Miss America 1980
Miss America 1980 | |
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Date | September 8, 1979 |
Presenters | Bert Parks |
Venue | Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Broadcaster | NBC |
Winner | Cheryl Prewitt Mississippi |
Miss America 1980, the 53rd Miss America pageant, was televised from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 8, 1979 by the NBC Television Network.
Results[]
Placements[]
Final results | Contestant |
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Miss America 1980 | |
1st runner-up |
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2nd runner-up |
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3rd runner-up |
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4th runner-up |
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Top 10 |
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Awards[]
Preliminary awards[]
Awards | Contestant |
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Lifestyle and Fitness |
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Talent |
Non-finalist awards[]
Awards | Contestant |
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Talent |
Judges[]
- Irene Dailey
- Janet Langhart
- Gavin MacLeod
- Roger Simon
- Jerry Vale
Contestants[]
State | Name | Hometown | Age | Talent | Placement | Special Awards | Notes |
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Alabama | Kathy Pickett | Mulga | 26 | Classical Vocal, "Sempre Libera" from La Traviata | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
Alaska | Lila Oberg | Palmer | 19 | Vocal, "For Once in My Life" | |||
Arizona | Pam Wenzel | Phoenix | 22 | Acrobatic Gymnastic Dance, Theme from The Children of Sanchez | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
Arkansas | Janet Holman | North Little Rock | 22 | Vocal, "Somewhere" | |||
California | Deanna Rae Fogarty | Azusa | 22 | Vocal, "Cabaret" | |||
Colorado | Sheliah Wilkins | Denver | 23 | Classical Vocal, "Quando me'n vo'" | |||
Connecticut | Laura Kaufmann | Enfield | 18 | Interpretive Modern Jazz Dance | |||
Delaware | Ann Lorraine Harrington | Milford | 22 | Magic Act | |||
Florida | Marti Sue Phillips | Tampa | 22 | Jazz Clarinet Medley, Rhapsody in Blue & "Begin the Beguine" | 4th runner-up | ||
Georgia | Sandra Eakes | Warner Robins | 22 | Popular Vocal, "The Trolley Song" & "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Sister of Miss Georgia 1982, Bobbie Eakes | |
Hawaii | Sheron Lehuanani Bissen | Kahului | 20 | Vocal, "Over the Rainbow" | |||
Idaho | Gladys Steele | Boise | 22 | Violin, "Polish Dance" | |||
Illinois | Elizabeth Russell | Pekin | 20 | Classical Vocal, "O Luce di Quest'Anima" from Linda di Chamounix | |||
Indiana | Rickee Farrell | Valparaiso | 18 | Acrobatic Dance, "Sweet Charity" | |||
Iowa | Lori Froeling | Keokuk | 20 | Flute, "Carnival of Venice" | Top 10 | ||
Kansas | Michelle Elaine Whitson | Mission | 21 | Harp, "Never on Sunday" | 2nd runner-up | Previously National Sweetheart 1978 | |
Kentucky | Kathryn Parker | Wilmore | 21 | Flute, "The Swiss Shepherd's Song" | |||
Louisiana | Myrrah McCully | Monroe | 24 | Piano, "Piano Concerto in D-flat major" by Aram Khachaturian | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
Maine | Jill O'Brien | Bangor | 22 | Ballet, "Irish Suite" | |||
Maryland | Shelly Meg Peiken | Greenbelt | 22 | Self-Composed Vocal, "Carry Me Home" | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | ||
Massachusetts | Lisa Matta | Brockton | 20 | Jazz Dance, "Slow Dancing" | |||
Michigan | Bethany Jane Wright | Saginaw | 19 | Vocal, "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
Minnesota | Debra Ann Nerby | Rochester | 24 | Vocal, "Who Can I Turn To?" | |||
Mississippi | Cheryl Prewitt | Ackerman | 22 | Vocal/Piano, "Don't Cry Out Loud" | Winner | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | |
Missouri | Susan Wilson | Columbia | 21 | Piano, Fantaisie-Impromptu | 3rd runner-up | ||
Montana | Lori Conlon | Billings | 20 | Piano, "Toccata" | |||
Nebraska | Kathryn Ann Saathoff | Fremont | 21 | Vocal, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" | |||
Nevada | Jeanne Cangemi | North Lake Tahoe | 22 | Classical & Jazz Saxophone, "Harlem Nocturne" & "Csárdás" | |||
New Hampshire | Monica Skiathitis | Manchester | 20 | Tap Dance, "Sweet Georgia Brown" | Previously New Hampshire's Junior Miss 1976 | ||
New Jersey | Mary McGinnis | Somers Point | 22 | Clarinet, "Hora" | |||
New Mexico | Susan Spartz | Alamogordo | 18 | Vocal, "My Man" | |||
New York | Kelli Krull | Buffalo | 21 | Baton Twirling Exhibition, "If My Friends Could See Me Now" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
North Carolina | Monta Maki | Hickory | 23 | Vocal, "You Light Up My Life" | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | ||
North Dakota | Daureen Podenski | Edgeley | 22 | Classical Vocal, "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
Ohio | Tana Carli | Lakewood | 23 | Accordion Medley, "Tea for Two" & "Dizzy Fingers" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
Oklahoma | Jill Elmore | Tulsa | 23 | Classical Vocal, "Art is Calling for Me" from The Enchantress by Victor Herbert | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
Oregon | Tami Sanders | Roseburg | 21 | Gymnastic Dance, "A Fifth of Beethoven" | |||
Pennsylvania | Carolyn Louise Black | Elizabethtown | 22 | Vocal, "All the Things You Are" | Top 10 | ||
Rhode Island | Elaine Rushlow | Westerly | 20 | Piano, "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" | |||
South Carolina | Jane Jenkins | Johns Island | 23 | Vocal Medley, "The Party's Over" & "Send in the Clowns" | Author of Bare Feet to High Heels, What Ta Tas Teach Us, and "Bury Me with My Pearls" | ||
South Dakota | Julie Kleinsasser | Freeman | 19 | Popular Vocal, "Cry" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
Tennessee | Elise Neal | Paris | 21 | Piano, "Prelude in C minor" by Rachmaninoff | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
Texas | Lex Ann Haughey | Hurst | 20 | Flute, "Flight of the Bumblebee" & "Flight '76" by Walter Murphy | |||
Utah | Karen L. Brimley | Layton | 19 | Semi-classical Vocal, "Love is Where You Find It" | |||
Vermont | Shari Bach | Middlebury | 22 | Classical Piano, Holberg Suite | |||
Virginia | Darlene McIntosh | Chesapeake | 22 | Classical Piano, "Prelude in C-sharp minor" | |||
Washington | Janelle Martz | Normandy Park | 22 | Classical Piano, "Piano Concerto in A Minor" by Edvard Grieg | |||
West Virginia | Deborah Davis | Huntington | 22 | Vocal Medley, "He Touched Me" from Drat! The Cat! & "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret | Top 10 | Previously Miss West Virginia USA 1978
1st runner-up at Mrs. World 1984 | |
Wisconsin | Kristine Konrad | Oshkosh | 19 | Vocal, "Starting Here, Starting Now" | |||
Wyoming | Karla Singer | Cheyenne | 19 | Vocal, "Mister Melody" |
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