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Part 3: Miss Arizona Scholarship Pageant Announced
 More of this Feature
• Part 1: Local Miss Arizona competitions
• Part 2: Who can compete to become Miss Arizona?
• Part 3: Miss Arizona Pageant 2002
• Part 4: Miss Arizona Pageant Contestants 2002
• Part 5: Laura Lawless, Miss Arizona 2002
 
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• Miss Arizona 2000
• Miss Arizona 2001
• Miss Arizona Pageant Photo Gallery: 2001
• Miss Arizona Pageant Photo Gallery: 2002
 
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• Miss Arizona Scholarship Foundation
• Miss America Organization
 

Information about the current Miss Arizona competition may be found by clicking here.

The following is the press release with the information about this year's Miss Arizona Pageant:

For Immediate Release
Contact:  Miss Arizona Scholarship Foundation
Stephen Rich, President
(520) 364-5308

Miss Arizona Scholarship Pageant 
to be held June 27-29

Eighteen outstanding young women will compete for the title of Miss Arizona and $100,000 in cash and tuition scholarships during the 2002 Miss Arizona Scholarship Pageant, presented by Forever Living Products, International, June 27-29 at Mesquite High School, 500 South McQueen Road in Gilbert, Arizona. Preliminary competitions will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday with the final competition beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. The new Miss Arizona will compete in the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City in September. 

Contestants are winners of local pageants held in communities throughout Arizona. Contestants will compete in three phases of competition each evening, including swim wear, talent and evening wear. The personal interview phase will be held earlier in the day with the panel of judges. Contestants will also discuss their community service activities as well as their service with the Governor’s Division for the Prevention of Family Violence.    

Master of ceremonies for the preliminary competitions will be Leean Hendrix, Miss Arizona 1998. The Saturday night final competition will be hosted by Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America 1997.

Tickets are available by calling Bryant Tickets at 480-236-4958. Ticket prices are $20 for Thursday and Friday night preliminaries and $35 and $25 for the Saturday night final.  Special packages for all three nights are offered. Credit cards are welcomed. 

The Miss Arizona Scholarship Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Miss America Organization, the nation’s leading achievement program and the world’s largest provider of scholarship assistance for women.

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