), Alyse Eady (2011)
- 2nd runners-up: Paula Montgomery (1996), Ashton Campbell (2015)
- 3rd runners-up: Mary Jennings (1951), Charlotte Simmen (1952), Lacy Fleming (2005)
- 4th runners-up: Lencola Sullivan (1981)
- Top 10: Dorris Love (1943), Sally Miller (1959), Donna Connelly (1971), Mary Stuart (1983), Julie Russell (1987), Nicole Bethmann (1994), Erin Wheatley (1999), Brandy Rhodes (2000), Jessie Ward (2001), Eudora Mosby (2006)
- Top 12: Ashlen Batson (2009)
- Top 15: Barbara Brothers (1949), Sarah Slocum (2010), Amy Crain (2014), Loren McDaniel (2016)
- Top 16: Katie Bailey (2008)
Awards
Preliminary awards
- Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness: Rebecca McCall (1946), Mary Jennings (1951), Charlotte Simmen (1952), Frances Anderson (1962), Donna Axum (1964), Sharon Evans (1968), Paula Roach (1976), Bunnie Holbert (1978), Lencola Sullivan (1981), Elizabeth Ward (1982), Lauren Davidson (2003)
- Preliminary Talent: Barbara Banks (1956), Savvy Shields (2017)
Non-finalist awards
- Non-finalist Talent: Marilyn Morgan (1972), Joyce McCormack (1977), Bunnie Holbert (1978), Regina Hopper (1984), Lisa Stevens (1985), Patti Thorn (1989), Beth Anne Rankin (1995)
- Non-finalist Interview: Whitney Kirk (2004)
Other awards
- Miss Congeniality: Sharon Evans (1968) (tie), Rhonda Pope (1975) (tie), Sloane Roberts (2013)
- America's Choice: Sarah Slocum (2010)
- Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship: Christi Taunton (1986)
- Quality of Life Award Winners: Claudia Raffo (2019)
- Quality of Life Award Finalists: Kristen Glover (2012)
Winners
Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
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2018 | Claudia Raffo[1] | Jonesboro | 22 | Miss Historic Batesville | Jazz Dance, "That's Life" | Quality of Life Award[2] | ||
2017 | Maggie Benton[3] | Jonesboro | 22 | Miss Greater Jonesboro | Vocal, "The Music of the Night" | |||
2016 | Savannah Skidmore[4] | Calico Rock | 21 | Miss University of Arkansas | 1st runner-up at Miss Arkansas 2016 pageant[5] Assumed the title after Shields was named Miss America 2017[4][6] | |||
Savvy Shields[5] | Fayetteville | 21 | Miss Heart of the Ozarks | Jazz Dance "They Just Keep Moving the Line" | Winner[7][8] | Preliminary Talent Award | Previously Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen 2009[9] | |
2015 | Loren McDaniel | Van Buren | 22 | Miss Northwest Arkansas | Vocal "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables" | Top 15 | ||
2014 | Ashton Campbell[10] | Hindsville | 20 | Miss Ouachita River | Vocal "Via Dolorosa" | 2nd runner-up[11] | Previously Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen 2011[12] | |
2013 | Amy Crain | Hot Springs | 23 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Contemporary Clogging "Game Time" | Top 15 | 4th runner-up at National Sweetheart 2010 | |
2012 | Sloane Roberts[13] | Rison | 19 | Miss Heart of the Ozarks | Acapella Tap Dance | Miss Congeniality | Previously Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen 2008[14] 2nd runner-up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008 pageant[15] | |
2011 | Kristen Glover | Stuttgart | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Tap Dance "Piano Sonata No. 11" | Quality of Life Award Finalist | ||
2010 | Alyse Eady[16] | Fort Smith | 22 | Miss South Central Arkansas | Ventriloquism / Vocal "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" | 1st runner-up[17] | Previously Miss Teen Arkansas 2004[18] | |
2009 | Sarah Slocum | Sheridan | 23 | Miss Ouachita River | Vocal "The Prayer" | Top 15 | America's Choice | |
2008 | Ashlen Batson | Newark | 21 | Miss Spirit of Arkansas | Flute Solo "Carmen Medley" | Top 12 | ||
2007 | Katie Bailey | Conway | 25 | Miss South Arkansas | Vocal "Feeling Good" | Top 16 | ||
2006 | Amber Bennett[19] | Carlisle | 23 | Miss Central Arkansas | Vocal "Come Rain or Come Shine" | |||
