Ann Fowler
{{Short description|American beauty pageant titleholder}}
{{for|the fictional Sue Grafton character|"F" Is for Fugitive}}
{{Infobox pageant titleholder
| name = Ann Fowler
| photo =
| title = Alabama's Junior Miss 1966
Miss Alabama 1969
| nationalcompetition=Miss America 1970
| birth_place =
| birth_name = Ann Harriet Fowler
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|03|16}}
| eye_color = Brown
| hair_color = Brunette
| height = {{convert|5|ft|6|in|m|2|abbr=on}}
| education = Birmingham–Southern College
| homepage =
}}
Ann Fowler (born March 16, 1948) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Birmingham, Alabama, who was named Miss Alabama 1969. She would later marry and divorce American television executive Roone Arledge.
Career
File:Leatherneck Magazine December 1970 cover.png with Ann Fowler entertaining troops in South Vietnam.]]
Fowler was chosen as Alabama's Junior Miss for 1966.
In 1967, she was named first runner-up to Miss Alabama 1967, Becky Alford.
Entering the 1969 Miss Alabama pageant as one of 50 contestants and 24 finalists, Fowler's preliminary competition talent for Miss Alabama was singing "Promises, Promises" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again". The final round talent portion of the program was dropped due to the length of Ahead to the Stars, a musical drama honoring Alabama's sesquicentennial and presented as part of the evening's entertainment.
Fowler won the competition on Saturday, July 5, 1969, when she received her crown from outgoing Miss Alabama titleholder Dellynne Catching. After winning, Fowler resigned from her job in the office of Congressman John Hall Buchanan, Jr. (Republican, Alabama's 6th) to focus on her role as Miss Alabama and prepare for the Miss America pageant.
As Miss Alabama, her activities included public appearances across the state of Alabama, riding the Alabama float in the inaugural parade for President Richard Nixon, and an August 1970 USO tour visiting the troops in South Vietnam. The United States Marine Corps commemorated her Vietnam trip by putting her on the December 1970 cover of Leatherneck, "Magazine of the Marines".
Fowler was Alabama's representative at the Miss America 1970 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.{{cite web |publisher=Miss Alabama |title=Miss Alabama History |url=http://www.missalabama.com/miss-alabama-history |accessdate=June 11, 2015}} Her competition talent was signing "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" from the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Fowler was not one of the finalists for the title. Her reign as Miss Alabama continued until Suzanne Dennie was crowned on June 27, 1970.
Personal life
Fowler is a 1966 graduate of Banks High School in Birmingham, Alabama, and earned a bachelor's degree in music from Birmingham–Southern College. Her mother is Mrs. N.W. Fowler of Birmingham, an interior designer.
In 1975, she married ABC television executive Roone Arledge. She was his second wife. The couple divorced in 1985.
References
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{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Gadsden Times |location=Gadsden, AL |title=Beauties From 93 Towns Entered In State's Junior Miss Pageant |page=6 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19670122&id=cxApAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CtcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2445,2738436 |date=January 22, 1967 |accessdate=July 20, 2014}}
{{cite news |newspaper=Alabama Journal |location=Montgomery, AL |title=New Miss Alabama |url=http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981205061136/http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/ |date=July 28, 1967 |archive-date=December 5, 1998}} [http://www.alfordassociation.org/NOTES/sterling_1995.html Alt URL]
{{cite web|publisher=Distinguished Young Women |title=Past Representatives |url=http://distinguishedyw.org/programs/state_programs/alabama/local_programs/jefferson/past_representatives/ |accessdate=July 18, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724113344/http://distinguishedyw.org/programs/state_programs/alabama/local_programs/jefferson/past_representatives/ |archive-date=July 24, 2014 }}
{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Gadsden Times |location=Gadsden, AL |title=Becky Alford Selected Miss Alabama 1967 |page=1 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19670728&id=xg8qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_9YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1654,3407999 |date=July 28, 1967 |accessdate=July 20, 2014}}
{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Gadsden Times |location=Gadsden, AL |title='Miss Alabama' Fete Tonight |page=2 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19690705&id=zeRGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_f0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1520,391781 |date=July 5, 1969 |accessdate=July 20, 2014}}
{{cite news |first=Philip |last=Oramous |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Anniston Star |location=Anniston, AL |title=Solon's Office Worker Named Miss Alabama |page=2 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/alabama/anniston/anniston-star/1969/07-07/page-2 |date=July 7, 1969 |accessdate=July 18, 2014}}
{{cite news |newspaper=The Gadsden Times |location=Gadsden, AL |title=Miss Alabama To Speak At Woman's Club Meeting |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19691018&id=jngpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ydYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2785,2283899 |page=9 |date=October 19, 1969 |accessdate=July 18, 2014}}
{{cite news |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |location=Tuscaloosa, AL |title=Miss Alabama Contest Entry Deadline June 1 |page=10 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19700505&id=0EUgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EpwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7314,1068727 |date=May 5, 1970 |accessdate=July 20, 2014}}
{{cite news |work=Leatherneck Magazine |publisher=United States Marine Corps |title=Cover |date=December 1970}}
{{cite news |newspaper=Stars and Stripes |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Defense Media Activity |title=Miss Alabama visits the troops in Vietnam, 1970 |url=http://www.stripes.com/blogs/archive-photo-of-the-day/archive-photo-of-the-day-1.9717/miss-alabama-visits-the-troops-in-vietnam-1970-1.156122 |date=September 26, 2011 |accessdate=July 18, 2014}}
{{cite book |editor-first=Mary |editor-last=Cross |chapter=Roone Arledge (1931–2002) |title=100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, CA |page=462 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JOX4CDRb_oC&dq=%22Ann+Fowler%22+%22miss+alabama%22&pg=PA462 |isbn=978-1-61069-085-0 |date=2013 |accessdate=July 18, 2014}}
{{cite web |publisher=American National Biography |title=Arledge, Roone |url=http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-02281.html |accessdate=July 18, 2014}}
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External links
{{Portal|Biography}}
- [http://www.missalabama.com/ Miss Alabama official website]
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{{succession box
| before=Dellynne Catching
| title=Miss Alabama
| years=1969
| after=Suzanne Dennie
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{{Miss America 1970 Delegates}}
{{Alabama pageant winners}}
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Category:American beauty pageant winners
Category:Birmingham–Southern College alumni
Category:Miss America 1970 delegates