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Kelly Jones Carr is an American educator and beauty pageant titleholder from Birmingham, Alabama, who was named Miss Alabama 2001. ==Career== In high school, Jones was a contestant in Mississippi's Junior Miss.〔 In 1998, she was crowned Miss Lake Wedowee and placed at Miss Alabama that year.〔 While a senior at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, Jones won the title of Miss Samford 1999.〔 The next year she was crowned Miss Jefferson County 2000.〔 Jones was selected as Miss Homewood Area 2001 then, in early 2001, Jones was diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome, a potentially fatal illness caused by a bacterial toxin.〔〔 The antibiotic treatment for this caused her most of her hair to fall out just two months before the Miss Alabama pageant in June.〔〔 Jones' preliminary competition talent for Miss Alabama was playing classical piano.〔 Her platform was "Boys and Girls Clubs: Be a Peer Role Model".〔〔 Jones won the state competition on Saturday, June 16, 2001, when she received her crown from outgoing Miss Alabama titleholder Jana Sanderson.〔〔 After winning, Jones announced she would use the scholarship money to pursue a graduate degree in music education.〔 As Miss Alabama, her activities included public appearances across the state of Alabama.〔 Jones was Alabama's representative at the Miss America 2002 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.〔 Her competition talent was a classical piano performance of Frédéric Chopin's "Ballade No. 1 in G Minor".〔〔 Jones was not one of the finalists for the Miss America title.〔 Her reign as Miss Alabama continued until Scarlotte Deupree was crowned on June 15, 2002.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kelly Jones (Miss Alabama)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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