A strange turn of the event, hinging on a stranger pageant rule, caused a Viet who had been crowned Miss Garden Grove Outstanding Teen just six months ago to lose her title, reports the OC Register here.
Emily Nguyen (center, when she won the pageant), now a senior at Sunny Hills High School, was beauty queen for six months, until a casual lunch conversation with the pageant’s executive director disclosed that she was too old to qualify for the competition.
“Too old” is relative. Emily was 16 at the time she applied for the pageant in the summer of 2008. That was the summer after her junior year in high school. She’s still 16 now.
Nonetheless, “according to the pageant rules, that meant she was already a senior,” the executive director Stacy Margolin said. Margolin called the problem a “technicality.”
As it turns out, a teen-ager’s senior year in high school (the one year where extracurricular activities are least likely to affect her schooling) is actually also the one year where a girl is too old to compete for Miss Teen and too young to compete for the regular Miss title.
“Nguyen was stuck in pageant limbo and didn’t know it. She couldn’t compete for Miss Teen because she was already a senior and couldn’t compete for Miss Garden Grove because she wasn’t yet 17,” wrote the Reg’s Deepa Bharath.
The first runner-up, Bree Morse (at left in picture), was awarded the title in a private ceremony.
Margolin said Nguyen gets to keep her crown and her $500 savings bond. Morse will get to keep the $100 scholarship she won as a runner-up and will be awarded the winning $500 scholarship in addition, she said.
Emily was cool about it all. She told the paper, “It was sad that my reign was cut short, but I had a wonderful experience representing the city and meeting the community.”
Her mom, though, seemed to be totally crushed. Mai Pham was quoted as saying, “The rules don’t make sense. Emily is still a teen. She couldn’t enter in the teen contest or the Miss Garden Grove contest. So where would a talented girl like her fit in?”
what a copout sonny, and you still havent answered me. i understand…..you cant.
Any Viets around Bolsa where you live who started out from nothing and now raise their own families, running their own business, owning their own homes are considered LEADERS, and guaranty to beat you hands down Jose. Good enough for an answer?..Those are true leaders my man.
jose licka solorio butt…..should be busy licking solorio instead of calling everyone communist.
What a dorky idiot!
jose licka solorio needs to be excommunicated by his own family members.
Loser and hopeless idiot!
Anyone knows the outcome of the Garden Grove council meeting last night regarding Emily’s title? I wonder if they have reversed the decision so she can keep her title for the rest of the term?
hey sonny, as ive said here many times before: i have no problems with my viet neighbors i get along with them great and i’m glad they are my neighbors. what i dont like is these crazy communist filth that live amongst us who protest anything and act like fools but whats most disturbing is the “elected officials” got it? “elected officials” who pander to these filths and get away with it. see, you still havent answered my question sonny? why cant you tell me of one (1) viet elected official thats worth a shi*? a leader? but then i keep forgetting that i’m talking to a racist that called me a beaner. have i once called anybody on this blog a gook? never. because the word beaner is just as offensive in case you dont know. but you have shown your true colors as does the racist communist filth jung kim. if regular hard working viets in this community are the real leaders then that sure does exclude you. because my neighbors sure as hell arent racist pigs like you. AND YOU STILL HAVENT ANSWERED MY QUESTION?
jose lick a solorio’s butt, go ask your hero, loving master mexican leader solorio assemblyman.
communist filth jung kim, why do you have such a fixation on solorios butt? you racist little swine.
jose licka solorio’s butt, listen to your garbage coming out from your little hole between the browny lips ……. you are a anti viet, pro mexican cholo wanna be idiot.
jung kim, go right ahead and call me anti viet we all know i’m not. what i am anti is communist filth like you. how many times has our friend the bolsavik deleted your comments because of racist slurs? i count 5. how many times has our friend the bolsavik deleted my racist slurs? ZERO,ZILCH,NADA. why? because i’m not a racist my parents raised me better than that unlike your parents. you are nothing in our community except a cyber loudmouth little homophobic racist communist filth. the difference between you and i is that i would call that to your face but i know you wouldnt call that to me to my face because you’re a coward. you call yourself some kind of lame guru but you’re just an embarrassment to the good viets that live here. you’re nothing.
jose licka solorio butt, As Sonny Tran have said you are an liability for our viet community.
heres some advice for you jung kim, never put to much stock in what a racist pig like sonny tran says. oh i forgot, you’re a racist pig too! my bad. both of you shame the viet community. keep talking you only show how ignorant you are.
jose still licking solorio, if you wish you can go back to your anti viet cholo site.
We do not need anti viet nerd limping around our town.
I got my pot belly from drinking a lot of beer. now i have to do a lot of Cardio to remove my pot belly.;*-