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Last weekend my “reign” as Maryland??s Junior Miss came to an end, a year after I entered the pageant on a whim. Billed as a “scholarship program for accomplished high school seniors,” America’s Junior Miss program looked like a good chance to get some money for Harvard. Though my mother never forced false eyelashes on my three-year-old self in an attempt to capture the Mid-Atlantic Miss Dream Girl title, my first cousin, Miss America 1979 had been pestering...
...states, and got along with the girls. I had to refrain from rolling my eyes sometimes, but all in all, it was an enjoyable couple days. And I really thought it would be just that—a weekend. So imagine my surprise when they announced me as Maryland??s Junior Miss 2002. In pictures of me wearing my gleaming Junior Miss medallion, I look shocked. During my news interview, I look shocked. In the mirror that night, washing pounds of stage makeup, I looked—you guessed it—shocked...
...spent the last couple days of my spring break last week in Frederick, Md., as a part of the 2003 Maryland??s Junior Miss program. This year’s participants were predictably cute, spunky and sweet. They had the requisite beaming grins and bouncing ponytails. None of them seemed particularly catty or driven to win, although one girl lingered behind after rehearsals to grill me for tips on the interview. Last Saturday night I gave a goodbye speech, performed my talent one last time, and gave this year’s winner her silver medallion...
...author of the book “The Last Amateurs,” which hailed the Patriot League—a small conference which grants few athletic scholarships—as one of the last remaining bastions of amateur athletics. In contrast, Feinstein pointed to the University of Maryland??s decision to retire the jersey number of former star Steve Francis—who declared for the NBA draft after just one year in college and never graduated—as representative of many schools’ misplaced priorities. “Harvard doesn’t want...
Bergman, who was the Eastern regional champion last year, fell in the quarterfinals this year to Maryland??s Delila Causevic...