Miss Anaheim adds program for teens

This year's Miss Anaheim contest will expand to include a program just for teen-age girls. "Our main concern is to provide something valid for our teens," said Martha Rosmus, executive director of the Miss Anaheim program. "This is going to open up a door." Rosmus said the concern about a valid Miss Teen Anaheim title emerged several years ago when private companies began hosting their own pageants in towns across the country. Because girls from throughout the region could enter the contest, titles could be given to a girl who was not from the community she was named to represent. With an officially sanctioned program - in this case, the Miss California organization is the parent body Rosmus said the courage girls from the community to get involved in civic and other volunteer activities. "(I want to) encourage them to be more active," she said. "I don't want it to become pageanty." The winner of the Miss Teen Anaheim title will accompany Miss Anaheim to the state pageant and compete for the title of Outstanding Teen of California. To qualify for the Miss Teen Anaheim program, the girls must be 14 to 17 years old and no older than high school juniors. They must either live in" Anaheim or attend school in Anaheim. Whereas in the Miss Anaheim program the last 20 percent of the young women's scores is split between physical fitness (swimwear) and an overall composite score.