Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Eye color Brown Major
competition(s) Miss America 1969 Major competitions Miss America 1969 | Hair color Brown Title(s) Miss Alabama 1968 Name Dellynne Catching | |
Full Name Dellynne Cole Catching Education Birmingham–Southern College | ||
Dellynne Catching Strawbridge is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Birmingham, Alabama, who was named Miss Alabama 1968.
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Career
Entering the 1968 Miss Alabama pageant as one of 24 finalists, Catching's competition talent for Miss Alabama was playing the piano. Catching won the pageant on Friday, June 28, 1968, when she received her crown from outgoing Miss Alabama titleholder Becky Alford. Catching's title also came with $1,000 in scholarship money, a complete wardrobe, use of a new car during her reign, a trip to New York, plus jewelry and other accessories. As Miss Alabama, her activities included public appearances across the state of Alabama.
Catching was Alabama's representative at the Miss America 1969 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her competition talent was performing a piano medley of "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum", "America the Beautiful", and "This Is My Country". Catching was a Preliminary Swimsuit award winner and told judges that while she had to diet "to keep her 37-24-37 figure" that this did not "keep her from eating hot fudge sundaes." She was one of the Top 10 finalists for the Miss America title but did not make the Top 5.
Her reign as Miss Alabama continued until Ann Fowler was crowned on July 5, 1969.
Personal life
Catching is a 1967 graduate of Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama, where she served as homecoming queen. She studied music at Birmingham–Southern College and graduated in 1971. She married Vincent Frederick "Rick" Strawbridge and, as of 2014, lives in Lakeland, Florida.