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> > > >Exactly 90 years ago today, on Friday, August 18, 1933 >(the date was also on a Friday in 1933) that the >Cambridge Chamber of Commerce sponsored and staged the >1933 Miss Wisconsin pageant, which was held for two >days during the four-day 1933 (26th) annual Harvest >Festival. > >The Miss America board approved of the local chamber >in them hosting and crowning a Miss Wisconsin to >advance to the 1933 Miss America pageant the following >month in Atlantic City, New Jersey. > >A grand total of 50 young women, ages 16 to 26, from >around Wisconsin competed for the state title, crown, >and a host of gifts that would make any current Miss >Wisconsin winner blush with envy. > >Some of these entrants had won a local Elks queen >contests and then competed at the 1933 State Elks >Queen contest during the state Elks convention on July >8, 1933 in Milwaukee. The winner was the Eau Claire >Elks Queen who advanced to nationals, while the rest >got invited to compete for Miss Wisconsin the >following month, and were given basically appointed >city titles to compete for the chance to advance to >Miss America. > >The other non-Elks queen women had won actual city >pageants for the right to advance to Miss Wisconsin, >while the third avenue to state was winning a >popularity vote usually sponsored by the hometown >newspaper. Citizens going to grocery stores and other >participating stores had paid a nominal fee for a >contest ballot to enter which woman was their pick for >their hometown winner. There was no actual stage >contest for these Miss Wisconsin contestants. Bankers >or accountants counted the ballots at each store after >a week or two of community voting and declared a >popularity vote winner, subsequently with a photo >session for the local media. > >On the second and final night, August 18, at around >10:30 p.m., hundreds of spectators watched Miss >Portage, Marie Margaret Huebner, a petite sales clerk >in a Portage clothing store, win the Miss Wisconsin >1933 title at Community Park (now known as Ripley >Park), on the western shores of Lake Ripley, >technically located in the Town of Oakland. > >Marie, who was very active in high school, came close >at winning a state crown the previous month when she >was the first runner-up in the 1933 State Elks Queen >contest. > >The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce had five judges and >a tremendous turn out for the state pageant. The >pageant was the main highlight of the festival, but >there many other attractions for visitors to attend. >The annual Harvest Festival and the 1933 Miss >Wisconsin competition were heavily promoted in half >and full-page advertisements in newspapers throughout >Wisconsin, such as this example: >http://wisconsin.cdn-anvilcms.net/media/images/2019/06/ >29/images/1933_Miss_Wisconsin_ad.max-752x423.jpg > > >This was the only time in state pageant history that >the Miss Wisconsin pageant was staged in Jefferson >County, and on the shores of a lake. > > >Contestants for the title of Miss Wisconsin 1933: > >Miss Albany, Elsie Charlene Krostue >Miss Appleton, Elaine Mary Williams >Miss Beaver Dam, Jeanne Ruth Neugebauer (SECOND >RUNNER-UP) >Miss Beloit, Norma Wilson >Miss Brodhead, Esther Mary Earleywine >Miss Brooklyn, Alice Bernice Brown >Miss Burlington, Evelyn Jane McGorey (THIRD RUNNER-UP) >Miss Cambridge, Anna Onstad Lee >Miss Cudahy, Helen Eva Walczak >Miss Deerfield, Louise Nelson >Miss Dodgeville, Bernice Clara Palzskill >Miss East Troy, Cecelia Germaine Neumann >Miss Edgerton, Elvera Gertrude Woerth >Miss Elkhorn, Veva Nadine Dora Brown >Miss Evansville, Mary Evalyn Hubbard >Miss Fennimore, Hazel Elaine Webster >Miss Fond du Lac, Marcella Barbara (Sally Ann) Petri >Miss Fort Atkinson, Evelyn Marie Stockfish >Miss Green Bay, Lorraine Elizabeth Hansen (FIFTH >RUNNER-UP) >Miss Hartford, Francis