Coronation

A black woman in a dress, fur wrap, and long gloves smiles to someone off camera. She is wearing a thin sash with the words Miss Gallaudet printed on it.

1976 - Carolyn McCaskill, ’77, G-’79, PhD ’05, was the first African American Miss Gallaudet (Courtesy of Gallaudet University Archives)

A young woman in a tiara holds flowers, her arm around an older woman. They are standing on the track alongside the football field.

2010 - Two generations of Homecoming Queens, Rosemary Adamca-Balzer, ’84, and Alicia Balzer, ’11 (Courtesy of Gallaudet University Office of Public Relations)