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Miss Wyoming is a state-level pageant which sends winners to compete for the title of Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

. The competition, which awards scholarships, is open to women aged 17 through 24.

Winners

Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes
2011 Catherine Brown Richardson, Texas
Richardson, Texas
Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2011 the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high...

24 Miss Albany County Pop Vocal & Sign Language Interpretation Eligible to compete as a student at the University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming
The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW to people close to the university...

2010 Alicia Grove Rock Springs
Rock Springs, Wyoming
Rock Springs is a city in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 18,708 at the 2000 census. Rock Springs is the principal city of the Rock Springs micropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 37,975....

23 Miss Sweetwater County Jazz Dance "Ain't No Sunshine
Ain't No Sunshine
"Ain't No Sunshine" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album Just as I Am, produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass guitar and Al Jackson, Jr. on drums, as well as Withers on lead vocals and guitar. The song was released as a single in September...

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2009 Anna Nelson Rock Springs 19 Miss Rock Springs Jazz Dance "Summer in the City
Summer in the City
"Summer in the City" is the title of a song recorded by The Lovin' Spoonful, written by Mark Sebastian and Steve Boone. It came from their album Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful and it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1966...

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2008 Courtney Gifford Sheridan
Sheridan, Wyoming
Sheridan is a city in Sheridan County, Wyoming, United States. The 2010 census put the population at 17,444 and a Micropolitan Statistical Area of 29,116...

19 Miss Sheridan College Vocal Comedy Previously Miss Wyoming's Outstanding Teen 2005; first Miss America's Outstanding Teen
Miss America's Outstanding Teen
Miss America's Outstanding Teen is an American scholarship pageant. It is a sister company to the Miss America Organization, and it aims to "promote scholastic achievement, creative accomplishment, healthy living and community involvement for America's teens." The first competition was held in...

 contestant to win a Miss America state title
2007 Jennifer McCafferty Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 15,039 at the 2010 census. Scottsbluff is the largest city in the Nebraska Panhandle, and the 13th largest city in Nebraska....

24 Miss Albany County Vocal "Gimme, Gimme" from Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Scanlan. Based on the 1967 film of the same name, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York City to marry for...

eligible to compete as a student at the University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming
The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW to people close to the university...

2006 Jenileigh Sawatzke Orange County, California
Orange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...

24 Miss Cheyenne Aerial Silk Routine "Defying Gravity
Defying Gravity (song)
"Defying Gravity" is the signature song from the musical Wicked, composed by Stephen Schwartz, originally recorded by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth on November 10, 2003, and released on December 16, 2003...

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eligible to compete as a student at Laramie County Community College
Laramie County Community College
Laramie County Community College is a full-service community college in Laramie County, Wyoming, with campuses in Cheyenne and Laramie and outreach centers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base and in Pine Bluffs. LCCC was established in 1968....

2005 Heather Nicole Jackelen Jackson
Jackson, Wyoming
Jackson is a town located in the Jackson Hole valley of Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 8,647 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Teton County....

24 Miss Jackson Acrobatic Dance Later Miss Galaxy 2007
Previously Miss Wyoming USA
Miss Wyoming USA
, Miss Wyoming USA 2012]]The Miss Wyoming USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Wyoming in the Miss USA pageant. The Miss Wyoming USA pageant is currently produced by Future Productions....

 2001
2004 Megan Reichert Dayton
Dayton, Wyoming
Dayton is a town in Sheridan County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 678 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Dayton is located at the confluence of the Tongue River and The Little Tongue River. It is on US Highway 14, just east of the Big Horn Mountains.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000,...

19 Miss Dayton Semi-Classical Vocal "Poor Wand'ring One" from The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...

2003 Tamara Kocher Gillette
Gillette, Wyoming
Gillette is a city in and the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 29,087 in 2010. Gillette is a city centrally located in an area involved with the development of vast quantities of American coal, oil, and coal bed methane gas...

22 Miss Gillette Dance
2002 Beth Holland Gillette 23 Vocal "Orange Colored Sky
Orange Colored Sky
"Orange Colored Sky" is a popular song, written by Milton DeLugg and Willie Stein and published in 1950.The best-known version of the song was recorded by Nat King Cole , but a number of other singers have recorded it, including Cole's daughter, Natalie.The recording by Nat King Cole was recorded...

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Assumed the title
Katie Rothenbuehler Gillette 22 Relinquished the title less than 24 hours into her reign in order to accept a full-time position as a junior high school choir teacher
2001 Erin Empey Casper
Casper, Wyoming
Casper is the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.. Casper is the second-largest city in Wyoming , according to the 2010 census, with a population of 55,316...

