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BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Teri Leeper-Blue
CEO & Miss Oregon Field Director
PacifiCorp
Pati Mest
Co-Executive Director
Absolute Landscapes
Jann Leeper
Co-Executive Director
Retired
Cindy Owens
Klamath Falls City School District
Cheri Sandberg
South Valley Bank & Trust
Stacy Howard
AmeriTitle
Jennifer Johnson
Klamath
County School District
Claudia Nikola
Klamath County Courts
Heidi Brennan
Klamath
County School District
Gail Bailey
Klamath
Falls School District
Ksandra Lindenburger
State Farm
Insurance
Debbie Greenleaf
Webb-Wilson
Insurance
Holly Loomis
Mary Kay
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Program Overview
The Miss America Organization is the leading provider of
scholarships for young women in the world. Each year, more than $41
million in cash and tuition scholarship assistance is made available
to the young women who compete in the system. This assistance is not
just for the handful of young women who become Miss America, but is
available to the over 12,000 young women who compete in the state
and local competitions as well.
Today, the Miss America Organization is one of the nation's leading
achievement programs as well as the world's largest provider of
scholarship assistance for young women. Rich in history and social
significance, the Miss America Organization is a not-for-profit
organization that has maintained a tradition for many decades of
empowering young women to achieve their personal and professional
goals, while providing a forum in which to express their opinions,
talent and intelligence. Scholarships have been the cornerstone of
the Miss America program since 1945.
Participating in the system not only helps young women pay for
college and prepare for a career, it also provides an opportunity
for them to gain additional life experience by, working on issues of
importance to society, enhancing their personal and professional
skills and developing their performance-related and other talents.
Over the past 32 years, the Miss Klamath County-Miss City of
Sunshine Scholarship Program has been fortunate to award in excess
of $250,000.00 in scholarships and awards to local participants.
However, were it not for the philanthropic community including
businesses, individuals and civic associations, this program would
not be possible!
Miss America is a global advocate for social and political issues
that touch everyone's lives. Though it is Miss America herself who
fills the spotlight during her year of service, the Miss America
Organization is built on a vast network of grassroots
support--individuals and communities who believe that service in
ones community is a means to show patriotism as well as a way to
gain depth of character.
Contestants at all levels of the Miss America program--from the
local organization in Anytown, USA to the national telecast in
Atlantic City--are required to clearly define a social issue to
which they are sincerely committed and for which each will be an
activist during her year of service. Reflecting the range of
contestants with different backgrounds and viewpoints, the platforms
are as diverse and varied as America itself.
 Over the course of our existence, local contestants have promoted
and advocated for such platforms as Literacy,
Character Education,
Breast Cancer Awareness, Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education, Early
Childhood Education, and a host of other issues highly relevant to
our community, our state and our nation. Contestants have given
thousands of hours in volunteer service to a myriad of organizations
in our community.
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