The Miss Massachusetts competition is a scholarship pageant put on annually by the Miss Massachusetts Scholarship Foundation, Inc. The winner of the pageant receives the title of Miss Massachusetts and represents the state of Massachusetts at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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| Formation | 1922 |
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| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Boston |
| Location | |
Membership | Miss America |
Official language | English |
| Website | Official website |
Women between the ages of 17 and 24 who meet residency, scholastic and character requirements are eligible to compete in local pageants, the winners of which continue on to the Miss Massachusetts pageant in Worcester each July.
Contestants at the Miss Massachusetts competition are judged in five areas: personal interview, poise and grace in evening gown, lifestyle and fitness in swimsuit, artistic expression, and on stage question. Scholarships are awarded for Miss Massachusetts, first through fourth runners-up, preliminary talent winners, preliminary swimsuit winners, non-finalist talent winner, MAO Academic Award, MAO Service Award, and MAO Children's Miracle Network Award.
Chelsea Vuong of Cambridge was crowned Miss Massachusetts 2023 on June 25, 2023, at Hanover Theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts. She competed for the title of Miss America 2024 in January, 2024 in Orlando, Florida.
Results summary
The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Massachusetts titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.
Placements
- 1st runners-up: Paulina McKevitt* (1944), Catherine Monroe (1969), Abbie Rabine (2002)
- 2nd runners-up: Helena Frances Mack* (1943), Deborah O'Brien (1972), Elizabeth Pierre (2022)
- 3rd runners-up: Polly Connors (1940)
- 4th runners-up: Lauren Kuhn (2015), Gabriela Taveras (2019)
- Top 10: Virginia Maffucci (1956), Jewel Smerage (1957), Brenda Crovo (1961), Carol Kennedy (1967), Georgina Hossfeld (1970), Cynthia Carpenter (1976), Margaret O'Brien (1985), Lisa Desroches (1993), Marcia Turner (1996), Melanie Correia (2003)
- Top 15: Martha E. Hick** (1927), Ethel Beatrice Pierce* (1927), Barbara Laughton (1948), Alissa Musto (2017)
- Top 16: Claire Nevulis* (1937)
- Top 18: Elsie Taylor (1933)
Awards
Preliminary awards
- Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness: Helena Frances Mack* (1943), Abbie Rabine (2002)
- Preliminary On Stage Interview: Gabriela Taveras (2019)
- Preliminary Talent: Claire Nevulis (1937), Helena Frances Mack* (1943), Virginia Maffucci (1956), Cynthia Carpenter (1976), Margaret O'Brien (1985), Erika Ebbel (2005), Valerie Amaral (2008)
- Preliminary Interview: Abbie Rabine (2002)
Non-finalist awards
- Non-finalist Talent: Sharon Faught (1960), Maria Lynn Chaffee (1968), Marie Semas (1973), Rena Walmsley (1974), Amy Linder (1981), Holly Mayer (1984), Lisa Kleypas (1986), Aurelie McCarthy (1988), Marissa Laakso (1991), Melissa Bloemker (1992), Sharon Lee (1995), Lori Flick (1997), April Thibeaut (2000), Erika Ebbel (2005), Valerie Amaral (2008), Taylor Kinzler (2013)
- Non-finalist Interview: Elizabeth Hancock (1999)
Other awards
- Miss Congeniality: N/A
- Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship: Susan Sadlier (1975)
- Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship: Lauren Kuhn (2015), Alissa Musto (2017)
- Children's Miracle Network (CMN) Miracle Maker Award Winner: Valerie Amaral (2008), Loren Galler-Rabinowitz (2011)
- CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runners-up: Jillian Zucco (2018)
- People's Choice Award: Gabriela Taveras (2019)
- Quality of Life Award Finalists: Valerie Amaral (2008)