20 Ballet "Cristofori's Dream" by David Lanz
David Lanz
David Lanz is a Grammy-nominated New Age pianist. His most popular album, Cristofori's Dream, topped the New Age charts in 1988, which was No. 1 on Billboard's first adult alternative/New Age chart for 27 weeks and eventually sold platinum. Natural States peaked at No...

2000 Kimberly Wilkerson
Kimberly Wilkerson
Kimberly Wilkerson is a beauty pageant contestant from Gillette, Wyoming, USA who has competed in the Miss America contest.Wilkerson first competed in the Miss Wyoming 1999 pageant where she placed first runner-up. The following year she won the Miss Wyoming 2000 title and went on to represent...

Gillette 24 Vocal "Everybody Says Don't" from Anyone Can Whistle
Anyone Can Whistle
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The story concerns a corrupt mayoress, an idealistic nurse, a man who may be a doctor, and various officials, patients and townspeople, all fighting to save a bankrupt town...

Contestant at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 1999
1999 Elaine Dabney Lander
Lander, Wyoming
Lander is a city in, and the county seat of, Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. Named for transcontinental explorer Frederick W. Lander, Lander is located in central Wyoming, along the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River. A tourism center with several dude ranches nearby, Lander is located just...

20 Ballet "Somewhere Out There
Somewhere Out There (James Horner song)
"Somewhere Out There" is a song written by James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Its single was released by American recording artists, pop rock icon Linda Ronstadt and R&B musician James Ingram...

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1998 Mindy Jo Baughman Rock Springs 20 Tap Dance "Tap Your Troubles Away" from Mack & Mabel
Mack & Mabel
Mack & Mabel is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The plot involves the tumultuous romantic relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand , who became one of his biggest stars...

1997 Jeffie Ventling Laramie
Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie is a city in and the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 30,816 at the . Located on the Laramie River in southeastern Wyoming, the city is west of Cheyenne, at the junction of Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 287....

24 Vocal "The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...

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1996 Rebecca Darrington Gillette 19 Vocal Comedy "100 Easy Ways to Lose a Man" from Wonderful Town
Wonderful Town
Wonderful Town is a musical with a book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein...

Waterford Crystal Scholarship for Business Management and Marketing
1995 Dawn Marie Frantz Casper Assumed the title of Miss Wyoming in late 1995 after Dana Lane relinquished the title.
Dana Lane Cheyenne
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Laramie County. The population is 59,466 at the 2010 census. Cheyenne is the...

20 Classical Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu
Fantaisie-Impromptu
Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 66, is a solo piano composition and one of his best-known pieces. It was composed in 1834 and dedicated to Julian Fontana, who published the piece in spite of Chopin's request not to do so....

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Relinquished the title of Miss Wyoming after competing at Miss America
1994 Trisha Ramirez Cheyenne 23 Piano Solo
1993 Deborah Maston Wheatland
Wheatland, Wyoming
Wheatland is a town in and the county seat of Platte County in southeastern Wyoming, United States. The population was 3,548 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Wheatland is located at ....

21 Miss Northeast Flute Solo
1992 Stacy Cenedese Cheyenne 21 Miss Laramie County Dance & Baton Twirling "Hooked on Instrumentals Part 3" Future Miss Wyoming USA
Miss Wyoming USA
, Miss Wyoming USA 2012]]The Miss Wyoming USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Wyoming in the Miss USA pageant. The Miss Wyoming USA pageant is currently produced by Future Productions....

 1997
1991 Laurie Briggs Cheyenne 23 Miss Albany County Jazz Tap Dance
1990 Carolie Howe Chugwater
Chugwater, Wyoming
Chugwater is a town in Platte County, Wyoming, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 244.-History:In a 2005 promotion to attract new people to the town, building lots were offered for $100 provided the new owner built a house within a year and lived in it for at least...

22 Miss Cheyenne Vocal "My Heart Belongs to Me
My Heart Belongs to Me
"My Heart Belongs to Me" is a popular song from 1977 . It was originally performed by the songwriter, Alan Gordon, but the more famous version of the song was recorded by American singer and actress Barbra Streisand....

