Pamela Eldred

Pamela Eldred
Born	(1948-04-21) April 21, 1948 West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States
Title	Miss Detroit 1969 Miss Michigan 1969 Miss America 1970
Predecessor	Judith Ford
Successor	Phyllis George

Pamela Anne Eldred (born April 21, 1948), is Miss America 1970 and Miss Michigan 1969.^[1]^[2]

Eldred is from West Bloomfield and was crowned Miss America 1970 on September 6, 1969.^[3] After retiring as Miss America she married and had a daughter. She participated in the home-coming of Kirsten Haglund along with Nancy Fleming Lange and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson both former Miss Michigans who also became Miss America. ^[4] She is a graduate of University of Detroit Mercy and still lives in West Bloomfield.^[5]^[6]

A ballerina, Eldred performed a dance in the Miss America talent competition to music from Romeo and Juliet.

One of the five finalists Eldred defeated in the Miss America 1970 pageant was singer and actress Susan Anton. A year later, Eldred's successor would be future First Lady of Kentucky and television personality Phyllis George.

References

↑ Welcome to the Official Miss Michigan Scholarship Program - proud to be a part of the Miss America Organization retrieved 16 December 2010
↑ Miss America : 1970 retrieved 16 December 2010
↑ There she is: From 1921 to 2014, see the Miss America pageant through the years:1970
↑ Year in Review: Top 10 features and entertainment stories of 2008 retrieved 17 December 2010
↑ The whys and woes of beauty pagents retrieved 16 December 2010
↑ Hilary Levey, John Freiedman retrieved 16 December 2010

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Judith Ford	Miss America 1970	Succeeded by Phyllis George
Preceded by Darlene Kurant	Miss Michigan 1969	Succeeded by Sandra Gillespie

Miss America titleholders (1960–1979)

Lynda Lee Mead (1960) Nancy Fleming (1961) Maria Fletcher (1962) Jacquelyn Mayer (1963) Donna Axum (1964) Vonda Kay Van Dyke (1965) Deborah Bryant (1966) Jane Anne Jayroe (1967) Debra Dene Barnes (1968) Judith Anne Ford (1969) Pamela Eldred (1970) Phyllis Ann George (1971) Laurie Lea Schaefer (1972) Terry Meeuwsen (1973) Rebecca Ann King (1974) Shirley Cothran (1975) Tawny Elaine Godin (1976) Dorothy Benham (1977) Susan Perkins (1978) Kylene Barker (1979)

Complete list (1921–1939) (1940–1959) (1960–1979) (1980–1999) (2000–2019)

Miss America 1970, state titleholders

AL: Ann Fowler CA: Susan Anton MI: Pamela Eldred VT: Barbara Schmitt

Miss America Delegates of 70 71 74 75 76 77 79 81 88 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Miss America

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Titleholders Award winners Outstanding Teen MAOT State pageants

Michigan pageant winners

Miss Michigan	Patricia Donnelly (1939) Ann Penelope Marston (1959) Nancy Fleming (1960) Toni Jo Abbenante (1967) Pamela Eldred (1969) Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (1987) Melanie Churella (1987) Kirsten Haglund (2007) Ashlee Baracy (2008) Nicole Blaszczyk (2009) Elizabeth Wertenberger (2011) Emily Kieliszewski (2015)

Miss Michigan USA	Carole Gist (1990) Kenya Moore (1993) Jill Dobson (2000) Kenya Howard (2001) Crystal Hayes (2005) Danelle Gay (2006) Kelly Best (2007) Rima Fakih (2010) Channing Pierce (2011) Rashontae Wawrzyniak (2015) Susie Leica (2016)

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