- STEM Scholarship Award Winners: Lauren Kuhn (2015), Jillian Zucco (2018), Gabriela Taveras (2019)
- STEM Scholarship Award 1st runners-up: Lyndsey Littlefield (2020)
- Waterford Crystal Award for Business Marketing and Management: Samira Zebian (1998)
* Competed as Miss Boston
** Competed as Miss Pittsfield
Winners
- Declared as winner
- Ended as a runner-up
- Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Chelsea Vuong | Cambridge | 25 | Miss North Shore | Piano | First Asian-American woman to win Miss Massachusetts | |||
| 2022 | Katrina Kincade | Boston | 25 | Miss Cambridge | Vocal | ||||
| 2021 | Elizabeth Pierre | North Cambridge | 23 | Miss Cambridge | Contemporary Dance | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 2019–20 | Lyndsey Littlefield[1] | East Taunton | 22 | Miss Taunton | Lyrical Dance | STEM Scholarship Award 1st runner-up[2] | Longest reigning Miss Massachusetts at 2 years and 18 days (749 days), second longest reigning Miss America state titleholder[citation needed] | ||
| 2018 | Gabriela Taveras[3] | Lawrence | 23 | Miss North Shore | Vocal, "Rise Up" | 4th runner-up[4] | People's Choice Award Preliminary On Stage Interview Award[5] STEM Scholarship Award[6] | First African American woman to win Miss Massachusetts title[3] | |
| 2017 | Jillian Zucco[7] | Mattapoisett | 24 | Miss Bristol County | Vocal, "The Impossible Dream" | CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runner-up[8] STEM Scholarship Award[8] | Top 10 finalist at National Sweetheart 2015 pageant | ||
| 2016 | Alissa Musto[9] | Rehoboth | 21 | Miss Cambridge | Piano | Top 15[10][11] | Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship | Later Miss Massachusetts World 2020[12] | |
| 2015 | Meagan Fuller[13] | Attleboro | 22 | Miss Collegiate Area | Jazz Dance, "Feeling Good" | Top 10 at America's Distinguished Young Women 2010 pageant 1st runner-up at National Sweetheart 2013 pageant | |||
| 2014 | Lauren Kuhn[14] | Boston | 23 | Miss Collegiate Area | Piano, "Valse Dramatico" by Melody Bober | 4th runner-up | Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship[15] STEM Scholarship Award | ||
| 2013 | Amanda Narciso[16] | Taunton | 22 | Miss Cranberry Country | Tap Dance, "Can't Hold Us" | 2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2011 pageant | |||
| 2012 | Taylor Kinzler[17] | Lakeville | 20 | Miss Norfolk County | Vocal, "At Last" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously Miss Massachusetts' Outstanding Teen 2008[17] Contestant at National Sweetheart 2010 pageant | ||
| 2011 | Molly Whalen | Middleboro | 21 | Miss Taunton | Vocal, "I Just Call You Mine" | ||||
| 2010 | Loren Galler-Rabinowitz | Brookline | 24 | Miss Collegiate Area | Piano, "The Swan" | CMN Miracle Maker Award | U.S. Ice Dancing Bronze Medalist[citation needed] | ||
| 2009 | Amanda Kelly | Braintree | 23 | Miss Fall River | Vocal, "Show Off" from The Drowsy Chaperone | Sister of Miss Massachusetts USA 2006, Tiffany Kelly Contestant at National Sweetheart 2008 pageant | |||
| 2008 | Alicia Zitka[18] | West Springfield | 22 | Miss Hampden County | Lyrical Dance, "I Will Love You" by Fisher | ||||
| 2007 | Valerie Amaral[19] | Acushnet | 22 | Miss North Shore | Vocal, "Anyway" | CMN Miracle Maker Award Non-finalist Talent Award Preliminary Talent Award Quality of Life Award Finalist | Previously Miss Massachusetts' Outstanding Teen 2001 Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 pageant | ||
| 2006 | Michaela Gagne | Fall River | 24 | Miss Southcoast | Vocal, "Bye Bye Blackbird" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 pageant | |||
| 2005 | Kristin Gauvin | Worcester | 23 | Miss Apponagansett Bay | Tap Dance, "Christmas Eve in Sarajevo" | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2004 pageant Later New England Patriots Cheerleader[citation needed] | |||
