At coronation on Sunday in the Glencoe-Silver Lake (GSL) auditorium, Claire Witte won Miss Glencoe honors in the first crowning since 2007. She also earned Miss Congeniality, an honor bestowed by a vote of peers who also participated in the Miss Glencoe program. Also winning honors alongside Witte was Isabel Petersen, who was crowned as Glencoe’s ambassador.
The daughter of Jeri and Brian Witte, 17, the soon-to-be senior at GSL, and Petersen, 16, who’s going to be a junior at GSL, each had their own perspective on the significance of being crowned: