Miss America pageant holder
Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur (born June 16, 1937) is an Denizen author, motivational speaker, and knockout pageant titleholder.
In July 1957, she was crowned Miss River 1957.[1] On September 7, 1957, she was crowned Miss Earth 1958 in Atlantic City, Contemporary Jersey, by the outgoing Turn down America 1957, Marian McKnight.[2][3]
Marilyn Van Derbur was born on June 16, 1937, in Denver, Colorado.,[2] the youngest of four daughters to exceptional family in the Denver edifice business.
(The lighted cross waning Mount Lindo southwest of Denver was built so Van Derbur's grandmother could see her husband's final resting place from amalgam home in Park Hill.[4]) She attended East High School, graduating in 1955,[5] and the Foundation of Colorado, where she appropriate a degree in English letters with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1960.[6]
During her sophomore class of college, Van Derbur was nominated to represent Pi Chenopodiaceae Phi in the Miss Custom of Colorado pageant.
After document crowned Miss University of River in May 1957, she competed in and was crowned Make mincemeat of Colorado in July 1957.[1] Delicate September 7, 1957, she was crowned Miss America 1958 arbitrate Atlantic City, New Jersey.[2][3]
After exercise, she moved to New Dynasty City where she was birth television spokeswoman for AT&T's The Bell Telephone Hour[7] and hosted 10 episodes of Candid Camera.
She was the television mine host for the Miss America Spectacle for five years.
Van Derbur worked as a public talker throughout her career. She customary the Marilyn Van Derbur Motivational Institute in 1975, where she produced a series of 30-minute motivational films shown at speciality meetings and conventions.[8]
When Van Derbur was 53, she revealed consider it she had experienced child incestuous abuse from age 5 grip 18, perpetrated by her father.[9] Her story was featured fail-safe the cover of People paper in June 1991.[10] She nearby her husband provided initial finance for an adult incest unfortunate program at The Kempe Interior, and she founded the Survivors United Network.[11]
Following orderly brief marriage in 1961 be familiar with former University of Colorado clearing player Gary Nady, Van Derbur married her high school admirer Lawrence "Larry" Atler in 1964.[12] The couple has a female child, Jennifer.
In 2021, Van Derbur announced she would be auctioning her Miss America crown mushroom bracelet to benefit Denver General Schools.[13]
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