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Date Posted: 21:37:10 05/10/05 Tue
Author: Anonymous
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Why Do So Many People Hate The Little Miss South Carolina Pageant So Much?
I have heard a lot of negative comments about LMSC. It is not just a dislike of the pageant, it is utter out and out hatred and distrust of the pageant and it's organizers. Can anyone please shed some light on this for me? What is the problem? Why do so many people feel this way? I have also noticed that there are 61 fewer contestants this year than last! That seems like a huge drop off. What's wrong with this pageant? This is my daughter's first time in a pageant of any kind (except the LMSC prelim. of course). Is there something I should know? It seemed like a positive thing yet anytime I have mentioned it to anyone, I have been severely chastised for being a part of this pageant. Not pageantry in general, this specific pageant! Should I pull my child out of this pageant? Please let me know any specific negatives about LMSC that any of you may know of. I would really like to know why this pageant is so deeply hated and despised. Thank you for any information you may have about any of this.
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Re: Why Do So Many People Hate The Little Miss South Carolina Pageant So Much? -- Anonymous, 10:04:26 05/12/05 Thu [1]
I get the same type of reaction from people when I mention we are doing it. This will be our first time in the LMSC, We do other pageants from natural all the way up to high glitz and at every pageant someone has something bad to say about the LMSC system. I guess we will have to learn the hard way! Good Luck, maybe we will have a good experience!
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Re: Why Do So Many People Hate The Little Miss South Carolina Pageant So Much? -- Anonymous, 14:52:05 05/12/05 Thu [1]
This will be our first LMSC also. My daughter will be in the Tiny Tot group. Hopefully it will be a great experience.I have heard mixed reactions also but I am looking forward to it!!
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Re: Why Do So Many People Hate The Little Miss South Carolina Pageant So Much? -- Anonymous, 09:45:13 05/13/05 Fri [1]
I have two words that will answer your question exactly!
DIANNE GALLOWAY!
This woman is ruthless! She will eat her own Young!
And there are plenty of people here that will back me up on this!
Wait ... Let me correct myself ... actually her young and those she adopts as her young for LMSC purposes seem to do just fine! ...
It's all the rest of our girls we need to worry about!
Am I right folks? ...
Dianne Galloway is arrogant, condesending, rude, thinks she is better than anyone else, and overall not friendly at all!
That's why no one likes her or the Little Miss South Carolina Pageant!
Come on people ... everybody tell them how she is ... you know what I'm talking about ... back me up on this!
Warn these people before it's too late!
Don't let these poor sheep be lead to slaughter like we all have been!
TELL THEM THE TRUTH!
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Re: Why Do So Many People Hate The Little Miss South Carolina Pageant So Much? -- Anonymous, 22:04:47 05/16/05 Mon [1]
OK.. this is the truth as I see it!
Your complaints seem to be more of a personal problem with one of the directors rather than with the pageant!
They have 169 contestants this year .. 65 on the first Saturday and 104 in the older groups .. the poster above obviously only had the numbers for the older groups .. they must be doing something right .. I don't know of any other state pageant with that many contestants.
They seem to have a lot of repeaters every year so obviously not everyone shares your opinion.
They are different from other pageant systems in some ways (clothes don't count, they want the contestants to look their age, etc.) but they tell you that in their paperwork.
A lot of the negative comments are jealousy and sour grapes .. they offer scholarships, prestigious titles and appearances and a chance to be on state wide TV .. true it's the South Carolina Channel, not a major network, but it is TV!
The entire staff could not have been nicer to us .. could it be that you are the rude one?
Finally, I think that the people who are going need to go with a positive attitude expecting to have a good experience.
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Re: Why Do So Many People Hate The Little Miss South Carolina Pageant So Much? -- Anonymous, 07:44:56 05/17/05 Tue [1]
So glad to hear something positive!! We are excited about going!!!
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Diane Galloway was the Local Executive Director (LED) -- Anonymous, 01:16:57 06/23/05 Thu [1]
for either Miss Camden and Miss Camden Teen MAO (Miss America Org)or Miss Kershaw/Miss Kershaw Teen MAO, which is part of the Miss SC MAO Scholarship Program. Her last year was either 2001 or 02. Diane purchased the LMSC pageant from the founder's daughter, after the founder of this then, 30+ year old pageant system, died. Her name was Linda Floyd and was from my hometown of Sumter. Ms. Floyd was good as gold and put on pageants worthy of a Miss Universe (maybe I am stretching it a bit).
For God knows what reason, Diane Galloway went after her former Excutive State Directors' teen system. Meaning she took the mighty Sanders family, who have runned Miss SC MAO since 1964, to court. The reason she sued was that in 2001, Miss SC MAO held their first state Miss Teen SC MAO pageant. My child competed in the Miss Teen SC MAO 2002 pageant and was called Miss Teen (city/town) MAO 2002. My child also competed in the 2003 Miss Teen SC MAO pageant. For six months, my daughter was again called Miss Teen (city/town) 2003 MAO.