2005 | Eudora Mosby | Hazen | 23 | Miss Central Arkansas | Vocal "Dream In Color" | Top 10 | ||
2004 | Lacy Fleming | Hampton | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Vocal "Last Dance" | 3rd runner-up | ||
2003 | Whitney Kirk | Cabot | 22 | Miss Three Rivers | Vocal / Dance "All That Jazz" | Non-finalist Interview Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2000 | |
2002 | Lauren Davidson | El Dorado | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "It's Time" | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | ||
2001 | Jessie Ward | Prescott | 21 | Miss Texarkana | Tap Dance "Michael Jackson Medley" | Top 10 | Current Executive Director of the Miss Arkansas pageant under her married name, Jessie Bennett[20] | |
2000 | Sara Harris | Forrest City | 20 | Miss Delta | Vocal "Unchained Melody" | |||
1999 | Brandy Rhodes | Hot Springs | 22 | Miss Lake Dardanelle | Original Tap Dance "American Rhapsody" | Top 10 | ||
1998 | Erin Wheatley | Little Rock | 22 | Miss White River | Vocal / Tap Dance "I Got Rhythm" | Top 10 | ||
1997 | Stacy Freeman | Sheridan | 22 | Miss White River | Tap Dance "Sing, Sing, Sing" | Previously Miss Arkansas Teen USA 1992 | ||
1996 | Melonie McGarrah | Rogers | 22 | Miss White River | Vocal "I Will Always Love You" | |||
1995 | Paula Montgomery | Cabot | 22 | Miss Greater Little Rock | Vocal "Can't Help Loving That Man" | 2nd runner-up | Previously Miss Arkansas Teen USA 1991 Mother of Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen 2017, Aubrey Reed[21] | |
1994 | Beth Anne Rankin | Magnolia | 23 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
1993 | Nicole Bethmann | Rogers | 24 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Vocal "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" | Top 10 | ||
1992 | Shannon Boy | Alma | 21 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Flute Solo "Theme from Star Wars" | |||
1991 | Heather Hunnicutt | Fayetteville | 22 | Miss Northwest Arkansas | Vocal "Born To Be Blue" | |||
1990 | Karissa Rushing | Benton | 24 | Miss White River | Vocal "With a Song In My Heart" | |||
1989 | Marci Lewallen | Dardanelle | 22 | Miss Arkansas Valley | Vocal / Banjo "Boogie Woogie Banjo Blues" | |||
1988 | Patti Thorn | Hot Springs | 23 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
1987 | Carole Lawson | Paragould | 21 | Miss University of Arkansas | Flute / Pic "Carmen Medley" | Previously National Sweetheart 1986 | ||
1986 | Julie Russell | Fort Smith | 22 | Miss Lake Dardanelle | Classical Piano Medley with Vocal Narration | Top 10 | ||
1985 | Christi Taunton | Camden | 20 | Miss Camden | Popular Vocal "Remembering" | Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | ||
1984 | Lisa Stevens | Arkadelphia | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Flute Solo "Sabre Dance" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
1983 | Regina Hopper | Springdale | 24 | Miss Northwest Arkansas | Popular Vocal "You're Gonna Hear From Me" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Elected to the Miss America Board of Directors | |
1982 | Mary Stuart | Little Rock | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal / Broadway Jazz Dance "The Birth of the Blues" | Top 10 | Actress who played "Frannie Hughes" on As the World Turns from 1990–1993 | |
1981 | Micki Petrus | Hazen | Miss University of Central Arkansas | 2nd runner-up at Miss Arkansas 1981 Assumed the title after Ward became Miss America 1982 | ||||
Grace Elizabeth Ward | Russellville | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "After You've Gone" | Winner | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | Previously National Sweetheart 1980 | |
1980 | Lencola Sullivan | Morrilton | 22 | Miss White River | Blues Vocal "St. Louis Blues" | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | First African-American contestant to place as a runner-up at Miss America Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