| 2004 | Erika Ebbel | Cambridge | 23 | Classical Piano, "Fantaisie-Impromptu" | Non-finalist Talent Award Preliminary Talent Award | 2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2003 pageant | |||
| 2003 | Melissa Silva | Fall River | 23 | Miss Southern Massachusetts | Vocal, "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2002 pageant | |||
| 2002 | Melanie Correia | Acushnet | 22 | Miss Taunton | Vocal, "Big Time" | Top 10 | 2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2001 pageant | ||
| 2001 | Abbie Rabine | Wenham | 22 | Miss Southern Massachusetts/Freetown | Vocal, "Via Dolorosa" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Interview Award Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999 pageant | |
| 2000 | Michelle Neves | New Bedford | 23 | Miss Pioneer Valley | Vocal, "I'm Afraid This Must Be Love" | Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1994[citation needed] | |||
| 1999 | April Thibeault | Boston | 21 | Miss North Shore | Ballet, "Reflections of Passion" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1998 | Elizabeth Hancock | Cambridge | 20 | Miss Suffolk County | Musical Theater Monologue from 42nd Street | Non-finalist Interview Award | |||
| 1997 | Samira Zebian | Westfield | 20 | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Irish Step Dance | Waterford Crystal Award for Business Marketing & Management | |||
| 1996 | Lori Flick | Boston | 24 | Interpretive Gymnastics Dance, "Prologue from Beauty and the Beast" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1995 | Marcia Turner | Cambridge | 21 | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Piano, "Souvenirs d'Andalousie, Op.22" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk | Top 10 | |||
| 1994 | Sharon Lee | Somerville | 24 | Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore | Classical Vocal, "O Mio Babbino Caro" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1993 | Ellen Fitzgerald | Saugus | 22 | Miss Bay State | Vocal, "Vision of Love" | ||||
| 1992 | Lisa Desroches | New Bedford | 21 | Miss New Bedford | Character Ballet en Pointe, "Can-Can" | Top 10 | |||
| 1991 | Melissa Bloemker | East Boston | 20 | Miss Greater Boston | Harp, "Tango & Rumba from Suite of Eight Dances" by Carlos Salzedo | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1990 | Marissa Laakso | Randolph | 24 | Miss Bay State | Character Tap Dance, "Mr. Bojangles" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1989 | Janette Elman | Attleboro | 22 | Miss Greater Attleboro | Russian Cossack Dance | ||||
| 1988 | Diana Steckler | East Boston | 22 | Miss East Boston | Vocal, "Amazing Grace" | ||||
| 1987 | Aurelie McCarthy | 24 | Marimba, "Hava Nagila", "William Tell Overture", & "Joplin on Wood" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Former executive director of the Miss Massachusetts pageant[citation needed] | ||||
| 1986 | Kathleen Callahan | Revere | 23 | Miss Boston | Popular Vocal, "Come Rain or Come Shine" | ||||
| 1985 | Lisa Kleypas | Carlisle | 20 | Miss Tri-County | Original Vocal Composition & Guitar, "Love You Are My Wings" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1984 | Margaret O'Brien | Weymouth | 26 | Miss Cape Cod | Vocal Medley, "The Man that Got Away", "The Man I Love", & "My Man" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | Previously National Sweetheart 1983 | |
| 1983 | Holly Mayer | Brookline | 26 | Miss Merrimack Valley | Dance / Baton Twirling, Music from Gypsy: A Musical Fable | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously National Sweetheart 1982 Mother of Miss New York's Outstanding Teen 2011 and Miss New York 2019, Lauren Molella Sister-in-law of Miss New York 1989, Lisa Molella[20] | ||
