Miss Massachusetts
Winners
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Miss Massachusetts

Section Title: Winners
Table Section Text: Declared as winner Ended as a runner-up Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist

Year	Name	Hometown	Age	Local Title	Miss America Talent	Placement at Miss America	Special scholarships at Miss America	Notes

2018	Gabriela Taveras	Lawrence	23	Miss North Shore	Vocal, "Rise Up"	4th runner-up	People's Choice Award Preliminary On Stage Interview Award STEM Scholarship Award	First African American woman to win Miss Massachusetts title

2017	Jillian Zucco	Mattapoisett	24	Miss Bristol County	Vocal, "The Impossible Dream"	CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runner-up STEM Scholarship Award	Top 10 finalist at National Sweetheart 2015 pageant

2016	Alissa Musto	Rehoboth	21	Miss Cambridge	Piano	Top 15	Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship

2015	Meagan Fuller	Attleboro	22	Miss Collegiate Area	Jazz Dance, "Feeling Good"	Top 10 at America's Distinguished Young Women 2010 pageant 1st runner-up at National Sweetheart 2013 pageant

2014	Lauren Kuhn	Boston	23	Miss Collegiate Area	Piano, "Valse Dramatico" by Melody Bober	4th runner-up	STEM Scholarship Award

2013	Amanda Narciso	Taunton	22	Miss Cranberry Country	Tap Dance, "Can't Hold Us"	2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2011 pageant

2012	Taylor Kinzler	Lakeville	20	Miss Norfolk County	Vocal, "At Last"	Non-finalist Talent Award	Previously Miss Massachusetts' Outstanding Teen 2008 Contestant at National Sweetheart 2010 pageant

2011	Molly Whalen	Middleboro	21	Miss Taunton	Vocal, "I Just Call You Mine"

2010	Loren Galler-Rabinowitz	Brookline	24	Miss Collegiate Area	Piano, "The Swan"	CMN Miracle Maker Award	U.S. Ice Dancing Bronze Medalist

2009	Amanda Kelly	Braintree	23	Miss Fall River	Vocal, "Show Off" from The Drowsy Chaperone	Sister of Miss Massachusetts USA 2006, Tiffany Kelly Contestant at National Sweetheart 2008 pageant

2008	Alicia Zitka	West Springfield	22	Miss Hampden County	Lyrical Dance, "I Will Love You" by Fisher

2007	Valerie Amaral	Acushnet	22	Miss North Shore	Vocal, "Anyway"	CMN Miracle Maker Award Non-finalist Talent Award Preliminary Talent Award Quality of Life Award Finalist	Previously Miss Massachusetts' Outstanding Teen 2001 Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 pageant

2006	Michaela Gagne	Fall River	24	Miss Southcoast	Vocal, "Bye Bye Blackbird"	Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 pageant

2005	Kristin Gauvin	Worcester	23	Miss Apponagansett Bay	Tap Dance, "Christmas Eve in Sarajevo"	Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2004 pageant Later New England Patriots Cheerleader

2004	Erika Ebbel	Cambridge	23	Miss Apponagansett Bay	Classical Piano, "Fantaisie-Impromptu"	Non-finalist Talent Award Preliminary Talent Award	2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2003 pageant

2003	Melissa Silva	Fall River	23	Miss Southern Massachusetts	Vocal, "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show	Contestant at National Sweetheart 2002 pageant

2002	Melanie Correia	Acushnet	22	Miss Taunton	Vocal, "Big Time"	Top 10	2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2001 pageant

2001	Abbie Rabine	Wenham	22	Miss Southern Massachusetts/Freetown	Vocal, "Via Dolorosa"	1st runner-up	Preliminary Interview Award Preliminary Swimsuit Award	Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999 pageant

2000	Michelle Neves	New Bedford	23	Miss Pioneer Valley	Vocal, "I'm Afraid This Must Be Love"	Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1994

1999	April Thibeault	Boston	21	Miss North Shore	Ballet, "Reflections of Passion"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1998	Elizabeth Hancock	Cambridge	20	Miss Suffolk County	Musical Theater Monologue from 42nd Street	Non-finalist Interview Award

1997	Samira Zebian	Westfield	20	Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore	Irish Step Dance	Waterford Crystal Award for Business Marketing & Management

