Contact: Jerry Anthony, 706-542-8514, janthony@uga.edu  
Writer: Don Reagin, 706-542-8539, dreagin@uga.edu

 

 

ATHENS, GA – Applications are now available for the 2010 Miss University of Georgia Scholarship Pageant. The pageant is an official Miss America preliminary pageant.

 

Applications are available at the Tate Student Center Information Desk or on the Miss UGA Pageant website, www.uga.edu/campuslife. Completed applications must be returned to the Campus Life Business Office, 320 Tate Student Center, on or before Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. The top finalists in the pageant will receive a minimum of $2,000 in scholarships.

 

The Miss America Organization, at the local, state, and national levels, represents the largest private scholarship foundation for women in the United States. This year, scholarship assistance totaling more than $47 million was available to contestants at all three levels. The Miss America Organization, established in 1921, is a nonprofit civic corporation.

 

The winner of the Miss University of Georgia Scholarship Pageant competes in the Miss Georgia Pageant, culminating with the Miss America Pageant, held each year in January.

 

The 2010 Miss University of Georgia Scholarship Pageant will be held on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Hugh Hodgson Hall of the UGA Performing Arts Center. For more information about the pageant or eligibility, call 706-542-8514 or visit the Miss UGA website at www.uga.edu/campuslife.

 

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The Miss UGA Scholarship Pageant and the Student Government Association are programs of the Department of Campus Life within UGA’s Division of Student Affairs.