Meet & Greet with Miss Maryland Joanna Guy

The Garrett County Chamber of Commerce will be holding a Meet & Greet with the Autumn Glory Grand Feature Parade Grand Marshal, Miss Maryland Joanna Guy. The Meet & Greet will be held at 11 am during the Autumn Glory Craft & Gift Sale at the Exhibit Hall at the Garrett County Fairgrounds on Sunday, October 14^th. GCC Technologies is the sponsor of the Grand Marshal position. The Autumn Glory Craft & Gift Sale is sponsored by Susquehanna Bank.

Guy was named Miss Maryland during her first appearance in the state pageant and she will represent Maryland in the 2013 Miss America pageant in January. She is only the second woman from Garrett County to be named Miss Maryland.

Joanna Guy graduated from Southern Garrett High School in 2009 and currently attends Cornell University, where she is majoring in government with a minor in music. A member of the Cornell University chorus, Guy is also a soloist with the After Eight a capella group. Guy is a Congressional Award for Youth Gold Medal recipient, a Maryland Distinguished Scholar, a National History Day state winner, an Intel International Science Fair award winner and she has previously held the titles of Miss Queen State and Miss Maryland Outstanding Teen. In preparation for law school, Guy interned for Senator Ben Cardin in 2011 and most recently, she was a research assistant at Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann LLP in Baltimore during the summer of 2012.

As Grand Marshal, Joanna will be featured in the annual Autumn Glory Grand Feature parade which begins at 1 pm in Oakland on Saturday, October 13th.  

For more details on the 45th Annual Autumn Glory Festival, click here.