1996	Lori Flick	Boston	24	Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore	Interpretive Gymnastics Dance, "Prologue from Beauty and the Beast"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1995	Marcia Turner	Cambridge	21	Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore	Piano, "Souvenirs d'Andalousie, Op.22" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk	Top 10

1994	Sharon Lee	Somerville	24	Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore	Classical Vocal, "O Mio Babbino Caro"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1993	Ellen Fitzgerald	Saugus	22	Miss Bay State	Vocal. "Vision of Love"

1992	Lisa Desroches	New Bedford	21	Miss New Bedford	Character Ballet en Pointe, "Can-Can"	Top 10

1991	Melissa Bloemker	East Boston	20	Miss Greater Boston	Harp, "Tango & Rumba from Suite of Eight Dances" by Carlos Salzedo	Non-finalist Talent Award

1990	Marissa Laakso	Randolph	24	Miss Bay State	Character Tap Dance, "Mr. Bojangles"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1989	Janette Elman	Attleboro	22	Miss Greater Attleboro	Russian Cossack Dance

1988	Diana Steckler	East Boston	22	Miss East Boston	Vocal

1987	Aurelie McCarthy	East Boston	24	Miss East Boston	Marimba "Hava Nagila", "William Tell Overture", & "Joplin On Wood"	Non-finalist Talent Award	Former Executive Director of the Miss Massachusetts pageant

1986	Kathleen Callahan	Revere	23	Miss Boston	Popular Vocal "Come Rain or Come Shine"	Toured with the 1987 Miss America USO Troupe

1985	Lisa Kleypas	Carlisle	20	Miss Tri-County	Original Vocal Composition & Guitar "Love You Are My Wings"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1984	Margaret O'Brien	Weymouth	26	Miss Cape Cod	Vocal Medley "The Man that Got Away", "The Man I Love", & "My Man"	Top 10	Preliminary Talent Award	Previously National Sweetheart 1983 pageant

1983	Holly Mayer	Brookline	26	Miss Merrimack Valley	Dance / Baton Twirling, "Medley from Gypsy"	Non-finalist Talent Award	Previously National Sweetheart 1982 Mother of Miss New York's Outstanding Teen 2011, Lauren Molella Sister-in-law of Miss New York 1989, Lisa Molella

1982	Lisa Scorgie	North Attleboro	23	Miss Attleboro	Violin Solo "Fantasy of Russian Folk Songs"

1981	Deborah Salois	North Andover	19	Miss Methuen	Vocal "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" from Ain't Misbehavin'

1980	Amy Linder	Lowell	22	Miss Methuen	Piano Solo "Piano Sonata" by Alberto Ginastera	Non-finalist Talent Award

1979	Lisa Matta	Brockton	20	Miss Boston	Jazz Dance "Slow Dancing"

1978	Rowena Humphrey	Worthington	20	Miss Northern Berkshire	Ballet en Pointe "Love Story"

1977	Janice Ould	Boston	25	Miss Methuen	Semi-classical Vocal "One Kiss" from The New Moon

1976	Deborah Guastella	Methuen	22	Miss Merrimack Valley	Vocal "Your World And Mine"

1975	Cynthia Carpenter	Wayland	22	Miss Marlboro	Classical Piano "Malagueña"	Top 10	Preliminary Talent Award

1974	Susan Sadlier	Lowell	22	Miss Newburyport/Coast Guard	Musical Comedy Skit "I'm the Greatest Star"	Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship

1973	Rena Walmsley	North Attleboro	20	Miss Attleboro	Dramatic Soliloquy from "Funny Girl"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1972	Marie Semas	Taunton	18	Miss Taunton	Piano & Vocal Performance of Original Composition	Non-finalist Talent Award

1971	Deborah O'Brien	Foxboro	22	Miss Foxboro	Classical Vocal "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette	2nd runner-up

1970	Diana Dohrmann	Boston	21	Piano "The Kid From Red Bank" by Count Basie

1969	Georgina Hossfeld	Burlington	22	Miss Burlington	Piano "Grieg's Concerto" & "Bumble Boogie"	Top 10

1968	Catherine Monroe	Lynnfield	20	Miss Woburn	Recitation with Sign Language & Dance "What the World Needs Now Is Love"	1st runner-up

1967	Maria Lynn Chaffee	Waltham	18	Miss Woburn	Ballet & Jazz Toe Dance "Do I Hear a Waltz?", "Georgy Girl", & "One of Those Songs"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1966	Carol Kennedy	Worcester	19	Miss Northboro	Jazz Ballet Dance "Can-Can"	Top 10

