Miss Massachusetts World

The Miss Massachusetts World competition is a beauty pageant that selects the representative for Massachusetts in the Miss World America pageant.[1][2]

Miss Massachusetts World
Formation1951
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersWellesley
Location
Membership
Miss World America (1951–present)
Official language
English
State Director
Miss World America Organization
WebsiteOfficial Website

The current Miss Massachusetts World is Devon Viola.


Winners

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Color key
  •   Declared as Winner/Ended as Miss World America
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
  •   Ended as special awards winner
  •   Ended as Miss USA
Year Name Hometown Age
[notes 1]
Placement at Miss World America Special awards at Miss World America Notes
2024 Devon Viola
2023 Caroline Cooney

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Mansfield 24 Top Finalist Fitness Winner Fitness Winner and Top Finalist at Miss America World 2023; Beauty With a Purpose project centers around environmentalism. Placed Top 5 at first pageant, Miss MA USA 2020.[4]
2020 Alissa Musto[5] Rehoboth 24 Top 5[6] Beauty with a Purpose Winner, Talent Winner Previously Miss Massachusetts 2016 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss America 2017.
2019 Rachel Miller[7] Dracut 25 3rd Runner-Up
2018 did not compete
2017
2016 Maude Gorman Hingham 22 Previously Miss Massachusetts World 2015 and Top 12 semi-finalist at Miss World America 2015. Also won the Beauty with a Purpose award at Miss World America 2015.
2015 Maude Gorman[8][9][10][11] Hingham 21 Top 12 Beauty with a Purpose[12]
Miss Massachusetts United States 2014
2014 Renata De Carvalho Top 10
Miss Massachusetts World
2013 No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013.
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 No known representatives from Massachusetts between 2003 and 2005.
2004
2003
2002 No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 1995 to 2002.
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994 Michelle Gados
1993 Maribeth Brown Holliston 23 Miss World America 1993 Top 10 semi-finalist at Miss World 1993.
1992 Laura Wheeler Framingham Top 10 Previously Miss Massachusetts USA 1991 and a contestant at Miss USA 1991.
Miss Massachusetts USA 1981-1991
1991 Laura Wheeler Framingham
1990 Laureen Murphy Boston
1989 Kimberley Wallace Ipswich
1988 Anita Marie Lovely Franklin
1987 Rosanna Iversen Great Barrington Represented Massachusetts in Miss Oktoberfest 1987, did not place
1986 Sheila Benson Quincy
1985 Mercedes Waggoner Boston 21 Top 10, finishing in 8th place
1984 Deborah Neary Onset
1983 Robin Jeanne Silva Swansea
1982 Janet Marie Flaherty Wilmington 24 Top 12
1981 JoAnne Savery East Bridgewater Best State Costume
Miss Massachusetts World
1980 Nerine Kidd 2nd Runner-Up
1979 Diane Maguire
1978 Debra Sue Maurice New York City, NY 1st Runner-Up Later Miss New York USA 1980 and Top 12 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1980.
1977 Cheryl Patricia Hyttinen
1976 Margaret Worral Stockton
1975 Mona Jean Tessier[13] Springfield[13] 3rd Runner-Up
1974 Kathleen Ellen Walas
1973 Jeanine Tessier[14] Ware[14]
1972 Janice Janes
1971 Colette C. Nourey[15] Boston[15] 19[15] Miss Congeniality[15]
1970 Deborah Ann Kennedy
1969 did not compete
1968 Mary Frances Bigelow
1967 Cheryl Lee Stankiewicz Brockton Competed as Massachusetts.
Later Miss Massachusetts USA 1970 and a contestant at Miss USA 1970.
Marie A. Skane Boston Competed as Boston, Massachusetts.
1966 Unknown Competed as Massachusetts.
Peggy Eckert Boston Competed as Boston, Massachusetts.
1965 Elaine F. Nash 1st Runner-Up
Dorothy Ann Fisher Boston
1964 Monika Sands Competed as Massachusetts.
Diane Tibert Boston Competed as Boston, Massachusetts.
1963 Marion E. Sarristo Top 15 Competed as Massachusetts.
Nancy Joan Brackett Boston
Brighton
17 Top 15 Competed as Boston, Massachusetts.
Later Miss Massachusetts USA 1966 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1966.
1962 Mary Marble Top 15
1961 Sandra "Su Su" Smith Newton Upper Falls 21 Later Miss Massachusetts USA 1963 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1963.
1960 Beatrice "Bea" Duprey
1959 No known representatives from Massachusetts in 1958 & 1959.
1958
Miss Massachusetts USA 1953-1957
1957 Sandra Ramsey Haverhill 19 Top 15
1956 Elaine Murphy Weston
1955 Jean Dernago Springfield
1954 Nan Cowan Sterling
1953 Joan Daly Somerville
Miss Massachusetts World
1952 No known representatives from Massachusetts in 1951 & 1952.
1951
Notes to table
  1. ^ Age at the time of the Miss World America pageant

References

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  1. ^ "Miss World USA Pageant". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-12-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ The American representatives to Miss World 1978-1994
  3. ^ "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  4. ^ "Pageant Update". www.pageantupdate.info.
  5. ^ "Miss World America Massachusetts 2020 – Miss World America". Archived from the original on 2020-10-30. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  6. ^ "America's Miss World on Instagram: "What a nerve wracking and exciting experience this has been! Our Head to Head Challenge is for sure the most intense challenge of all and…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  7. ^ "Miss World America - Massachusetts".
  8. ^ "Beauty queen lights the way for victims by talking about her rape at 13 - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  9. ^ "Heslam: Pageant winner, rape survivor: 'I'm not defeated'". Boston Herald. 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  10. ^ "NightSide - Miss Massachusetts World 2015 Tells Her Story - CBS Boston". www.cbsnews.com. 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  11. ^ "Miss Massachusetts World 2015 Maude Gorman". Pageant Live - YouTube. May 17, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
  12. ^ Crown, Ask The. "Miss World America Recap: A Historical Pageant By Natalie McGovern". Ask the CROWN. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  13. ^ a b "Contest shaping up". Beaver County Times. August 13, 1975. p. A-12.
  14. ^ a b The Telegraph. The Telegraph.
  15. ^ a b c d "The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. The Victoria Advocate. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
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