Miss America 1977, the 50th Miss America pageant,
was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City,
New Jersey on September 11, 1976 & aired on NBC Network:
Winner Dorothy Benham, Miss Minnesota,
                        became a singer,
                        on              the Crystal Cathedral's
                                                      Hour of Power;

        Among the other contestants in 1977
                                      was Miss Florida,
                       TV actress Nancy Stafford,
                                        &
actress Karen Kopins,
            Miss Connecticut;
Another was Patsy Paugh,                                Miss West Virginia,
                               who later     became the mother
                               & in 1996,        suspected killer
                                   of postmodernist icon     Jon Benet Ramsey