Miss Nebraska
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The Miss Nebraska competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

 in the Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 pageant.

Winners

Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes
2011 Kayla Batt Alliance
Alliance, Nebraska
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21 Miss Omaha Vocal Previously Miss Nebraska's Outstanding Teen 2007; Top 10 at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 2010
2010 Nicky Haverland 24 Miss Douglas County 3rd runner-up to Miss Nebraska 2010; Assumed title when Teresa Scanlan won the Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 title
Teresa Scanlan
Teresa Scanlan
Teresa Scanlan, is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Gering, Nebraska who was named Miss Nebraska 2010, subsequently winning Miss America 2011 and becoming the youngest Miss America since Bette Cooper in 1937.-Biography:...

Gering
Gering, Nebraska
Gering is a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Scottsbluff, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,751 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Scotts Bluff County....

17 Miss Southeast Piano "White Water Chopped Sticks" by Calvin Jones
Calvin Jones (musician)
Calvin James Jones, Sr. was an American trombonist, bassist, pianist, bandleader, composer and educator. Born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Jones moved to Washington, D.C. in the 1970s where he remained until his death from a heart attack in October 2004...

Winner at Miss America 2011
Miss America 2011
Miss America 2011 was the 90th Miss America pageant. Since the first Miss America pageant was held 90 years ago, in 1921, the Miss America Organization is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2011. It was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas...

Preliminary Talent Award At 17, she is the youngest Miss Nebraska ever crowned.
2009 Brittany Jeffers Ogallala
Ogallala, Nebraska
Ogallala is a city in Keith County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 4,737 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Keith County. In the days of the Nebraska Territory, the city was a stop on the Pony Express and later along the transcontinental railroad...

23 Miss Omaha Dance "So Much Better" from Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde (musical)
Legally Blonde is a musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach. The story is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to...

Top 10 Semi-finalist Top 10 at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 2007
2008 Gretchen Bergquist Oxford
Oxford, Nebraska
Oxford is a village in Furnas and Harlan Counties in the U.S. state of Nebraska. The population was 876 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Oxford is located at...

22 Miss Panhandle Vocal "Feeling Good
Feeling Good
"Feeling Good" is a song written by English singer-songwriters Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the 1965 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd starring Cy Grant, who sang the original version of the song...

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2007 Ashley Bauer Scottsbluff
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 15,039 at the 2010 census. Scottsbluff is the largest city in the Nebraska Panhandle, and the 13th largest city in Nebraska....

22 Miss Douglas County Vocal "This Is My Life" Contestant at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 2006
2006 Molly McGrath Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

23 Miss Sarpy County Jazz Dance "She Bangs
She Bangs
"She Bangs" is a song performed by Ricky Martin, from his 2000 album Sound Loaded. An up-tempo, salsa-influenced song with double entendres about the singer's infatuation with a woman, Martin's recording earned him continued crossover success around the world.The song was co-written by Desmond...

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Preliminary Swimsuit Award Previously Nebraska's Junior Miss 2001
2005 Kelly Keiser Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Nebraska
Gothenburg is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Lexington, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,619 at the 2000 census.-History:...

21 Miss Lincoln Piano "Cumana
Cumana Song
The Cumana Song is a mambo song written by Barclay Allen, together with Harold Spina and Roc Hillman in 1947. Its signature riff is a fast moody change between two chords with some syncopation added...

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Contestant at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 2004
2004 Brook Matthews Blair
Blair, Nebraska
Blair is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 7,990 at the 2000 census. Blair is a part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...

24 Miss Omaha Vocal "Shine It On" Contestant at National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 2003
2003 Jane Noseworthy Bellevue
Bellevue, Nebraska
Bellevue is a city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 50,137 at the 2010 census. Eight miles south of Omaha, Bellevue is part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. Originally settled in the 1830s, It was the first state capitol. Bellevue was incorporated in...

24 Miss Omaha Classical Vocal "Art Is Calling For Me" from The Enchantress Non-finalist Talent Award
2002 Krista Knicely Omaha 23 Miss Douglas County Jazz Dance "I'm a Woman
I'm a Woman (song)
The song "I'm a Woman" was written by famed songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and was first recorded in 1962 by Christine Kittrell. It was also the title song to Peggy Lee's 1963 album I'm a Woman . It was a minor hit single for Lee, reaching number 54 on U.S...

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2001 Christina Foehlinger Ralston
Ralston, Nebraska
Ralston is a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 6,314 at the 2000 census. Ralston is geographically surrounded by Omaha, Nebraska but is a separate city. Since Ralston's population is below 10,000, state law technically allows for Omaha to forcibly annex Ralston...

