Miss Ohio USA Miss Ohio USA The Miss Ohio USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Ohio in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by that winner. It has previously been known as Miss Ohio Universe. Two Ohio representatives, Sue Downey in 1965 and Kim Seelbrede in 1981, have won the Miss USA title and competed in the Miss Universe pageant. The pageant is currently held in Springfield and has previously been hosted by Mentor, Steubenville and Portsmouth. The most notable Miss Ohio USA is actress and Oscar winner Halle Berry, who
Mary Jean Collins Mary Jean Collins Mary Jean Collins (born 1939 in Wisconsin) is an American activist. She joined the National Organization for Women in 1967, and she was elected as the Chicago Chapter of NOW's president after moving to that city in 1968. That chapter sponsored the Women's Strike for Equality, which occurred in 1970. In the late 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, Collins was a Midwest Regional Director and Board member of NOW, in 1980 she was again elected as the Chicago Chapter of NOW's president, and in 1982 she was elected as national Action Vice-President of NOW; she