World & Nation
Education: With more than $9 million in assets, the Miss America Organization offers gifts, grants and scholarships to anyone in need.
Sept. 7, 1997
California
Women: Volunteers resurrect program after a seven-year hiatus, but debate continues about its mixture of appearance and scholarship.
Sept. 13, 1997
Obituaries
Jean Bartel dies at 87; Miss America 1943 pushed pageant to give scholarships
March 9, 2011
Television
Miss America 2.0 crowned the first winner of its first post-scandal competition on Sunday.
Sept. 10, 2018
Ratings for the annual Miss America pageant are down, and directors are seeking to reinvent the event.
July 6, 2005
Entertainment & Arts
As book dealers who specialize in art books of Latin America, we wish to reply to “Beyond Kahlo” (May 5), in which Ignacio Galbis and Bill Sheehy of Latin American Masters Gallery are quoted as saying that the art is available but the scholarship isn’t.
May 19, 1991
Scholarships: Relying on essays rather than test scores will yield mediocre winners.
Nov. 1, 1999
Guadalupe Vidales, a winner of numerous campus honors at Orange Coast College, has won three scholarships totaling nearly $15,000 from Soroptimist International of the Americas.
June 14, 1996
After studying music at UCLA, Bartel entered the pageant hoping for a career on Broadway. During her reign, she helped sell $2.5 million in war bonds across the country.
Former President Clinton and former Sen.
Sept. 29, 2001