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Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
in the 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...
pageant. Utah has twice won the Miss America crown.
Winners
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| 2011 | Danica Olsen | Tooele Tooele, Utah Tooele is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 22,502 at the 2000 census, and 30,708 as of the 2009 estimates. It is the county seat of Tooele County... |
21 | Miss Utah Valley University | Dance | |||
| 2010 | Christina Lowe | Midway Midway, Utah Midway is a city in Wasatch County, Utah, United States. It is located in the Heber Valley, approximately three miles west of Heber City and 28 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, on the opposite side of the Wasatch Mountains... |
21 | Miss Utah County | Vocal "Footprints in the Sand Footprints in the Sand (song) "Footprints in the Sand" is a song recorded by British singer Leona Lewis for her debut studio album Spirit . It was written by Simon Cowell, David Kreuger, Per Magnusson, Richard Page, and produced by Steve Mac. It was released on 9 March 2008 in the United Kingdom as Lewis's third... " |
Top 15 | ||
| 2009 | Whitney Merrifield | Lindon Lindon, Utah Lindon is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 10,070 at the 2010 census.The western sculptor Grant Speed resides in Lindon.-Geography:... |
18 | Miss Utah County | Classical Piano "Moments Musicale Six Moments Musicaux (Rachmaninoff) Six moments musicaux , Op. 16, is a set of solo piano pieces composed by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff between October and December, 1896. Moments musicaux comprises a group of six separate works which reproduce musical forms characteristic of previous musical eras... " |
Top 10 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.... 2008 |
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| 2008 | Kayla Barclay Kayla Barclay Kayla Barclay was Miss Utah 2008, and Utah's delegate to the Miss America 2009 pageant. A native of Manti, Utah, she was an entrant in the Utah competition as Miss Sanpete County. She wore gowns with sleeves and a one-piece bathing suit in the Miss Utah competition. She played the piano for her... |
Manti Manti, Utah -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 3,040 people, 930 households, and 742 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,560.2 people per square mile . There were 1,010 housing units at an average density of 518.3 per square mile... |
18 | Miss Sanpete County | Piano | Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2007 | Jill Stevens Jill Stevens Jill Stevens is Miss Utah 2007.She was chosen as Miss Southern Utah University and Miss Davis County. She is a combat medic in the Utah Army National Guard and served as a medic in Afghanistan in 2004 – 2005.... |
Kaysville Kaysville, Utah Kaysville is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 20,351 at the 2000 census, and 25,820 as of the 2008 estimates.-History:... |
24 | Miss Davis County | Top 16 at Miss America 2008 Miss America 2008 Miss America 2008, the 87th Miss America pageant, was held at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on January 26, 2008.The pageant was broadcast live on TLC from the Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, only the third time that the pageant has been... |
Vocal "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress Once Upon a Mattress Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway... |
Miss Congeniality 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.... 2006; Voted into the Top 16 as "America's Choice" by viewers of the TLC Network's Miss America Reality Check series |
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| 2006 | Katie Millar Katie Millar Katie Millar was Miss Utah in 2006 and a top ten finished in the 2007 Miss America Contest.A Latter-day Saint and a student at Brigham Young University , Millar stuck out by wearing a one-piece swim suit and having sleeves on her dress at the competition... |
Highland Highland, Utah Highland is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is approximately thirty miles from Salt Lake City and is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the 2010 census the population was 15,523, a 90.0% increase over the 2000 figure of 8,172... |
20 | Miss Timpanogos | Electric Violin "Souvenir D'Amerique, Variations on Yankee Doodle" | Top 10 at Miss America 2007 Miss America 2007 Miss America 2007, the 86th Miss America, pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on January 29, 2007, which was a Monday, making it the first time that the pageant was held on a weekday, rather than the traditional Saturday.... |
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| 2005 | Julia Bachison | North Ogden North Ogden, Utah North Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 15,027 at the 2000 census. North Ogden is on SR-235, three miles north of Ogden. It is a suburb of that city and is part of the Ogden –Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:North Ogden was... |
