miss florida newsletter - april 2010
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I am honored to welcome you to our first Miss Florida Newsletter! The Miss Florida Organization is celebrating 75 years of keeping the dream alive for the young women of our state. One of the ways we will communicate with you about exciting upcoming events is through our pageant newsletter and our hope is that you will also share newsworthy items that we can convey to our pageant audience. Together we will enhance and promote the brand of the Miss Florida America Organization.TRANSCRIPT
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“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” - Karen Rayn
Greetings Everyone,
I’m so excited for this newsletter! It is going to be such a great way for the Miss Florida Organization to share information, news and of course, pictures with as many people as possible. As for me, I am currently working on a number of exciting things.This month is jam packed with new appearances, including, a Rays game, spending three days in Tallahassee at session and of course Miss Florida’s Outstanding Teen pageant. I will be speaking on Friday the 23rd on the East coast and then driving straight over to be with all of you at the pageant. I would like to take this time to say to Myrrhanda, what an absolute
pleasure it has been getting to know you and your beautiful soul. You are such a joy to be around and you are going to make big things happen in this world, girl. I have had so much fun cheering you on, keeping you warm at parades, and hugging you in Vegas each night as I came off stage. You are so incredible and have represented the state of Florida and the Miss Florida Organization to the fullest extent. I cannot wait to see what the world has in store for you, better yet, what you are going to bring to this world. I love you and this is not goodbye, just the end of one adventure, embrace the journey, right? Until next time,
Rachael ToddMiss Florida
Miss Florida Update
Miss Outstanding Teen update
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Local Pageant NewsPage 7
Executive Director Talk
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Calling All Former Miss Florida’s!
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Event ScheduleFriday - April 23, 2010 Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen Preliminary Pageant - 7:00 p.m.Tickets sold at door - $30.00 (General Seating) Saturday - April 24, 2010 - Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen Finals - 7:30 p.m.Tickets sold at door - $30.00 (General Seating) Miss Florida Sweeps Pageant - April 25, 2010 - 2:00 p.m.Tickets - $10.00 - General Seating only All events are held at the Dan Cannon Auditorium, Pasco County Fairgrounds, Dade City, Florida - 36722 State Road 52, Dade City, FL 33525
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BOARD MEMBERS AND STAFFPresident and Executive Director Mary SullivanChairman of the Board Richard WalkerVice President Rob LoyCo-ED of Miss Florida Outstanding Teen PageantVice President Dana Dalton JudgeCo-ED of Miss Florida Outstanding Teen Pageant Director - Media RelationsSecretary Keith WilliamsVice President David GilbertChairman of Field DirectorsScholarship Chairperson Patty AdeebDirector Shannon ReesDirector Mary DymtrowField Director Norma StormsField Director Lynne DaltonField Director Patti BoldingLegal Counsel Raymond McLeodPageant CPA Wayne Dewitt
Postal Address6800 Bird Road Number 351, Miami, FL
33155
Contact Phone305.665.3690
Fax 305.234.8811
Newsletter EditorMary Sullivan
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Newsletter PublisherDaniel C. Slapo407.257.0857
To place an article or news worthy event within our pages, please email [email protected]
A Moment with Mary
Dear Miss Florida Pageant Family, Friends, Supporters & Sponsors:
I am honored to welcome you to our first Miss Florida Newsletter! The Miss Florida Organization is celebrating 75 years of keeping the dream alive for the young women of our state. One of the ways we will communicate with you about exciting upcoming events is through our pageant newsletter and our hope is that you will also share newsworthy items that we can convey to our pageant audience. Together we will enhance and promote the brand of the Miss Florida America Organization.
Miss Florida Rachael Todd and Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen Myrrhanda Jones have done an excellent job this year of keeping everyone informed about their appearances and accomplishments. The newsletter is another avenue that we will use to promote and showcase our two titleholders during their reign.
