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Miss New Jersey

The Miss New Jersey competition is an annual pageant held to select the representative for the state of New Jersey in the Miss America pageant.

Two Miss New Jersey winners have gone on to hold the title of Miss America: Bette Cooper who won in 1937 and Suzette Charles who did not win, but took over the title for the last 7 weeks of Vanessa Williams's reign in 1984. They also have one unofficial Miss America: Dorothy Hann (1932).

In the fall of 2018, the Miss America Organization terminated the Miss New Jersey organization's license as well as licenses from Florida, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia.[1][2] On December 26, 2018; MAO reinstated the license for the Miss New Jersey organization for one year, contingent on leadership changes and the recruitment of new sponsors and board members.[3]

Elizabeth Mendel was crowned Miss New Jersey 2024 on June 8, 2024, at the Superstar Theater in the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2025.

Gallery of past titleholders

Results summary

The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss New Jersey titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.

Placements

Awards

Preliminary awards

Non-finalist awards

Other awards

* Served as Miss America 1984 for seven weeks after the resignation of Vanessa Williams

Winners

Note
  1. ^ Titleholder extended to a second full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic[5]

Popular culture

In Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "American Pastoral", the central character Seymour "Swede" Levov marries Dawn Dwyer, an Irish Catholic winner of Miss New Jersey 1949, from nearby Elizabeth, whom he met at Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey.

In the Drake & Josh episode "Vicious Tiberius", the boys find out their teacher, Mrs. Hayfer, was the winner of Miss New Jersey 1976 while house sitting for her.[citation needed] The winner of the 1957 pageant is mentioned by title in the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver.[49]

