00                   SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 2                                                                   
01 Recognizing Miss Alaska as the official hostess of the State of Alaska.                                                 
02 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03       WHEREAS the Miss Alaska Scholarship Foundation pageant has held a pageant each                                  
04 year since 1959 to select Miss Alaska and is the most historically established and community-                           
05 aligned pageant in the state; and                                                                                       
06       WHEREAS Miss Alaska is the state's representative to the Miss America Pageant,                                  
07 which is one of the world's largest scholarship providers for women; and                                                
08       WHEREAS, although used by other pageants, the title of "Miss Alaska" should be                                  
09 reserved for the person who wins the Miss Alaska Pageant and who represents the state in the                            
10 Miss America Pageant; and                                                                                               
11       WHEREAS the intent of the Miss Alaska Scholarship Foundation is to recruit                                      
12 participants who are interested in pursuing their education, to judge the participants based on                         
13 the whole person, demonstrated through their community service, interview, poise, talent, and                           
14 physical presence, and to find the young woman who is most capable of representing the                                  
15 state; and                                                                                                              
16       WHEREAS the Miss Alaska Scholarship Foundation and Miss America Organization                                    

01 seek attributes that would be beneficial for an official state hostess to possess; and                                  
02       WHEREAS it would benefit the state to have Miss Alaska serve as official state                                  
03 hostess on appropriate occasions, in the state's public relations inside and outside the state,                         
04 and to dignitaries from outside the state; and                                                                          
05       WHEREAS, in 1970, the Sixth Alaska State Legislature by House Concurrent                                        
06 Resolution No. 66 designated Miss Alaska as the official state hostess;                                                 
07       BE IT RESOLVED that the Twenty-Ninth Alaska State Legislature recognizes only                                   
08 one Miss Alaska, who is Alaska's representative to the Miss America Pageant; and be it                                  
09       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Twenty-Ninth Alaska State Legislature recognizes                                      
10 Miss Alaska as the official hostess of the State of Alaska.