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...fact, the Miss Harvard event, which auditioned men as well as women, is actually serious on a certain level. Organizers hope to raise at least $1,000 for the student group IMPACT, which helps children in developing nations...
Many of the pageants Chavez has competed in are also involved in charity. Chavez has organized blood drives throughout Texas, established literacy programs for children in libraries and directed self-esteem seminars as part of her title duties. “I’m most proud of being Miss Fiestas del Llano [a title which she held last year that celebrates her Mexican heritage] and Miss American Achievement [a title she currently holds]. They are not as based on beauty as they are on academic performance and extracurricular activities,” she says...
...current title holder, pageants are still very much a part of Chavez’s life at Harvard, but for another Harvard beauty queen, Hannah E. Kenser ’04, who won the Miss Teen Illinois pageant her senior year in high school, pageants are a thing of the past. “I only won that one title and do not plan on entering any more pageants in the future,” she says. Upon arriving at Harvard, Kenser played down her title, not wanting it to be the main feature by which she was identified...
Kenser chose to put pageantry behind her when she came to Harvard, but for Sarah M. Poage ’05 the choice was made for her. In the spring of her senior year of high school Poage was crowned Miss Teenage San Diego, but then had to give up her title since she was going to be a full-time student on the East Coast and wouldn’t be able to perform her title duties. “It was frustrating because sponsors had recruited me to enter the competition and I won overwhelmingly...
Poage says she does not plan to compete for the Miss Harvard title. “It will be fun to watch,” she says. “If it was a real pageant and not just a comical one, I’d probably compete...