References

  1. ^ Parry, Wayne (October 8, 2018). "Miss America Organization strikes back at rebellious states". The Associated Press.
  2. ^ Parry, Wayne (December 5, 2018). "Miss America terminates agreements with NJ, NY and FL". The Associated Press.
  3. ^ Heyboer, Kelly (December 27, 2018). "Miss America gives N.J. back its pageant license - with conditions". NJ Advanced Media.
  4. ^ NJ.com, Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for (2021-06-20). "Miss New Jersey 2021 crowned in dramatic fashion (PHOTOS)". nj. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  5. ^ Kuperinksy, Amy (May 8, 2020). "Miss America postpones pageant until 2021, N.J. pageant still set for September". Press of Atlantic City.
  6. ^ Carroll, Lauren; Auble, Amanda (June 15, 2019). "Belmar native Jade Glab named Miss New Jersey 2019". Press of Atlantic City.
  7. ^ "Miss America 2020 Pageant: Top 15 Contestants Revealed LIVE". Heavy.com. December 19, 2019.
  8. ^ Kuperinsky, Amy (December 16, 2019). "Miss America 2020: Miss New Jersey wins award at preliminary competition (in Connecticut)". NJ.com.
  9. ^ Serpico, Erin; Carroll, Lauren (June 16, 2018). "Miss New Jersey 2018 crowned Saturday". Press of Atlantic City.
  10. ^ Serpico, Erin (August 26, 2018). "Miss America Cara Mund announces scholarship finalists before competition". Press of Atlantic City.
  11. ^ "Eagles Cheerleaders welcome 11 new members for 2021 season". www.philadelphiaeagles.com. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  12. ^ "Egg Harbor Township's Kaitlyn Schoeffel crowned Miss New Jersey 2017". Press of Atlantic City. June 17, 2017.
  13. ^ DeRosier, John (September 11, 2017). "Miss New Jersey describes "out-of-body" experience on Miss America stage". Press of Atlantic City.
  14. ^ Kuperinsky, Amy (September 7, 2017). "At Miss America, Miss New Jersey had to answer for Chris Christie". NJ.com.
  15. ^ DeRosier, John; Schweder, Hanna (June 19, 2016). "Mantua's Brenna Weick crowned Miss New Jersey 2016". Press of Atlantic City.
  16. ^ Dave, Tirusha (June 19, 2016). "Miss New Jersey 2016 Brenna Weick". Bravura Magazine.
  17. ^ "Jeanette Morelan Wins 2010 Miss America's Outstanding Teen Competition".
  18. ^ Pistone, Stephen (July 24, 2015). "Meet Hammonton's own Lindsey Giannini, Miss New Jersey 2015". NJ.com.
  19. ^ "Rutgers Student Crowned Miss New Jersey". University Herald. June 6, 2014.
  20. ^ "Miss America 2014: A Miss New Jersey, by way of Arkansas". NJ.com. July 6, 2013.
  21. ^ Stump, Scott (2016-02-22). "Former Miss New Jersey Cara McCollum, 24, dies from injuries suffered in car crash". Today.
  22. ^ "Egg Harbor City's Lindsey Petrosh, 23, wins Miss New Jersey Pageant in Ocean City". Press of Atlantic City. June 16, 2012.
  23. ^ Rudloff, Mary (June 20, 2012). "Lindsey Petrosh chosen as new Miss New Jersey". Ocean City Sentinel.
  24. ^ "Wenonah woman is new Miss New Jersey". NJ.com. June 20, 2011.
  25. ^ Driscoll, Jessica (June 21, 2011). "Miss New Jersey Katharyn Nicolle looks forward to her reign". Bravura Magazine.
  26. ^ Ortiz, Erik (June 20, 2010). "Millville's Ashleigh Udalovas crowned Miss New Jersey 2010 in Ocean City". Press of Atlantic City.
  27. ^ Rudloff, Mary (June 25, 2009). "Ashley Shaffer crowned Miss New Jersey at Ocean City Music Pier". Ocean City Sentinel.
  28. ^ Hagarty, Keith (September 21, 2007). "Howell College Student Crowned Miss New Jersey". The Howell Times. Archived from the original on September 21, 2007.
  29. ^ "Pageant life teaches new Miss N.J. Moorestown woman learns about competition, herself". Burlington County Times. June 20, 2005.
  30. ^ Dominus, Susan (November 20, 2005). "The Sweat-Soaked Life of a Glamorous Rockette". New York Times.
  31. ^ "funny". Dena Blizzard || One Funny Mother. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  32. ^ Bolden, Bonnie (June 25, 2017). "Meet the 'adorkable' Miss Louisiana 2017 - Laryssa Bonacquisti". The News Star.
  33. ^ Latson, Jennifer (July 23, 2015). "The Scandal That Cost a Miss America Her Crown". Time Magazine.
  34. ^ "American Experience | Miss America | People & Events". PBS.
  35. ^ Ali, Yashar (December 23, 2017). "Exclusive: President Of Miss America Organization Resigns Amid Scandal". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  36. ^ a b The News, Courier Post (New Jersey), August 31, 1939
  37. ^ a b "Miss America Timeline: 1901–1950". PBS. Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  38. ^ a b c d e f "Golden Apple Is Sought by Scores". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. September 6, 1923. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  39. ^ a b Schnitzspahn, Karen (September 8, 1997). "There She Was – Miss Long Branch". Asbury Park Press. Asbury Park, New Jersey. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  40. ^ a b "Grace Taylor Is Miss Ocean City". Cape May County Times. New York, New York. August 17, 1923. p. 1.
  41. ^ "Columbus Beauty Adjudged Atlantic City Fete Queen". New York Tribune. New York, New York. September 9, 1922. p. 3.
  42. ^ a b "Atlantic City's Queen of Beauty is 'Miss Columbus'". The New York Herald. New York New York. September 9, 1922. p. 6.
  43. ^ "Now, Which One Would You Say?". Salisbury Evening Post. Salisbury, North Carolina. August 31, 1922. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  44. ^ "Look back at Miss America 1922". Press of Atlantic City Archives. Atlantic City, New Jersey. May 5, 2017. Miss Greater Camden Eleanor Lindley with Miss America 1921 Margaret Gorman.
  45. ^ "Pretty "Sob Sisters" Ocean City Guests". Editor & Publisher. Vol. 56. Editor & Publisher Company. August 4, 1923. p. 15 – via Google Books.
  46. ^ "Girls Enter Beauty Contest". Evening Journal. Vineland, New Jersey. September 5, 1922. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  47. ^ a b "Miss America History 1921". Archived from the original on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
  48. ^ "Miss America 1921". The Atlantic City Experience.
  49. ^ Scorsese, Martin (Director) (February 8, 1976). Taxi Driver (Motion picture). United States: Columbia Pictures (distributor). 109 minutes in. So anyway, this guy Eddie, the owner-operator, comes up. He says, "Hey. I want to swap tires." I said, "Hey. These are new tires. Why don't you throw in something else—like your wife?" His wife was Miss New Jersey of 1957.

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