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
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