1965	Mabel Bendiksen	New Bedford	18	Miss New Bedford	Dramatic Reading & Folk Singing "The Hazards of Nuclear Fallout" & "What Have They Done to the Rain"

1964	Kathleen Kenneally	Whitman	21	Miss Brockton	Dramatic Reading

1963	Lila Saldani	Attleboro	Miss Attleboro	Original Dramatic Monologue "A World of Darkness"

1962	Karen Behn	North Dartmouth	18	Miss New Bedford	Dramatic Reading

1961	Nona Smith	Fairhaven	18	Miss New Bedford	Dramatic Reading

1960	Brenda Crovo	Reading	20	Miss Cambridge	Vocal Medley "Bill" & "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"	Top 10

1959	Sharon Faught	Holyoke	21	Dramatic Reading & Vocal	Non-finalist Talent Award

1958	Patricia Nordling	Lexington	Vocal / Piano "Exactly Like You"

1957	Daly Hirsch	Boston	Drama

1956	Jewel Smerage	Boston	Vocal Medley from The King and I	Top 10

1955	Virginia Maffucci	Watertown	Dramatic Monologue "Solitary Confinement"	Top 10	Preliminary Talent Award

1954	Nan Cowan

1953	Lois Feldman	Natick	Ballet

1952	Barbara Graves	Milton

1951	Mildred Almeida	New Bedford	Fashion Modeling Skit

1950	Britta Berg	Boston

1949	Gloria Curelli	Roslindale	Dance

1948	Barbara McGrath	Boston	Miss Boston	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Barbara Laughton	Reading	Miss Massachusetts	Vocal "The Moon Belongs to Everyone"	Top 15

1947	No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant

1946	Paula C. Jerome	Boston	Miss Boston	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Urania “Rae” Nicholaides	Malden	Miss Massachuetts

1945	Claire Thibadeau	Boston	Miss Boston	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Ruth Thomas	Belmont	Miss Massachusetts

1944	Paulina McKevitt	Boston	Miss Boston	Vocal, "Goodnight, Wherever You Are"	1st runner-up	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Lucille Descoteau	Lowell	Miss Massachusetts

1943	Helena Frances Mack	Boston	Miss Boston	Samba Dance, "Cae Cae"	2nd runner-up	Preliminary Swimsuit Award Preliminary Talent Award	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Mary McAnulty	Roslindale	Miss Massachusetts

1942	Paula Bordman	Natick

1941	Betsy Taylor	Cambridge

1940	Polly Connors	Bedford	3rd runner-up

1939	No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant

1938

1937	Claire Nevulis	South Boston	Vocal / Tap Dance	Top 16	Preliminary Talent Award

1936	Marion Flynn	Norwood	18	Miss Long Beach	Stage name was Marion Rosamond

1935	Rita Mae King	Leominster	Miss Leominster	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Mary Stanley	Quincy	Miss Quincy

1934	No national pageant was held

1933	Elsie Taylor	17	Top 18

1932	No national pageants were held

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1927	Ethel Beatrice Pierce	Miss Boston	Top 15	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Muriel E. Bowers	Miss Lynn

Marion Howarth	Fall River	Miss New England

Martha E. Hick	Miss Pittsfield	Top 15

Dorothy M. Rawson	Miss Worcester

1926	Mary "May" Mudge	Miss Boston	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Mary Robinson	Miss Lockport

Rosa Lee Irving	Miss Portsmouth

Muriel Borek	Miss Springfield

1925	Nina Wolff	Miss Boston	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Katherine Kearns	Newton	Miss New England

1924	Mildred M. Prendergast	Miss Boston	Was married and allowed to participate in Miss America pageant as Miss Boston but was not considered for any competition prize.

1923	Margaret Black	Miss Boston	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Doris George	Miss Cambridge

Elizabeth McClure	Miss Gloucester

Mildred Salisbury	Miss New Bedford

1922	Charlotte Trowbridge	Miss Boston	Multiple Massachusetts representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Helen Lynch	Miss Fall River

Alice Burke	Miss New Bedford

1921	No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant

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Gabriela Taveras of Lawrence was crowned Miss Massachusetts in 2018.

final_sentence: Gabriela Taveras of Lawrence was crowned Miss Massachusetts in 2018.