Up for auction a VINTAGE! "Miss America 1948" BeBe Shopp Hand Written 3X5 Card.
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Beatrice Bella "BeBe" Shopp (born
August 17, 1930), from Hopkins, Minnesota, was Miss America in 1948. After
winning Miss America 1948, Shopp
used her pageant scholarship to attend the Manhattan School of Music. She
specialized in the vibraharp, and graduated with a degree in percussion in
1952. She sang with Share the Music and the Cape Ann Symphony Chorus. She was
active in community affairs, and headed the board of directors for Gloucester
Stage Company. Near
the end of her Miss America reign while traveling in France, Shopp was asked
about women wearing two-piece bathing suits to which she replied, 'I don't
approve of Bikini suits for American girls...The French girls can wear them if
they want to, but I still don't approve of them on American girls.'" Shopp married Korean War navigator Lt. Bayard
D. Waring in 1954 and later had four daughters. She
lives in Rockport, Massachusetts and
is known by her married name Beatrice "Bea" Waring. She was a lay
minister in the Episcopal Church and a TV spokeswoman for an electric scooter
company.