Forever Miss Hastings
Former Titleholders
The Miss Hastings Scholarship Program is currently researching its history to thoroughly archive it on our website.
If you have information to share with us about any former titleholders not listed here, living or passed away, please contact us.
Thank you!
1955
Shirley Freiermuth
Miss Hastings 1955
1955 Miss Minnesota Pageant, a part of the
Miss USA organization
1958
Joann Viall
Miss Hastings 1958
1958 Miss Minnesota Pageant
Talent: extemporaneous fashion presentation
1959
Patricia Bristow
Miss Hastings 1959
1959 Miss Minnesota Pageant
1961
Karen Anderson
Miss Hastings 1961
1961 Miss Minnesota Pageant
1962
Pat May
Miss Hastings 1962
1962 Miss Minnesota Pageant
Talent: modern jazz dance to "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"; music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Ted Koehler
1963
Donna Erickson
Miss Hastings 1963
1963 Miss Minnesota Pageant
Talent: comedic vocal of "The Secret Service Makes Me Nervous" from Irving Berlin's Mr. President
1968
Vicki Schuller
Miss Hastings 1968
1968 Miss Minnesota Pageant
Talent: vocal with piano and organ self-accompaniment to "I Enjoy Being a Girl" and "Sunday" from Flower Drum Song by Joseph Fields and Oscar Hammerstein II
1979
Suzanne Humbert
Miss Hastings 1979
1980 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant
Talent: modern dance
1980
Niki Jensen
Miss Hastings 1980
1981 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant
Talent: contemporary dance to Barbara Streisand's "The Main Event" from A Star is Born
1981
Linda Schams
Miss Hastings 1981
1982 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant
1982
Colleen O'Melia
Miss Hastings 1982
1983 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant ~ Winner, Swimsuit Preliminary;
Talent: contemporary dance
1983
Janelle Almquist
Miss Hastings 1983
1984 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant
Talent: choreographed vocal solo of "Who Will Buy?" from Lionel Bart's Oliver!
1984
Andrea Syltie
Miss Hastings 1984
1985 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant
Talent: piano solo of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"
1985-2017
No titleholders crowned
2018
Alaina Mattimiro
Miss Hastings 2019 (crowned forward like Miss America)
2019 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Competition - Semifinalist
Talent: contemporary dance to “Big White Room”, Jessie J
2019
Sophie Keeler
MIss Hastings 2020
2021 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Competition
Talent: dance
2020
No Titleholder Crowned
The Miss America organization postponed all of its competitions of the 2020-2021 season for a year and invited all current titleholders to continue their service until the following year. Sophie Keeler, Miss Hastings 2020, will represent Hastings in the 2021 Miss Minnesota Scholarship Competition in June 2021, then crown Miss Hastings 2022 in July 2021.