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Karen Flake's application for the 1968-1969 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant contains personal information about the contestant as well as general information about the pageant. Flake was a housewife at the time and alumna of Meredith College, and her…

Jan Roberts' application for the 1968-1969 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant contains personal information about the contestant as well as general information about the pageant. Roberts was working as a dental assistant at the time, and her intended…

Connie Law's application for the 1968-1969 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant contains personal information about the contestant as well as general information about the pageant. Law was a student at NC State, and her exhibited talent was modeling clothing…

This blank application, initially created for the 1965 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant, was annotated for revisions for the 1966 pageant. It describes the pageant for potential contestants and requests information such as name, employer, occupation,…

This document contains instructions for Mr. Ponton, the Master of Ceremonies at the 1963 Mrs. NC State pageant. It includes hand-written notes and a brief fact sheet on each contestant.

Mary Porterfield's article in The Technician, discussing the 1968-1969 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant, described the atmosphere of the pageant and the winner, Shirley Trottier, before criticizing the pageant for limiting itself to married women in an…

This document is the program for the 1968 Mrs. North Carolina State University pageant, "Stairway to the Stars," sponsored by State's Mates.

This thank-you letter was written to the Federal Bakery, in gratitude of a cake which was donated to State's Mates. It is one of several thank-yous to other bakeries. The cakes were used in State's Mates Cake Walk, which they ran for North Carolina…

This thank-you letter was written to Ambassador Theatre, in gratitude of tickets which were given as a prize at a State's Mates party. The winner (apparently a husband) had to drink milk through a baby bottle.

This thank-you letter was written to Mitchell's Hairstyling Shop in gratitude of the gifts that business had given to State's Mates for its 1956 fashion show. The hair glitter and makeup was used by the models.