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1989 Alisa Mavrotheris Cheyenne 25 Acrobatic Jazz Dance
1988 Wendi Willis Laramie 19 Miss Albany County Dance & Baton Twirling
1987 Terrilynn Hove Casper 21 Miss Laramie Vocal Medley
1986 Lacey Reeves Laramie 22 Miss Albany County Vocal "You're Gonna Hear From Me" from Inside Daisy Clover
Inside Daisy Clover
Inside Daisy Clover is a 1965 American drama film based on the 1963 novel by Gavin Lambert. It stars Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall and Ruth Gordon in her Academy Award nominated role.- Plot :...

1985 Tamara Dereemer Horse Creek
Horse Creek, Wyoming
Horse Creek is an unincorporated community in western Laramie County, Wyoming, United States. It lies along WYO 211 northwest of the city of Cheyenne, the county seat of Laramie County. Its elevation is 6,506 feet...

22 Miss Cheyenne Popular Vocal "God Bless the USA
God Bless the USA
"God Bless the USA" is an American patriotic song written and recorded by country musician Lee Greenwood. The first Greenwood album it appears on is 1984's You've Got a Good Love Comin'. It reached No...

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1984 Annie Easterbrook Laramie 21 Miss Albany County Gymnastics Jazz Dance
1983 Heather Wallace Cheyenne 21 Miss Cheyenne Vocal "New York, New York
Theme from New York, New York
"Theme from New York, New York" is the theme song from the Martin Scorsese film New York, New York , composed by John Kander, with lyrics by Fred Ebb. It was written for and performed in the film by Liza Minnelli...

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1982 Janie Hertzler Cheyenne 23 Miss Laramie Vocal "Everything"
1981 Keri Borgaard Cheyenne 23 Miss Cheyenne Vocal Medley "At the Crossroads" & "Hey, Look Me Over"
1980 Susan Pennington Casper 20 Miss Casper College Vocal "The Man I Love
The Man I Love (song)
"The Man I Love" is a popular standard, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. Originally part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin government satire Lady, Be Good as "The Girl I Love", the song was deleted from the show as well as from both the 1927 anti-war satire Strike Up...

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1979 Karla Singer Cheyenne 19 Miss Laramie County Vocal "Mister Melody" Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1978 Kim Pring Cheyenne 22 Miss Cheyenne Baton Twirling "There's No Business Like Show Business
There's No Business Like Show Business
"There's No Business Like Show Business" is an Irving Berlin song, written for the musical Annie Get Your Gun and orchestrated by Ted Royal. The song, a slightly tongue-in-cheek salute to the glamor and excitement of a life in show business, is sung in the musical by members of Buffalo Bill's Wild...

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Non Finalist Talent award Previously Miss Wyoming USA 1975; brought a libel lawsuit against Penthouse Magazine, book Trial by Fire
Trial by Fire (Gerry Spence)
Trial by Fire is a book written by attorney Gerry Spence, which recounts the events surrounding the libel lawsuit brought by former Miss Wyoming Kim Pring against Penthouse Magazine in 1980. Pring had been sexually ridiculed in Hustler magazine after becoming Miss Wyoming, and Spence argued that...

 recounts the case
1977 Jeanne Uphoff Cheyenne 21 Miss Laramie County Jazz Dance "Chump Change
You've Got It Bad, Girl
You've Got It Bad Girl is a 1973 album by Quincy Jones.The title track is a song written by Stevie Wonder and originally released on his 1972 triple grammy winning album Talking Book....

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1976 Carol June Wallace Jackson 24 Miss Yellowstone Piano Medley "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song)
"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" is a popular song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song was publicized first in the movie, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing , winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song...

" "Love Story
(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story
" Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman. The song was first introduced as an instrumental theme in the 1970 film Love Story. The lyrics were added after the theme music became popular.-Covers:The song has been covered many times...

" "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is B. J. Thomas's #1 song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. It was recorded in seven takes, after...

" & "Strangers in the Night
Strangers in the Night
"Strangers in the Night" is a popular song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. It was originally created under the title Beddy Bye as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed...

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Non Finalist Talent Award Was Miss Kentucky USA
Miss Kentucky USA
The Miss Kentucky USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky in the Miss USA pageant. The current director for the Miss Kentucky USA and Miss Kentucky Teen USA titles is Connie Clark Harrison. Mrs...

 1975, semi-finalist at Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

 pageant, Mother of Miss Kentucky
Miss Kentucky
The Miss Kentucky competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky in the Miss America pageant. Kentucky has once won the Miss America crown.- Winners :...

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1975 Trish Long Laramie 21 Miss University of Wyoming Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...

