The Miss Northwest Missouri/Miss Maryville/Miss Northwest Counties Scholarship Pageant is a non-profit organization and an official preliminary to the Miss Missouri & Miss America Pageants. We provide scholarship opportunities to contestants along with allowing our winners to represent our organization at the Miss Missouri Pageant, where if crowned "Miss Missouri", she will compete at the Miss America pageant. We feel a contestant who participates in the Miss Northwest/Miss Maryville/Miss Northwest Counties is an experience that will help build the qualities essential for success.

Located in Northwest Missouri, Maryville has been the home of the Miss Northwest Scholarship Pageant since 1988. Over the years, the Pageant Board has added two more titles to the local pageant franchises of Miss Missouri, to include Miss Maryville and Miss Northwest Counties. One of the favorite and enjoyable portions of the pageants here are the junior pageants, which are the fundraisers for our scholarship program. We want to thank the families and friends of the young ladies of our junior programs for their continued support and we hope to encourage new members of our community to participate in our programs.

If you are interested in becoming involved with the Miss Northwest/Maryville/Northwest Counties Scholarship Program, please contact Kendell Misemer (660-562-7790) or Pat Wyatt (660-582-6880) for more information.

Kendell Misemer is the Executive Director of the Miss Northwest/Miss Maryville Scholarship Pageants.  Kendell started working with the pageant in 1992 as a Jaycee, helping to find businesses to buy ads for our program book. Kendell has done nearly everything but compete in the pageant. Kendell is also very busy in other areas of his life.  He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Missouri Local Pageant Association, the Missouri Western State University Alumni Board of Directors, the chairman of the University of Missouri Extension Council of Gentry County and serves as chairman of the University of Missouri Northwest Missouri Regional Advisory Council.  Kendell is a graduate of Missouri Western State University and holds an Associates degree in Agri-business Technology, an associate’s degree in banking and finance, and a bachelor of science degree in Agriculture Economics. Kendell is farming on the family farm raising cattle, hogs, corn, soybeans and wheat.  He is single and enjoys country dancing.

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John Clayton is the Assistant Director of Assessment, Information and Analysis at Northwest Missouri State University.  During his career at Northwest he has been involved with the writing and editing of several Missouri Quality Award and Malcom Baldrige Quality Award applications.  John also served as co-project manager for a $1.5 million software installation at Northwest.  His current responsibilities include implementing the institution-wide assessment plan for Northwest and managing the institutions data warehouse and management information system.

John is married with two beautiful daughters who like to participate in pageants.  He also enjoys officiating high school football, baseball, and softball athletics.  John is involved in his church and also coaches his daughters’ T-ball team.

 

Not Pictured: Phyllis Adams

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