| 1982 | Lisa Scorgie | North Attleboro | 23 | Miss Attleboro | Violin, "Fantasy of Russian Folk Songs" | ||||
| 1981 | Deborah Salois | North Andover | 19 | Miss Methuen | Vocal, "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" from Ain't Misbehavin' | ||||
| 1980 | Amy Linder | Lowell | 22 | Piano, Sonata by Alberto Ginastera | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1979 | Lisa Matta | Brockton | 20 | Miss Boston | Jazz Dance, "Slow Dancing" | ||||
| 1978 | Rowena Humphrey | Worthington | 20 | Miss Northern Berkshire | Ballet en Pointe, "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" | ||||
| 1977 | Janice Ould | Boston | 25 | Miss Methuen | Semi-classical Vocal, "One Kiss" from The New Moon | ||||
| 1976 | Deborah Guastella | Methuen | 22 | Miss Merrimack Valley | Vocal, "Your World And Mine" | ||||
| 1975 | Cynthia Carpenter | Wayland | 22 | Miss Marlboro | Classical Piano, "Malagueña" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| 1974 | Susan Sadlier | Lowell | 22 | Miss Newburyport/Coast Guard | Musical Comedy, "I'm the Greatest Star" | Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | |||
| 1973 | Rena Walmsley | North Attleboro | 20 | Miss Attleboro | Dramatic Soliloquy from Funny Girl | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1972 | Marie Semas | Taunton | 18 | Miss Taunton | Piano & Vocal Original Composition | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1971 | Deborah O'Brien | Foxboro | 22 | Miss Foxboro | Classical Vocal, "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 1970 | Diana Dohrmann | Boston | 21 | Piano, "The Kid From Red Bank" by Count Basie | |||||
| 1969 | Georgina Hossfeld | Burlington | 22 | Miss Burlington | Piano, "Piano Concerto in A minor" by Edvard Grieg & "Bumble Boogie" | Top 10 | |||
| 1968 | Catherine Monroe | Lynnfield | 20 | Miss Woburn | Sign Language & Dance, "What the World Needs Now Is Love" | 1st runner-up | |||
| 1967 | Maria Lynn Chaffee | Waltham | 18 | Miss Woburn | Ballet & Jazz Toe Dance, "Do I Hear a Waltz?", "Georgy Girl", & "One of Those Songs" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1966 | Carol Kennedy | Worcester | 19 | Miss Northboro | Jazz Ballet Dance, "Can-Can" | Top 10 | |||
| 1965 | Mabel Bendiksen | New Bedford | 18 | Miss New Bedford | Dramatic Reading & Folk Singing, "The Hazards of Nuclear Fallout" & "What Have They Done to the Rain" | ||||
| 1964 | Kathleen Kenneally | Whitman | 21 | Miss Brockton | Dramatic Reading | ||||
| 1963 | Lila Saldani | Attleboro | Miss Attleboro | Original Dramatic Monologue, "A World of Darkness" | |||||
| 1962 | Karen Behn | North Dartmouth | 18 | Miss New Bedford | Dramatic Reading | ||||
| 1961 | Nona Smith | Fairhaven | 18 | Dramatic Reading | |||||
| 1960 | Brenda Crovo | Reading | 20 | Miss Cambridge | Vocal Medley, "Bill" & "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Show Boat | Top 10 | |||
| 1959 | Sharon Faught | Holyoke | 21 | Dramatic Reading & Vocal | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1958 | Patricia Nordling | Lexington | Vocal / Piano, "Exactly Like You" | ||||||
| 1957 | Daly Hirsch | Boston | Drama | ||||||
| 1956 | Jewel Smerage | Boston | Vocal Medley from The King and I | Top 10 | Featured in Atul Gawande's #1 New York Times bestselling book, Being Mortal[21] | ||||
| 1955 | Virginia Maffucci | Watertown | Dramatic Monologue, "Solitary Confinement" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | ||||
| 1954 | Judith Drake[22] | Fairhaven | |||||||
| 1953 | Lois Feldman | Natick | Ballet | ||||||
| 1952 | Barbara Graves | Milton | |||||||
| 1951 | Mildred Almeida | New Bedford | Fashion Modeling | ||||||
| 1950 | Britta Berg | Boston | |||||||
| 1949 | Gloria Curelli | Roslindale | Dance | ||||||
