After graduating from Mercersburg Academy , a boarding school in Mercersburg , Pennsylvania , she graduated from Middlebury College in 1994 . She won the crown as Miss Vermont 1994 and competed in the Miss America 1995 pageant . In 1996 , she began tutoring two young girls , in French , and later moved in with the Van Pelt family in Newport Beach , California . She has stayed in Southern California since then and currently resides there
Miss America 1995
Miss America 1995
Vanessa Branch