Our 2010 Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen Pageant is April 23-24, 2010 in Dade City at the Dan Cannon Auditorium. 34 young ladies will compete for the title now held by Myrrhanda Jones of Gainesville. Myrrhanda has been an exemplary representative for our Teen Program. At the Miss America's Outstanding Teen National Pageant in Orlando, Myrrhanda won evening gown, and was the second runner up. Florida felt as if we had won for we could keep Myrrhanda in our state, yet she had also made her mark on the national level. She continued to stand out as she won the Make a Difference Day Campaign, the Frederico Leone Shoe Campaign, and was acclaimed for the top money raised for Children’s Miracle Network. She has promoted her platform across the state, Hugs for Hurts – Helping children to process their personal tragedies and know that there is hope for a better tomorrow. In addition, she has excelled in her dual enrollment of high school and college and will enter at her chosen university as a sophomore. Myrrhanda's future will be filled with many bright and shining moments and we will watch as she climbs the ladder of success!
We hope that you will plan to attend the pageant and cheer for your favorite Teen contestant. For ticket information, please contact Keith Williams, Secretary, Miss Florida Pageant Board of Directors. Keith's email is [email protected] or visit the Miss Florida web site for the ticket form.
We're energized about the next few months and can't wait to share our news with you!
With best wishes,
Mary E. Sullivan, Executive DirectorMiss Florida Scholarship Pageant, Inc.
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Myrrhanda JonesFlorida Outstanding Teen 2009
Oh April! I have dreaded the coming of this month for quite awhile. I wish it were possible to skip April so that I could be Miss Florida’s Outstanding Teen forever. However, I know that I will have a wonderful successor that will take over the job. Whoever it may be, love every moment of your year, trust in God, and be
yourself! If you do these three things, your year will be as successful as mine.
Over the past month, a lot has happened. First, and foremost (and the one I am most excited about) I was chosen by Cox Communications to represent the State of Florida at the Teen Summit “Take Charge 2010.” I will be meeting with other teens from across America along with Jon Walsh of America’s Most Wanted and CEO of Missing and Exploited Children. We will be discussing teen safety on the Internet and cell phone texting. After my meetings, I will meet and discuss with Senators and State representatives on Capitol Hill how I can get this message of safety back to teens in Florida. Cox Communications will then book appearances for me around the state to speak at schools and other venues about this important topic.
The next, not so exciting news is that I am about to dive into my very first finals week at the University of Florida. Pray for me the week before the Teen pageant! In May, I will be auditioning for Florida’s majorette line. This is a very exciting time in my life because it has been my dream to be a Gatorette since the age of 6. By the Miss Florida pageant in July, hopefully, I will be part of the University of Florida Fighting Gator Marching Band! I am very proud to say that two weeks ago, I won the state Strut and
Solo title for Baton Twirling. I got to go home with a trophy, literally, as tall as I am!
The last exciting adventure before I give up my title will be a television news interview in St. Petersburg. I am so blessed to have such wonderful people that are involved in the Florida Organization to make such wonderful appearances happen. Along with this interview, I will be visiting All Children’s Hospital and speaking to the children and families. I am most excited about passing out my monkeys! I hope to see all of you at the Dan Cannon Auditorium in Dade City to see the new Miss Florida’s Outstanding Teen crowned!
Much Love,
Myrrhanda JonesMiss Florida’s Outstanding Teen 2009
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75th Anniversaryof the
MISS FLORIDA PAGEANT
July 7-10, 2010Mahaffey Theater
St. Petersburg, Florida
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2010 is the 75th Anniversary of the Miss Florida Pageant
"Celebrating our Past....Embracing our Future."
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Would you like to place an ad within our next publication? Our next publication deadline is May 15 and there is a $10.00 fee to place an ad. Any
questions, please contact Daniel Slapo at 407.257.0857 weekdays 9-5.
