Volume 11 , Issue 6

1936 Miss Alva

It was July 25, 1936 that this news article appeared in The Oklahoman, on page 14, with the headlines reading: "Miss Alva, 1936."

The Winner was Miss Cleo Bailey, Alva's representative in the state beauty contest during the state fair, having won the title of "Miss Alva, 1936" in competition with 45 other girls.

Cleo at that time was a senior at the University of Oklahoma. Miss Bailey was brown-haired, blue-eyed, weighing in at 110 pounds and was 5 feet, 10 inches tall. Miss Lorna Walker, Miss Coila Studevant, Miss Virginia Cavett and Miss Carlene Copas, took second, third, fourth and fifth places in the order named.

Some of you northwest Oklahoman's might remember Cleo Bailey later as Cleo Bailey Gruber, married to William Gruber, of Alva, Oklahoma.
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