The Miss Ohio Scholarship Program was held in Mansfield, Ohio from June 11th to June 17th, and I was honored to be part of the program this year as a judge. I served on a six-judge panel with very distinguished, wonderful people from around the country. 21 fabulous women were vying for the title of Miss Ohio 2007 and a chance to compete for the title of Miss America 2008 in Las Vegas. The ladies competed over 3 nights of preliminaries before we got to the top 10. My fellow judges included Troy McCarty (an international ballet choreographer, pilates master, and Broadway performer), Tom Faircloth (a long-standing judge in the Miss America organization, active Board member for the Miss Georgia Scholarship Program and he actually judged the Miss America pageant in 1992!), Tana Carli Domino (Miss Ohio 1979 and 1st runner up to Miss America and she was the Grand Talent winner), Dana Christopher (Miss North Carolina 1994 and a Talent winner at Miss America - an amazing opera singer), and Oz Roberts (President of the Miss Georgia Scholarship Program for 12 years and 2nd Vice President of Productions/Promotions for AFLAC plus he's the provider of the awesome photos I'm including with this post!). Our week was filled with excitement inside the theatre with the beautiful contestants and outside the theatre too - dinners with great sponsor restaurants every night, a tour of the Mansfield Reformatory where Shawshank Redemption, Airforce One, Tango and Cash and other famous movies were filmed, a taping of the judges intros at the historical carousel in Mansfield for the final night show, and much more!! The Miss Ohio Board and the City of Mansfield generously rolled out the red carpet for us. My week as a judge brought back many wonderful memories from my own Miss Ohio days when I competed on that very same stage in 1989 as a contestant. Our new Miss Ohio 2007 is Roberta Camp.
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