Belles of Liberty Fundraising Pageant

Hello! My name is Morgan Kerr-Totten. I am coordinator and founder of Belles of Liberty.  It is a pageant, yes. However it does not have all the usual negative components that  glitz pageants have. It is geared to be a wholesome, fun, and volunteer based program. As it is a fundraising pageant and not just a pageant to earn a tiara. It has a point that all young women should strive to be; productive and honorable American citzens. 

This has been a project of mine since I was 17. It has been hit or miss for a couple years as I was in nursing school and that is a very time consuming undertaking. However, now that have graduated and still have the engergy and excitment I'm ready to go full throttle!

The idea started back in 2006 when I was 13. I had won a title from 4-H called the BoCoMo Queen.  At the time I was very energetic about joining the military. As I learned about the wars of America in middle school history class, my appercaition for veterans was born. Always raised in a patriotic family, it made my dad proud when one day I started hand making cards. 

It dried out my markers but I manged to make about 47 cards. 

I asked permission from my 4-H group, and I went to the Truman Veterans Hospital to hand out the cards in my sash and tiara.

 

Never before had I seen such huge smiles. The men and women in awe that day were so happy to see a little "queenie' or "princess" showing appreciation that our modern day youth forget to expess. 

It was a suprise that someone in thier adolescents was being appercative of thier serivce years previous. 

 

That struck me as a problem; my generation should be grateful and patriotic, not just party on 4th of July but actally remeber the line, "some gave some and some gave all".

Freedom is not free. Never has and never will be. 

 

Now, I'm a girly girly as much as the next young lady.  I loved wearing tiaras and sashes, loved getting dressed up for the all of three pageants I was ever in. It was just pure fun. There was some drama assosicated with both expierences, but I saw what I didn't want in a pageant setting. 

 

The idea of Belles of Liberty was born!  To see how it works see the "Frequently Asked Question" tab!