1979 | Janet Holman | North Little Rock | 22 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal "Somewhere" | |||
1978 | Naylene Vuurens | Searcy | 20 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Piano Solo "Etude in G Minor" | |||
1977 | Bunnie Holbert | Stuttgart | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "Feelings" | Non-finalist Talent Award Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award |
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1976 | Joyce McCormack | Little Rock | 21 | Miss White River | Ballet en Pointe "Polonaise" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
1975 | Paula Roach | Jonesboro | 20 | Miss Jonesboro | Piano "Theme from Summer of '42" | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | ||
1974 | Rhonda Pope | Hot Springs | 21 | Miss Hot Springs | Vocal Medley "Friends" & "With a Little Help from My Friends" | Miss Congeniality (tie) | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
1973 | Becky Hume | Jonesboro | 23 | Miss Osceola | Free Floor Exercise & Balance Beam Routine | |||
1972 | Debbye Hazelwood | Magnolia | 20 | Miss Southern State College | Piano "Warsaw Concerto" | |||
1971 | Marilyn Morgan | Clarksville | 20 | Miss Clarksville | Popular Vocal "Something" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Featured singer at Miss America 1972 pageant | |
1970 | Donna Connelly | Hope | 19 | Miss State College of Arkansas | Vocal Medley "Who Will Buy" from Oliver!" & "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" | Top 10 | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
1969 | Marilyn Allen | North Little Rock | 20 | Miss North Little Rock | Acrobatic Ballet "Theme from Exodus" | |||
1968 | Helen Gennings | Batesville | 20 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Popular Vocal "What the World Needs Now" & "Love Makes the World Go Round" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
1967 | Sharon Evans | North Little Rock | 20 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Vocal / Dance "Mame" | Miss Congeniality (tie) Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award |
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1966 | Mary Craig | Batesville | 18 | Miss Batesville | Vocal / Dancing | |||
1965 | Nita VanHook | |||||||
Rhonda Oglesby | Pine Bluff | 19 | Miss University of Arkansas | Popular Vocal | Resigned after briefly holding the title for three months to pursue career[22][23] | |||
1964 | Karen Carlson | Fayetteville | 20 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal "As Long As He Needs Me" | 1st runner-up | Contestant at Maid of Cotton 1964 Ex-wife of David Soul | |
1963 | Pam Jackson | North Little Rock | Miss North Little Rock | Assumed the title after Axum became Miss America 1964 | ||||
Donna Axum | El Dorado | 21 | Miss El Dorado | Vocal Medley "Quando me'n vo'" & "I Love Paris" | Winner | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | Currently serving on the Miss America Board of Directors | |
1962 | Edye Addington | Texarkana | 19 | Miss Arkansas State Teachers' College | Vocal Medley "When I Fall In Love" & "This Can't Be Love" | |||
1961 | Frances Anderson | Pine Bluff | 19 | Miss Pine Bluff | Vocal "I Enjoy Being a Girl" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | Featured performer at Miss America 1963 pageant |
1960 | Claudette Smith | Star City | 18 | Miss Pine Bluff | Vocal | |||
1959 | Suzanne Jackson | North Little Rock | 19 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal Medley from "The King and I" | |||
1958 | Sally Miller | Pine Bluff | Miss Pine Bluff | Classical Vocal "Caro Nome" from Rigoletto | Top 10 | |||
1957 | Suzanne Scudder | Hot Springs | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal | ||||