| 1948 | Barbara McGrath | Boston | Miss Boston | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||||
| Barbara Laughton | Reading | Miss Massachusetts | Vocal, "The Moon Belongs to Everyone" | Top 15 | |||||
| 1947 | No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant[23] | ||||||||
| 1946 | Paula C. Jerome | Boston | Miss Boston | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||||
| Urania "Rae" Nichols | Malden | Miss Massachusetts | |||||||
| 1945 | Claire Thibadeau | Boston | Miss Boston | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||||
| Ruth Thomas | Belmont | Miss Massachusetts | |||||||
| 1944 | Paulina McKevitt | Boston | Miss Boston | Vocal, "Goodnight, Wherever You Are" | 1st runner-up | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||
| Lucille Descoteau | Lowell | Miss Massachusetts | |||||||
| 1943 | Helena Frances Mack | Boston | Miss Boston | Samba Dance, "Cae Cae" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award Preliminary Talent Award | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | ||
| Mary McAnulty | Roslindale | Miss Massachusetts | |||||||
| 1942 | Paula Boardman | Natick | |||||||
| 1941 | Betsy Sears Taylor | Cambridge | |||||||
| 1940 | Polly Connors | Bedford | 3rd runner-up | Mother of Miss Massachusetts USA 1967 Pamela Procter[24] | |||||
| 1939 | No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant[25][26] | ||||||||
| 1938 | |||||||||
| 1937 | Claire Nevulis | South Boston | Vocal / Tap Dance | Top 16 | Preliminary Talent Award | ||||
| 1936 | Marion Flynn | Norwood | 18 | Miss Long Beach | |||||
| 1935 | Rita Mae King | Leominster | Miss Leominster | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||||
| Mary Stanley | Quincy | Miss Quincy | |||||||
| 1934 | No national pageant was held[27] | ||||||||
| 1933 | Elsie Taylor | 17 | N/A[28] | Top 18 | |||||
| 1932 | No national pageants were held[27] | ||||||||
| 1931 | |||||||||
| 1930 | |||||||||
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| 1928 | |||||||||
| 1927 | Ethel Beatrice Pierce | Miss Boston | N/A[28] | Top 15 | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | ||||
| Muriel E. Bowers | Miss Lynn | ||||||||
| Marion Howarth | Fall River | Miss New England | |||||||
| Martha E. Hick | Miss Pittsfield | Top 15 | |||||||
| Dorothy M. Rawson | Miss Worcester | ||||||||
| 1926 | Mary "May" Mudge | Miss Boston | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | ||||||
| Mary Robinson | Miss Lockport | ||||||||
| Rosa Lee Irving | Miss Portsmouth | ||||||||
| Muriel Borek | Miss Springfield | ||||||||
| 1925 | Nina Wolff | Miss Boston | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | ||||||
| Katherine Kearns | Newton | Miss New England | |||||||
| 1924 | Mildred M. Prendergast[29] | Boston | Miss Boston | After winning Miss Boston title, pageant officials banned Prendergast from competing in national pageant as she was married and had a nine-month old son[29][30] Prendergast and her husband threatened legal action citing that officials knew she was married prior to competing in Miss Boston pageant[29][30] After their protest, officials relented and allowed Prendergast to compete[29] | |||||
| 1923 | Margaret Black[31] | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||||||
| Doris Rowden George[32] | Cambridge | Miss Cambridge | |||||||
| Mildred Salisbury[33] | New Bedford | Miss New Bedford | |||||||
| 1922 | Charlotte Trowbridge[34] | Boston | Miss Boston | Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||||
| Helen Lynch[35] | Fall River | Miss Fall River | |||||||
| Alice Burke[36] | New Bedford | Miss New Bedford | |||||||
| 1921 | No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant[37] | ||||||||
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