21 Miss Tri-Cities Baton Twirling "Theme from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a 1991 American adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds. Kevin Costner heads the cast list as Robin Hood...

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Top 20 Semi-finalist Sister of Rachel Foehlinger, Miss Nebraska's Outstanding Teen 2008
2000 Jill Pennington Omaha 23 Miss Great Plains Vocal "If I Loved You
If I Loved You
"If I Loved You" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.The song was introduced by John Raitt as "Billy Bigelow" and Jan Clayton as "Julie"...

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Non-finalist Interview Award
1999 Becky Smith Omaha 20 Miss Omaha Ballet en Pointe "Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical)
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña...

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1998 Jenny Lemmerman West Point
West Point, Nebraska
West Point is a city in and the county seat of Cuming County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,660 at the 2000 census.-History:West Point was first founded in the spring of 1857, when Omaha businessmen formed the Nebraska Settlement Association in order to find suitable townsites in...

20 Miss Great Plains Vocal "I'm a Woman"
1997 Kendra Quandt Davenport
Davenport, Nebraska
Davenport is a village in Thayer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 339 at the 2000 census.-History:In 1872, the village was platted by the Nebraska Land and Town Company, and the St. Joseph and Denver City railroad line was built through the site of village. In 1887, the village...

23 Miss Western Nebraska Classical Piano "Prelude in C sharp minor" Non-finalist Talent Award, 1st runner-up Quality of Life Award
1996 Rachel White Columbus
Columbus, Nebraska
Columbus is a city in east central Nebraska, United States. Its population was 22,111 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Platte County.-Pre-settlement history:...

20 Miss Great Plains Vocal "Via Dolorosa"
1995 Myra Katherine Hale Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....

23 Miss Douglas County Classical Piano Non-finalist Talent Award, 2nd runner-up Quality of Life Award
1994 Jennifer Love North Platte
North Platte, Nebraska
North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is located in the southwestern part of the state, along Interstate 80, at the confluence of the North and South Platte Rivers forming the Platte River...

21 Miss High Plains Classical Vocal "Romany Life" from The Fortune Teller
The Fortune Teller (operetta)
The Fortune Teller is an operetta in three acts written by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Harry B. Smith. After a brief tryout in Toronto, it premiered on Broadway on September 26, 1898 at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 40 performances...

1993 Mary Lynn Schnitzler Battle Creek
Battle Creek, Nebraska
Battle Creek is a city in Madison County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Norfolk, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,158 at the 2000 census.-History:...

23 Miss Norfolk Area Vocal "Someone Like You" from Jekyll & Hyde
Jekyll & Hyde (musical)
Jekyll & Hyde is a musical based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The original stage conception was by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn. The music is by Wildhorn and the lyrics and book are by Leslie Bricusse.The musical ran on Broadway for 1,543...

1992 Natalie Kuijvenhoven Lincoln 21 Miss Great Plains Vocal "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, is one of the most famous songs from their classic 1927 musical play Show Boat, adapted from Edna Ferber's novel.-Context:...

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1991 Vicki Linn Train North Platte 24 Miss Great Plains Piano Solo "Pour le Piano
Pour le piano
Pour le piano , L.95, is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. The composition was finished and issued in 1901. Its premiere took place on 11 January 1902 in the Salle Érard for the Société Nationale de Musique, with Ricardo Viñes as the pianist.It consists of three parts:# Prélude# Sarabande#...

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Non-Finalist Talent Award
Finalist-Quality of Life Award
1990 Michelle Ebadi Omaha 23 Miss Western Nebraska Tap Dance "Sing, Sing, Sing" & "Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
"Puttin' on the Ritz" is a popular song written and published in 1929 by Irving Berlin and introduced by Harry Richman in the musical film Puttin' on the Ritz . The title derives from the slang expression "putting on the Ritz," meaning to dress very fashionably. The expression was inspired by the...

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1989 Kristi Hilliard Ogallala 24 Miss Great Plains Vocal "Golden Rainbow
Golden Rainbow
Golden Rainbow is the title of a Broadway musical that opened in 1968. It starred Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé for its entire run until it closed in early 1969....

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1988 Jodi Miller Omaha 20 Miss Omaha Acrobatic Jazz Dance Previously Nebraska's Junior Miss 1986
1987 Mindee Zimmerman Norfolk
Norfolk, Nebraska
Norfolk is a city in Madison County, Nebraska, United States, 113 miles northwest of Omaha and 83 miles west of Sioux City at the intersection of U.S. Routes 81 and 275. The population was 24,210 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Nebraska. It is the principal city of the...