1956 | Barbara Banks | Little Rock | Interpretive Ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" | Preliminary Talent Award | ||||
1955 | Charlene Bowers | Helena | Vocal "I Want To Be Evil" | |||||
1954 | Sarah Martin | Little Rock | Classical Vocal | |||||
1953 | Helen Reed | Fayetteville | Tap Dance | |||||
1952 | Bonnie Nicksic | Hot Springs | Vocal / Dance "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" from Show Boat | |||||
1951 | Charlotte Simmen | Little Rock | Vocal & Art Exhibition | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | |||
1950 | Mary Jennings | Hot Springs | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madame Butterfly | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | Was a featured soprano with the New York City Opera Judged the Miss America 1989 and 1991 pageants | ||
1949 | Barbara Brothers | Little Rock | Painting Display & Poetry Recitation "Old Black Joe" & "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" | Top 15 | ||||
1948 | Van Louis McDaniel | Forrest City | Monologue "Spartan Parents" | |||||
1947 | Pam Camp | Little Rock | Sketching | |||||
1946 | Rebecca McCall | Blytheville | Vocal "Put the Blame on Mame" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award | |||
1945 | Leslie Hampton | Lake Village | Vocal "My Man" | |||||
1944 | Mineola Graham | Brinkley | ||||||
1943 | Dorris Love | Jonesboro | Dramatic Reading "Letter to a Soldier" | Top 10 | ||||
1941 | Ferol Amelia Dumas | Magnolia | ||||||
1940 | Betty Benson | Forrest City | ||||||
1939 | Jean Thompson | Helena | ||||||
1938 | Lorene Bailey | Jonesboro | Piano "Dinah" | |||||
1933 | Vivian Ferguson | 20 | Disqualified for being married | |||||
1932 | Nina Ruth Hudson | Harrison | 14 |
References
- ↑ Wilson, Kristen (June 16, 2018). "Miss Historic Batesville Claudia Raffo crowned Miss Arkansas 2018". KATV News.
- ↑ "Claudia Raffo competes in Miss America". KAIT 8 News. September 9, 2018.
- ↑ "Miss Greater Jonesboro, Maggie Benton, crowned Miss Arkansas 2017". KTHV 11. June 17, 2017.
- 1 2 "New Miss Arkansas named after Shields wins Miss America". Arkansas Online. 12 September 2016.
- 1 2 "Savvy Shields of Fayetteville crowned Miss Arkansas 2016". Washington Times. 10 July 2016.
- ↑ "Calico Rock graduate reigning Miss Arkansas".
- ↑ "Savvy Shields from Arkansas Crowned Miss America 2017". Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ↑ "Miss America 2017 is: Miss Arkansas Savvy Shields". USATODAY. September 11, 2016.
- ↑ "Shields crowned Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen". Log Cabin Democrat. 29 June 2009.
- ↑ "Ashton Campbell of Hindsville Miss Arkansas for 2014". Magnolia Reporter. June 22, 2014.
- ↑ "A threepeat: Miss New York Kira Kazantsev crowned Miss America". CNN. September 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Miss Arkansas – Ashton Campbell". September 14, 2014.
Ashton served as Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen 2011...
- ↑ Buffalo, Rose Mary (July 16, 2012). "Sloane Roberts wins the title of Miss Arkansas 2012".
- ↑ Franco, Cheree (July 18, 2012). "Musing over Miss Arkansas". Arkansas Times.
- ↑ "Next in Line for Greatness". Pageantry Magazine. August 20, 2008.
- ↑ "Alyse Eady selected as new Miss Arkansas". Magnolia Reporter. July 17, 2010.
- ↑ "She's just 17! Nebraskan wins Miss America pageant". TODAY.
- ↑ Henderson, Trennis. "2010 Ouachita grad Alyse Eady named 1st runner-up to Miss America". Ouachita Baptist University News.
- ↑ Buffalo, Rose Mary (July 1, 2006). "Carlisle's Amber Bennett named Miss Arkansas".
- ↑ "Contact". Retrieved May 2, 2011.
- ↑ Rolf, Carol (June 22, 2017). "Russellville teen wins state pageant". Arkansas Online.
- ↑ Ware, Hames (July 13, 2009). "Rhonda Lee Oglesby Coullet (1945–)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
- ↑ "RTheater : Playhouse offers "Runaway" hit". The Martha's Vineyard Times.
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