About one week before my daughter went to the 2003 Miss Teen SC MAO 2003 pageant, she received a carefully written letter from Miss SC MAO and the Sanders family, as did all teen contestants, telling her that she should begin referring to herself as Miss (city/town)Teen MAO 2003. Notice, if she lived in Boiling Springs she would have been called Miss Boiling Springs Teen MAO instead of Miss Teen Boiling Springs MAO.
Diane sued for trademark violation or something like that. Her and the Miss SC MAO executive directors settled out of court. Miss SC MAO changed the name of the state teen pageant from Miss Teen SC to Miss SC Teen, thereby making all prelim winners change their local titles right before the state pageant in the summer of 2003. This must have felt like a major win for Ms. Galloway to have sued her former bosses', stripped them of their teen title, and walked away with all the knowledge imparted to her by the Miss SC and Miss America organization. She now runs her LMSC pageant like a Miss SC prelim even copying the infamous Miss SC/Miss America crowns and altering them slightly.
After that arrogant win, Diane began searching the state voy system pageant message boards. Any director who was crowing a teen group, and calling their teen Miss Teen xyz, had to rename their teen division or risk being sued like the Sanders and SC MAO. She posted messages to this effect on various pageant boards and sent letters to many directors. I know, because I have judged for many of these directors..
I think Diane tries hard and I have no reason to bash her. My opinion of what she did to Miss SC MAO is personal since my involvement with that system dates back to the 50's. I have even judged LMSC prelims and love the fact that Diane sequesters the judges before and after the pageant and does not let them speak to the parents, which I applaude. Miss America, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss Universe and the likes of the great and big pageants do not let parents talk to judges either. The judge's decision is final and that is the way it should be, but in many a glitz pageant it is not.
So that is probably what you people here on this board are searching for. The truth. Well that is the truth. I do not favor what Diane did in the least, especially because of my sentimental attachment to Miss SC MAO system and the teen program, but I applaud her for standing up to the Sanders, who make Ms. Galloway's problems pale in comparison. She must be one hell of a good and shrewed (spelling?) business women. Glad I never ran into her in the business world.
My only comment is that I know for a fact that Ms. Galloway destroyed many potential relationships with other state pageant directors, when she began her personal fight with them. It has really given her a bad name out there on the glitz pageant circuit and many directors just laugh when Diane or LMSC is mentioned. I suppose this is what some of you on this message board have experienced or heard.
Hope this helps you make decisions about LMSC for the new pageant year. My recommendation: don't avoid her or LMSC for any other gossip, unless it is for the above. If you want verification, call the Miss SC state office in Liberty, SC, and ask them about Diane. You don't even mention her name in their hallowed halls anymore. I was a fan of the founder of LMSC and my mother used to work for her. She would roll in her grave now if she knew that people were avoiding her former system because of a beauty queen pageant title dispute. With all the problems in this world, I still find it hard that pettiness like this even exist on this grand scale.
Signed,
My two cents worth.
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Re: Diane Galloway was the Local Executive Director (LED) -- Anonymous, 14:16:33 07/16/05 Sat [1]
My daughter competed in the Wee Miss Little Miss South CArolina in June. She did make the top 12 and did not make the top five. But we found the pageant to be organized well and fun. Diane was nothing but GREAT and NICE to us! She helped us before the pageant by answering questions and was very nice. I was disappointed in the winners, considering three of the top five were the winners in talent. It was almost as though the judges had their minds made up before the pageant began on Saturday. They must not have even looked at modeling! I think their were a lot of surprised people with the Wee Miss Group! But it is the judges decisions and there is nothing you can do about it! I would love to have some feedback! However, my daughter wants to do the pageant again; she enjoyed it! Diane, Linda and all the staff were great to us! The organization was good too! We do many pageants and they are not organized this well! I would encourage anyone who is looking for a friendly and fun pageant to try it! We hope to be back next year!!!
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Re: Diane Galloway was the Local Executive Director (LED) -- Anonymous, 15:09:48 06/19/06 Mon [1]
>My daughter competed in the Tiny Tot divison last year... the stage was beautiful and the pageant was very organized. Diane was also very helpful with any questions I had. Although the winners in each division made little since. It seemed to be a different kind of pageant sort of like a mall pageant! When has a winner ever worn tights of unmatching haibows or for that matter jewelry, no not chockers but silver charm bracelets. It really made no sense to me. Maybe thats why score sheets are not given. The group line-up was very long as if maybe the judges were choosing the winners then. My daughter did not go back this year, maybe later we will try again! Its not a bad system just different and hard to know what to expect!
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What child wore tights last year and won? -- Anonymous, 11:52:53 06/22/06 Thu [1]
My daughter was in the Tiny Tot group and I don't remember that!
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Nothing like that in any of the 05 state photos .. -- Anonymous, 10:14:43 06/24/06 Sat [1]
maybe the above poster was thinking of another pageant. I have found that it is different in that clothes count very little (if at all) but that is not a bad thing .. and they don't like false hair, eyelashes etc. on the little ones.
We plan to keep trying!
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