—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 30. 1973
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Meet Hiss Haelene Harbold.. ..
Newest Official Spokeswoman For Dairy Industry
Raelene Harbold has a con
tagious smile, accented sharply
by dimples, a sparkling per
sonality and knows a lot about the
dairy industry She’s Lancaster
County’s new Dairy Princess and
plans to spend the next year
telling all she knows about the
virtues of milk.
Nineteen-year-old Raelene is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Harbold, Elizabethtown RD3 and
was crowned the 1973 Dairy
Princess over four other con
testants Saturday night
Raelene says, “Someone has to
promote milk, and if a farmer
talks about it people think he is
promoting it just because it is his
product Outsiders seem to listen
better to someone else, especially
someone who has a title.”
She’d like to talk to many
service clubs during the year, but
a unique idea she has is to visit
elementary schools and talk to
students about the importance of
milk in the diet. She said, “If you
can get children enthused about
drinking milk, their parents will
certainly not refuse them milk if
they request it. Children will look
up to someone who is a ’prin-
cess.’”
Raelene has been working for
the past year as a dental
assistant to Dr. Werner Z. Fetter
in Elizabethtown, so she cer
tainly has firsthand knowledge
about some of the important
reasons for drinking milk. She
can probably put in a good word
for milk every day.
The new Dairy Princess said
she was “very much surprised”
when her name was announced
as winner of the contest. She said,
A two-week-old orphan colt is a source of great pleasure to
the Harbold family. Here Raelene demonstrates that it
doesn’t lack for affection.
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“It’s hard to explain, but you see
things like this on television and
you think it is something you will
never experience. Even though it
is a small pageant, it really
means a lot.”
When asked if she can milk a
cow, Raelene laughed,
“Heavens, yes!” She said she
always used to help her father
with the milking. Now he raises
heifers for dairy herd
replacements and she still does
work around the farm. They
presently live on a 17-acre farm
which is all in pasture Her father
is a technician for Curtiss
Breeding Service in addition to
his farming chores.
The Harbolds have three other
girls and a son: Lorae (Mrs.
Larry Niehaus), 24; Marilyn, 20;
Marlene, 17, and Russell, 5.
Public speaking ability comes
easily for Raelene, and through 4-
H she’s had a chance to prove she
can really “talk”. She par
ticipated in the state dairy
judging contest for three years,
and the third year helped the
team take first place. She was
one of the top four individuals in
the state, all of whom just hap
pened to be girls She then
traveled to the national contest in
Columbus, Ohio with the all-girl
team where they placed fifth, and
Raelene was fifth high individual.
But in the oral reasons part of the
contest she placed second in the
country, quite a tribute for being
able to describe things as they
are.
About dairy judging Raelene
says, “I feel it’s very valuable. I
think type goes a long way in
production, so it’s important to be
Raelene poses in the Harbold living room
with some of the prizes she won as dairy
princess -- a suitcase, a travel alarm,
able to look at a cow, break down
her body parts and know her
faults and her strengths. This is
also a help in breeding a cow.” As
for giving reasons, Raelene said,
“It helped a lot m speaking, as
well as helping you remember
what you saw. It makes you learn
terminology, too.”
Raelene is in her tenth year of
4-H work and has had five project
animals in this time. Being in 4-H
is something she says she really
enjoyed, and one reason she gives
is that it helps you get to know
people in the dairy industry. She
added, “I love showing
Showmanship is something you
must be able to do yourself ”
An active member of
Congragational Bible Church m
Marietta, Raelene has just
finished teaching Bible school,
something she has done for the
past two years. She has also been
a counselor at church camp in the
summer and hopes to spend one
week there this summer Raelene
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Raelene works with her 4-H heifer which she’ll show at
Round-Up in July.
gloves, and, of course, the Dairy Princess
crown.
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