Miss Rhode Island
For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Rhode Island USA.
Ashley Bickford, Miss Rhode Island 2007
Allison Rogers, Miss Rhode Island 2006, speaking at the US International Visitors' Program (in August 2008) about her environmental platform, which won her the Quality of Life award at Miss America.
The Miss Rhode Island competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Rhode Island in the Miss America pageant.
The 2016 Miss Rhode Island pageant was held on May 22, 2016, at the Casino Theater in Newport, Rhode Island.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Shruti Nagarajan | Providence | 24 | Miss Providence County | Bollywood-fusion dance | Women in Business Scholarship Winner | Graduate of Brown University | |
| 2015 | Alexandra Curtis | East Greenwich | 23 | Miss West Warwick | Musical Theater Performance "Poor Unfortunate Souls" | Quality of Life Finalist | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2014; National All-American Miss Teen 2010-2011; Graduate of Brown University | |
| 2014 | Ivy DePew | Providence | 23 | Miss Providence | Flute "Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2013, Graduate of Brown University | ||
| 2013 | Jessica Marfeo | Exeter | 20 | Miss University of Rhode Island | Vocal "Ain't Misbehavin'" | Quality of Life 2nd runner-up, STEM Scholarship Top 5 | Contestant at Miss America Coed (Miss RI Sweetheart 2002)[1] | |
| 2012 | Kelsey Fournier | Pawtucket | 23 | Miss Pawtucket | Jazz Dance "All That Jazz" | Cheerleader for the New England Patriots | ||
| 2011 | Robin Bonner[2] | Westhampton, New York | 20 | Miss University of Rhode Island | Jazz Dance "Americano" by Lady Gaga | |||
| 2010 | Deborah Saint-Vil | Providence | 22 | Miss Spirit of Hope | Vocal "Smile" | Top 15 | Preliminary Talent Award | Graduate of Brown University |
| 2009 | Julianna Strout | Watch Hill | 24 | Vocal "Come Rain or Come Shine" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 2008 | Francesca Simone | North Smithfield | 22 | Classical Vocal "Nessun dorma" | Quality of Life Finalist | |||
| 2007 | Ashley Bickford | Newport | 22 | Ballet en Pointe | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Miss Photogenic | Triple Crown winner: Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2002 and Top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2002, Miss Connecticut USA 2010 | ||
| 2006 | Allison Rogers | Providence | 25 | Classical Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu" | Quality of Life Award | |||
| 2005 | Jessica Samson | Newport | 23 | Vocal "It's No Secret Anymore" | ||||
| 2004 | Aimee Belisle | North Smithfield | 24 | Ballet en Pointe "You're a Grand Old Flag" | ||||
| 2003 | Laurie Gray | Warwick | 22 | Classical Violin "Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award, Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | Rhode Island's Junior Miss 1999 | |
| 2002 | Gianine Marie Teti | Providence | 22 | Classical Vocal "Steal Me Sweet Thief" from The Old Maid and the Thief | ||||
| 2001 | Jennifer Leigh D'Ambrosio | Providence | 21 | Vocal "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard | Featured on MTV's True Life - I'm a Beauty Queen | |||
| 2000 | Jennifer St. Laurent | Bristol | 24 | Vocal "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" | ||||
| 1999 | Karen Lindsay | Warwick | 24 | Vocal "I'm a Woman" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1998, Participated in The Bachelor | ||
| 1998 | Heather Picard | Cumberland | 23 | Ballet en Pointe "Carmen" | ||||
| 1997 | Kelly Jo Roarke | Cranston | 24 | Comic Reading "Non-Bridaled Passion" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1996 | Elana Chomiszak | Providence | 21 | Dance "Nice Work If You Can Get It" | ||||
| 1995 | Elizabeth Reilly | North Providence | 24 | Miss North Providence | Dance "Everybody Says Don't" from Anyone Can Whistle | |||
| 1994 | Tori-Lynn Heaton | Cranston | 24 | Miss Cranston | Character Jazz Dance | First Sworn Police Officer to Compete at Miss America | ||
| 1993 | Wendy Mello | Narragansett | 22 | Miss South County | Lyrical Ballet "A Piece of Sky" from Yentl | |||
| 1992 | Lisa Snow | Cranston | 23 | Miss Western Cranston | Dramatic Monologue | Non-finalist Interview Award | ||
| 1991 | Debi Cutler | North Providence | 26 | Miss Providence County | Vocal "Shine On, Harvest Moon" | |||
| 1990 | Susan Savastano | East Providence | 22 | Miss Greater Providence County | Tap Dance "All Right" | |||
| 1989 | Gloria Berlanga | Davisville | 23 | Miss Kent County | Flute Solo | |||
| 1988 | Jenna Wims | Pawtucket | 24 | Vocal Medley | ||||
| 1987 | Cherilynn Cusick | Providence | 21 | Miss Providence County | Contemporary Ballet | |||
| 1986 | Barbara Longo | Barrington | Listed as Miss Rhode Island on Miss Rhode Island website | |||||
