CONTACT:  VENISSA WHITE, VERMONT'S JUNIOR MISS CHAIRMAN
                     vgslwhit@yahoo.com or (802) 875-1129

VERMONT JUNIOR MISS SEEKS CONTESTANTS

Vermont's Junior Miss is looking for high school senior women interested in earning money for college to participate in its 2009 program. There is no entry fee to take part and participants are not asked to get sponsorships. Vermont's Junior Miss state program will take place on March 29 in Chester, Vermont. The winner of this year’s program will travel to Mobile, AL in June 2009 to compete for the title of America’s Junior Miss, a share of more than $150,000 in cash scholarships, and millions in college scholarships. To sign up, eligible participants should visit www.ajm.org/ and click Join Us to sign up.

Vermont's Junior Miss Scholarship Program is an official preliminary of America’s Junior Miss (AJM), the oldest and largest scholarship program for high school senior females of its type. Since 1958, AJM has awarded more than $90 million in cash scholarships and continues to provide more than $33 million in scholarship opportunities to high school senior women each year.

In addition to providing scholarships, AJM challenges each participant to share its national outreach program, Be Your Best Self (BYBS), with young people across the nation. Through BYBS, Junior Misses encourage self esteem and excellence in all young people through the program’s five principles: Be healthy, Be Involved, Be Studious, Be Ambitious, and Be Responsible.

The 2008 - 2009 National Sponsors for AJM are the City of Mobile and Mobile County. Category sponsors are Alabama Power, Encore Rehabilitation, Mobile Gas, and Regions Bank.

For more information about AJM, contact Cassidy Grimes, Public Relations Director for America's Junior Miss, at 800-256-5435 or Cassidy@ajm.org, or visit us online at www.ajm.org.

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