Top 10 Pageant Stars: Ladies making Headlines after Miss Asian America Pageant Reign
Dec 01, 2011
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Mona Lee Locke
The pageant’s second Queen, Mona Lee Locke, became a television broadcaster and served as first Lady of Washington State from 1997 to 2005. Her husband, Gary Faye Locke is the current United States Ambassador to China. He served as governor of Washington State and U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Mona Lee Locke and Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates, founded the Foundation for Early Learning to find, fund, foster and promote best practices that support early learning and school readiness for all children, birth through age five. Read More on Washington Gov website
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Pageant Turns 25: Top 10 Unforgettable Staff Stories
Jan 01, 2011
1. One year, the pageant received the wrong shipment of trophies. Instead of trophies with a beauty queen, they received trophies with a male figure in a swim trunk holding a victory wreath above his head.
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Queen Amy Chanthaphavong’s Farewell Message
Aug 08, 2010
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.“
– Jeremiah 29:11
The Miss Asian America Pageant has been an unexpected blessing in my life and an opportunity of a life time. I cannot even begin to articulate the past year without first recognizing the glory and graciousness of God. Read more »
A dream, a journey, a legacy…
Aug 07, 2010
Message from Our President & Founder
ROSE CHUNG
When I created the Miss Asian America Pageant in 1985, I had the intention of sharing my personal experience of evolving from a shy and sheltered young girl into an active community leader. As the youngest of five children to a widowed, immigrant mother, the idea of one day becoming a pageant queen and community leader seemed like a far-fetched dream.
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Miss Asian America Pageant and Our Common Commitment to Community, Social Responsibility, and Integrity
Aug 07, 2010
Message from Our Executive Director
JEFFREY KWONG
Twenty five years ago when this pageant was first envisaged by Rose Chung, the world was a stark place. In the United States, Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, was beaten to death with blows to the head from a baseball bat in June 1982 in Detroit, Michigan by two Chrysler plant workers angry with growing Japanese car sales. A pan-ethnic Asian American movement was thus born. Yet to this day, injustices remain and human rights violations persist. Asian Americans increasingly face invisible forms of discrimination and hate in a multitude of settings such as university admissions and high level corporate hiring according to Labor Department data.
