[1] Deborah Bryant attended General H. H. Arnold High School in Wiesbaden, Germany, in the class of 1963.

[2] Bryant was 19 years old when she won the preliminary swimsuit competition and, the next day, was announced as the winner of the crown.

When she won Miss America title, her father was serving in Vietnam as a civil engineer with the Air Force.

After graduating in the top ten of her high school graduating class, Bryant went on to attend Columbia College on a full academic scholarship, during which time she represented Kansas in Atlantic City on September 11, 1965, in the Miss America scholarship pageant.

Following her year of service as Miss America, Bryant continued her education as an English major (B.A.)