Lou Whitmire, Reporter
MANSFIELD - Miss Ohio Alice Magoto posed with her dark green Chevy Cruz on Wednesday outside Graham Chevrolet.
She laughed and said after winning the Miss Ohio title, she sat in the car with her dad and found a gummy bear stuck in the crevice next to the seat.
Graham Chevrolet provides the Miss Ohio Scholarship Program a new Chevy Cruz every three years. So, one of the last two Miss Ohios likes the sugary treats.
Magoto won the crown at the statewide pageant June 18 at the Renaissance Theatre. She will compete at the Miss America pageant on Sept. 11 at Atlantic City, N.J. The program will be televised on ABC. A large contingent of fans from Ohio also will travel to the national pageant to cheer Magoto on at the Miss America Parade on Sept. 10.
The new Miss Ohio, a Cincinnati native, will crisscross the state during her one-year reign in the car.
"I'll be putting a lot of miles on it this year," she said. "Cincinnati is pretty out of the way for everything that I have booked coming up."
The 18-year-old old pageant newcomer was a preliminary talent award winner at Miss Ohio, captivating the audience by performing "Astonishing" from "Little Women" to win the artistic expression honor, formerly called the preliminary talent award. She plans to keep that song when she hits the Miss America stage.
Henri's Cloud Nine is a sponsor, and she plans to change some of her wardrobe items from Miss Ohio before heading to Atlantic City.
In high school she was in theater, show choir, vocal ensemble and a club that promotes confidence. She also participates in a WOW program at her dance studio that gives girls who use wheelchairs the opportunity to dance at weekly dance classes and compete on stage. She said she serves as a shadow.
She started musical theater in fifth grade and has taken voice lessons since then.
Magoto said she has tweaked her platform since the state pageant. She said she plans to promote "Beauty Unedited: Redefining Beauty for the Next Generation."
Magoto said she wants to advocate for truth in advertising and photo manipulation.
"The unrealistic standards being set today in media are so detrimental to girls my age, girls older, women and younger girls and that's something we really need to change," she said.
She said she has designed a stamp of reality that she would like to see put on all magazine photos that have been manipulated so girls can understand what they are looking at is not real. "It's a lie and they should not be comparing themselves to that," Magoto said.
She plans to put on hold a year her plans to major in political science at Chapman University, having just graduated high school in May. She said she wants to be Miss Ohio and Miss America because she is passionate about her platform and had struggled with self-esteem issues.
Pronounced mag-a-toe, the vocalist said her last name often is mispronounced. She competed in the Miss Ohio's Outstanding Teen Program last year and was fourth runner-up.
Magoto said she is excited to spend a year with Doc Stumbo, public relations spokesperson at Graham Automall, as she makes appearances in and around Mansfield this year.
"The Cavs won, the Indians are winning and now we're going to get a Miss America," Stumbo said.
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