Maria Fletcher

Maria Fletcher

Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	Maria Beale Fletcher[1] June 23, 1942 (1942-06-23) (age 69)[1] Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
Height	5 ft 5.5 in (1.66 m)[2]
Weight	118 lb (54 kg)[2]
Measurements	Bust - 35, Waist - 24, Hips - 35[2]
Title(s)	Miss Asheville 1961 Miss North Carolina 1961, Miss America 1962
Major competition(s)	Miss America 1962 (winner)

Maria Beale Fletcher (born June 23, 1942) was Miss America 1962.

Fletcher was born to Charles "Beale" and Margaret Gatley Fletcher, who were the founders of the Asheville-area Fletcher School of Dance and the Land of the Sky Civic Ballet. She has one brother named Walter and two sisters named Margaret and Bonnie.^[1][3] She is from Asheville, North Carolina, and was a graduate of A.C. Reynolds High School. She worked as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette prior to winning the crown.^[4]

She was the Miss America Preliminary Competition swimsuit winner, and her overseas tour included visits to 31 Army hospitals and Servicemen's Clubs. During the late 1960s, Fletcher served as co-host of The Noon Show on Nashville, Tennessee television station WSM.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000". Ancestry.com. http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8783&enc=1. Retrieved November 31, 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Miss America 1962". PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/sfeature/pop_1962.html. Retrieved 2011-11-11. 
3. ^ "Oral History Register for Beale Fletcher, 1914-1994 and Peggy Fletcher". University of North Carolina at Asheville. http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/VOA/D_H/Fletcher_B&P.html. Retrieved November 31, 2010. 
4. ^ "Miss America History 1962". Archived from the original on 2006-09-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20060923035747/http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1960/1962.asp. Retrieved 2006-12-31. 

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Name	Fletcher, Maria
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Date of birth	June 23, 1942
Place of birth	Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
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