A tap dancing and whistling first-year was crowned the second Miss Harvard at the mock pageant—marked by a cellophane evening dress, a dance featuring mouthwash and fake accents galore—held in Leverett House Dining Hall Friday night.

Allison C. Smith ’06 prevailed in the competition of five contestants—three first-year women and two junior men—after jockeying for the crown before a judging panel composed of three faculty members.

Although the men dominated last year’s pageant, female competitors made a clean sweep of this year’s awards.

In addition to Smith, Laurel T. Holland ’06 and Caroline E. Jackson ’06 were the first and second runners-up, respectively, and Holland was voted “Miss Congeniality” by her fellow contestants.

The student group IMPACT ran the pageant as a fund raiser supporting grassroots charities in Nepal, Kenya, Gambia and China, and according to IMPACT President Oliver Soong ’04, the event brought in just over $400.

The format of this year’s competition mirrored that of a traditional beauty pageant, with judged categories including beachwear, talent and a short interview.

But according to Miss Harvard 2002, William L. Adams ’04-’05, Friday night’s judges were instructed to vote based on the contestant’s ability to entertain rather than on “antiquated norms of beauty and femininity.”

For the talent competition, Smith—clad in a sparkling black gown—sang “I Whistle a Happy Tune” from the Academy-Award winning musical The King and I, amusing the audience with a short tap dance and her overblown attempts to whistle.

For the beachwear portion, Smith came on stage wearing a bathrobe instead of a swimsuit, explaining that she usually prefers to go to the beach nude.

Holland, or “Miss Congeniality,” put on a French accent throughout the pageant, blowing kisses to the audience and repeatedly calling out “Merci! Merci!”

The emcee had to stop Holland from taking off her black swimsuit for the beachwear competition, explaining that Americans do not generally go to the beach nude.

The two male competitors, Hunter A. Maats ’04 and Daniel C. Craig ’04, entered the contest under pseudonyms, and were the first to drop out.

Maats, or “Pearl Scruggs,” spoke in a lilting Southern accent and wore a red and white checkered shirt and a jean dress.

He started his talent performance by playing a banjo, but broke a string early on and instead rapped about Tennessee.

Craig, or “Billy Dee Adams,” wrapped himself in cellophane plastic for the talent competition—for which the contestants were supposed to don formal attire—and performed an “oral hygiene” dance which left the entire room smelling of mouthwash.