23 Miss Kearney Area Vocal "People"
1986 Donna Schieffer Columbus 19 Miss Columbus Area Mystical Modern Dance
1985 Julie Meusburger Lincoln 22 Miss River City Flute Solo "Carmen Fantasy
Carmen Fantasy
The Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25, written in 1883 by Pablo de Sarasate, is a violin fantasy on themes from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet....

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Non-finalist Talent Award
1984 Allison Boyd Nebraska City
Nebraska City, Nebraska
Nebraska City is a city in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 7,228 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Otoe County...

21 Miss University of Nebraska Acrobatic Dance Non-finalist Talent Award
1983 Kristin Lowenberg Kearney
Kearney, Nebraska
Kearney is a city in and the county seat of Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 30,787 at the 2010 census. It is home to the University of Nebraska-Kearney....

20 Miss Kearney Area Jazz Dance "What a Feeling
What a Feeling (Flashdance)
"What a Feeling " is an electronic dance song by Austrian group Global Deejays. The track is a house cover version of the Eighties pop hit single "Flashdance... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara. The title of the original song was reversed for the new title of the cover version, with "Flashdance" now a...

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Top 10 Semi-finalist
1982 Sandra Haschke Humphrey
Humphrey, Nebraska
Humphrey is a city in Platte County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 786 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Humphrey is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

20 Miss Lincoln Area Popular Vocal "All I Ever Need Is You"
1981 Jill Pershing Lincoln 21 Miss Lincoln Ballet en Pointe "Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects....

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1980 Paula Louise Mitchell Norfolk 20 Miss University of Nebraska Piano "Khachaturian's Toccata
Toccata
Toccata is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the performer's fingers...

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Non-finalist Talent Award
1979 Kathryn Ann Saathoff Fremont
Fremont, Nebraska
Fremont is a city in and the county seat of Dodge County, Nebraska, United States, near Omaha in the eastern part of the state. The population was 26,397 at the 2010 census....

21 Miss Midland Lutheran College Vocal "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
"It Don't Mean a Thing " is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Irving Mills, now accepted as a jazz standard. The music was written and arranged by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at Chicago's Lincoln Tavern and was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for...

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1978 Guylyn Remmenga Elwood
Elwood, Nebraska
Elwood is a village in Gosper County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Lexington, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 707 at the 2010 census...

21 Miss University of Nebraska-Lincoln Piano Solo "Toccata" & "Nocturne
Nocturnes (Chopin)
The Chopin nocturnes constitute 21 short pieces for solo piano written by Frédéric Chopin between 1827 and 1846. They are generally considered among the finest short solo works for the instrument and hold an important place in contemporary concert repertoire...

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Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award (tie) Previously Miss National Sweetheart
National Sweetheart
Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart....

 1976
1977 Linda Kay Hallstrom Omaha 18 Miss Eastern Nebraska Area Jazz Dance "Liza Live at the Winter Garden
Live at the Winter Garden
Live at the Winter Garden is the title of Liza Minnelli's Second solo live album and the first under her Columbia contract. Released in 1974.-Side one:...

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Non-finalist Talent Award Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1976 Marion Catherine Watson Omaha 22 Vocal "Over the Rainbow
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie...

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1975 Janet Kay Goode Omaha 19 Miss Omaha Dramatic Skit "Why?"
1974 Sharon Sue Pelc Johnstown
Johnstown, Nebraska
Johnstown is a village in Brown County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 53 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Johnstown is located at ....

22 Miss Ord Ventriloquism & Singing "Those Were the Days"
1973 Sandy Cramer Omaha 18 Miss Omaha Acrobatic Jazz Dance "I'm an Ordinary Man"
1972 Jeanine Giller Omaha 22 Miss Omaha Jazz Dance "Bitter End"
1971 Sally Lou Warner Bushnell
Bushnell, Nebraska
Bushnell is a village in Kimball County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 162 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bushnell is located at ....

19 Miss Kimball Vocal "Big Spender
Big Spender
"Big Spender" is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical Sweet Charity, first performed in 1966. It is sung, in the musical, by the dance hostess "girls"; it was choreographed by Bob Fosse for the Broadway musical and the film...

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1970 Debra May Sullivan Omaha 19 Miss Omaha Acrobatic Dance "Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon
"Fly Me to the Moon" is a popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was originally titled "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets...

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1969 Jane Deliese Briggeman Seward
Seward, Nebraska
Seward is a city in Seward County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,133 at the 2000 census...

