Miss Massachusetts World Explained

Miss Massachusetts World
Formation:1951
Type:Beauty pageant
Headquarters:Wellesley
Location:Massachusetts
Language:English
Leader Title:State Director
Leader Name:Miss World America Organization
Website:Official Website

The Miss Massachusetts World competition is a beauty pageant that selects the representative for Massachusetts in the Miss World America pageant.[1] [2]

The current Miss Massachusetts World is Devon Viola.

Winners

Color key
  • Declared as Winner/Ended as Miss World America
  • Ended as runner-up
  • Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
  • Ended as special awards winner
  • Ended as Miss USA
width=5% Yearwidth=20%Namewidth=10%Hometownwidth=3%Age
[3] 		width=14%Placement at Miss World Americawidth=17%Special awards at Miss World Americawidth=31%Notes
2024Devon Viola
2023Caroline Cooney[4] Mansfield24Top FinalistFitness WinnerFitness Winner and Top Finalist at Miss America World 2023; Beauty With a Purpose project centers around environmentalism. Placed Top 5 at first pageant, Miss MA USA 2020.[5]
2020Alissa Musto[6] Rehoboth24Top 5[7] Beauty with a Purpose Winner, Talent WinnerPreviously Miss Massachusetts 2016 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss America 2017.
2019Rachel Miller[8] Dracut253rd Runner-Up
2018did not compete
2017
2016Maude GormanHingham22Previously Miss Massachusetts World 2015 and Top 12 semi-finalist at Miss World America 2015. Also won the Beauty with a Purpose award at Miss World America 2015.
2015Maude Gorman[9] [10] [11] [12] Hingham21Top 12Beauty with a Purpose[13]
Miss Massachusetts United States 2014
2014Renata De CarvalhoTop 10
Miss Massachusetts World
2013No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013.
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005No known representatives from Massachusetts between 2003 and 2005.
2004
2003
2002No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 1995 to 2002.
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994Michelle Gados
1993Maribeth BrownHolliston23Miss World America 1993Top 10 semi-finalist at Miss World 1993.
1992Laura WheelerFraminghamTop 10Previously Miss Massachusetts USA 1991 and a contestant at Miss USA 1991.
Miss Massachusetts USA 1981-1991
1991Laura WheelerFramingham
1990Laureen MurphyBoston
1989Kimberley WallaceIpswich
1988Anita Marie LovelyFranklin
1987Rosanna IversenGreat BarringtonRepresented Massachusetts in Miss Oktoberfest 1987, did not place
1986Sheila BensonQuincy
1985Mercedes WaggonerBoston21Top 10, finishing in 8th place
1984Deborah NearyOnset
1983Robin Jeanne SilvaSwansea
1982Janet Marie FlahertyWilmington24Top 12
1981JoAnne SaveryEast BridgewaterBest State Costume
Miss Massachusetts World
1980Nerine Kidd2nd Runner-Up
1979Diane Maguire
1978Debra Sue MauriceNew York City, NY1st Runner-UpLater Miss New York USA 1980 and Top 12 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1980.
1977Cheryl Patricia Hyttinen
1976Margaret Worral Stockton
1975Mona Jean Tessier[14] Springfield3rd Runner-Up
1974Kathleen Ellen Walas
1973Jeanine Tessier[15] Ware
1972Janice Janes
1971Colette C. Nourey[16] Boston19Miss Congeniality
Deborah Ann Kennedy
1969did not compete
1968Mary Frances Bigelow
1967Cheryl Lee StankiewiczCompeted as Massachusetts.
Later Miss Massachusetts USA 1970 and a contestant at Miss USA 1970.
Marie A. SkaneBostonCompeted as Boston, Massachusetts.
1966UnknownCompeted as Massachusetts.
Peggy EckertBostonCompeted as Boston, Massachusetts.
1965Elaine F. Nash1st Runner-Up
Dorothy Ann FisherBoston
1964Monika SandsCompeted as Massachusetts.
Diane TibertBostonCompeted as Boston, Massachusetts.
1963Marion E. SarristoTop 15Competed as Massachusetts.
Nancy Joan BrackettBoston
Brighton		17Top 15Competed as Boston, Massachusetts.
Later Miss Massachusetts USA 1966 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1966.
Mary MarbleTop 15
1961Sandra "Su Su" SmithNewton Upper Falls21Later Miss Massachusetts USA 1963 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1963.
Beatrice "Bea" Duprey
1959No known representatives from Massachusetts in 1958 & 1959.
1958
Miss Massachusetts USA 1953-1957
1957Sandra RamseyHaverhill19Top 15
1956Elaine MurphyWeston
1955Jean DernagoSpringfield
1954Nan CowanSterling
1953Joan DalySomerville
Miss Massachusetts World
1952No known representatives from Massachusetts in 1951 & 1952.
1951
Notes to table

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Miss World USA Pageant . 2014-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141021230458/http://www.pageantopolis.com/nat_past/World-USA.htm . 2014-10-21 . usurped .
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20130413173404/http://www.pageantopolis.com/nat_past/world-america.htm The American representatives to Miss World 1978-1994
  3. Age at the time of the Miss World America pageant
  4. Web site: Facebook . 2023-08-22 . www.facebook.com.
  5. Web site: Pageant Update . www.pageantupdate.info.
  6. Web site: Miss World America Massachusetts 2020 – Miss World America. 2020-09-05. en-US. 2020-10-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20201030082601/https://missworldamerica.com/miss-world-america-massachusetts-2020/. dead.
  7. Web site: America's Miss World on Instagram: "What a nerve wracking and exciting experience this has been! Our Head to Head Challenge is for sure the most intense challenge of all and…". https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/americasmissworld/2420130827390420262_2420130823674349804 . 2021-12-25 . registration. 2020-10-26. Instagram. en.
  8. Web site: Miss World America - Massachusetts.
  9. Web site: Beauty queen lights the way for victims by talking about her rape at 13 - The Boston Globe . 2015-07-09. 2023-07-27 . BostonGlobe.com . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2015-06-09 . Heslam: Pageant winner, rape survivor: 'I'm not defeated' . 2023-07-28 . Boston Herald . en-US.
  11. Web site: 2016-04-04 . NightSide - Miss Massachusetts World 2015 Tells Her Story - CBS Boston . 2023-07-28 . www.cbsnews.com . en-US.
  12. Web site: May 17, 2015. Miss Massachusetts World 2015 Maude Gorman. September 4, 2020. Pageant Live - YouTube.
  13. Web site: Crown . Ask The . Miss World America Recap: A Historical Pageant By Natalie McGovern . 2023-07-28 . Ask the CROWN.
  14. News: Contest shaping up . . A-12 . August 13, 1975.
  15. Book: The Telegraph . The Telegraph . en.
  16. Web site: The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search. The Victoria Advocate. 2020-09-25. news.google.com.

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