Former Miss Nebraskas
Several former Miss Nebraskas with Miss America during a
special Homecoming Luncheon.
Front Row: Jane Noseworthy, 2003; Paula Mitchell Pflueger.
1980; Sue Welch Fisher, 1954; Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011; Vicki Train
Harris, 1991; Myra Katherine Hale Fritz, 1995; Rachel White Scott, 1996; Jill
Pennington Deleault, 2000. Back Row: Krista Knicely Anderson, 2002; Mary Lynn
Schnitzler Nordhues, 1993; Nicky Haverland, 2010; Brook Matthews Hudson, 2004;
Jill Pershing Davis, 1981, Jodi Miller Holen, 1988
Also in attendance for some of the Homecoming Events, but
not pictured were: Omaha- Jenny Lemmerman Reeser, 1998; Kelly Keiser Terrell,
2005. North Platte-Kristi Hilliard, 1989; Michelle Ebadi McCormick, 1990,
Becky Smith Wagner, 1999; Brittany Jeffers, 2009.
The following is a list of our former Miss
Nebraskas and their awards:
(For current information about them, click
here)
2010-Nicky Haverland
2010-Teresa Scanlan (Miss America 2011)
2009- Brittany Jeffers (Top 10)
2008-Gretchen Bergquist
2007-Ashley Bauer
2006-Molly McGrath (Preliminary Fitness Winner)
2005-Kelly Keiser
2004-Brook Matthews
2003-Jane Noseworthy (Non-Finalist Talent Winner)
2002-Krista Knicely
2001-Tina Foehlinger (Top 20)
2000-Jill Pennington (Overall Non-Finalist Interview Winner)
1999- Becky Smith
1998-Jenny Lemmerman
1997-Kendra Quandt (1st runner up-Quality of Life Award, NFTA)
1996-Rachel White
1995-Myra Katherine Hale (2nd runner up-Quality of Life Award, NFTA)
1994-Jennifer Love
1993-Mary Lynn Schnitzler
1992-Natalie Kuijvenhoven
1991-Vicki Linn Train (Quality of Life Award,NFTA)
1990-Michelle Ebadi
1989-Kristi Hilliard (Quality of Life Award)
1988-Jodi Miller
1987-Mindee Zimmerman
1986-Donna Scheiffer
1985-Julie Meusburger (NFTA)
1984-Alison Boyd (NFTA)
1983-Kristin Lowenberg (Semi-Finalist)
1982-Sandra Haschke
1981-Jill Pershing
1980-Paula Louise Mitchell (Talent Award)
1979-Kathryn Ann Saathoff
1978-Guylyn Elaine Remmenga (Semi-Finalist, Preliminary Talent Award)
1977-Linda Kay Hallstrom (Talent Award, USO Troupe)
1976-Marion Catherine Watson
1975-Janet Kay Goode
1974-Sharon Sue Pelc
1973-Sandy Cramer
1972-Jeanine Giller
1971-Sally Lou Warner
1970-Debra Sue Sullivan
1969-Jane Deliese Briggeman (Miss Congeniality, Special Judges Award)
1968-Diane Boldt
1967-Terry Lee Schmidt
1966-Patricia Lee Van Horne (Special Judges Award)
1965-Karen Hansmeire
1964-Sandra Lee Rice
1963-Donna Marie Black
1962-Mary Lee Jepsen (Semi-Finalist)
1961-Nancy Lee Foreman
1960-Cheryl Ann Jaeke
1959-Joan Arolyn Sipes
1958-Sherry Johnson (Talent Award)
1957-Katherine L. Nielsen (Talent Award)
1956-Diane Knotek
(Talent Award, Preliminary Talent Award)
1955-Sandra Spiecher
1954-Sue Welch Fisher
(First Television Broadcast in 1954)
1953-Diana Louise Hann
1952-Helen Francis Burhorn
NEBRASKA'S REPRESENTATIVES PRIOR TO
1952:
Miss Nebraska 1951-Geraldine Elseman,
Omaha
Miss Nebraska 1950-Jinx Burrus,
Crete
Miss Nebraska 1949-Vanita Mae Brown,
Omaha
Nebraska had two representatives in 1948, a
Miss Nebraska and a Miss Omaha.
Miss Omaha 1948-Serena McKinney
Miss Nebraska 1948-Betty Love Booth,
Fremont
(First Miss America crowned in Evening
Gown in 1948 -- BeBe Shopp, MN)
Miss Omaha 1947-Madalyn Joyce King
Miss Omaha 1946-Marjorie Ann Hanson
((Scholarships added at the national level in
1945))
Miss Nebraska 1942-Clarie Buglewicz (town
missing)
Miss Nebraska 1938-Emajar Newby,
Humboldt
Miss Nebraska 1937-Ruth Lenore Jones, Nebraska
City
Miss Omaha 1926-Anne Kathleen Fouca
Miss Omaha 1925-Myrtis Roach (The first
representative to Miss America from Nebraska was Miss Omaha in1925.)
(Miss America Started 1921, but
discontinued in 1928, until 1933)
(Src: Ric Ferentz, Miss Am Historian
4-22-01)