22 | Miss Utah State Fair | Vocal "I've Got the World on a String I've Got the World on a String "I've Got The World on a String" is a 1932 popular song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was written for the 1932 Cotton Club Parade.... " |
Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Later Miss Utah USA Miss Utah USA The Miss Utah USA competition is the pageant who selects the representative for the state of Utah in the Miss USA pageant.Utah has been quite successful at Miss USA, with 20 placements as of 2009. Their most consistent period was in the 1950s and 1960s. Utah has produced one Miss USA in 1960... 2008, top 15 at Miss USA 2008 |
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| 2004 | Amy Davis | Bountiful Bountiful, Utah Bountiful is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 42,552, a three percent increase over the 2000 figure of 41,301... |
23 | Miss Salt Lake Valley | Classical Piano "Étude Op. 10, No. 12" | Top 15 Miss Photogenic at Miss America 2005 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | 1st Runner-up in Miss Utah USA 2007 |
| 2003 | Stacy Johnson | Provo Provo, Utah Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south... |
21 | Miss Provo | Latin Jazz Dance "Man of La Mancha Man of La Mancha Man of La Mancha is a musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote... " |
Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2002 | Natalie Camille Johnson | Bountiful | 22 | Miss Northern Utah | Classical Piano "Prelude in G minor Prelude in G minor (Rachmaninoff) Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5, was a music piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1901. It was included in his Opus 23 set of ten preludes despite having been written two years earlier than the other nine. It epitomizes Rachmaninoff's Russian nationalism, being rich, in full chords, and... " |
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| 2001 | Jaclyn Hunt | Lehi Lehi, Utah -Attractions:Lehi Roller MillsLehi Roller Mills was founded in 1906 by a co-op of farmers. George G. Robinson purchased the mill in 1910, and since then it has remained in the family. It is run today by grandson R. Sherman Robinson.... |
20 | Miss Utah County | Classical Piano "2nd Concerto by Rachmaninoff" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Quality of Life Award Winner | |
| 2000 | Jami Leilani Palmer | Tremonton Tremonton, Utah Tremonton is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 7,647 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Tremonton is located at .... |
20 | Miss Northern Counties | Classical Piano "Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor See here for the Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg.Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor by Edvard Grieg performed by Electric Light Orchestra on the box set Flashback.... " |
Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1999 | Vanessa Ballam | Logan Logan, Utah -Layout of the City:Logan's city grid originates from its Main and Center Street block, with Main Street running north and south, and Center east and west. Each block north, east, south, or west of the origin accumulates in additions of 100 , though some streets have non-numeric names... |
20 | Miss Cache Valley/Logan | Vocal "When I Look At You" from The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical) The Scarlet Pimpernel is a musical with music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics and book by Nan Knighton, based on the novel of the same name by Baroness Orczy. The show is set in England and France during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution... |
Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1998 | Michele Mobley | Sandy City | 21 | Miss Sandy City | Classical Vocal "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide Candide (operetta) Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the novella of the same name by Voltaire. The operetta was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman; but since 1974 it has been generally performed with a book by Hugh Wheeler which is more faithful to... |
Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1997 | Mary McDonough | Layton Layton, Utah -External links:*... |
19 | Miss Davis County | Piano "Des Danzas Creoles" by Alberto Ginastera Alberto Ginastera Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :... |
Non-finalist Talent Award, 2nd runner-up Quality of Life Award | ||
| 1996 | Nanette Pearson | Pleasant Grove Pleasant Grove, Utah Pleasant Grove, also known as "Utah's City of Trees", is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 33,798 at the 2008 census estimates.-History:... |
