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Feb. 24, 2011
Three young Garrett County women were crowned during the recent Miss University City 2011 Scholarship Pageant at Mountain Ridge High School in Frostburg. Nineteen-year-old Grace Herpel, a mass communications major at Frostburg State University, won the title of Miss Francis Scott Key. Olivia Gaither, a 16-year-old junior at Southern Garrett High School was crowned Miss Francis Scott Key Outstanding Teen, and SHS student Stevee Royce, 15, won the Miss University City Outstanding Teen title. The winner of Miss University City was Danna Thomas, 21, an arts administration and jazz studies major at the University of Virginia. Alyssa Todaro, 21, a PhD student in behavioral and community health at Pennsylvania State University, won the title of Miss Appalachia 2011, and Hannah Brewer, 13, a home-schooled student from Manchester, was named Miss Appalachia Outstanding Teen. The Miss University City Scholarship Pageant is an official preliminary to the Miss Maryland Scholarship Program. The winners will compete at Miss Maryland and Miss Maryland’s Outstanding Teen pageants in Hagerstown. Preliminaries for Miss Maryland will be held on June 22 and 23, and Miss Maryland’s Outstanding Teen preliminaries will be June 23–24. The final for both Miss Maryland and Miss Maryland’s Outstanding Teen will take place on Saturday, June 25. Left to right are Gaither, Brewer, Royce, Thomas, Todaro, and Herpel.
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