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...boyfriend, Daniel D. Sedgwick ’03, says she didn’t tell him about it until she’d already won the preliminaries. When she competed in Miss Rhode Island, though, she couldn’t hide that she was the first contestant in the pageant??s history to win all three preliminary competitions...
Still, the grinning procession is tame and prudish in today’s world, and pageant officials seem to like it that way. In 1999, new pageant rules banned thongs and string bikinis, the better to project an innocent, all-American image. Relatively speaking, the pageant??s misogyny now consists less of objectifying women and more of a nostalgic social regressiveness...
After the announcement of the pageant??s five finalists included neither Nancy A. Redd ’03 nor Laurie B. Gray ’03, the two walked offstage having netted over $20,000 each during the state and national competitions...
Since the summer, Redd and Gray have appeared on “Good Morning America,” “Inside Edition,” and in numerous print publications, including the front page of the Boston Globe metro section, as a symbol of the pageant??s changing mores...
When Gray won the Miss Rhode Island title in April, she was the first in the pageant??s history to sweep all three preliminary competitions. This past weekend she reportedly made Miss America history along with Miss New Hampshire Candace Glickman, by being part of the first finalist group to have two contestants from New England...