23 | Miss Salt Lake Valley | Classical Ballet "La Boutique Fantasque La Boutique fantasque La Boutique fantasque or The Magic Toy Shop was a ballet conceived by Léonide Massine who wrote the choreography and the libretto. Ottorino Respighi wrote the music based on piano pieces by Gioachino Rossini. Its world premiere was at the Alhambra Theatre in London on 5 June 1919 and was performed... " |
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| 1995 | Amanda Moody | Orem Orem, Utah Orem is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, in the north-central part of the state. It is adjacent to Provo, Lindon, and Vineyard and is about south of Salt Lake City. Orem is one of the principal cities of the Provo-Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Utah and... |
19 | Miss Orem | Classical Piano "Ballade No. 4 Ballades (Chopin) Frédéric Chopin's four ballades are one-movement pieces for solo piano, composed between 1835 and 1842. They are some of the most challenging pieces in the standard piano repertoire.... " |
Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award, Bernie Wayne Talent Award | ||
| 1994 | Brooke Anderson | West Valley City West Valley City, Utah West Valley City is a city in Salt Lake County and a suburb of Salt Lake City in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 129,480 at the 2010 census,... |
21 | Miss West Valley City | Ballet | |||
| 1993 | Marquessa Glee Bullock | Providence Providence, Utah Providence is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 7,075 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Providence is located at .... |
20 | Miss Utah State University | Classical Piano "1st Movement from Concerto No. 1" by Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music... |
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| 1992 | Jennifer Ward | Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197... |
20 | Miss Salt Lake Valley | Classical Violin "Scherzo Tarantella" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1991 | Elizabeth Anne Johnson | Orem | 21 | Miss Utah State Fair | Classical Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody Hungarian Rhapsodies Hungarian Rhapsody redirects here. For the 1979 Hungarian film Hungarian Rhapsody . For the 1928 German film Ungarische Rhapsodie.The Hungarian Rhapsodies, S.244, R106, is a set of 19 piano pieces based on Hungarian folk themes, composed by Franz Liszt during 1846-1853, and later in 1882 and 1885... " |
Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1990 | Jennifer Nakken | Cedar City Cedar City, Utah As of the census of 2000, there were 20,527 people, 6,486 households, and 4,682 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,021.8 people per square mile . There were 7,109 housing units at an average density of 353.9 per square mile... |
20 | Miss Iron County | Lyrical Dance "The Sound of Music The Sound of Music The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers... " |
Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1989 | Jacque Dawn Tingey | Centerville Centerville, Utah Centerville is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 15,335 at the 2010 census... |
25 | Miss Intermountain Region | Vocal "Over the Rainbow Over the Rainbow "Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie... " |
Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1988 | Sophia Symko | Salt Lake City | 21 | Miss University of Utah | Piano "Spanish Rhapsody Rhapsodie espagnole (Liszt) Rhapsodie espagnole , S.254, R.90, is a composition for solo piano composed by Franz Liszt in 1863. The piece is very suggestive of traditional Spanish music, and was inspired by Liszt's tour in Spain and Portugal in 1845. When played, this piece takes roughly 11-14 Minutes and contains many... " |
Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1987 | Marianne Bales | Orem | 21 | Miss Orem | Lyrical Dance & Vocal "Let Me Dance For You" | |||
| 1986 | Donna Clark | Salt Lake City | 22 | Miss University of Utah | Ballet | |||
| 1985 | Gina Larsen | Provo | 21 | Miss Utah State Fair | Popular Vocal "Greatest Love of All Greatest Love of All "The Greatest Love of All" is a song written by Michael Masser and Linda Creed and originally recorded by George Benson for the 1977 Muhammad Ali biopic The Greatest. The song was later popularized by Whitney Houston. Creed wrote the lyrics in the midst of her struggle with breast cancer... " |
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| 1984 | Nancy Gail Ayers | Miss Salt Lake Valley | 1st runner-up to Miss Utah 1984; Assumed title when Sharlene Wells won Miss America title | |||||
| Sharlene Wells | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Utah Valley | Spanish Vocal & Paraguyan Harp "Mis Noches Sin Ti" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Previously was Utah's Junior Miss 1982 | |
| 1983 | Lynn Lambert | Provo | 21 | Miss Provo | Classical Piano "Concerto No. 2, 3rd Movement" by Rachmaninoff | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously was Utah's Junior Miss 1980 & 2nd runner-up at America's Junior Miss America's Junior Miss Distinguished Young Women, formerly known as America's Junior Miss, is a national non-profit organization that provides scholarship opportunities to high school senior girls. Depending on the schedule of the various state and local programs, young women are eligible during the summer preceding... |