21 Miss York Musical Interpretation "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" is a popular song. The music is credited to Harry Carroll, although the melody is actually adapted from Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin. The lyrics were written by Joseph McCarthy, and the song was published in 1917 and introduced in the Broadway show Oh, Look!...

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Fantaisie-Impromptu
Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 66, is a solo piano composition and one of his best-known pieces. It was composed in 1834 and dedicated to Julian Fontana, who published the piece in spite of Chopin's request not to do so....

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Miss Congeniality
1968 Diane Boldt Omaha 19 Miss Kearney Character Dance "Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...

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1967 Terry Lee Schmidt Lincoln 18 Miss University of Nebraska Drawing & Reading "What Is a Girl?" by Alan Beck
1966 Patricia Lee Van Horne Lincoln 19 Miss Lincoln Popular Vocal "Misty
Misty (song)
"Misty" is a jazz standard written in 1954 by the pianist Erroll Garner.Originally composed as an instrumental following the traditional 32-bar format, the tune later had lyrics by Johnny Burke and became the signature song of Johnny Mathis, reaching #12 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart in 1959...

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Non-finalist Talent Award
1965 Karen Hansmeire Ogallala 20 Miss Ogallala Semi-Classical Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It"
1964 Sandra Lee Rice Cozad
Cozad, Nebraska
Cozad is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,977 at the 2010 census. The town is on the Great Plains of central Nebraska, along the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S. Highway 30, just north of the Platte River...

20 Miss Lexington Dramatic Reading
1963 Donna Marie Black Broken Bow
Broken Bow, Nebraska
Broken Bow is a city in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,491 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Custer County.-History:...

Miss Grand Island Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music...

Featured Performer for the 1964 Miss America Pageant telecast
1962 Mary Lee Jepsen
Mary Lee Jepsen
Marylee Jepsen was born in Omaha, Nebraska on January 22, 1944. She was Miss Nebraska in 1962 at 18 years old and the feature performer on the 1963 Miss America Pageant Telecast. She ended up as a semi-finalist in the top ten and tied for the Preliminary Talent Award. She twirled three fire...

Papillion
Papillion, Nebraska
Papillion is a city in Sarpy County in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is a suburb to the southwest of neighboring Omaha, and is the county seat of Sarpy County. The population of Papillion was 18,894 at the 2010 census. In 2009, Papillion was named the #3 best place to live in the United States by...

18 Miss Papillion Fire Baton Twirling "Ritual Fire Dance" Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award (tie) Featured performer on the 1963 Miss America Pageant telecast
1961 Nancy Lee Foreman Albion
Albion, Nebraska
Albion is a city in and the county seat of Boone County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,797 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Albion is located at ....

20 Miss Albion Dramatic Reading "Such Is Your Heritage"
1960 Cheryl Ann Jaeke Shelton
Shelton, Nebraska
Shelton is a village in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Kearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,140 at the 2000 census. It is located west of Grand Island along both the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S...

18 Miss Grand Island Vocal
1959 Joan Arolyn Sipes Columbus 19 Piano
1958 Sherry Johnson Omaha Monologue Non-finalist Talent Award
1957 Katherine L. Nielsen Lincoln Dance Non-finalist Talent Award Later Miss Iowa USA 1959
1956 Diane Knotek Lincoln Classical Vocal "The Polonaise" Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award
1955 Sandra Spiecher Omaha
1954 Sue Welch Fisher Kearney Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...

1953 Diana Louise Hann Lincoln Art
1952 Helen Francis Burhorn Omaha Piano / Dance
1951 Geraldine Elseman Omaha
1950 Jinx Burrus Crete
Crete, Nebraska
Crete is a city in Saline County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 6,960 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Crete is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

Baton Twirling
1949 Vanita Mae Brown Omaha
1948 Betty Love Booth Fremont
Serena McKinney* Omaha
1947 Madalyn Joyce King* Omaha Tap Dance Non-finalist Talent Award
1946 Marjorie Ann Hanson* Omaha
1942 Claire Buglewicz Vocal "You Made Me Love You
You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)
"You Made Me Love You " is a popular song.The music was written by James V. Monaco, the lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. The song was published in 1913. It was introduced in the Broadway revue The Honeymoon Express....

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1938 Emmajane Newby Humboldt
Humboldt, Nebraska
Humboldt is a city in Richardson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 941 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Humboldt is located at ....

1937 Ruth Lenore Jones Nebraska City Assumed the title after the original winner, Ruby Hart, was disqualified after getting married
1926 Anne Kathleen Fouca* Omaha
1925 Myrtle Roach* Omaha Top 15 Semi-finalist

  • Competed in Miss America pageant as Miss Omaha

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