| State |
Name |
Hometown |
Age |
Talent |
Placement |
Awards |
Notes
|
 Alabama |
Paige Phillips |
Leeds |
17 |
Vocal/Ventriloquism to "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" by Al Jolson |
1st runner-up |
Preliminary Talent |
|
 Alaska |
Sandra Lashbrook |
Eagle River |
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 Arizona |
Brenda Strong |
Tempe |
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Actress in Desperate Housewives
|
 Arkansas |
Lencola Sullivan |
Morrilton |
21 |
Vocal, "St. Louis Blues", composed by W.C. Handy |
4th runner-up |
Preliminary Swimsuit |
First African-American contestant to place as a runner-up at Miss America
|
 California |
Robin Brooks |
Elverta |
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 Colorado |
Kimberly Christiansen |
Arvada |
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Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Connecticut |
Jeanne Caruso |
Trumbull |
21 |
Vocal/piano, Original song, "A Song for Tomorrow" |
Top 10 |
|
divorced Joe Theismann
|
 Delaware |
Andra Lee Dickerson |
Newark |
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 Florida |
Caroline Dungan |
Bradenton |
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 Georgia |
Lynn Smith |
Savannah |
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 Hawaii |
Kanoelehua Cook |
Aiea |
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 Idaho |
Leslie Taylor |
Burley |
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 Illinois |
Blythe Sawyer |
Naperville |
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Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Indiana |
Teri Kardatzke |
Anderson |
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 Iowa |
Jane Patton |
Council Bluffs |
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 Kansas |
K. Leann Folsom |
Wichita |
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 Kentucky |
Daphne Cochran |
Louisville |
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 Louisiana |
Martha "Missy" Crews |
Baton Rouge |
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 Maine |
Valerie Crooker |
Brunswick |
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Miss Maine USA 1979
|
 Maryland |
Lisa Marie Daskal |
Cumberland |
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Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Massachusetts |
Amy Linder |
Lowell |
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Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Michigan |
Heidi Hepler |
Livonia |
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 Minnesota |
Debra Goodwin |
Austin |
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Preliminary Swimsuit, Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Mississippi |
Donna Pope |
McNeil |
24 |
Ballet on pointe to Overture from "Oklahoma!" |
2nd runner-up (tie) |
Preliminary Swimsuit |
|
 Missouri |
Carla LaFevre |
Harrisonville |
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 Montana |
Lilly Cruise |
Miles City |
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Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Nebraska |
Paula Louise Mitchell |
Norfolk |
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Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Nevada |
Phyllis Hamlin |
Reno |
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 New Hampshire |
Diane McGarry |
Manchester |
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 New Jersey |
Therese Hanley |
Jersey City |
|
"Starting Here, Starting Now" by Barbra Streisand |
2nd runner-up (tie) |
|
|
 New Mexico |
Teresa Elizabeth Anderson |
Hobbs |
|
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|
 New York |
Cheryl Flanagan |
Rochester |
18 |
Tap dance to Overture from "That's Entertainment, Part II" |
Top 10 |
Preliminary Talent |
|
 North Carolina |
Janet Black |
Kannapolis |
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Non-finalist Talent |
Top 5 at Maid of Cotton 1980
|
 North Dakota |
Karen Moe |
Minot |
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|
 Ohio |
Kathy Vernon |
Youngstown |
24 |
Vocal, "I Have Dreamed" from The King and I |
Top 10 |
|
|
 Oklahoma |
Susan Powell |
Elk City |
21 |
Operatic vocal, "Lucy's Aria" from Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "The Telephone" |
Miss America 1981 |
Preliminary Talent (tie) |
|
 Oregon |
Teresa Richardson |
Forest Grove |
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Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Pennsylvania |
Anita Ellen Patton |
Lebanon |
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 Rhode Island |
Dawn Potter |
Pascoag |
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 South Carolina |
Donna Jewell |
Columbia |
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 South Dakota |
Carol Barnett |
Sioux Falls |
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 Tennessee |
Sarah Leonard |
Jonesborough |
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|
 Texas |
Terri Eoff |
Lubbock |
19 |
Dramatic Monologue from "A Bad Play for an Old Lady" by Elizabeth Lovett |
Top 10 |
|
|
 Utah |
Jean Bullard |
Provo |
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 Vermont |
Carole Spolar |
St. Albans |
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Non-finalist Talent |
|
 Virginia |
Holly Jereme |
Roanoke |
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|
 Washington |
Doris Hayes |
Tacoma |
20 |
Vocal, "Our Love Is Here to Stay" by George Gershwin |
Top 10 |
Preliminary Talent (tie) |
First African-American preliminary winner
|
 West Virginia |
Pamela Ellen Paugh
|
Charleston |
|
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|
Aunt of JonBenét Ramsey, Sister of Miss West Virginia 1977
|
 Wisconsin |
Dana Spychalla |
Appleton |
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 Wyoming |
Susan Pennington |
Casper |
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Susan Powell, Miss America 1981
Oklahoma