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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...
...found myself, participant seven of ten, a little out of my league. Most of the girls were old hat (crown?) to the pageant scene—former Miss Chesapeakes, Miss Teen Marylands to name a few. Junior Miss is a little different from traditional pageants—heavy emphasis on academics, talent and interview, and only high school seniors are allowed to compete...
Absent from this year’s pageant was the controversy surrounding last year’s event, when some students voiced concerns about the way beauty pageants portray women...
...There were some people who assumed that it was going to be something stereotypical, but they didn’t realize that it would be a mock pageant,” Soong said of last year’s contest. “We tried very hard to be sensitive to women’s issues while still making a good show...
...Soong said in an e-mail that he expects IMPACT will stage the pageant again next year...