Jr. Miss & Miss Parma Pageants

Celebrating 36 years of pageantry!

Proud of Parma is proud to present the Junior Miss & Miss Parma Pageants.

Proud of Parma is looking for young ladies who would like to represent their city. You could be that special person!

The Jr. Miss Parma Pageant: 13-15 years old

The Miss Parma Pageant: 16-21 years old

The Junior Miss & Miss Parma Pageants will be held

Saturday, June 28th, at the Parma Senior Center Auditorium.

Junior Miss & Miss Parma will be crowned the day of the pageant.

A reception for the contestants and their families and friends will be held between the pageants. All contestants who choose to attend the reception are asked to return to their dressing rooms promptly.

The theme of the 2008 Miss and Jr. Miss Parma Pageants is:

Famous Women of America.

Each young lady will be asked to discuss a Famous Woman of America, which they select. A few suggestions can be found below.

Politics/Government/Law
Eleanor Roosevelt (former First Lady)
Condoleezza Rice (First female African American Secretary of State)
Janet Reno (First female U.S. Attorney General)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
Sandra Day O'Connor (First female U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
Nancy Pelosi (First female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives)

Entertainment

Reese Witherspoon
Martha Stewart

Katie Couric

Jennifer Aniston

Tyra Banks

Barbara Walters

Art/Photography/Literature
Georgia O'Keefe
Annie Libewitz

Dorothea Lange

Anne Bradstreet (First female American writer)

Mary Katherine Goddard (First female American publisher)

Medicine/Science/Aeronautics
Dr. Sally Ride (First American woman in space)

Ada Lovelace (Mathematician)

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (First female American doctor)

Jane Goodall (Primatologist)

Business, Non-Profit Activists
Katherine Graham (First female CEO of a Fortune 500 company)
Ruth Handler (Founder of Mattel, Creator of Barbie)
Elizabeth Arden (Elizabeth Arden, Inc.)

Mary Kay Ash (Mary Kay Cosmetics)