The Miss Tennessee award, begun in fall 1930, was traditionally the most coveted popularity award for female students. Each year, the student body voted for the senior woman considered the most outstanding and representative person in regard to scholarship, leadership, and service to the university. In 1943 Miss Tennessee was announced during the intermission of the annual Beauty Ball. In 1957, as a protest to the way in which student politics operated, the Gung-Ho Party offered its candidate, Deborah Bovine, as a write-in selection. The cow, with voluptuous measurements of 50 inches by 73 inches by 60 inches was said to be majoring in animal husbandry and to be a member of Tri Moo sorority. Deborah’s votes were voided, leaving Sigma Kappa’s Jo Haynes of Sweetwater as the only legitimate candidate. As part of its 1964 approval of Circle K’s request to hold a Miss UT Pageant, the winner of which would compete in the Miss America Pageant, the Student Faculty Organizations Board required that the SGA stop the annual senior class vote for Miss Tennessee.