Miss America 1971#Contestants

! Placement

! Contestant

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• {{flag|Texas}} – Phyllis George †

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• {{flag|South Carolina}} – Claudia Carmen Turner †

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• {{flag|Maine}} – Karen Johnson

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• {{flag|Mississippi|1894}} – Christine McClamroch

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• {{flag|Pennsylvania}} – Maggie Walker

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• {{flag|Arkansas}} – Donna Connelly
• {{flag|Florida|1900}} – Lisa Donovan
• {{flag|New York}} – Katherine Karlsrud
• {{flag|Oklahoma|1941}} – Judy Adams
• {{flag|South Dakota|1963}} – Mary Harum

! Awards

! Contestant

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• {{flagicon|Texas}} Texas - Phyllis George
• {{flagicon|South Carolina}} South Carolina - Claudia Turner
• {{flagicon|Hawaii}} Hawaii - Kathleen P. O'Sullivan

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• {{flagicon|Florida|1900}} Florida - Lisa Donovan
• {{flagicon|Oklahoma|1941}} Oklahoma - Judy Adams
• {{flagicon|Alabama}} Alabama - Suzanne Dennie

! Awards

! Contestant

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• {{flagicon|Indiana}} Indiana - Debbie May

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• {{flagicon|Alaska}} Alaska - Virginia Walker

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• {{flagicon|California}} California - Karin Kascher
• {{flagicon|Indiana}} Indiana - Debbie Sue May
• {{flagicon|Iowa}} Iowa - Cheryl Adrienne Browne
• {{flagicon|Minnesota|1957}} Minnesota - Juliana Genevieve Gabor
• {{flagicon|Nevada|1929}} Nevada - Vicky Jo Todd
• {{flagicon|North Carolina|1885}} North Carolina - Cornelia Collette Lerner
• {{flagicon|Rhode Island}} Rhode Island - Teresa Louise Bradley
• {{flagicon|Utah|1912}} Utah - Deborah Dunn

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!State

!Name

!Hometown

!Age

!Talent

!Placement

!Award

!Notes

|Suzanne Dennie

|Birmingham

|20

|Popular Vocal, "Alfie"

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|Preliminary Talent Award

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|Virginia Walker

|Kotzebue

|19

|Original Poem, "My Wonderland"

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|Special Judges' Award

Neat as a Pin Award

|First Miss America contestant from the Arctic Circle

|Karen Shields

|Tucson

|19

|Dance & Vocal Medley from My Fair Lady

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|Donna Connelly

|Hope

|19

|Vocal Medley, "Who Will Buy" from Oliver! & "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing"

|Top 10

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|Karin Kascher

|Castro Valley

|18

|Violin, "Méditation"

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|Non-finalist Talent Award

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|Sue Gehrman

|Fort Collins

|18

|Musical Interpretation, "Just You Wait" from My Fair Lady

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|Cynthia Fowler

|Cheshire

|21

|Classical Vocal, "The Jewel Song" from Faust

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|Linda Sue Hitchens

|Seaford

|20

|Vocal/Dance, "Give My Regards to Broadway"

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|Lisa Donovan

|Sarasota

|21

|Vocal, "Feeling Good"

|Top 10

|Preliminary Talent Award

|Singer on 1980s game show Face the Music

|Nancy Carr

|Midland

|22

|Popular Vocal, "I Wish You Love"

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|Kathleen Puanani O'Sullivan

|Kailua

|18

|Modern Dance, "Ritual Fire Dance"

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|Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award

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|Noralyn Olsen

|Ovid

|18

|Classical Piano, "Etude Op. 10, No. 5"

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|Lynn Alexander

|Loami

|18

|Classical Vocal, "Vissi d'arte"

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|Debbie May

|Remington

|21

|Semi-classical Vocal, "The Impossible Dream"

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|Non-finalist Talent Award; Miss Congeniality

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|Cheryl Browne

|Decorah

|20

|Ballet, "Deep Purple"

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|Non-finalist Talent Award

|First African American contestant to compete at Miss America Cheryl Adrienne Browne was a native of Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York who attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

|Linda Susan Edds

|Manhattan

|21

|Popular Vocal, "The Windmills of Your Mind"

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|Cynthia Anne Bostick

|Owensboro

|18

|Vocal, "Life is a One Way Street"

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|Appeared as Marcia Campbell on As the World Turns Cynthia Anne Bostick Georgeson died at age 70 on January 24, 2023 in Racine, Wisconsin.

