The Miss New Hampshire program was conducted by the Union Leader newspaper for more than 50 years. In the early years of Miss America, it was city newspapers that sponsored the young women to go to Atlantic City as the Miss America Organization originally allowed city titleholders to compete. The Union Leader conducted the pageant from 1947 until 2001. The newspaper held the pageant from at least 1985 to 2001 at the Manchester Central High School auditorium.[citation needed]
In 2000, a non-profit corporation formed and was granted the license by the Miss America Organization to conduct the state program from 2002 through today. Originally run by former Miss Greater Derry local chapter leaders, the Miss New Hampshire Scholarship Program, Inc. is now a 501(c)(4) civic organization while the Miss New Hampshire Scholarship Foundation, which grants the scholarships, is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Brenda Keith of Derry served as Board President and Executive Director until she joined the Board of Directors of the Miss America Organization in September 2018 for a two-year term. William Haggerty served as president until her return on January 1, 2021. Lynne Ulaky and Claudette Jolin serve as the Co-Executive Directors. The competition was moved to Derry in 2003 and is held annually at Pinkerton Academy's Stockbridge Theatre. [citation needed]
The Miss New Hampshire scholarship program grants more scholarships than most other states in the Miss America Program.[citation needed] In 2021, the Miss New Hampshire Scholarship Foundation granted $100,000 in scholarships to the 26 contestants who competed after winning their local titles. Prior to the State competition, the NH local programs grant another $80,00-$85,000 a year at the local level. The local programs are all non-profit corporations with group 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.[citation needed]
Emily Spencer of Bedford was crowned Miss New Hampshire on April 27, 2024, at the Stockbridge theater in Derry, New Hampshire. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2025.
Gallery of past titleholders
Rachel Barker, Miss New Hampshire 2007
Krystal Muccioli, Miss New Hampshire 2010
Results summary
The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss New Hampshire titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.
Assumed the Miss New Hampshire title after the original winner, Deborah Fuller, relinquished her title five days after she won in order to get married[25]
Letha was chosen as Miss Eastern Maine in 1933, and for unknown reasons, she was appointed the Miss New Hampshire title to compete in the 1933 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. where she was a non-finalist contestant. This information was finally discovered in October 2023 contained in two newspaper articles from the Bangor Daily News. Letha Erlene Langley Karwowski died at age 88 on Dec. 17, 2002 in Chapin, South Carolina.
↑ Titleholder extended to a full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]
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