The Miss Rhode Island Pageant is sponsored by the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of Commerce as a part of the nation-wide search for the typical American girl -- a Miss America from Rhode Island.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

Heywood Broun wrote: `` Belle Poitrine is the most original thinker since Caligula '', and even F.D.R. had to concede that `` if the rest of this nation showed the foresight and patriotism of Miss Poitrine, America would rapidly resemble ancient Babylon and Nineveh ''.

Both Miss Garson and her oilman-rancher husband are active supporters of Boys Clubs of America and patrons of the vivid art and opera colony that flourishes in New Mexico.

Elizabeth Ward Gracen ( born Elizabeth Grace Ward ) is an American actress who won the title of Miss America in 1982.

She won the titles of Miss Arkansas in 1981 and Miss America in 1982.

She used her Miss America scholarship money to study acting at HB Studios in New York City before moving to Hollywood to pursue a film and television career.

Category: Miss America winners

Category: Miss America Preliminary Swimsuit winners

* 1993 – Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011

In 1977, a former Miss America contestant and orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant, began a campaign " Save Our Children ", in Dade County, Florida ( greater Miami ), which proved to be a major set-back in the Gay Liberation movement.

* 1980 – Deidre Downs, American model, Miss America 2005

* 1924 – Bess Myerson, American model, Miss America 1945

* 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.

In 1968, they protested against the Miss America pageant by throwing high heels and other feminine accoutrements into a garbage bin, to represent freedom.

* 1988 – Kirsten Haglund, American model, Miss America 2008

* 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

* 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

* 1921 – 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy ; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

The halftime show also featured the Longhorn Band, along with Judy Mallett, Miss Texas 1973, playing the fiddle, in a tribute to American music titled " A Musical America ".

After a childhood of beauty pageants, Thiessen was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987 and a year later won Teen magazine's " Great Model Search " in 1988, by gracing the cover of that issue.

* Venus Ramey ( born 1924 ), Miss America in 1944

* July 23 – Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in Penthouse magazine.

Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of June 11th to 17th, 1961, as Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week, with deep appreciation to the Jaycees, local and statewide, for the presentation of their beautiful Pageants and the encouragement of all Rhode Island girls to participate.

** Gloria Diaz wins the Miss Universe Pageant, with the Philippines receiving its first title.

** 150 women ( members of New York Radical Women ) arrive in Atlantic City, New Jersey to protest against the Miss America Pageant, as exploitative of women.

* September 7 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.

** Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela wins the Miss Universe Pageant ; the stage collapses after contestants and news photographers rush to her throne.

* September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.

At six months of age, Sharon won the " Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas Pageant ", but her parents had no show business ambitions for their daughter.

A Neo-burlesque stripper at the Miss Exotic World Pageant of 2006

The Union Board receives an annual budget of about $ 210, 000 in Student Assessment Fees and uses the money to organize and produce the annual Talent Show, Spring Fling, Christmas in the Plaza, the Miss Tech Pageant, and other special events.

The first annual Miss Fag Hag Pageant took place in New York City on May 17, 2009 at Comix comedy club with judges Caroline Rhea, Michael Musto, Hedda Lettuce and Katina Corrao.

Pageants may be multicultural or racially specific, such as the Miss Chinese International Pageant, Miss Black America or Miss Indian America.

She had been a finalist in the 1971 Miss Minnesota Universe Pageant, then a stewardess for Northwest Orient Airlines.

Aside from representing her hometown in the Miss Universe Pageant, and winning this title, Deborah graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico and obtained the Theater Medal, awarded to the most distinguished graduate.

More than 65, 000 people arrive in Decatur to watch annual celebrations and the Miss Point Mallard Beauty Pageant.

The Turkey Trot festival also includes a Miss Turkey Trot Pageant, a Miss Drumsticks Competition ( best legs ), dinners, musical entertainment, a 5 kilometer run, a parade ( which has included former Arkansas governor and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ), and a nationally recognized turkey calling contest sponsored by the National Wild Turkey Federation.

The Park holds the town's annual Fourth of July celebration, consisting of vendors, exhibits and the Miss Enigma Firecracker Pageant, each year.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

At the Fifteenth Anniversary ( 1896 ) as already quoted, Miss Upton projected with force and eloquence the Spelman of the Future as a college of first rank, with expanding and unlimited horizons.

A flow of correspondence between Pfohl and Miss Baldrige resulted in an invitation to the 85-student North Carolina group to play the first concert.

Miss Sutherland first sang Lucia at Covent Garden in 1959.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

Leila Lopes, Miss Angola 2011, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Brazil on 12 September 2011 making her the first Angolan to win the pageant.

The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

* " The Tuesday Night Club " ( short story ) featured Miss Marple for the first time ever.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Scholars generally see Miss Sara Sampson and Emilia Galotti as the first bourgeois tragedies, Minna von Barnhelm ( Minna of Barnhelm ) as the model for many classic German comedies, Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ) as the first German drama of ideas (" Ideendrama ").

Interesting accounts of the impression produced by the performance at Rome may be found in the first volume of Felix Mendelssohn's letters and in Miss Taylor's Letters from Italy.

* 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.

As the happy couples embrace — Jack and Gwendolen, Algernon and Cecily, and even Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism — Lady Bracknell complains to her newfound relative: “ My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality .” “ On the contrary, Aunt Augusta ”, he replies, “ I ’ ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of being Earnest .”

* Rain ( 1932 ), the first sound version of the short story " Miss Thompson " ( retitled as " Rain "), with Joan Crawford and Walter Huston.

His first schooling was with a Miss Trotman in Downend village and then with a Mr Curtis of Winterbourne.