The Diamondback Online, the University of Maryland’s independent daily student newspaper, recently published an article on Miss DC 2011 Ashley Boalch and her experience at the Miss America pageant.

Please click here to read the article.  

Congratulations to Miss DC 2011 Ashley Boalch for winning the Miss America pageant’s first journalism scholarship!!  The $1,000 journalism scholarship is in the name of late Associated Press writer John Curran, and goes to a goes to a non-finalist studying journalism.

Please click here for the Washington Post article about this scholarship.

Cheer on Ashley at the Miss America Pageant 2012!

Saturday, January 14
ABC 9:00 EST

John Kelly’s toughest assignment: Judging the Miss District of Columbia Pageant

- By John Kelly, Published: January 10

Can there be such a thing as too many attractive young women parading in front of you in their swimsuits? Reader, the answer is yes.

In July, I was one of the judges for the Miss District of Columbia Pageant, the winner of which is representing the District on Saturday at the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas (broadcast at 9 p.m. on ABC).

Sure, it’s an honor to be a judge, but it’s also a responsibility. Teri Galvez, executive director of Miss D.C., kept reminding us that the woman we picked could be — if all went well would be — Miss America.

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