MISS BUCCANEER PAGEANT RECORDS
1964-90

East Tennessee State University
University Archives
P. O. Box 70295
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614

E-mail: archives@etsu.edu
Telephone: (423) 439-4338

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INTRODUCTION

Title: Miss Buccaneer Pageant Records
Collection Number: Accession No. 370
Physical Description: 1 linear ft.
Creator: ETSU Student Publicaations Office
Repository: University Archives, East Tennessee State University

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance: The Miss Buccaneer Pageant Records were donated to the University Archives by Lise Cutshaw, advisor to student publications, ETSU, on August 27.

RESTRICTIONS
Applications of student contestants containing personal information are restricted in accordance with laws regarding privacy of student records.

Access: The collection is open for research.

Processing Information: N. Irwin completed processing the collection in 1997
1997

HISTORICAL NOTE

The Miss Buccaneer Pageant was first held in 1964 and sponsored by the East Tennessee State University Buccaneer yearbook staff (later the ETSU Student Publications office) as an alternative to the traditional class beauty contests. Schery Jeanne Lodter of Johnson City was the first Miss Bucanneer. In 1986, the contest was rechristened the Miss Buccaneer Scholarship Pageant with the addition of a scholarship program. The pageant was last held in 1990 with Benita Patricia Bellamy crowned Miss Buccaneer, the first African-American to hold the title. A list of the pageant winners is found in Box 2, folder 12.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Miss Buccaneer Pageant Records consist of correspondence, newsclippings, applications, score sheets, receipts, event programs, and photographs primarily documenting pageant activities for the years 1984-88 and 1990. Information to be found in the collection include how contestants were scored, pageant publicity, and biographical information about contestants. The records are arranged chronologically by date of pageant and then alphabetically by subject. Material is filed in chronological order within folders with undated material filed after dated material.

Important subjects in the collection include:

Beauty contests--Tennessee--Johnson City
East Tennessee State University--Students
Miss Buccaneer Pageant, Johnson City, Tenn.

BOX AND FOLDER LIST

Box 1

1. Pageant Files, 1984: Applications. [restricted]
2. Pageant Files, 1984: Cue cards.
3. Pageant Files, 1984: General.
4. Pageant Files, 1984: Newsclippings.
5. Pageant Files, 1984: Ratings and score sheets.
6. Pageant Files, 1985: Applications. [restricted]
7. Pageant Files, 1985: Correspondence.
8. Pageant Files, 1985: Cue cards.
9. Pageant Files, 1985: General.
10. Pageant Files, 1985: Newsclippings.
11. Pageant Files, 1985: Ratings and score sheets.
12. Pageant Files, 1986: Applications. [restricted]
13. Pageant Files, 1986: Correspondence, 1985-86 and undated.
14. Pageant Files, 1986: Cue cards.
15. Pageant Files, 1986: General.
16. Pageant Files, 1986: Newsclippings.
17. Pageant Files, 1986: Program information sheets.
18. Pageant Files, 1986: Ratings and score sheets.
19. Pageant Files, 1986: Receipts, etc.

Box 2

1. Pageant Files, 1987: Applications. [restricted]
2. Pageant Files, 1987: General.
3. Pageant Files, 1987: Receipts, etc.
4. Pageant Files, 1988: Applications. [restricted]
5. Pageant Files, 1988: Correspondence.
6. Pageant Files, 1988: Cue cards.
7. Pageant Files, 1988: General.
8. Pageant Files, 1988: Newsclippings.
9. Pageant Files, 1988: Ratings and score cards
10. Pageant Files, 1988: Receipts, etc.
11. Pageant Files, 1990: Applications. [restricted]
12. Pageant Files, 1990: General.
13. Pageant Files, 1990: Newsclippings.
14. Photographs, 1964-86.

INDEX *
* Citations refer to box and folder number where information on the subject may be found.

Archer, Lori Ann: 2-4
Barnes, Letha: 1-1
Barnes, Melissa Sue: 2-4
Bellamy, Benita: 2-4, 2-11, 2-13
Blair, Brenda: 1-6, 1-12, 2-14

Boone, Veronica Hope: 1-12, 1-16, 2-5, 2-14
Brooks, Lisa Lea: 2-4
Brown, Eddie: 2-4
Bryant, Jane Ann: 1-13, 2-14
Bunton, Bonnie: 1-13, 2-14

Buchanan, Ann: 1-13
Butfiloski, Susan: 1-1, 1-4
Carey, Kellie Ann: 1-1, 1-4
Carr, Melissa: 2-4
Christiansen, Bobbie: 1-7, 1-13

Coleman, Bonnie Bunton: 1-13, 2-14
Collins, Schery Lodter: 1-7, 2-5, 2-14
Conkey, Laura: 1-6
Coxton, Celeste: 2-14
Crawford, Jennifer: 1-6

Cunningham, Karen: 1-12, 2-14
Davidson, Karen: 2-13
Ferguson, Susan: 2-4
Ferrell, Cynthia Jo: 2-4
Forsyth, Tiffany: 2-4

Fountain, Ginger: 2-4
Gilland, Teresa: 2-4
Goff, Angela: 1-6
Goodman, Margaret: 1-12, 2-14
Gray, Karen: 2-4, 2-8

Greene, Cynthia Kaye: 1-13, 2-14
Greene-Newman, Cynthia Kaye: 1-13, 2-14
Harmon, Elmer: 1-7
Hill, Teresa: 1-6
Hinkle, Betsy: 2-4

Honeycutt, Whitney: 1-1
Jetton, Beverly: 2-14
Johnson, Holly: 2-13
King, Teresa: 1-1, 1-6
Laughrun, Dawn: 1-12, 2-14

Lawson, Mabel: 2-14
Lewis, Shannon: 2-4
Lodter, Schery: 2-14
Lyons, Nancy: 1-6, 1-12, 2-14
Lyons, Tammy: 1-1

McCaslin, Sylvia: 1-7, 1-13
McMahan, Elizabeth: 1-1
Massengill, Terri: 2-4
Miller, Kimberly: 1-12, 2-14
Morgan, Monroe T.: 1-15

Mullins, Amanda: 2-4
Pierson, Debbie Jean: 1-1, 1-4
Ricker, Donna: 1-1
Riggs, Teresa Roberts: 1-13
Roberts, Teresa: 1-7, 1-13

Rodebaugh, Veronica Hope Boone: 2-5, 2-14
Ruetz, Damaris: 1-12, 2-1, 2-14
Seals, Kathy: 1-6, 1-10
Seckler, Shannon: 2-4
Stacy, Jill: 1-6

Steagall, Nona: 2-5
Stepp, Kalei: 2-5
Torbett, Kimberly: 1-1, 1-4
Trawick, Sylvia Cogburn: 1-13
Tucker, Chiquita: 1-6

Tunnell, Kimberly: 1-1
Urquhart, Alice: 1-6
Walters, Greg: 2-14
Ward, Karen: 2-4
Weems, Leslie: 2-4

Wright, Debbie: 1-6