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Brittany Harris<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of the more endearing \u2013 and enduring \u2013 traditions at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the annual selection of a campus queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many of its peer institutions, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore has embraced this extracurricular activity with vigor dating back to the Great Depression, according to campus lore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss UMES and her Imperial Court \u201chave played a significant role, in public, as student representatives,\u201d an official handbook for the annual UMES pageant says. \u201cEach young lady is expected to be a person of high moral conduct and a student with a great deal of school pride and spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In the beginning, Miss UMES\u2019 role was defined primarily as a homecoming queen,” the handbook says. Her role “has changed to include that of more professional duties. Her role now includes public speaking as a University spokesperson, student role model and new student recruiter. It is necessary that she be well versed and extremely comfortable in the public eye.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The names of many of the early campus queens are not known. But during the university’s 125th anniversary celebration, two emerged from the campus archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maggie Curry<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One was Maggie Curry, who in the late fall of 1946 was identified as “Miss Princess Anne” in a campus publication called the “College Mirror.” She was crowned during halftime of a homecoming football game. Curry arrived in a “gray sedan, accompanied by her maids of honor, Marie White, Elaine Dashiell and Virginia Williams.” She made “a magnificent address, expressing her affection for the college and appreciation of her supporters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coronation might have been the highlight of the day; the game with Cheyney Training School for Teachers ended in a 6-6 tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amelia Merchant<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The following fall, Princess Anne College’s homecoming game program featured a photo and brief biography of that year’s campus queen, Lemay Irene Atlee<\/a>, a freshman from Bryans Road, Md. in Charles County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning with the transition to Maryland State College under John Taylor Williams, their names and photos have been meticulously maintained in records by the Office of Campus Life. The first “Miss Maryland State” was Amelia Merchant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second-floor room in the Student Services Center is designated the \u201cQueens\u2019 Gallery,\u201d and is dedicated to long-time campus photographer Thomas H. Wiles. Formal portraits he took of queens beginning with Amelia Merchant in 1948 through 1988 are on display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FALL<\/td>\nCampus Queen<\/td>\nTITLE(S)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1948<\/td>\n\u00a0Amelia Merchant<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1949<\/td>\n\u00a0Kathleen Taylor Talbert<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950<\/td>\n\u00a0Mary\u00a0Smithers\u00a0Gladden<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1951<\/td>\n\u00a0Yvonne Jones<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1952<\/td>\n\u00a0Constance\u00a0Eldean\u00a0Hill<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1953<\/td>\n\u00a0Marjorie Frazier\u00a0Townsel<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1954<\/td>\n\u00a0Colinthia\u00a0Burton\u00a0Gosa<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1955<\/td>\n\u00a0Shirley Adams Smith<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1956<\/td>\n\u00a0Martha McGee<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957<\/td>\n\u00a0Delores Harley<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1958<\/td>\n\u00a0Emma Smith<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1959<\/td>\n\u00a0Andrades\u00a0Alexander<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\n\u00a0Lois Kelley<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1961<\/td>\n\u00a0Ivy Jean Carter<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962<\/td>\n\u00a0Carolyn Thompson<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1963<\/td>\n\u00a0Louida\u00a0Fletcher<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1964<\/td>\n\u00a0Theresa Cheeks<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965<\/td>\n\u00a0Vashti\u00a0Saunders-Peagler<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1966<\/td>\n\u00a0Zuella\u00a0Gayle-Ennis<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1967<\/td>\n\u00a0Brenda Barnes-Matthews<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968<\/td>\n\u00a0Jacqueline Matthews-Forchion<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969<\/td>\n\u00a0Diane Hampton Lane<\/td>\nMiss Maryland State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970<\/td>\n\u00a0Wanda Stewart Holmes<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1971<\/td>\n\u00a0Delores Cook<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\n\u00a0Hattie Jones Penn<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1973<\/td>\n\u00a0Carolyn Anderson Hooker<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1974<\/td>\n\u00a0Chantell\u00a0Haskins-Grandy<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1975<\/td>\n\u00a0Garcia Edgerton-Williams<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>\n\u00a0Gloria\u00a0Maye-Burgess<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\n\u00a0Carol Perkins-Drummond<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1978<\/td>\n\u00a0Donna Walton<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979<\/td>\n\u00a0Sharon Elliott-Chester<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/td>\n\u00a0Catherine Hall<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\n\u00a0Vickie Hairston<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/td>\n\u00a0Greta Elliott<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/td>\n\u00a0Sandra Smith-Whitaker<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\n\u00a0Portia Dennis<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\n\u00a0Veronica Briscoe<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/td>\n\u00a0Freda Harris<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/td>\n\u00a0Monica Thomas-Hill<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>\n\u00a0Collette Johnson<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\n\u00a0Rene\u00e9\u00a0Goodison\u00a0<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\n\u00a0Theresa Jones<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\n\u00a0Jacqueline Mims-Levy<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\n\u00a0Rhonda Terry-Robinson<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\n\u00a0Tyra\u00a0Harding-Smoot<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\n\u00a0Thomasina\u00a0McCoy-Boardley<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\n\u00a0Malika\u00a0Singleton<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\n\u00a0Kristi Henderson<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\n\u00a0Margo Thomas-Gross<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\n\u00a0Michelle Jefferson<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\n\u00a0Shawnetta\u00a0Barnett-Jackson<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\n\u00a0J’Naudia\u00a0Hunter-Phillips<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\n\u00a0January Washington<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\n\u00a0Krystin\u00a0Richardson<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\n\u00a0Sabrina Richardson<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\n\u00a0Lisa Wilkes<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\n\u00a0Shalani\u00a0Vanterpool<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\n\u00a0Ashley Johnson<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\n\u00a0Tyshuna\u00a0Bolton<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\n\u00a0Danielle Bell<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\n\u00a0Candace Thomas<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\n\u00a0Rashida Beckford<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\n\u00a0Brittany Harris<\/td>\nMiss UMES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the more endearing \u2013 and enduring \u2013 traditions at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the annual selection of a campus queen. Like many of its peer institutions, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore has embraced this extracurricular activity with vigor dating back to the Great Depression, according to campus lore. Miss UMES…Read more Campus queens<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}