Contact: Madison Welzbacher
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ten Mississippi State students will seek the title of Miss MSU Friday [Oct. 22] when the university’s Center for Student Activities presents the 62nd annual scholarship competition.
The public event takes place at historic Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at msstate.universitytickets.com or from the Center for Student Activities in Colvard Student Union, Suite 314.
Miss MSU will advance to the Miss Mississippi Pageant, with that program’s winner becoming eligible to compete for Miss America. Miss MSU also will receive a full-tuition scholarship, with the first, second and third runners up receiving $1,000, $750 and $500 scholarships respectively.
Photos by Beth Wynn
This year’s contestants include:
ALABASTER, Alabama—Madeleine Thompson, a junior communication/public relations major.
BRANDON—Bethani Grace Alman, a sophomore psychology major, and Shelby Freeman, a senior marketing major.
COLUMBIANA, Alabama—Hunter Rush, a senior chemical engineering major.
HATTIESBURG—Emmie Perkins, a senior communication/public relations major.
LUCEDALE—Mary Hulbert, a senior business administration/foreign language double major.
LUMBERTON—Angel Gail Lang, a business administration graduate student.
PURVIS—Camille Green, a senior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major.
ROSWELL, Georgia—Grace Anello, a senior geoscience/professional meteorology major.
TUPELO—Avery-Claire Littleton, a senior biomedical engineering major.
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