Miss Connecticut
For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Connecticut USA.
Heidi Voight, Miss Connecticut 2006, onboard USS Connecticut (SSN-22) in February 2006
The Miss Connecticut competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss America pageant. Connecticut has won the Miss America crown once (Marian Bergeron, 1933).
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Colleen Ward[1] | Wolcott | 22 | Miss Windham County | Irish Step Dance | |||
| 2014 | Acacia Courtney | Hamden | 21 | Miss Hamden | Ballet en Pointe from Don Quixote | Top 16 | Miss Connecticut's Outstanding Teen 2009 | |
| 2013 | Kaitlyn Tarpey | Stamford | 21 | Miss Southington | Irish Step Dancing "Reel Around the Sun" from Riverdance | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award at National Sweetheart 2012, Miss Teen America 2008–2009 representing New York | |
| 2012 | Emily Audibert[2][3] | Wolcott | 21 | Miss Wolcott | Lyrical Dance "Listen" from Dreamgirls | |||
| 2011 | Morgan Amarone[4] | Hamden | 23 | Miss Southington | Dance "My Strongest Suit" from Aida | 1st runner-up at Connecticut's Outstanding Teen 2005 | ||
| 2010 | Brittany Decker | Bristol | 21 | Miss Hartford County | Vocal "Journey to the Past" | |||
| 2009 | Sharalynn Kuziak | Southington | 22 | Miss Constitution | Theatrical Tap Dance | |||
| 2008 | Ashley Glenn | Hamden | 23 | Miss Shoreline | Lyrical Dance | Massachusetts' Junior Miss 2003 | ||
| 2007 | Dana Daunis | Watertown | 22 | Miss Fairfield County | Vocal "Let Him Fly" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 | |
| Lauren Betancourt | Suffield | Miss North Haven | Crowned on June 23, 2007 and resigned on August 6, 2007 | |||||
| 2006 | Heidi Alice Voight | Milford | 24 | Miss Capital Region | Vocal "Why Haven't I Heard from You" | |||
| 2005 | Dianna Baitinger | Norwich | 23 | Miss North Haven | Vocal "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" | |||
| 2004 | Nikki Palmieri | North Haven | 22 | Miss Montowese | Jazz Dance "I Wanna Be a Dancin' Man" | |||
| 2003 | Marla Prete | North Haven | 22 | Miss Fairfield County | Tap Dance "I Got Rhythm" & "Fascinating Rhythm" | |||
| 2002 | Tanisha Brito | New London | 22 | Miss New London County | Tap Dance "Let's Face the Music and Dance" | Top 10 | Miss Georgia USA 2005 | |
| 2001 | Marissa Perez | Meriden | 23 | Miss Fairfield County | Vocal "This Time Around" | Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1996 | ||
| 2000 | Renelle Richardson | Branford | 18 | Miss Elm City | Classical Ballet en Pointe "Kitri's Variation" from Don Quixote | |||
| 1999 | Sylvia Gomes | Bridgeport | 20 | Miss Hamden | Piano "Theme from The Piano" | Top 10 | ||
| 1998 | Lauren Bergamo | Prospect | 19 | Miss Hamden | Vocal "It's Time" | |||
| 1997 | Merissa Starnes | Bloomfield | 21 | Miss Nutmeg | Contemporary Ballet en Pointe | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1996 | Stacy Perrone | Wolcott | 22 | Miss Wolcott | Vocal "And This Is My Beloved" | |||
| 1995 | Amy Zappone | Wolcott | 18 | Miss Wolcott | Dance "Dancin' Fool" from Copacabana | |||
| 1994 | MaryGrace Santagata | New Haven | 24 | Miss Charter Oak | Vocal | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1993 | Kimberly Burgess | Manchester | 22 | Miss Waterbury | Lyrical Dance "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" | |||
| 1992 | Valorie Abate | North Haven | 22 | Miss New Haven County | Classical Vocal "Carnival of Venice" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Miss Connecticut USA 1991, 1st runner-up at Miss Oktoberfest 1991 | |
| 1991 | Stephanie Stiefel | West Haven | 26 | Miss New Haven County | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | |||
| 1990 | Bianca Salahashourian | Fairfield | 25 | Miss Greater Waterbury | Vocal "Part of Your World" | |||
| 1989 | Marlena Marshall | Glastonbury | 25 | Miss Vernon | Ballet en Pointe | |||
| 1988 | Maria Caporale | Oakdale | 24 | Miss New London County | Vocal "What Did I Have That I Don't Have" from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | |||
