MAY 2008

*NEW* Vincenza chosen as "Top 40 Under 40" in
Delaware Today Magazine.

*NEW* Vincenza and Bethany featured in Special Olympics Plane Pull coverage in the News Journal.

*NEW* Jackie Pilla, Miss Delaware USA 1999, in the UD Review.

*NEW* Feature story on Vincenza in the UD Review.


APRIL 2008

Miss Delaware USA in the Cape Gazette


MARCH 2008

Vincenza featured in Miss USA coverage on KVBC news in Las Vegas!

Vincenza featured in the most recent issue of L'Idea Magazine.

A feature on Vincenza in the Italian Tribune (NYC)

News Journal feature story on Vincenza as she leaves for Miss USA competition.

Feature on Vincenza in the (translated) Molesi NYC Online Magazine

A short feature on Vincenza's book drive for Success Won't Wait in UD Daily


FEBRUARY 2008

Video from Delaware Online of "Dr. Seuss Reading Day" at John R. Downes Elementary.

Click below to see Bethany featured on Channel 28's Tim Qualls Show

Check out Vincenza modeling in the Karen Sabag Fashion Show, Fashion Week, NYC!


Miss Delaware USA to Hostess at
International Toy Fair

Toy and game design and manufacturing firm McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds recently announced that Miss Delaware USA, Vincenza Carrieri-Russo, will act as official hostess of the firm's booth at Toy Fair 2008. Toy Fair is the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere. More than 1,500 manufacturers, distributors, importers and sales agents from 30 countries meet to showcase their products.

The innovative partnership between Carrieri-Russo and the toy and game manufacturer began in 2005 when McNeill Designs principles committed themselves to using the company's success to help support important charitable causes. Since 2005, McNeill Designs has donated a portion of sales of the language game "You've Been Sentenced!" to Success Won't Wait, a not for profit organization co-founded by Carrieri-Russo.

Founded in 2002, Success Won't Wait is a Delaware-based organization that encourages reading by providing materials to those who need them most. Led by Carrieri-Russo, Success Won't Wait volunteers organize book drives by partnering with schools and universities, independent groups and organizations, and a variety of businesses, calling on residents to donate brand new and gently used books for redistribution in the community. To date, dozens of book drives have been held and over 100,000 books have been collected and redistributed throughout the East Coast.  (Read More)

For more information about McNeill Designs, its products, and people, please contact Susan McNeill at 302-996-9054 or visit
http://www.mcneillbrighterminds.com.


JANUARY 2008

Vincenza in the news!

Click play to see Vincenza on the Tim Qualls Show

The Newark Post (Read)

Hockessin
Community News  (Read)

UDaily (Read)

Hoy en Delaware
(Read)


DECEMBER 2007

City of Wilmington Press Release: Miss Delaware USA 20008 donates 100 books to Mayor's Christmas Toy Drive.

Cape Gazette feature story on Vincenza.