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Date Posted: 18:37:47 02/23/05 Wed
In reply to:
Queen Anne's
's message, "Online Pageant Consulting Research Service" on 13:05:56 01/02/05 Sun
HAFEMAN, EX-CARBONDALE RESIDENT, WINS MISS MADISON CROWN
by Sherry Nelson
Former Carbondale resident Gretchen (Greta) Menet Hafeman, 20, now of Mequon, Wis., was
named Miss Madison (Wis.) last Saturday at the 2005 Miss Madison Scholarship pageant
held in Monona, Wisconsin. (EDITOR NOTE: date of pageant was Sat., Feb. 19, 2005)
Hafeman, who was last year's first runner-up, was crowned by Miss Madison 2004, Kelly Jo
Stauffacher, 23, of Middleton. There were five contestants in the annual pageant. The petite
auburn-haired Hafeman, who was born and raised in Carbondale prior to moving to Mequon in
August of 2000, is a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior majoring in communication
arts and music.
After settling for first runner-up last year at the Miss Madison pageant, Hafeman later won the
Miss Fox River Valley title in Appleton which advanced her to the 2004 Miss Wisconsin
pageant in Oshkosh. She was among the ten finalists at last summer's state pageant.
For talent competition last weekend, Hafeman, sang George Gershwin's "Summertime" from
the musical "Porgy & Bess", the same song she sang last year and again at the 2004 state
pageant. "I am looking at changing my song for the state competition", Hafeman said after
the pageant. "I just have not decided what song it might be".
The title will also enable Hafeman to further promote her pageant platform of "Silent Crimes:
Advocating Awareness for Positive Change" which seeks to increase awareness of date rape
drugs and sexual assaults. It is the same program she started and promoted during last year's
local and state pageants.
Hafeman, who herself in 2003, was a victim of a date rape drugging by gammahydroxybutrate,
more commonly known as GHB. She plans to be an active in making the public aware of this
epidemic. The incident occured in Madison when she was a freshman at the UW. "Its
important to educate members of our community who have been a victim of drug-facilitated
sexual assaults. I was not sexually assaulted, just drugged", Hafeman explained. "Often
because the statistics are so hidden, thats why I've called my platform "Silent Crimes", people
are not familiar with how wide-spread this is today".
Although she says she is fine and healthy now, Hafeman realized she was a victim of the drug
when she woke up in unfamiliar surroundings and was unaware of how she got there.
Throughout the night friends stayed with Hafeman and told her about the violent reactions her
body went through. Hafeman suffered seizures and lost control of her bodily functions. "After
my experience with it I was kind of at a point where I could either regress into myself and go
into that safe place, if you will, and not open up and trust people again because it was a
violation of my body, a violation of trust," Hafeman said.
While continuing her studies at UW-Madison and making appearances as Miss Madison 2005,
Hafeman will start making preparations for the 2005 Miss Wisconsin Pageant, scheduled for
June 25 in Oshkosh. She will be among 26 contestants from around Wisconsin in the annual
state competition. The pressure will be on Hafeman as she will attempt to become the third
consecutive Miss Madison to win the state crown. The previous two were Molly Jean McGrath
and Tina Marie Sauerhammer, who won in 2003 and placed second runner-up in the Miss
America pageant.
Last weekend Hafeman also won the Over-All Interview award and the pageant's Over-all Talent
award. Along with her crown, she wins a $600.00 scholarship; portraits, gift certificates, and a
vacation package at River's Edge Resort in Wisconsin Dells where she will also be treated to a
boat trip tour on the Wisconsin River.
Hafeman is the daughter of Robert E. Hafeman, the former librarian of Stinson Memorial Public
Library District and the Mequon-Thiensville (Wis.) Frank L. Weyenberg Public Library; and
Judith A. Hafeman, a nurse practitioner in the Milwaukee area. The newly crowned Miss
Madison has a sister, Ariel C, 18, a freshman at UW-Whitewater, and a brother Robert, 17,
a student at Homestead High School in Mequon.
In 1999, Hafeman appeared as "Cinderella" in the Jackson County Stage Company's
production of "Cinderella" and she also took part in the 2001 Illinois Music Education
Association Festival as a vocalist. Later in 2003, she was first runner-up in the Ozaukee
County Fairest of the Fair competition. Should Hafeman win the Miss Wisconsin title in June,
she would be the fifth Miss Madison to do so and will also advance to the 2005 Miss America
Pageant in Atlantic City, NJ this September.
CROWNING PHOTO:
http://www.madison.com/images/articles/tct/2005/02/21/12962.jpg
CLEAR HEAD-SHOT:
http://www.missmadison.org/images/2005_contestants/Greta-Hafeman.jpg
1999 CINDERELLA PHOTO (dressed in white)
http://www.stagecompany.org/cinderella20.jpg
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