High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vonda Kay Van Dyke was crowned the 1965 Miss America on September 13, 1964. She had previously been Miss Arizona. She is unique among pageant winners in that she was and still is the only Miss America who was also Miss Congeniality.Vonda Kay Van Dyke was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1943. Her father, Dr. A.B. Van Dyke, was an osteopath. The family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where Vonda attended the Phoenix Christian Junior/Senior High School. In her senior year she entered a local America's Junior Miss pageant, where she surprised the judges and her fellow competitors by performing ventriloquism as her talent, which she later honed at the Phoenix amusement park Legend City.