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Subject: Discontinued Preliminaries Author: No name [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 15:55:29 10/03/25 Fri This question is for people who have been involved in Miss NC for a long time. What were some of the powerhouse preliminaries back in the day? Also know that years ago, NC used to have 75-90 in the State Pageant. What were some other preliminaries that competed? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Sampson County (NT) No name 05:00:46 10/04/25 Sat Spivey’s Corner under the Heath’s (NT) No name 05:01:45 10/04/25 Sat Also Spivey's Corner under Big Mama. Wasn't she ED when Debbie Shook and Susan Runion won? (NT) -- No name, 12:51:03 10/26/25 Sun Re: Also Spivey's Corner under Big Mama. Wasn't she ED when Debbie Shook and Susan Runion won? -- No name, 14:30:13 11/01/25 Sat Do you know exactly which year Big Mama started Spivey's Corner and when she got out? I'm assuming she started it shortly after 1970 because it was not mentioned in DeFord's book that she ran a local at that time. (NT) -- No name, 21:52:50 11/03/25 Mon Old Powerhouses: Fayetteville under Mrs. Zollars, Spivey's under Jeff & Nancy Heath, Western Piedmont under Dakeita, Garner under the Jaycees, Topsail Island -- if you held one of those titles, you were almost guaranteed to make Top 10. (NT) No name 05:33:23 10/04/25 Sat Remember Elkin Valley under David and Faye Myers? Guaranteed Top 10 every year. Their daughter became Miss Virginia. (NT) -- No name, 13:14:33 10/04/25 Sat I remember a little town called Buelahville competing one year. They went all the way to 1st runner up.. (NT) -- No name, 13:16:10 10/04/25 Sat Elkin Valley had a good year every now and then but I wouldn't consider that a powerhouse. I don't remember that local doing all that much before or after Dineene Graham. (NT) -- No name, 14:42:41 10/04/25 Sat Two come to mind.....Lee Ann Garvin, Susan Hamlin. Both Top 10 before Deneen. (NT) -- No name, 17:11:35 10/04/25 Sat Re: Elkin Valley had a good year every now and then but I wouldn't consider that a powerhouse. I don't remember that local doing all that much before or after Dineene Graham. -- No name, 21:19:59 10/07/25 Tue Who was the Meyer’s daughter that became Miss Virginia? I don’t recall a Meyer’s being Miss VA. (NT) -- No name, 17:54:17 10/05/25 Sun I'm sorry, I think I misspoke. I was thinking it was 1988 April Myers. But she was April Fleming. Maybe it was David and Faye Fleming???? Anyway, I've gotten something screwed up. I need to make sure I'm wearing both shoes, lol. (NT) -- No name, 22:10:09 10/05/25 Sun I read that back in the 60's and 70's that NC was the largest state pageant in the country, with close to 100 contestants and 4 preliminary nights. I think it started thinning out in the mid -70's.. (NT) -- No name, 15:21:04 10/06/25 Mon Every County that had a Jaycee Chapter had to send a representative, so there were literally 100 contestants back in the 70's (NT) -- No name, 07:34:42 10/07/25 Tue I do not believe it was mandatory. Plus, Jaycee Chapters were cities, not counties. Some counties had 5 or 6 Jaycee chapters. (NT) -- No name, 14:20:47 10/07/25 Tue Western Piedmont very rarely missed the Top 10. Same with Garner. Fayetteville was also a powerhouse. (NT) -- No name, 19:18:21 10/08/25 Wed Most Jaycee chapters sent a representative. I know there were 100 contestants. I can't remember which Miss NC, maybe Patsy Wood was contestant number 1 out of 100 and won. If you watch some of the old Miss NC Pageants on youtube, you'll see most were sponsored by their towns Jaycees or Jaycee Women (NT) -- No name, 07:10:57 10/09/25 Thu I have seen all of the old Miss NC tapes on YouTube. Would love to see ones