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Subject: Go Green with Tamara......I just voted for my girl California and thought all of you would like to check out the contestants and their speaking skills!!


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Date Posted: 19:16:19 10/18/09 Sun
http://www.greentwithtamara.com/pg_contest.php

not that good with posting a link.....hope it works

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Subject: UPDATED--Miss America/CMN Fundraising Meter since 9 November 2009, according to the MAO website.


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Date Posted: 19:08:24 11/10/09 Tue
US$3,565,000+ from $2.8 million (?)

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Subject: IYO, who is the greatest Miss America of the 1970's?


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Date Posted: 12:35:51 11/09/09 Mon
Your favorite Miss America from the decade of Watergate, the end of the Vietnam War(?), the Arab oil embargo, disco, platforms and bell bottoms, glam rock, Charlie's Angels, and three presidents--Nixon, Ford, and Carter.

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Subject: Miss Oklahoma pageant chief leaves a legacy of enthusiasm


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Date Posted: 05:17:49 11/11/09 Wed


Former pageant executive Charlie Welch (center) is shown with several former Miss Oklahomas and Miss Americas at the 2007 Miss Oklahoma pageant. Jim Grillot/Courtesy
By TIM STANLEY World Staff Writer
Published: 11/11/2009 2:22 AM
Last Modified: 11/11/2009 4:01 AM

While watching proudly each year as another reigning Miss Oklahoma crowned her tearful successor, pageant chief Charlie Welch was busy grooming his own successors.

Over the four decades he was involved, the longtime executive director exuded a contagious enthusiasm for the annual events, which he passed on not only to his family but to the legion of volunteers and supporters he recruited, as well.

"Dad was not shy about asking anybody to do anything," said Kay Alexander, Welch's daughter and the current Miss Oklahoma Pageant's executive director.

"This was his passion and he was instrumental in making this program grow into one of the best in the nation."

Charles Edwin Welch, a noted Realtor who served the Tulsa-based pageant as executive director for 20 years and then in other capacities, died Saturday. He was 82.

A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at New Haven United Methodist Church under the direction of Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home.

Alexander isn't the only family member carrying on the tradition; her two daughters help with the pageant's mentoring program for young girls, she said.

Thanks to Welch's influence, former Miss Oklahoma Mignon Merchant-Ball, who held the crown in 1986, also has continued to volunteer.

"I've always said that had my father not been available to walk me down the aisle, I would have had Charlie do it," Merchant-Ball said.

Welch began volunteering with the pageant in 1966 — the same year Miss Oklahoma Jane Ann Jayroe was named Miss America — and became executive director in 1972 after persuading the Kiwanis Club of Tulsa, of which he was a member, to take over its sponsorship.

The pageant gave out $2,500 in scholarships to pageant contestants in 1972, Welch's first year directing; since that time, more than $1.8 million in cash has been raised, with about $70,000 being given out annually.

The pageant has produced four more Miss Americas since 1972.

Welch was recognized in 2003 with the Miss America Academy of Honor Award for his lifetime contributions.

But he always preferred that the pageant participants get the attention, friends say.

"He just enjoyed helping the young women of Oklahoma move forward in pursuing their life goals, financing their educations and developing their skills," Alexander said.

Welch's survivors include his wife, Mary Welch; two sons, Gary Welch and Kirk Welch; one daughter, Kay Alexander; six grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A scholarship has been created in Welch's honor. Donations may be made to the Tulsa Kiwanis Foundation — Miss Oklahoma Fund, 3211 S. Lakewood Ave., Tulsa, OK 74135.

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Subject: Good Luck, Miss Puerto Rico


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Date Posted: 07:15:18 10/30/09 Fri


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Subject: IYO, who is the greatest Miss America from the 1940's


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Date Posted: 20:12:21 11/09/09 Mon
Your favorite Miss America from the decade of WWII, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Rosie the Riveter, the birth of television, the McCarthy Communist witch hunt, and "The Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy From Company B". Presidents were FDR (Franklin Roosevelt) and Truman.

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Subject: Tulsa


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Date Posted: 21:46:41 10/30/09 Fri
Traveling to Tulsa on Sunday. Will be there for 2 weeks - mostly in the Jenks area.

Could anyone recommend a couple of nice restaurants and a bbq restaurant?

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Subject: Special thanks to those posters who e-mail us when certain messages need deleting!


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Date Posted: 22:58:02 11/10/09 Tue

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Subject: Mark your calendars and book your appointments now... Sherri Hill and Fadil Berisha will be at the Winning Crown Boutique in Omaha, NE on December 12th. Fadil head shots are a must have for your next pageant! Sherri Hill is bringing her new pageant collection or can sketch something new for your next pageant! Call me today at 402-850-0389 or email at info@winningcrown.com with questions!


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Date Posted: 20:38:06 11/10/09 Tue
Mark your calendars and book your appointments now... Sherri Hill and Fadil Berisha will be at the Winning Crown Boutique in Omaha, NE on December 12th. Fadil head shots are a must have for your next pageant! Sherri Hill is bringing her new pageant collection or can sketch something new for your next pageant! Call me today at 402-850-0389 or email at info@winningcrown.com with questions!
We will even put you up in a hotel if you need a place to stay!

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Subject: MAOT


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Date Posted: 15:49:05 11/06/09 Fri
What is happening with this organization? The Orlando office is closed; the staff has been let go; the winner has done nothing since August.
Is this program ending?

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Subject: Miss Prejean


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Date Posted: 19:37:38 11/10/09 Tue
I agree with the moderators. Posts concerning Miss Prejean are not welcome here. They have nothing whatsoever to do with Miss America.

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Subject: I am wanting to contact Jim & Joy Robbins, but understand Joy (?) is ill. If that's the case maybe now would not be a good time. Anyone know?


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Date Posted: 19:15:38 11/10/09 Tue

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Subject: Mark Your Calendars


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Date Posted: 18:44:16 11/10/09 Tue
Mark your calendars and book your appointments now... Sherri Hill and Fadil Berisha will be at the Winning Crown Boutique in Omaha on December 12th. Fadil head shots are a must have for your next pageant! Sherri Hill is bringing her new pageant collection or can sketch something new for your next pageant! Call Michelle today at 402-850-0389 or email at info@winningcrown.com with questions!

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Subject: This is the season for state franchise renewals. Have those franchise contracts gone out from MAO yet? Are there any surprises? Have all state franchised been retained?


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Date Posted: 15:08:42 11/09/09 Mon

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Subject: A Hispanic Miss America?


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Date Posted: 21:42:25 11/09/09 Mon
Has there ever been a hispanic woman win Miss America before?

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Subject: For fun. If the judges had to be all former Miss Americas who would you choose?


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Date Posted: 17:03:35 11/09/09 Mon

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Subject: Miss Colorado


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Date Posted: 05:40:16 11/10/09 Tue


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Subject: IYO, who is the greatest Miss America from the 1990's


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Date Posted: 12:54:17 11/09/09 Mon
Your favorite Miss America from the decade of 90210, The Spice Girls, grunge rock, the internet, Titanic, the first Gulf War, and when the Dow Jones first hit 10,000. Presidents were George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Two of the 2010 delegates were born in this decade, Miss Utah Whitney Merrifield and Miss Wyoming Anna Nelson.

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Subject: IYO, who is the greatest Miss America from the 1960's


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Date Posted: 17:08:18 11/09/09 Mon
Your favorite Miss America from the decade of flower power, the acid test, "Tune In, Turn On, and Drop Out", hippies, Vietnam, Civil Rights, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, The Smothers Brothers, and Beatlemania. Presidents were Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.

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