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Vonda Kay Van Dyke (born May 19, 1943) was crowned the 1965 Miss America on September 13, 1964. Earlier in the year, she had taken a break as a 21-year-old junior at Arizona State College at Flagstaff (as of 1966, Northern Arizona University ) to become Miss Arizona .
Donna Axum (January 3, 1942 – November 4, 2018) was an American beauty pageant winner, author, television executive producer, philanthropist and model. She was crowned Miss America in 1964. One month earlier she had been crowned Miss Arkansas.
Miss America 1964, the 37th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 7, 1963 and was broadcast on CBS. [ 1 ] Donna Axum became the first Miss Arkansas to win the crown.
Here's what a century of winners have looked like.View Entire Post › Throughout its long history, a new Miss America has been crowned almost every year since 1921. Here's what a century of ...
Youngest Miss America winner since 1933 [95] First Miss Nebraska crowned [95] Television broadcast moved back to ABC: 2012: Jan. 14, 2012 Laura Kaeppeler [96] Wisconsin: Kenosha: 23 Preliminary Talent: Operatic vocal, "Il Bacio" by Luigi Arditi: Briefly on the Board of Directors for the Miss America Organization in 2018 [78] 2013: Jan. 12, 2013 ...
The most frequently presented Miss America awards are for preliminary talent and swimsuit. The talent award was introduced in 1936, and the swimsuit award in 1940. In the 2000s, preliminary awards for evening gown and interview were briefly introduced but were discontinued after two years as it was felt that they made the semi-finalists too predictable.
She was the Miss America preliminary competition swimsuit winner, and her overseas tour included visits to 31 Army hospitals and Servicemen's Clubs. For the talent competition, she tap danced to a recording of herself singing “Somebody Loves Me.” [ 5 ] She remains as of 2025 [update] the only Miss North Carolina to be crowned Miss America .
Marilyn Van Derbur was born on June 16, 1937, in Denver, Colorado., [2] the youngest of four daughters to a family in the Denver mortuary business. (The lighted cross on Mount Lindo southwest of Denver was built so Van Derbur's grandmother could see her husband's final resting place from her home in Park Hill. [4])