Geraldine Van Hara >Miss Horicon, Mary Elizabeth Eberling >Miss Janesville, Pearl Margaret Eichacker >Miss Jefferson, Virginia June Ree >Miss Johnson Creek, Mabel Viola Staude >Miss Kenosha, Dolores Dorothy Moriarty >Miss Lancaster, Leona Dorothy Vesperman >Miss Madison, Gladys Seldal >Miss Marinette, Dorothy Louise Wescher >Miss Marshall, Beatrice Rose Schroeder >Miss Middleton, Susan Jane Ziegler >Miss Milton, Alma Gena Gulbrandson >Miss Milton Junction, Bernice Esther Kutz >Miss Milwaukee, Ida Camilla Knudson >Miss Neenah, Doris Mary Renner >Miss Oconto, Marian Ann Burbey (FOURTH RUNNER-UP) >Miss Orfordville, Bessie Luella DeVoe >Miss Oshkosh, Alice Elizabeth Senk >Miss Platteville, Bernadette Dolores Marr >Miss Portage, Marie Marguerite Huebner (WINNER---MISS >WISCONSIN 1933) >Miss Racine, Dorothy Ethel DeLonge >Miss Stoughton, Rebecca Josephine Lillian Stokstad >Miss Two Rivers, Carolyn Clara Keune >Miss Walworth, Rachel P. Porter >Miss Waterford, Olive Irene Jacobson >Miss Waterloo, Geraldine Josephine Bossa >Miss Watertown, Evelyn Loretta Woelffer >Miss Waupun, Ethel Berdine Krueger (FIRST RUNNER-UP) >Miss Wauwatosa, Myra Nelson >Miss West Bend, Erna Marie Kannenberg >Miss Whitewater, Bernice Dorthea (Staude) Keeley > > >Three Honorable mention (to make it a top nine): >Kenosha, Marinette, Wauwatosa. > >NOTE: Miss Milwaukee 1933, Ida Camilla Knudson, who >was one of the local Elks queen winners to compete in >the state Elks Queen contest, had represented >Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee in the 1928 >International Pageant of Pulchritude--Miss Universe >pageant (which was the precursor to the modern Miss >Universe pageant which began in 1952) in Galveston, >Texas. Camilla, as she was commonly known did not >place in the contest in Texas: >tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_International_Pageant_ >of_Pulchritude > >The contestants who previously competed in the 1933 >state Elks queen contest included: Appleton, Beaver >Dam, Marinette, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Portage, and >Racine. > >Marie Huebner went on to place among the 18 >semi-finalists in the fabled and unusual 1933 Miss >America pageant, which saw several contestants >disqualified while they were on the Boardwalk of >Atlantic City, and the winner receiving the Miss >America crown and title in the most unconventional >way. Other mishaps and misfortunes happened, which can >be read about here: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_America_1933 > > >Marie Huebner would become one of the longest-lived >Miss Wisconsin winners, passing at age 93. Mrs. Elmer >Raimer died after a short illness on February 15, 2007 >in Des Moines, Washington, where she and her husband >relocated in the early 1970s. > >She was the fourth to last of the 50 contestants from >1933 to pass away (after Marie's death was Miss >Cambridge (June 2013), Miss Stoughton (August 2013), >and then last was Miss Elkhorn, Veva Nadine Dora Brown >Steinke at age 101 on December 28, 2017 in Delavan, >Wisconsin). > >Happy 90th year Miss Wisconsin 1933 anniversary to >fans of Miss Wisconsin history, which included Marie >herself who loved to watch Miss America broadcasts >each year, and chat about the two 1933 state pageants >in Milwaukee and Cambridge, and the time she was in >Atlantic City, New Jersey. She was very fond of the >eventual Miss America 1933 winner, Miss Connecticut, >Marian Bergeron. They often stood next to each other >in many press photo opportunities, such as this one: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_America_1933#/media/F >ile:1933_Miss_America_panorama.jpg > >"We got along great, just like friendly schoolgirls" >Marie said. "And before you knew it, the pageant in >Atlantic City was over". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >.

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