| Toni Langello | Warwick | 20 | Vocal "My Man" | Competed as Miss Rhode Island, Resigned after being arrested for cocaine possession in January 1987[3] | ||||
| 1985 | Lori Boucher | Pawtucket | 20 | Vocal "Losing My Mind" | ||||
| 1984 | Joanna Minisce | North Smithfield | 19 | Miss Northern Rhode Island | Modern Jazz Dance | |||
| 1983 | Pamela Hoff | Providence | 21 | Miss Providence-Pawtucket | Vocal "For Once in My Life" | |||
| 1982 | Cynthia Crook | Warwick | 22 | Miss Central Rhode Island | Vocal / Dance "Theme from New York, New York" | |||
| 1981 | Kathleen Cryan | Providence | 23 | Miss Eastern Rhode Island | Jazz Dance "Electro-Phantasma" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1980 | Dawn Potter | Pascoag | 20 | Miss Northern Rhode Island | Vocal / Dance "All That Jazz" | |||
| 1979 | Elaine Rushlow | Westerly | 20 | Miss Southern Rhode Island | Piano Solo "Bridge over Troubled Water" | |||
| 1978 | Lori Leyden | Providence | 21 | Vocal "Everything" | ||||
| 1977 | Tanya Kapla | Middletown | 21 | Ballet en Pointe "The Dying Swan" | Actress played Gloria Brown on The Young and the Restless | |||
| 1976 | Debra Cerroni | Esmond | 20 | Miss University of Rhode Island | Vocal "Much More" from The Fantasticks | Miss Rhode Island USA 1974 | ||
| 1975 | Debra Cusick | Providence | 20 | Dance "Promises, Promises" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |||
| 1974 | Karen Salvatore | Warwick | 22 | Miss Rhode Island Coed | Original Skit "Don't Smoke" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1973 | Patricia Garrahy | North Providence | 19 | Ballet "Scarborough Fair" | ||||
| 1972 | Michele Passarelli | Pawtucket | 18 | Miss Pawtucket | Vocal "Cabaret" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe and feature performer at Miss America 1976 pageant | ||
| 1971 | Annette Charpentier | Cumberland | 21 | Miss Cumberland | Semi-classical Vocal "Eli's Coming" | |||
| 1970 | Teresa Bradley | East Greenwich | 19 | Miss North Kingston | Folk Singing & Guitar "Chelsea Morning" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1969 | Jeanne Bursley | Barrington | 20 | Miss North Kingston | Vocal / Dance "Standing on a Corner" | |||
| 1968 | Arlene Pinto | Warwick | 21 | Miss Warwick | Vocal / Dance "Thoroughly Modern Millie" | |||
| 1967 | Marilyn Cocozza | North Providence | 19 | Miss Pawtucket | Piano / Vocal "I Have Confidence" from The Sound of Music | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Rhode Island's Junior Miss 1966 and Semi-finalist at America's Junior Miss, Featured performer for the Miss America 1968 telecast |
| 1966 | Cheryl Girr | Newport | 18 | Miss Newport | Interpretive Ballet | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1965 | Maureen Manton | Warwick | 21 | Miss Warwick | Dramatic Reading "The Diary of Anne Frank" | |||
| 1964 | Judy Anderson | Warwick | 20 | Miss Warwick | Vocal / Dance | |||
| 1963 | Sheila Guarniere | Bristol | Miss Bristol | Piano Solo | ||||
| 1962 | Deborah Babbitt | Bristol | 18 | Miss Bristol | Acrobatic Musical Comedy Dance | |||
| 1961 | Cheryl Hirst | Greenville | 18 | Miss North Providence | Ventriloquism & Organ "This Can't Be Love" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1960 | Sally Saabye | Warwick | 18 | Miss Warwick | Piano / Pantomime | |||
| 1959 | Michalene Chomicz | Pawtucket | 23 | Vocal | ||||
| 1958 | Ann Willis | Cranston | Miss Congeniality | |||||
| 1957 | Beatrice Turek | Providence | Art Display | |||||
| 1956 | Gail Gilmore | Barrington | Drama / Piano | |||||
| 1955 | Claire Mae Emerson | Pawtucket | Dramatic Monologue | |||||
| 1954 | Virginia Gregory | Pawtucket | Speech | |||||
| 1953 | Joyce Sandberg | Providence | Drama | Miss Rhode Island USA 1954 | ||||
| 1952 | Jayne Bradshaw | Westerly | Classical Vocal | |||||
| 1947 | Ellen Di Cenzo | Providence | Vocal | |||||
| 1946 | Marilyn Tripp | Westerly | ||||||
| 1945 | Mary Stevens | Cranston | Vocal "How Deep Is the Ocean?" | |||||
| 1937 | Dorothy Mae Eden | East Providence | ||||||
| 1936 | Mary Rogers | Johnston | ||||||
| 1935 | Beatrice McKenzie | Providence | Competed as Miss Providence | |||||
| Leona Mucha | West Warwick | Competed as Miss West Warwick | ||||||
| 1927 | June Frances Costello | Providence | ||||||
| 1925 | Loretta Berchman | |||||||
| 1924 | No Miss Rhode Island | There was a Miss Providence who competed but whose name is not known. | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Rhode Island | Loretta LaFlamme competed as Miss Providence and finished as a Semi-finalist. | ||||||
References
- ↑ http://web.uri.edu/celsnews/cels-sophomore-has-sights-set-on-medicine-and-glamour/
- ↑ "Rhode Island Welcomes 2011 State Titleholder". Four Points. May 23, 2011.
- ↑ "Coke becomes drug of choice in Rhode Island during the 1980s". The Providence Journal Company. Oct 31, 1999.
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