Miss A World A' Fair 2010

Taryka Daniel, Mozambique, Miss A World A'Fair 2010
Escort: Alan Berning, South Slavs

The 2010 Miss World A’ Fair is Taryka Daniels. She is 20 years old and goes to Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH where she is an Adolescent Young Adult Integrated Language Arts Major with a Minor in Asian Studies. She was born in Dayton, OH and currently resides in Centerville, OH with her mother and her sister. She enjoys most spending time with her family and her friends as well as staying active throughout Dayton. She began the World A’ Fair when she was in the Five Points Clogging group at the age of eight. She grew up through the World A’ Fair and as a sophomore in high school, joined the DIFI Youth Group. Since then she actively participates in the youth group at the World A’ Fair. Taryka believes that the World A’ Fair is important because it exhibits the diversity throughout Dayton. It is a great chance for each country to show a glimpse of what their culture has to offer. It also allows people that are spectators to learn something about their heritage. Taryka graduated from Fairborn High School in 2008 and was an active student inside and outside of school. As a high school student she was very interested in the arts. She was a participant of the Fairborn High School Marching Band as well as A Capella Choir, Serenade Chamber Choir, Symphonic Band, Concert Band and has also competed in OMEA. She was in the Drama Club for three years and on the last year was the choreography lead for the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Outside of school she was involved in Onyx Winterguard and O2 Winterguard based in Dayton, OH. In 2009 O2, was the WGI bronze medalist. She was also involved in the handbell choir and played the flute for her church for Easter, Christmas, and other special occasions. Currently at BGSU she is a member of the Global Village Learning Community that gives foreign exchange students and American college students a chance to live together. They do activities together through the community but also attend events and constantly get a chance to learn about each other’s culture. Taryka is a member of Japanese Club as well as in the Resident Advisor training program and the Leaders in Residence program. Her goals outside of college are to hopefully be accepted into the JET Program and teach English in Japan for a year and then finish her Masters at BGSU. In her future she would like to go to Africa and especially Mozambique and either volunteer or teach. Taryka sees it as a once in a lifetime honor to be Miss World A’ Fair and is proud to represent the festival and the city of Dayton.

First runner up
Jessa Kellie, Philippines
Escort: Trevor Jorgensen, Philippines

Runner up
Krystina Pages, Colombia
Escort: Alex Banerjee-Flores, Mexico

Kaitlyn Graham, Ireland
Escort: Dhruv Goyal, India

Jaislinn Schaffner, Germany
Escort: Robert Lockhart, Germany

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Previous years' winners of the Miss A World A'Fair Pageant:
(married names shown in parentheses)

Nita Gupta 2009 India	British Calloway 2008 Panama	Mary Woo 2007 Korea	Maria Gabriela Medina, 2006 Panama	Crystal Anne H. Belen, 2005 Philippines
Erin Petkus 2004 Scotland	Elizabeth Pages 2003 Colombia	Hiloni Bhavsar 2002 India	Laura Talbot 2001 Korea	Stephanie Van Der Sluijs 2000 Netherlands
Roohi Abdulla 1999 India	Meghan Monahan 1998 France	Cheryl Castro 1997 Philippines	Veronica Njodinizeh 1996 Nigeria	Molly Geiger 1995 Lithuania
Sarah Jang 1994 Korea	Angela Kathumbi 1993 Africa	Reina Sheppard 1992 Carriba	Anjali Mediratta (Brannon) 1991 India	Heather Naber (Steineman) 1990 Hungary
Darlene Joson 1989 Philippines	Kathy Kennedy (Nozar) 1988 Hungary	Deborah Ullmer 1987 Peru	Shailini Jandial (George) 1986 India	Donna Pratt 1985 Africa
Neerja Jandial (Chaudhry) 1984 India	Deborah Eyman (Ketchen) 1983 Netherlands	Mary Hawkins (Chizmar) 1982 China	Melody Pratt (Palmore) 1981 Africa

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The youth group does many activities! Want to join the youth group? Come to our monthly meetings!
	President: Taryka Daniels Africa, Mozambique  trdanie@bgsu.edu   Vice President: Kaitlyn Graham Ireland  kaitlyn.graham@greenon.k12.oh.us Secretary: Mary Woo Korea  woomaryh@sbcglobal.net Treasurer: Alan Berning Lithuania  berninaj@notes.udayton.edu Srgt. @ Arms: Dhruv Goyal India  goyal.dhruv@ymail.com Advisors Maria Medina Robert Petkus
When: First Sunday of Every Month Where: Czechoslovakian Club 922 Valley St. Dayton OH Time: 6:00 p.m The youth group comes together to plan the festival in May. You can get volunteer hours, meet new people, do many acvivities and also represent a country!