Thursday, April 23, 2009

Miss Puerto Rico will be represented in 2010 Miss America

There she is...Miss Puerto Rico.

Que bueno that Miss Puerto Rico will be part of the lineup in the 2010 Miss America pageant. After all, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States. With Puerto Rico's great track record in the Miss Universe pageant, who knows we may have a Miss America soon.

Here's a press release:

LINWOOD, N.J., April 22 /PRNewswire/-- For the first time since 1961, Miss Puerto Rico will be competing in the Miss America Pageant in January 2010. The 2010 Miss America Pageant will now showcase 53 incredibly talented, intelligent and beautiful young women live on TLC from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. (Pageant date TBA.)

"We are truly excited to welcome Puerto Rico back to the Miss America Organization and are thrilled to have Miss Puerto Rico competing this year," said Art McMaster, President and CEO of the Miss America Organization. "The Miss Puerto Rico Organization has a tremendous amount of pageant expertise and business savvy, and will surely thrive as part of the Miss America program."

The Miss Puerto Rico Scholarship Program will be headed by Executive Director, Joselo Sostre. Sostre is a logistics officer by trade and has extensive business experience in the areas of strategy, creative development, design, production and staging of event programs. Joselo is joined by Vice President, Arlette Velez; Secretary, Darwin Cabrera; Fashion Designer, Steven Rosengard, and veteran Choreographer, Brett DeBeaulieu.

Similar to the states, District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Miss Puerto Rico Scholarship Program will provide scholarship awards to program participants and will hold an annual competition, the winner of which will proceed to the national competition as Miss Puerto Rico. The Miss Puerto Rico Competition will be held in Caguas, Puerto Rico
with the winner being crowned on Saturday night, July 18 by Miss America 2009 Katie Stam.

"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring Puerto Rico back into the Miss America Pageant after almost 50 years of absence, said Joselo Sostre. " With our current economic crisis, this is a great scholarship opportunity that will provide hope and empowerment to young women who are pursuing their dreams."

About Miss America

The Miss America Organization is one of the nation's leading achievement programs and the world's largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. Last year, the Miss America Organization and its state and local affiliates made available more than $45 million in scholarship assistance. For more information, visit http://www.missamerica.org.

Source: The Miss America Organization

4 comments:

sandra lugo said...

This is a shameless political move by the pro-US statehood movement. Puerto Rico already competes as a nation in MS UNIVERSE and other events. Puerto Rico, as a nation, has won 5 times the MS UNIVERSE crown.

Clarisel said...

Puerto Rico is a US commonwealth pues I have no issue with the island competing in Miss America.

hr3george said...

I don't think PR,VI or any other territory should be represented at MAO. And this pageant has nothing to do at all with PR Universe.

However, the political angle is the LMAO post of the day.Of course the US government has made the MAO a part of the CIA so they cn take advantage of MAO's influence in foreign affairs. Washington believes that the MAO can successfully lead the revolution to tople the territorial government and replace it with a dictorial state government.

As a side benefit, this will lead to the end of PR Universe thus eliminating a strong competitor at Miss Universe for Miss USA and
co-conpirators Misses Venezuela, Kosovo and Lapland.

Please....

Anonymous said...

I think that it will be great that Puerto Rico represent us in the Miss America contest like we are doing in the Miss Universe... if we compete in the Miss America we are going to win every year because they are too pretty for the Miss America contestants!!!!!!