Revisiting Jackie Mayer as Miss America – Sept. 1963

Sixty years ago this month, Jacqueline Mayer of Sandusky wrapped up her year as Miss America 1963. The Lorain Journal covered the end of her reign with several articles. This one appeared on the front page of the September 6, 1963 edition. (I transcribed this article back on this 2014 post.)

And on the night of the Miss America pageant during which Jackie would crown her successor, Sept. 6, 1963, the front page of the Journal featured the article below. 

It humorously notes, "She traveled more than 200,000 air miles and only once went through the womanly agony of looking down to discover a run in her stocking creeping up her leg.

The TV page of that same edition of the Journal included this photograph above the program grids.

And the next day's Journal of Sept. 9, 1963 included this photo on the front page of Jackie crowning her successor.

Here's a photograph of the same scene from a different angle, found earlier this year on eBay.

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Well, to wrap up this blog's series of posts looking back at Jackie Mayer's selection as Miss America 1963, here are some photos of Jackie culled from eBay. Many of them still have their wire services caption attached. There's also the cover of the Miss America 1964 program in which she was preparing to crown the next winner.

Jackie inspecting the Marine Color Guard Aboard the
USS Independence in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

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A month after the end of her reign as Miss America, Jackie was back in school at Northwestern University, as noted in the photo below which ran in the Journal on October 24, 1963.