2/14/2023 0 Comments Junior miss pageant 2002 seriesCurrent WBVP and WMBA sports caster, Bob Barrickman continues to serve as the Master of Ceremonies. Long time WBVP radio morning man, Jim “The Teddy Bear” Reynolds, was the emcee for the 1972 local junior miss program. Other Pennsylvania junior miss winners from Beaver County were Gayle Conover of Ambridge in 1971, Brittany Rexroad of freedom in 2002 and Carly Koza of beaver in 2013. Long time KDKA radio morning newsman Ed Schaughency, a native of Beaver, was the emcee when Shenesky won the local program. Interestingly, the national winner that year was Diane Sawyer of Kentucky, a long time anchor for ABC news. Shenesky was lnamed fourth runner-up at the Junior Miss national finals in Mobile, Alabama later that year. Shenesky then went on to become Pennsylvania’s Junior Miss at the state program held in Reading. Eleanor Kay Shenesky of beaver falls was named Beaver County’s first ever Junior Miss for 1963. ![]() Junior miss came to beaver county in 1962. A Beaver County Tradition in the spring for over five decades has been the annual Junior Miss Pageant, now known as the distinguished Young Woman Program WBVP and WMBA sportscaster, and emcee of the event every year, Bob Barrickman, helped recap these memories from the Junior Miss and Distinguished Young Woman events through the years. I t’s time for Beaver County memories, presented by St.
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