| 1987 | Michele Eaton | Shelton | 21 | Miss Fairfield County | Baton Twirling "They're Playing Our Song" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America Gillette Troupe | |
| 1986 | Lorraine Hudson | North Haven | 24 | Miss Briarwood College | Vocal "Something's Coming" from West Side Story | |||
| 1985 | Lorine Guagenti | Derby | 21 | Miss New Haven County | Jazz Dance | |||
| 1984 | Joanne Caruso | Trumbull | 23 | Miss Trumbull | Clarinet "Jazz Medley" | Sister of Miss Connecticut 1980 | ||
| 1983 | Dakeita Vanderburg | Westport | 26 | Miss Westport | Popular Vocal "I Can See It" | Top 10 finalist at Miss NC 1981 as Miss Cabarrus County, Miss Charlotte-Mecklenburg 1979 | ||
| 1982 | Kelly Slater | Woodbury | 21 | Miss Woodbury | Popular Vocal "Blue Champagne" | |||
| 1981 | Virginia Reichardt | Danbury | 21 | Miss Danbury | Country Western Vocal "Love is a Rose" & "Queen of Hearts" | |||
| 1980 | Jeanne Caruso | Trumbull | 21 | Miss Trumbull | Piano & Original Vocal "Song for Tomorrow" | Top 10 | Sister of Miss Connecticut 1984, Former wife of Joe Theisman | |
| 1979 | Laura Kaufmann | Enfield | 18 | Miss Greater Enfield | Interpretive Modern Jazz Dance | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1978 | Maryalice Flineroy | Meriden | 18 | Miss Meriden | Popular Vocal "Inseparable" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1977 | Karen Kopins | Ridgefield | 18 | Miss Ridgefield | Modern Jazz Dance "Zero to Sixty in Five" | Actress who has appeared in Dallas, Designing Women, Perry Mason, Troop Beverly Hills, and Once Bitten | ||
| 1976 | Debra LaRoche | Cheshire | 20 | Miss Cheshire | Popular Vocal "I Feel a Song Coming On" | |||
| 1975 | Mary Cadorette | East Hartford | 18 | Miss Manchester | Modern Jazz Dance | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1974 | Elisa Heinemann | Wethersfield | 18 | Miss Wethersfield | Dramatic Interpretations "Prunella", "Yenta", & "Wicked Witch" | |||
| 1973 | Deborah Blanchard | North Haven | 21 | Miss New Haven | Modern Jazz Dance "West Side Story" | |||
| 1972 | Linda Kapral | East Lyme | 19 | Miss East Lyme | Modern Jazz, African Dance & Gymnastics | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1971 | Priscilla Doyle | Rockville | 23 | Miss Manchester | Flamenco Dance | |||
| 1970 | Cynthia Fowler | Cheshire | 21 | Miss Cheshire | Classical Vocal "The Jewel Song" from Faust | |||
| 1969 | Carol Jean Norval | Stafford Springs | 21 | Miss Stafford | Organ "St. Louis Blues" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1968 | Gunnell Ragone | West Hartford | 21 | Miss University of Hartford | Popular Vocal & Monologue "Guantanamera" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1967 | Diane Bylo | Norwalk | 21 | Miss Stamford | Vocal "Heaven Hop" | |||
| 1966 | Carole Gelish | Accordion Solo "Brazil", "More", & "Tico Tico" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe; Assumed the title after charging that the winner, Karen Maguire, was not qualified. Behind closed doors with pageant officials present there was some sort of secret run-off with the original winner. At that meeting, Miss Gelish was declared the winner.[5] Galesh (1966) and Joanne Stanulonis (1983) are related.[6] | ||||
| 1965 | Donna Scott | Stratford | 18 | Miss Danbury | Vocal "Someone to Watch Over Me" | |||
| 1964 | Honora Bukowski | Wallingford | 18 | Miss Wallingford | Jazz Dance "Bossa Nova" | |||
| 1963 | Valerie Stetson | Milldale | Miss Southington | Modern Ballet | ||||
| 1962 | Diane DeMaio | Hartford | 18 | Miss Hartford | Dramatic Skit | |||
| 1961 | Karen Scalise | Glastonbury | 18 | Miss East Hartford | Sermon based on Sermon on the Mount | |||
| 1960 | Wendy Mitchell | New Haven | 18 | Miss West Haven | Vocal "Just In Time" | |||
| 1959 | Diana Klug | Torrington | 21 | Speech on Fashion Designing, Presentation of Original Designs & Tractor Driving | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1958 | Billie Turner | New Canaan | Ballet en Pointe from Les Sylphides | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1957 | Susan Lightbown | Fairfield | Vocal / Monologue "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1956 | Joy Corrado | Torrington | Organ | |||||
