Last Saturday young ladies of Bourbon gathered to compete for the title of Distinguished Young Woman of Triton. For more than 50 years a group of community members have utilized Triton schools to host the annual scholarship pageant, previously titled Jr. Miss.
Superintendent of Triton, Donna Burroughs, explained that even though the event is not school sponsored, it is still an opportunity to highlight a variety of different areas of accomplishment achieved by Triton High School seniors.
“It’s recognizing scholarship and self expression and physical fitness in women of the senior class who wanted to participate.” Burroughs said, “All the students who participate receive some kind of scholarship, depending on which category they may have placed first, they get larger scholarships.”
Girls who did not win a preliminary or finalist award were each given a $100 scholarship. The finalist and preliminary awards went to the following senior students: Director’s choice was Sara Stevens. The Spirit of DYW award went to Jingle Grigsby. The third runner-up was Nicole Sechrist who also received the award for scholastic achievement. Second runner-up was Montana Golden who also won the talent award.
First runner-up was Emma Ross who received the fitness award as well. Emily Chickering won awards for the interview portion as well as self-expression. Chickering was named the 2018 Distinguished Young Woman of Triton. She will go onto to represent her community in February at the DYW of Indiana program held in Kokomo.