older than what they have.....pageants from back in the 60's & 70's. I wonder if tapes (or even program books ) still exist from back then. Perhaps the state Jaycee office in Asheboro? (NT) -- No name, 12:48:57 10/09/25 Thu Zollars was the OG Pageant Mom and Dakeita, the Big Sister. (NT) -- No name, 12:26:38 11/16/25 Sun Re: Discontinued Preliminaries No name 20:05:03 10/10/25 Fri As Miss Garner, Patsy Wood was contestant no. 1 but only out of 60-something. The peak was 98 in the mid-60s, but dropped off after that. Not every county had a representative with some having multiple titles (Wake County based in Fuquay, Apex, Garner & Wendell, for example). Elkin Valley was in top 10 most years in the ‘70s, including Kathy Fleming as 3rd RU in ‘75, I think. (NT) No name 20:11:30 10/10/25 Fri Yes.....who could forget Kathy Fleming? Gorgeous. (NT) -- No name, 10:37:09 10/11/25 Sat btw, the Miss VA being referenced above was likely Linda Jean Moyer (not Meyer), who was a prelim SS winner & semi-finalist in 1970 as Miss Ahoskie. She won Miss VA the next year & was a prelim SS winner at Miss America, but didn’t make the top 10. (NT) No name 17:35:49 10/13/25 Mon In 2206 and 2007, Mitch Butts was ED for the Miss Lenoir Community College pageant. In 2006, the representative won non-finalist talent. In 2007, he had Miss LCC (Cora Ormond - non-finalist talent, comedy) as well as Miss Eastern Carolina (Claie Winslow, 1st Runner Up to Miss NC). He was also ED (with Chuck Black and Dennis Strickland) for Miss Durham-Orange County in 1992 (Carolyn Jones) and 1993 (Keitra Musgrave, top 10). He also was ED and started the Miss UNCW pageant in 1986 (Denise Jenkins, SS award). (NT) No name 08:00:34 10/26/25 Sun There were a lot more because of the statewide involvement of the Jaycees. As participation in the Jaycees declined, so did the involvement of the Jaycees with the Miss NC Pageant. (NT) No name 07:21:22 10/27/25 Mon Miss Shelby under Danyel No name 18:56:48 10/28/25 Tue Oh Hell. Do not bring that white trash into this feed. (NT) -- No name, 08:19:56 10/29/25 Wed Come onnnnnn…. She was so good for the program! Perfect role model for young women. (NT) -- No name, 13:45:53 11/01/25 Sat Forsyth County under Wade McIver and the Reddings (aka The Rock) were always highly competitive. (NT) No name 10:03:42 10/29/25 Wed Some of their girls I remember.....Lori Goins, Shanna Phillips, Hannah Kiefer, (later Miss VA - 3rd RU MAO) Hayden Drass, Kendria Perry (later Miss PA NFT - MAO) (NT) -- No name, 16:48:21 10/29/25 Wed And of course, one of the great beauties of Miss NC, Scarlett Morgan. Could not have been robbed worse in Atlantic City had she been held up with a gun. (NT) -- No name, 15:02:49 10/30/25 Thu We could look at the bright side: Miss Wilmington is returning ♥️ (NT) No name 04:15:48 10/30/25 Thu So true about Scarlett Morgan. She was beautiful, had an excellent figure for swimsuit, & such a talented vocalist. Should have had higher scores than some of those who made top 10 that year. (NT) No name 20:40:36 10/30/25 Thu She had no interview whatsoever. One of the worst of the 50, according to someone who judged. (NT) -- No name, 19:49:50 11/16/25 Sun Remember, Scarlet won when talent was 50% of the score and there was no final ballot. She looked great in gown and swimsuit, so even with a so so interview, she could still win and she did (NT) -- No name, 10:47:37 11/17/25 Mon But not at Miss America where there are others just as pretty, just as strong in swimsuit, and just as talented who could actually carry on a conversation with the judges. Scarlet was sweet and talented and beautiful. But that was not enough to overcome such a poor, poor interview at the national level. (NT) -- No name, 13:47:49 11/17/25 Mon