- Miss Maine
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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Maine USA.
The Miss Maine competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Maine in the Miss America pageant. Maine has been represented in the pageant since 1937, although the state has never produced a winner.
Winners
Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes 2011 Julia Furtado Dayton 19 Miss Seacoast Classical Vocal 2010 Arikka Knights Chester 24 Miss Greater Lincoln Tap Dance "Jumpin' Jack" Contestant at National Sweetheart 2007 2009 Susie Stauble Gray 22 Vocal "Stand Up for Love" Non-Finalist Talent Award 2008 Adrienne Watkinson Topsham 23 Miss Topsham Violin 2007 Tara Allain Waterville 22 Miss Kennebec County Dance "Hangin' By a Thread" 2006 Karissa Staples Biddeford 19 Miss Greater Portland Vocal "Take Me Or Leave Me" from Rent 2005 Megan Beals Ludlow 22 Miss Houlton Vocal "Johnny One Note" 2004 Ami Vice Lisbon Falls 23 Classical Vocal "Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta" from La rondine Bernie Wayne Scholarship, Non-finalist Talent Award 2003 Elizabeth Edgecomb Limestone 20 Classical Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu" Non-Finalist Talent 2002 Rachel Wadsworth Hiram 20 Miss Forest City Rhythm Tap Dance Contestant at National Sweetheart 2001 2001 Meranda Hafford Washburn 20 Miss Northern Aroostook Vocal "Next Time I Love" 2000 Renee Belanger Washburn 22 Miss Northern Aroostook Jazz Dance "Jet Prologue" from West Side Story 1999 Rebecca Pelkey Howland 21 Miss Greater Portland Character Ballet "Can-Can" 1998 Stephany Stanley Canton 20 Miss Southeast Acro-Jazz Dance "The Stampede!" from The Lion King Contestant at National Sweetheart 1997 1997 Rachel Binder Presque Isle 23 Miss Aroostook County Lyrical Ballet "Seasons of Love" 1996 Sarah Nadeau Portland 20 Miss Greater Portland Classical Vocal "Addio" from La bohème 1995 Sharon Pelletier Madawaska 23 Miss Greater Portland Popular Vocal "At This Moment" 1994 Victoria Renyolds Bangor 22 Miss Cumberland County Tap Dance 1993 Josette Huntress Limestone 21 Miss Northern Maine Piano 1992 Christina Jane Lasso Augusta 23 Miss Central Maine Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville 1991 Dorie Noble South Portland 25 Miss Cumberland County Comedic Monologue "Yma Dream" by Thomas Meehan 1990 Ann Rowe Auburn 26 Miss Greater Portland Vocal "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables 1989 Jane Brochu Augusta 25 Miss Augusta Vocal "Stormy Weather" 1988 Lisa Kent Gorham 21 Miss Cumberland County Gymnastics / Jazz Dance 1987 Laurie Watham Fort Fairfield 25 Miss Northern Aroostook Piano Solo "Ode to Joy" Non-finalist Talent Award 1986 Victoria Reed Falmouth 26 Miss Windjammer Vocal "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 1985 Mary Margaret Nightingale Fort Fairfield 20 Miss Southern Aroostook Vocal "The Blue Danube" 1984 Lisa Johnson South Portland 22 Miss Cumberland County Electric Violin 1983 Brenda Theriault Presque Isle 22 Miss Southern Aroostook Vocal "Bill Bailey" 1982 Rebecca Beck Brunswick 21 Miss Bangor Classical Vocal "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus 1981 Kathleen Jarrell Orr's Island 19 Miss Windjammer Vocal Medley "Swanee," "My Mammy" & "I'm Happy" 1980 Valerie Crooker Brunswick 24 Miss Brunswick Vocal / Dance Previously Miss Maine USA 1979, currently serves as President of the Miss Maine Board of Directors 1979 Jill O'Brien Bangor 22 Miss Bangor Ballet "Irish Suite" 1978 Linda Carroll Alfred 22 Miss Maine Mall Semi-Classical Vocal "I Could Have Danced All Night" 1977 Terry Gilpatrick Lincoln 18 Miss Lincoln Pantomime "Me and My Shadow" 1976 Susan Wambaugh Presque Isle 19 Miss Maine Potato Queen Dramatic Monologue from As You Like It 1975 Patricia Cyr Madawaska 18 Miss Maine Potato Queen Vocal "Cabaret" Toured with Miss America USO Troupe 1974 Margaret Ann Welch Bangor 22 Miss Greater Bangor Vocal "Killing Me Softly with His Song" 1973 Carlene Quimby Auburn 20 Miss University of Maine Vocal "I Cain't Say No" 1972 Marilyn Lash Friendship 19 Miss University of Maine Semi-Classical Vocal "Poor Wand'ring One" from The Pirates of Penzance 1971 Allyn Warner Falmouth 21 Miss Greater Portland Semi-Classical Vocal "Mira" from Carnival 4th runner-up Preliminary Talent Award Toured with Miss America USO Troupe 1970 Karen Johanna Johnson Cumberland Foreside 20 Miss Greater Portland Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" 2nd runner-up 1969 Kirsten Elizabeth Bell Caribou 18 Miss Caribou Piano Solo "Theme from The Apartment" 1968 Brenda Renee Verceles Bangor 19 Miss Bangor Tap Dance "Step to the Rear" from How Now, Dow Jones 1967 Linda Christine Livanda Cape Elizabeth 19 Miss Cape Elizabeth Original Recitation & Dance "Dance of the Decades" 1966 Mary Kathryn Gonya Millinocket 20 Miss Millinocket Recitation Previously Maine's Junior Miss 1964 1965 Ellen Margaret Fowler Old Orchard Beach 19 Miss Gorham State Teachers' College Vocal / Dance "Some People" 1964 Ellen J Warren Kennebunk 18 Vocal / Dance Toured with Miss America USO troupe, featured performer on the 1965 and 1966 Miss America Pageant telecasts 1963 Elaine Ann Ouillette Lewiston Miss Lewiston Musical Variety Act 1962 Barbara Jean Orr Portland 19 Miss Livermore Falls Vocal "I Wanna Be Loved by You" 1961 Dawn Frances Christie Gray 21 Miss Scarborough Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11" Non-finalist Talent Award 1960 Sally Ann Robinson Enfield 20 Miss Lincoln Monologue / Piano Non-finalist Talent Award 1959 Linda Mills Lewiston 18 Dramatic Reading Assumed the title after the original winner, Linda Leeman, withdrew in order to get married 1958 Terry Suzanne Tripp Lewiston Ballet 1957 Carol Ann Bartels Bath Drama / Art 1956 Mary Ellen Sanborn Gardiner Drama 1955 Janice Vaughn Waterville 1954 Mary Ellen St. John Old Town Drama 1953 Karen Diane Thorsell Portland Vocal 1952 Norma Lee Collins Caribou 1951 Beverly Ann Emery Auburn Classical Vocal from The Student Prince 1950 Jane Harragan Millinocket Drama "The Corn Is Green" 1949 Connie Gingrass Augusta 1948 Muriel Applebee Enfield 1945 Virginia Trask Portland Vocal "I Should Care" 1943 Eleanor Fournier Westbrook 1940 Shirley Edith Houston Augusta 1938 Doris Marie Bergeron Lewiston 1937 Cornelia Campbell South Portland 1936 Dolly Stewart Rockland 1936 Edna Smith Portland competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant 1933 Iva Stewart 19 Semi-Finalist 1924 No Miss Maine Lillian J. Barry competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant 1923 No Miss Maine Winona Evelyn Drew competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant. References
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