The Miss Gainesville Organization partnered with CACHE and were able to use live models as mannequins in the window of the Cache store in their area. They (Cache) asked Myrrhanda to wear her crown and sash while modeling. Merissa says that it was very successful in helping to recruit new contestants. If you have a Cache in your area, you might want to consider this as a means for your contestant recruitment. Of course, the success of this venture will solely depend upon the management of the local Cache store but go for it!! Hopefully Merissa will share photographs for us all to enjoy!
Local News
Andrea Apple Miss Dade City’s Kumquat Festivalwas featured in “Sarasota Magazine” To read the whole article please visit their web site
The Class of 2010What are they thinking? Inside the minds of some outstanding local
grads.By Hannah Wallace
Graduation changes everything. With the flip of a tassel and the toss of a mortarboard, students cross over into the great unknown.
We asked 10 local high school, college and graduate students, all of whom will be graduating this spring,
to reflect on their studies in Sarasota, what their lives look like now and what they expect from the future. The first thing we realized is that our local schools turn out an exceptional variety of graduates. Among our subjects are an athlete who’s also an academic star, a beauty queen med student, a community-minded jazz percussionist and an aspiring Air Force officer. They shared with us everything from their preferred mode of communication (texting is king) to their philosophical differences with their parents—as well as their peers. Find out in their own words what makes them tick—and what makes them twitch—as they prepare for the next chapter of their lives......
Miss Florida’s Outstanding Teen 2009
Myrrhanda Jones
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Save the Dates!
April 23 & 24 Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen Pageant - Dan Cannon Auditorium, Dade City, FL.
April 24 Miss Florida's First Annual Golf Tournament - Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club, Dade City, FL
April 25 Miss Florida Pageant's Sweeps Pageant - Dan Cannon Auditorium, Dade City, FL
May 22 & 23 Miss Florida Contestant's Orientation, Hilton Hotel, Carillon Park, St. Petersburg, FL
July 7 thru 10 The 75th Anniversary of the Miss Florida Pageant, Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg.
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Calling All Former Miss Floridaʼs!We need your help in locating our former Miss Florida’s. We want to invite them to join us at our 75th Anniversary show on July 7-10, 2010 at the Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg, Florida.
If you have any contact information on them or want to ask them to contact Allison Kreiger [email protected] or Dana Dalton Judge [email protected] it would be helpful.
Our deadline to getting this together is May 1, 2010!
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Elizabeth Hull 1935Norma Crim 1936Mary Joyce Walsh 1938Rose Marie Magrill 1939Mitzi Strother 1941Eileen Irma Knapp 1942Muriel Elizabeth Smith 1943Virginia Warlen 1944Virginia Freeland 1945Jacquelyn Jennings 1946Eula Ann McGehee 1947Rosemary Carpenter 1948Shirley Ann Rhodes 1949Janet Ruth Crockett 1950Mary Elizabeth Godwin 1951Marcia Crane 1952Marjorie Simmons 1953Ann Gloria Daniel 1954Sandra Wirth 1955Sally Fisher 1956Dorothy Maria Steiner 1957Dianne Tauscher 1958
Nancy Rae Purvis 1959Kathy Magda 1960Sherry Grimes 1961Gloria Brody 1962Flora Jo Chandonnet 1963Priscilla Scharr 1964Carol Lynn Blum 1965Diane Colston 1966Christine Torgeson 1966Dawn Lauree Cashwell 1967Linda Fitts 1968Lynne Edea Topping 1969Lisa Donovan 1970Barbara Jo Ivey 1971Suzanne Charles 1972Ellen Meade 1973Delta Burke 1974Ann Schmalzried 1975Nancy Stafford 1976Cathy La Belle 1977Carolyn Cline 1978Wendy Sue Cheatham 1978Marti Sue Phillips 1979Caroline Dungan 1980Dean Herman 1981Deanna Pitman 1982Kim Boyce 1983Lisa Valdez 1984
