W2—Ussastor Fanriai, Saturday, April 12,19*0
BY JANE BRESEE
Staff Correspondent
WEST BURLINGTON
Denise Andrien of West
Burlington, Bradford
County, the 1979 Penn
sylvania Jersey Cattle
Queen relinquished her
crown recently.
Denise strongly feels that
the most important qualities
of her successor, Stephanie
Kocker, will need are a
knowledge of dairying and a
love for ttie Jersey cow.
For 20 year old Denise,
love for the Jersey cow
began when she was 11 years
old, back in Chester County
where she lived with her
mom and dad, Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Andrien, Sr. and her
two brothers, Bruce, Jr. and
Lorrin. Her father was not a
fanner but a contractor.
A neighbor from whom the
family bought their milk
invited Denise to a 4-H
meeting. The next step was
to persuade her to take a
purebred Jersey calf as a
dairy project. Her en
thusiasm for the calf spread
to her brother, Bruce, and
the next year when he was 9,
be also took a Jersey calf for
his project
In no time at all, the play
house in the back yard
bulged with 4 calves and a
bull. The family rented a
bam nearby.
Mrs. Andnen relates that
they vowed at first not to
keep any animal large
enough to give milk, but
when the first one calved,
they decided to keep her as a
Stephanie Kocker chosen 1980 queen
BY JANE BRESEE
Staff Correspondent
EAST ATHENS -
Stephanie Kocker, Man
sfield, was crowned the 1980
Jersey Queen at the Jersey
breeders’ annual meeting
held recently.
Stephanie is the 16 year old
daughter of Ned Kocker. She
has been involved in FFA
and 4-H work showing sheep,
pigs and beef cattle in ad
dition to owning 4 Jersey
cows. Her hobbies are
skiing, ballet, and jour
nalism. Her dream is to
write for the Jersey Journal.
The other contestant was
Eugenia Lee Harpster,
Boalsburg, the 19 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Harpster. Eugenia
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Denise Andrien ends busy year
as 1979 Jersey queen
family cow. The next one
they could not bear to sell,
nor the next ..and so the herd
grew.
The family finally decided
to move out of Chester
County and buy a farm in the
northeast. They looked a
long time, but the minute
they saw the place in West
Burlington, just off Route 6,
between Troy and Towanda,
they knew they had found
what they wanted.
They moved in December,
177 with 33 cows, 19 of which
were milking. The whole
family has worked hard to
put the bams and fences in
shape. Denise is proud of the
latest accomplishment, a
maternity bam with large
separate pens. She is
pushing her dad hard to fix
up the “back bam” for the
heifers.
Denise graduated from
Troy High School in June
1978 and enrolled in Penn
State to study to be a
veterinarian, a lifelong
dream. But she put off going
to school because life was too
stimulating building up the
herd average from 7000
pounds to the present
average of 10,325 pounds of
milk and 488 pounds of fat
Presently she is truly the
herd manager with 49 cows,
37 of which are milking and
filling all the available stalls
m the bam. She knows the
DHIA records on all of her
pets and does some of her
own veterinarian work. Her
dream is to have a “decent”
herd with name and
also has worked in 4-H and
FFa production clubs and
owns 9 Jersey cows of her
own,
Both girls gave 3 minute
prepared speeches on the
topic - What I Like About
Living On A Farm.
Angelika Koonz, Fredoma,
chairman of the Youth
Program, told the audience
of 100 Jersey enthusiasts
that the queen is the only
representative of the Jersey
Cattle Club. “The better she
is, the better the youth
program will be.” she
stated. Then Angelika
turned the program over to
the group’s own Bert Parks
alias Bob Dnesbaugh, a
veterinarian from Hamburg.
involved in
can be part of Penn
sylvania’s recommendations
to The White House Con
ference on Families in
Baltimore June 5,6, and 7.
The Pennsylvania Forum
on Families, in preparation
for The White House Con
ference, is urging people
across the Commonwealth to
organize or attend a Family
Forum. Citizen input is the
key to a set of guidelines and
recommendations that
reflects the feelings and
concerns of as many people
as possible. The Delaware
Denise Andrien who recently ended her reign as
the state Jersey queen, shows off her highest
producer, 6 year old Wallebe Daylight Itaska with a
projected record of 15,295 pounds of milk, 794
pounds of fat, and testing 5.2 percent.
production to nuke them top
sellers at state sales.
She and her brother,
Bruce, like to show their
prize animals and for years
have competed at fairs, state
Jersey calf shows, etc. This
last year she and her brother
walked off with Grand
Champion and Reserve
Grand Champion rosettes
from several fairs, and from
the Junior Jersey Cattle
Show in Harrisburg.
During her reign as queen
of the Jersey Cattle Club, she
was kept busy attending 6
district Jersey shows, 4-H
and FFA events, giving out
Denise Andrien, outgoing state Jersey Cattle
Club Queen, crowns Stephanie Kocker, Mansfield,
the organization's 1980 queen.
County Extension office has
copies of The Pennsylvania
Forum on Families’
Guidebook. The 12 page
Guidebook offers tips on
organizing,- planning and
publicizing a local family
forum.
If you would like more
information on Family
Forums, call or wnte to
Maryetta Dorncott,
Delaware County home
economist, Toal Building,
2nd & Orange Sts., Media,
Pa. 19603.
ribbons at the Berks and
Chester County Fairs, at
tending the National Queens’
Contest in Louisville,
Kentucky, and assisting at
Jersey calf shows.
Cows aren’t her only in
terest. Denise has a grade
bay quarter horse in foal and
a litter of Irish Setter pups.
She also taught a dog
obedience school at a nearby
pet farm last summer.
Denise may have given up
her crown as state Jersey
Queen, but her kingdom will
always be at home among
her beloved Jersey cows.
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