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Miss Illinois Wins Miss America
September 22, 2002
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The first runner-up was Miss Alabama, Scarlotte Lee Deupree, 22, of Birmingham, a literacy advocate and Enlgish major at Samford Univeristy. Miss Oklahoma, Casey Preslar, 22, of Tulsa was the second runner-up, while Miss Nevada, Teresa Francesca Benitez, 24, of Reno was the third runner-up. Miss Maryland, Camille Jeanee Lewis, 22, of Silver Spring was the fourth runner-up.
While serving as president of Phi Eta Sigma at UI-UC, Miss Harold helped develop two volunteer service projects and was vice president of Black Thought, a minority student campus newspaper. She has aspirations of becoming a lawyer and later a politician. Her state pageant first runner-up, Michelle Lane LaGroue, 22, of Naperville, now has the opportunity to assume the 2002 Miss Illinois title.
Miss North Carolina, Misty Dawn Clymer, 24, of Laurinburg, was among the 15 quarter finalists. She along with Rebekah Chantay Revels, 24, of Saint Pauls, N.C., was a subject of pre-pageant publicity regarding who would represent the state at the national pageant. Revels, the original Miss North Carolina, resigned July 23 after an ex-boyfriend told pageant officials he had unauthorized topless photos of her. Clymer assumed the title, but Revels changed her mind and went to federal court to block Clymer's participation in the Miss America Pageant. She lost the case, but pageant officials awarded Revels VIP status during the remainder of the two-week pageant. Legal issues remain to be settled in North Carolina.
As Miss America 2003, Miss Harold won a $50,000 scholarship.
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