|Carol Almand

|Haynesville

|18

|Vocal, "The Wedding"

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|Karen Johanna Johnson

|Cumberland Foreside

|20

|Classical Vocal, "Quando me'n vo'"

|2nd runner-up

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|Sharon Anne Cannon

|Salisbury

|21

|Piano, "Elephant Walk"

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|Diana Dohrmann

|Boston

|21

|Piano, "The Kid from Red Bank" by Count Basie

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|Ginger Myers

|Lincoln Park

|21

|Vocal, "Wicked Man"

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|Juliana Gabor

|South St. Paul

|20

|Popular Vocal, "My Coloring Book"

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|Christine McClamroch

|Columbus

|21

|Vocal Medley, "Cabaret", "Try to Remember", & "You'll Never Walk Alone"

|3rd runner-up

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|Marcia Mossbarger

|Brookfield

|22

|Tap Dance, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"

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|Jane Opp

|Billings

|20

|Piano, Le Cavalier Fantastique by Paul Ben-Haim

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|Debra May Sullivan

|Omaha

|19

|Acrobatic Dance, "Fly Me to the Moon"

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|Vicky Jo Todd

|Sparks

|20

|Vocal/Guitar, "Time"

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|Non-finalist Talent Award

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|Deborah Ann Merrill

|Portsmouth

|19

|Vocal/Dance, "I Want to be Happy" & "Happiness Is"

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|Hela Yungst

|Hillside

|20

|Dramatic Vocal, "Aldonza" from Man of La Mancha

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|Janis Jones

|Raton

|21

|Soft Shoe Dance, "Golden Slippers"

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|Katherine Karlsrud

|Mamaroneck

|18

|Harp, "Whirlwind" by Carlos Salzedo

|Top 10

|Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship

|First Allman Scholarship recipient to graduate from Medical School

|Cornelia Lerner

|Asheville

|18

|Piano, "Revolutionary Étude" by Chopin

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|Non-finalist Talent Award

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|Nancy Tangen

|Northwood

|19

|Classical Vocal, "Pace pace mio dio" from La forza del destino

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|Grace Bird

|Alliance

|21

|French Horn & Classical Vocal, "1st Concerto for French Horn" & "Ouvre ton Coeur" from Vasco da Gama by Georges Bizet

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|Judy Adams

|Cushing

|20

|Violin, "The Hot Canary" arranged by Florian ZaBach

|Top 10

|Preliminary Talent Award

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|Cynthia Lynn Harrison

|Portland

|18

|Vocal & Guitar, "Just Once"

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|Maggie Walker

|Harrisburg

|18

|Gymnastic Ballet on Uneven Parallel Bars, "Contessa"

|4th runner-up

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|Teresa Bradley

|East Greenwich

|19

|Folk Singing & Guitar, "Chelsea Morning"

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|Non-finalist Talent Award

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|Claudia Carmen Turner†

|Spartanburg

|19

|Vocal, "Once Upon a Time"

|1st runner-up

|Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award

| Claudia Carmen Turner Wells Bauman, died at 69 on September 24, 2021 in South Carolina.

|Mary Harum

|Sioux Falls

|19

|Vocal Medley, "You've Made Me so Very Happy", "Something", & "Yesterday"

|Top 10

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|Former co-host of Entertainment Tonight

|Carol Ferrante

|Memphis

|21

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|Phyllis George†

|Denton

|21

|Piano Medley, "Promises, Promises" & "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"

|Winner

|Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award

|One of the first women sportscasters on network television as co-host of NFL Today on CBS from 1975 to 1977 and 1980 to 1983

Co-host of the 1989 & 1990 Miss America pageants with Gary Collins

|Deborah Melba Dunn

|Salt Lake City

|20

|Modern Dance, "Julia"

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|Pati Papineau

|Rutland

|19

|Classical Ballet, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

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|Jeannette Smith

|Roanoke

|19

|Classical Piano, "Toccata" by Aram Khachaturian

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|Nancy Peterson

|Moses Lake

|19

|Original Comedy Monologue, "Once Upon a Leaf"

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|Linda Dianne Barnett

|Parkersburg

|19

|Modern Jazz Dance, "The Electric Indian"

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|Linda Jane Johnson

|Milwaukee

|19

|Piano, "Polonaise"

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|Jane Hutchings

|Cheyenne

|19

|Piano, "Arabesque" by Claude Debussy

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