| 1955 | Audrey Figlar | Hartford | Charleston Dance | |||||
| 1954 | Dorothy Hopkins | Storrs | Piano | |||||
| 1953 | Sally Middleton | Hartford | Dance | |||||
| 1952 | Joyce Yeske | West Hartford | Ballroom Dance | |||||
| 1951 | Beverly Buriant | Bridgeport | Drama | Miss Connecticut USA 1953 | ||||
| 1950 | Renee Roy | Hartford | Comedy Sketch of a Cosmetic Demonstration and Vocal / Dance "Charley, My Boy" | Top 16 | Preliminary Talent Award | Miss New York City USA 1954 | ||
| 1949 | Barbara Smetana | Bridgeport | Vocal & Monologue "Maybe" & "Jackie, Son of a Hardboiled Cop" | |||||
| 1948 | Fairfax Mason | Bridgeport | Classical Vocal "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" | |||||
| 1947 | Louise Bienvenu | Waterbury | Vocal "On the Sunny Side of the Street" | |||||
| 1946 | Joan Turner | West Haven | Vocal "Coax Me a Little Bit" | Top 16 | ||||
| 1945 | Sylvia Shaw | Hartford | Vocal "I'm in the Mood for Love" | |||||
| 1944 | Barbara Fisher | East Hartford | ||||||
| 1943 | Mary Rice | Hartford | ||||||
| 1942 | Alice Clifford | Burlington | ||||||
| 1941 | Daphne Gladding | Plymouth | ||||||
| 1940 | Dorothy Pickard | New Haven | ||||||
| 1939 | Frieda Lampar | Bridgeport | ||||||
| Catherine Harrison | Derby | Competed as Miss Central Connecticut | ||||||
| 1938 | Blanche Hawley | Stratford | ||||||
| 1937 | Frances Greene | Milford | ||||||
| 1936 | Tilie Grey | Waterbury | 2nd runner-up | |||||
| Evelyn Lenhart | Greenwich | Competed as Miss Roton Point | ||||||
| 1935 | Margaretta Kling | New Haven | Top 12 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||||
| Margaret Holmes | Hartford | Competed as Miss Hartford | ||||||
| Ruth S. Rubin | New Haven | Competed as Miss New Haven | ||||||
| Veronica Turosky | Competed as Miss Greater Hartford | |||||||
| Sonia Banka | Bridgeport | Competed as Miss Bridgeport | ||||||
| 1933–1934 | Marian Bergeron | West Haven | 15 | N/A | Winner | Held the State & National Title for Two Years | ||
| 1927 | No Miss Connecticut | Representing Connecticut were: Antoinette Violet, Miss Bridgeport; Leona Faith Monoson, Miss Hartford; Peggy Louise Proctor, Miss Lockport & Dorothy Barton, Miss New Haven | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss Connecticut | Florence Harriet Green, Miss Bridgeport, placed as a Finalist. Also representing Connecticut were Doris Laretta Beaupre, Miss Hartford & Molla Barnett, Miss New Haven. | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss Connecticut | Representing Connecticut were: Alta Sommerville, Miss Bridgeport; Mary Brandaburg, Miss Hartford & Helen Kanehl, Miss Manchester | ||||||
| 1924 | No Miss Connecticut | Helen Haddock competed as Miss Stamford | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Connecticut | Hazel Haddock competed as Miss New Haven | ||||||
| 1922 | No Miss Connecticut | Representing Connecticut were: Paula Spottle, Miss Bridgeport; Lillian O. Peterson, Miss New Haven & Hazel Germershausen, Miss Waterbury | ||||||
References
- ↑ Barry, John (June 28, 2015). "Miss Windham County crowned Miss Connecticut". The Bulletin (Norwich, CT: GateHouse Media). Retrieved July 10, 2015.
- ↑ DeMatteo, Ann (June 30, 2012). "Miss Wolcott becomes Miss Connecticut, area competitors in runners-up". New Haven Register (New Haven, CT: 21st Century Media). Retrieved July 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Former Miss Wolcott is crowned Miss Connecticut". Republican-American (Waterbury, CT). July 1, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Morgan Amarone, of Hamden, named Miss Connecticut". Post-Chronicle. June 28, 2011.
- ↑ "Jaycees Fed Up With Pageant". The Norwalk Hour. Aug 24, 1966.
- ↑ http://www.mashpedia.com/Miss_USA_1983
External links
- Miss Connecticut official website
- Official Blog of Miss Connecticut 2007
- Official Blog of Miss Connecticut 2006
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