Monica Farrell 1985Molly Pesce 1986Jennifer Anne Saunder 1987Melissa Aggeles 1988Sandra Joanne Frick 1989Dana Rinehart DaltonJudge 1990Mary Ann Olson 1991Leanza Cornett 1992Melinda Miller 1992Nicole Padgett 1993Megan Welch 1994Kristin Ludecke 1995Jamie Bolding 1996Christy Neuman 1997Lissette Gonzalez 1998Kelli Meierhenry 1999Candace Rodatz 2000Kelly Gaudet 2001Katherine Carson 2002Ericka Dunlap 2003Shauna Pender 2003Jenna Edwards 2004Candace Cragg 2005Mari Wilensky 2005Allison Kreiger 2006Kylie Williams 2007Sierra Minott 2008Rachael Todd 2009
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Orlando Magazine - Good NeighborsOviedo / Orlando Florida - The HOPE Foundation is pleased to announce the recent publication (January issue) of Orlando Magazine, as Krissy Todd, Executive Director of HOPE, shares the cover with Orlando Magic basketball star Dwight Howard. The issue, entitled "Good Neighbors" features several organizations in Central Florida making a
difference and a positive impact on neighbors in our community... Pick up your issue today, or read HOPE's excerpt HERE !Your gift helps us to continue our mission of helping Children and Families in crisis in your community. It is because of your support and commitment to HOPE that we are able to continue to provide resources, vital research, education, community service and advocacy programs. Over 95% of donations received go directly to assisting our families!Make a donation right now to help us continue to change the lives of those in need. Join us in being a good neighbor.HOPE's mission is to prevent and reduce homelessness in Central Florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through Housing, Outreach, Prevention, and Education."
As a means to further promote the Miss Florida Organization, the Miss America Organization and the green effort in our country I approached the Everglades Foundation with a proposal to form a partnership, whereas Miss Florida could use her influence in a positive way to increase awareness statewide and nationwide about the importance of the Everglades ecosystem and restoration of this ecosystem. Through the partnership formed
Miss Florida is now a representative of the Everglades Foundation.
For additional media inquiries, please contact:Joan Faulkner
Director of Business DevelopmentMarketing / Community Relations
"Non-Profit of the Year - 2009"Seminole County Regional Chamber of
Commerce
www.evergladesfoundation.org
evergladesfoundation.org
Washington, D.C., Rachael and the Staff of the Everglades Foundation
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*Pageant Pants*
The 2010 Pageant Pants Drive kicks off Feb. 1st and goes through the entire month of April!
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Miss Florida Scholarship Pageant An affiliate of the Miss America Pageant. The largest provider of scholarships for young women in America.
1st Annual Miss Florida Golf Tournament
PLAY A ROUNDFOR THE CROWN!
Golf with the contestants of the 2010 Miss Florida Pageant.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:00 am Shotgun Start
Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club5 Minutes east of I-75 on S. R. 52 in Dade City, FL
Rated as the 11th best golf course overall in the State of Florida, Golf Digest.DEADLINE TO REGISTER – FRIDAY, APRIL 9TH
Name: ______________________________________________________Address: ____________________________________________________City: __________________________ St ______ Zip: ________________Phone: ___________________ Email Address: _____________________
Amount Enclosed: ___________ Check # ____, Payable to the Miss Florida Pageant.Bill my Visa or Master Card: ______________________ Exp. Date _____Signature: ___________________________________________________
Return this form to:Keith Williams, Miss Florida Golf TournamentP. O. Box 121772 Clermont, FL 34712(352) 516-1593, cell, (352) 567-5571, office, (352)394-7978, fax. Email [email protected]
Rachael Todd, Miss Florida 2009
$125.00 per Golfer.Includes:
Green FeesCart Fees
LunchGift Bag
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Thanks to LaVoyce and Lanier Porter for your genorious support in our send off party to Miss America events
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