Non Finalist Talent Award
1974 Cheryl Johnson Cheyenne 20 Miss Laramie County Community College Modern Jazz Dance "Scorpio" Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship recipient Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, became Miss Wyoming after original winner, Vicki Tomisek resigned.
1973 Pamela Hill Casper 20 Miss Casper College Vocal "I Can Love"
1972 Annette Klipstein Cheyenne 22 Miss Cheyenne Classical Vocal "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.- Literary sources :...

Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, Former Wyoming's Junior Miss 1968
1971 Marsha Crandall Rock Springs 20 Miss Rock Springs Vocal Medley "What the World Needs Now Is Love
What the World Needs Now Is Love
"What the World Needs Now Is Love" is a 1965 popular song with lyrics by Hal David and music composed by Burt Bacharach. First recorded and made popular by Jackie DeShannon, it was released on April 15, 1965, on the Imperial label after a release on sister label Liberty records the previous month...

" & "The Look of Love
The Look of Love (1967 song)
"The Look of Love" is a popular song composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and sung by Dusty Springfield, which appeared in the 1967 spoof James Bond film Casino Royale.-Songwriters:...

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1970 Jane Hutchings Cheyenne 19 Miss University of Wyoming Piano "1st Arabesque
Arabesques (Debussy)
The Two Arabesques , L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed by Claude Debussy. They are two of Debussy's earliest works, composed between the years 1888 and 1891, when he was still in his twenties....

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1969 Sandra Grim Casper 20 Miss Casper Vocal Medley "People" "I Gotta Be Me
I Gotta Be Me
I Gotta Be Me is a Dancehall album that was the first and only album by the late hip-hop producer Johnny "J" on Shade Tree Records, with distribution by Solar Records by way of their recently formed independent label distribution unit, The J...

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1968 Carol Rose Burns
Burns, Wyoming
Burns is a town in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States. It is part of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 285 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Burns is located at , about 25 miles east of Cheyenne....

20 Miss Cheyenne Clarinet Medley "Mozart's Concerto
Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)
Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler.It consists of the usual three movements, in a fast–slow–fast form:# Allegro# Adagio# Rondo: Allegro...

" "Strangers on the Shore" & "Ji-da"
Non-finalist Talent Award
1967 Patricia Martinez Torrington
Torrington, Wyoming
Torrington is a city in and the county seat of Goshen County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 5,776 at the 2000 census. Torrington is the home of Eastern Wyoming College....

18 Miss Torrington Classical Vocal "Les Filles de Cadix" Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1966 Susan Livreri Douglas
Douglas, Wyoming
Douglas is a city in Converse County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 5,288 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Converse County...

20 Miss Douglas Comedy Sketch
1965 Trudy Bower Freedom 19 Miss University of Wyoming Vocal "From This Moment On
From This Moment On (Cole Porter song)
"From This Moment On" is a 1951 popular song written by Cole Porter, for his musical Out of This World, where it was dropped, but included in MGM's Kiss Me Kate of 1953...

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1964 Joan Selmer Cheyenne 21 Miss Cheyenne Acro-Baton Routine
1963 Cody Neville Byron
Byron, Wyoming
Byron is a town in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 557 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.9 square miles , of which, 0.8 square miles of it is land and 0.1 square miles of it is...

Miss Lovell Classical Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu"
1962 Gretchen Stainbrook Jackson Hole 19 Miss Jackson Musical Skit
1961 Mary Orr Sheridan 19 Miss Sheridan Dramatic Reading "The Bride"
1960 Sharon Luond Cheyenne 18 Dramatic Monologue from "Wingless Victory" by Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson
James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.-Early years:Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second of eight children to William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson, both of Scots and Irish descent...

1959 Linda Phillips Laramie 19 Vocal & Dance
1953 Elaine Holkenbrink Torrington Fashion Display Semi-finalist Preliminary Swimsuit
1952 Ruth Francis Casper Drama
1951 Patricia Seabeck Casper Monologue
1950 Lenore Hoffman Cheyenne
1949 Esther McLeod Sheridan
1948 Carol Held Douglas Piano "Hungarian Opus 9" by Edward MacDowell
Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...

1st runner up
1947 Dorothy McKay Cheyenne Painting Exhibition Semi-finalist
1941 Patricia Snyder Cheyenne Vocal & Dance
1937 Mary McLaughlin Riverton
Riverton, Wyoming
Riverton is a city in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. It is both the largest city in the county and the largest within the historical boundaries of the Wind River Indian Reservation. The city's population was 9,310 at the 2000 census...

1934/1935 Maysie MacKay
1932/1933 Bonnie Mae Davis

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