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Production Committee
Producer: Anita Jacobs
Director: Lynne McQuillan
Choreographer (Fitness): Lynne McQuillan & Miranda Zimmerman
Choreographers (Presence): Sharon Honkus and Jan Perehinec
Judges: Barbara Miller
Tabulation: Certified Public Accounting Firm: Barnes Saly and Company LLP
Dressing Room Manager: Jan Perehinec
Dressing Room Assistants: Amber Makin & Ruth Klementik
Audio Director: Kristine Honkus
Sound Editor: Dave Smith, Sound Smith Productions
Lighting/Technical Director: Dan Durica
Set Design/Construction: OYW Board
Script: Connie Hummel
Program Book: Tammy Honkus & Barbara Korhut
Tickets: Barbara Korhut & Ruth Klementik
Security: Roger Miller, Ron Honkus, & Joe Perehinec
Spotlights: Ronald and Tammy Honkus
Video: Atlantic BroadBand
Scholastic Judges: Kathy Hall (Penn Highlands Community College), Heather Wilt (Conemaugh School of Nursing), Heather Low (Mount Aloysius College), Erin McCloskey (St. Francis University), and BJ Sarneso (UPJ)
Coordinator: Barb Zuchelli

Master of Ceremonies: Jim Penna
Jim Penna is a lifelong resident of the Greater Johnstown area.  He is a Ferndale High School graduate and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  Jim has had a successful broadcast career that has spanned nearly two decades and holds the unique distenction of having been a part of two different top rated morning radio programs in the area.  First as part of the Morning Zoo on WGLU Radio then several years later as part of the WKYE mroning team with Jack Michaels where he would be names "Simply The Best" radio talent by the readers of the The Tribune Democrat.  In 1999 Jim took on the task of sports talk in Pittsburgh for WTAE radio.  In his two years there he was voted "Best New Talent" by the Achievement in Radio Awards and became friends wtih a number of the besnt known talents in the state including the recently passed Steeler Broadcast legend Myron Cope.  Jim returned to work in Johnstown, only this time on television where he became the main anchor fo Fox 8 News.  He would soon thereafter become News Director asl well.  Jim anchored for Fox for 9 years, the longest air run for any talent in the station's history until the station's recent decision to cease producing thei own nightly newscast.  Jim is married and has three sons, Anthony, Samuel, and Joseph.  He says he knows better than anyone that the Outstanding Young Women in the area have a huge impact on ourlives and the community becasue his beautiful wife Elizabeth Bolton Penna represented Conemaugh Valley in this compeition when she was in high school.