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| 1982 | Cindy Quinn | Provo | 21 | Miss Utah State Fair | Classical Vocal "Habanera Habanera (aria) In the form of habanera, there is a famous aria from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. It is sometimes referred to as "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle." . Its score was adapted from the habanera "El Arreglito," originally composed by the Spanish musician Sebastián Yradier... " |
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| 1981 | Jonelle Smith | Provo | 23 | Miss Utah Valley | Classical Vocal "Sempre Libera" from La traviata La traviata La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman... |
Top 10 Semi-finalist | Toured with the Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1980 | Jean Bullard | Provo | 22 | Miss Indian | Vocal Medley "He Touched Me" from Drat! The Cat! Drat! The Cat! Drat! The Cat! is a musical with a book and lyrics by Ira Levin and music by Milton Schafer.Originally called Cat and Mouse, this spoof of late-Victorian melodrama has at its core Alice Van Guilder, who wants to be a career girl at a time when nice young ladies marry well instead of having careers... & "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret Cabaret (film) Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party.... |
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| 1979 | Karen L. Brimley | Layton | 19 | Miss Weber State College | Semi-Classical Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" | |||
| 1978 | Jami Coombs | Tremonton | 19 | Miss Wheat & Beet | Classical Piano "Grieg's Concerto in A Minor" | |||
| 1977 | Kristy Deakin | Brigham City Brigham City, Utah Brigham City is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 17,899 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Box Elder County. It lies on the western slope of the Wellsville Mountains, a branch of the Wasatch Range at the western terminus of Box Elder Canyon... |
19 | Miss Brigham City | Baton Twirling | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1976 | Suzanne McKay | Salt Lake City | 22 | Miss Salt Lake County Fair | Organ Medley "Yankee Doodle Dandy The Yankee Doodle Boy "The Yankee Doodle Boy", also well known as " Yankee Doodle Dandy" is a patriotic song from the Broadway musical Little Johnny Jones written by George M. Cohan... " & "God Bless America God Bless America "God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938. The later version has notably been recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature song .... " |
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| 1975 | Barbara Hanks | Sandy Sandy, Utah Sandy is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is a suburb of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,461 at the 2010 census, making it the sixth-largest city in Utah.... |
24 | Miss Latter Day Saints Business College | Jazz Dance "I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity Sweet Charity Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria... |
Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1974 | Kathlyn White | Bountiful | 21 | Miss Davis County Fair | Classical Vocal "Voices of Spring Frühlingsstimmen "Frühlingsstimmen" , Op. 410, is a waltz by Johann Strauss II, written in 1882, for orchestra and solo soprano voice.-History:Strauss dedicated the work to the pianist and composer Alfred Grünfeld... " |
Wife of Wayne Osmond Wayne Osmond Melvin Wayne Osmond is the second oldest of the original Osmond Brothers singers and the fourth oldest of the nine Osmond children. He has been performing since he was six years old and made his national television debut on the Andy Williams Show with brothers, Alan, Merrill, and Jay. They... |
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| 1973 | Brenda Richardson | Provo | 20 | Miss Brigham Young University | Vocal Medley | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1972 | Sally Peterson | Salt Lake City | 21 | Miss University of Utah | Classical Piano "Piano Concerto No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1, in 1892, at age 19. He dedicated the work to Alexander Siloti. He revised the work thoroughly in 1917.-First version:... " |
Non-finalist Talent Award, Miss Congeniality | ||
| 1971 | Janis Gentry | Vernal Vernal, Utah Vernal, Uintah County's largest city, is located in eastern Utah near the Colorado State Line, and 175 miles east of Salt Lake City. It is bordered on the north by the Uinta Mountains, one of the few mountains ranges in the world which lie in an east-west rather than the usual north to south... |
19 | Miss UBIC | Vocal "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1970 | Deborah Melba Dunn | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Stevens-Henager College | Modern Dance "Julia" | |||
| 1969 | Susan Nielson | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Utah National Guard | Ballet "Eleven Studies for Eleven Players" by Ned Rorem Ned Rorem Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:... |
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| 1968 | Kathleen Frances Wood | Salt Lake City | 19 | Miss Midvale | Monologue "The Promise of One Person On This Planet" | |||
| 1967 | Patricia Soutas | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Utah State Fair | Magic Act & Original Vocal "Everyone Has Magic" | |||
| 1966 | Georgia Lynne Johnson | Salt Lake City | 21 | Miss Rose Park | Dramatic Reading | |||
| 1965 | Frances Yvonne Vernon | Salt Lake City | 22 | Miss Utah Air Force Reserve | Original Modern Dance "The American Pioneer Woman" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1964 | Lois Anne Bailey | Salt Lake City | 18 | Miss Salt Lake City | Violin | |||
| 1963 | Annette Bates | Salt Lake City | Miss Salt Lake City | 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 :... |
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| 1962 | Judith Ann Ridd | Magna Magna, Utah Magna is a census-designated place and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 26,505 at the 2010 census, a moderate increase over the 2000 figure of 22,770... |
19 | Miss Logan | Modern Interpretive Dance | |||
| 1961 | Carolyn DeAnn Lasater | Salt Lake City | 19 | Miss Utah National Guard | Pantomime Dance | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Featured Performer in the 1962 Miss America pageant |
| 1960 | Marian Faye Walker | Salt Lake City | 27 | Miss Utah National Air Force Resserve | Classical Vocal "The Waltz Aria" from Mireille Mireille (opera) Mireille is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio.-Composition history:... |
Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1959 | Jacqueline Winterrose | Salt Lake City | 22 | Character Dance "Tequila Tequila (song) "Tequila" is a 1958 Latin-flavored rock and roll song recorded by the group, the Champs. The title of the song constitutes the entirety of the lyrics, and is spoken a total of three times during the course of the song. "Tequila" became a #1 hit on both the pop and R&B charts at the time of its... " |
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| 1958 | Janet Carolyn Secor | Salt Lake City | Classical Ballet "The Waltz" from The Sleeping Beauty | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1957 | Francine Louise Felt | Salt Lake City | Violin | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1956 | Joan Willes | Salt Lake City | Comedy Skit | |||||
| 1955 | Suzanne Storrs Poulton Suzanne Storrs Suzanne Storrs was a former Miss Utah and an American television actress who appeared in sixteen different television series between 1954 and 1961, usually as the beautiful leading lady, including Maverick with James Garner , Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen , Sugarfoot Suzanne Storrs... |
Salt Lake City | Non-Finalist Talent Award | |||||
| 1954 | Maurine Parker | Ogden Ogden, Utah Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. Ogden serves as the county seat of Weber County. The population was 82,825 according to the 2010 Census. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a... |
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| 1953 | Ina Lavon Brown | Provo | Drama | |||||
| 1952 | Marylyn Reese | Brigham | ||||||
| 1951 | Colleen Kay Hutchins Colleen Kay Hutchins Colleen Kay Hutchins , a native of Salt Lake City, Utah was crowned as Brigham Young University Homecoming Queen in 1947... |
Salt Lake City | 25 | Dramatic Monologue "Elizabeth the Queen" 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... |
Winner | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| 1950 | Joanne Hinand | Provo | East Indian Dance | |||||
| 1949 | June Barlow | Bountiful | ||||||
| 1948 | Marilyn Robinson | Ogden | Dramatic Monologue "Tommy, Tommy, Tommy" | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1947 | Donna Southwick | Cedar City | Drama, Piano, Vocal & Dance | |||||
| 1946 | Armelia Carol Ohmart | Salt Lake City | Vocal "I Won't Tell a Soul" | 4th runner-up | TV and film actress with a career from the late 40s to mid 70s, credits include the movie House on Haunted Hill House on Haunted Hill House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 American B movie horror film from Allied Artists. It was directed by William Castle, written by Robb White, and starring Vincent Price as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren. He and his fourth wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house for a "Haunted... |
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| 1945 | Dorothy Holohan | Salt Lake City | Ballet | |||||
| 1938 | Muriel La Von Goodspeed | Salt Lake City | Classical Vocal & Piano | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1927 | Esther Kilpatrick | Salt Lake City | ||||||
| 1926 | Dora Corstensen | Salt Lake City |