Miss America 1961 | |
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![]() Nancy Anne Fleming, Miss America 1961 | |
Date | September 10, 1960 |
Presenters | Bert Parks |
Venue | Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Broadcaster | CBS |
Entrants | 54 |
Placements | 10 |
Winner | Nancy Fleming Michigan |
Miss America 1961, the 34th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 10, 1960, on CBS.
The telecast was watched by a reported 85 million viewers. Nancy Fleming, the winner as Miss Michigan, later became a television personality and the wife of Jim Lange, host of TV's The Dating Game .
Placement | Contestant |
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Miss America 1961 | |
1st Runner-Up |
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2nd Runner-Up |
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3rd Runner-Up |
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4th Runner-Up | |
Top 10 |
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Top 10
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Award | Contestant |
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Lifestyle and Fitness |
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Talent |
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Award | Contestant |
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Miss Congeniality |
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Non-finalist Talent |
State | Name | Hometown | Age | Talent | Placement | Awards | Notes |
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![]() | Teresa Rinaldi | Birmingham | 21 | Vocal, "Addio" from La bohème | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
![]() | June Bowdish | Anchorage | 22 | Dramatic Monologue from St. Joan | |||
![]() | Georgia Garbarino | Flagstaff | 18 | Modern Dance, "An American in Paris" | |||
![]() | Claudette Smith | Star City | 18 | Vocal | Mother of Miss Arkansas 1991, Heather Hunnicut | ||
![]() | Suzanne Reamo | La Mesa | 20 | Vocal, "Love is Where You Find it" | 1st runner-up | ||
![]() | Iris Elaine Thurwell | Northtown | Vocal | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
![]() | Margaret McDowell | Evanston | 21 | Dramatic Reading | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
![]() | Anne Walker | Littleton | 18 | Dance | |||
![]() | Wendy Mitchell | New Haven | 18 | Vocal, "Just in Time" | |||
![]() | Deborah Dunkenfield Benoit | Wilmington | 21 | Composite Expression of Special Training | |||
![]() | Ruth Rea | Chevy Chase, MD | 18 | Vocal, "A Little Brains, A Little Talent" from Damn Yankees | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | |
![]() | Kathy Magda | Fort Lauderdale | 19 | Dramatic Monologue from Our Town | |||
![]() | Sandra Tally | Homerville | 18 | Piano, "Deep Purple" | |||
![]() | Gabriella Haleakala'l | Honolulu | 20 | Hula | |||
![]() | Marlene Coleman | Pocatello | 18 | Vocal, "If I Were on the Stage" | Top 10 | Contracted laryngitis and was unable to perform her talent during the national telecast | |
![]() | Vicky Joyce Nutter | Vandalia | 18 | Presentation of Fashion Designs | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
![]() | Tommye Glaze | Culver | 21 | Classical Vocal, "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
![]() | Sally Neville | Davenport | 18 | Dramatic Reading, "Mother on a Moment's Notice" | |||
![]() | Gayla Leigh Shoemake | El Dorado | 19 | Original Dramatic Interpretation, "Rude Awakening" | |||
![]() | Alice Chumbley | Jamestown | 21 | Dramatic Monologue from The Country Girl | |||
![]() | Judith Ann Coday | Baton Rouge | 20 | Vocal | |||
![]() | Sally Ann Robinson | Enfield | 20 | Monologue/Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
![]() | Robin Carole Davis | Hyattsville | 18 | Vocal, "I Cain't Say No" | |||
![]() | Brenda Crovo | Reading | 20 | Vocal Medley, "Bill" & "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Show Boat | Top 10 | ||
![]() | Nancy Fleming | Montague | 18 | Presentation of Dress Design | Winner | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award Preliminary Talent Award | |
![]() | Jean Elverum | Fairbault | 22 | Vocal, "Romany Life" from The Fortune Teller | |||
![]() | Patricia McRaney | McComb | 20 | Speech & Art Presentation | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
![]() | Dusene Vunovich | Kansas City | 19 | Vocal, "Honey Bun" from South Pacific | |||
![]() | Lois Marie Volkel | Missoula | 18 | Classical Vocal, "Voi lo Sapete" from Cavalleria rusticana | |||
![]() | Cheryl Ann Jacke | Shelton | 18 | Vocal | |||
![]() | Nancy Bowen | McGill | 19 | Humorous Reading & Piano | |||
![]() | Drina Bouchard | Rochester | 18 | Cha-cha-cha Interpretation | |||
![]() | Ann Barber | Westfield | 18 | ||||
![]() | Carolyn Moore | Carlsbad | 18 | Caricature Drawing | |||
![]() | Susan Talbert | Ogdensburg | 19 | Dance | Miss Congeniality | ||
![]() | Sherrylyn Patecell | New York City | |||||
![]() | Ann Herring | Winston-Salem | 19 | Vocal, "The Lonely Goatherd" from The Sound of Music | 2nd runner-up | ||
![]() | Carol Olson | Fargo | 21 | Dramatic Monologue from Mary Stuart | |||
![]() | Alice McClain | Marion | 18 | Vocal, "Summertime" & "I Got Plenty of Nothin'" | |||
![]() | Donna Kay Creed | Enid | 20 | Vocal, "The Sound of Music" | |||
![]() | Rosemary Doolen | Salem | 19 | Vocal, "A Heart That's Free" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
![]() | Priscilla Mae Hendricks | Shillington | 19 | Original Display of Art Work | |||
![]() | Sally Saabye | Warwick | 18 | Piano/Pantomime | |||
![]() | Edith Sandra Browning | Greenwood | 19 | Comic Dance/Pantomime, "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like my Sister Kate" | Top 10 | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | |
![]() | Janet Barber | Britton | 18 | Dramatic Interpretation, "Casual Approach to Violence" | |||
![]() | Jenny Thomas | Nashville | 19 | Modern Ballet, Porgy and Bess | |||
![]() | Mary Cage Moore | Laredo | 18 | Spanish Dance with music by Manuel de Falla | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
![]() | Marian Faye Walker | Salt Lake City | 27 | Classical Vocal, "The Waltz Aria" from Mireille | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
![]() | Anne Masino | Randolph | 18 | Accordion, "China Boy" | |||
![]() | Catherine Birch | Staunton | 19 | Classical Ballet | Later married magician John A. Daniel | ||
![]() | Connie Hughes | Bellingham | 18 | Original Monologue | |||
![]() | Mary Hoback | Bluefield | 18 | Original Dramatic Reading | |||
![]() | Karen Fahrenbach | Racine | 21 | Classical Ballet en Pointe, The Sleeping Beauty | |||
![]() | Sharon Luond | Cheyenne | 18 | Dramatic Monologue from Wingless Victory by Maxwell Anderson |
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