Cl2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26, 1960
busy
BY SHEILA MILLER
ORTANNA According
to the old saying, ‘April
showers bring May flowers’,
folks in Pennsylvania are in
for a beautiful, colorful time
of year.
Adding to the splendor of
Spring will be the apple trees
stretching their blossoms
toward the sunshine. Their
fragrance, floating on the
air, will bring honey bees
from far and wide to drink
the sweet nectar.
It’s a busy tune of year for
bees, and it’s a busy tune of
year for Kns Shutt, the
Pennsylvania Apple Queen.
Kris will begin the month
of May in the traditional way
for all apple queens, in
festivals set aside for
celebrating the apple
blossom season.
In an exclusive interview
with Lancaster Farming,
Kris highlighted her first
weekend of the month.
Kris said she will be at
tending the Shenandoah
Apple Blossom Festival in
Winchester, West Virginia
from May 1-3. She explained
that representatives from
four states, from all
segments of the apple in
dustry, will be attending.
And, she said with a note of
excitement in her voice,
Michael Landon’s daughter
will be the queen of the
festival. Kris added she will
be one of 33 princesses in the
famous television actor’s
daughter’s court.
“We’re each having a
special gown made
for us,” said Kris. “We sent
our measurements down to
the festival committee and I
guess we’ll hope the gowns
fit when we get there. ”
After the Shenandoah
Festival, Kris said she’ll be
making a speedy tnp back
home to Ortanna, Adams
County, to get ready for the
Apple Blossom Festival,
taking place at the South
Mountain Fair Grounds on
May 3-4.
The local festival, Kris
explained, is more like a
crafts festival, similar to the
one held at apple harvest
tune. But, she said, the
highlight of the festival is
when the new Adams County
Apple Queen is crowned.
She explained that the
queen will be selected on
April 26. “But,” Kris said, “I
won’t be turning over my
County crown until the
festival.”
Kris was selected by
Adams County fruitgrowers
to represent them as their
queen last year. In com
petition this past February,
Kris became the Penn
sylvania Apple Queen for
1980.
Since she received the
state title, Kris said she has
made four or five ap
pearances at supermarkets
and shopping malls around
the state. She added she will
be attending the grocer’s
convention to be held in
Hershey on June 1-2.
Smiling, Kns said what
she likes best about her new
responsibilities is the chance
it gives her to talk to con
sumers about her favorite
fruit, the apple.
“I’m not trying to stuff
information about apples
down their throats. I like to
have them ask me
questions—getting their
responses helps me answer
Apple blossom season
time for Pa. Apple Queen
Adams County’s Kris Shutt is getting ready for
one of her busiest times of the year apple
blossom season.
questions I would never have
thought of talking about”
She recalled the time a
man asked her why the
Golden Delicious apples
from Pennsylvania had
funny spots all over them
where the same type of
apples from Washington
didn’t Kris explained that
the Pennsylvania apples
were perfectly healthy—
they were burnished with
rust because of the humidity
and richer soils.
In the few short months
that have passed since her
reign began, Kris said she
has been busy learning about
Pennsylvania—seeing parts
of the state she has never
seen before. Because of her
hectic schedule, Kris said
she sometimes has to miss
classes at Gettysburg High
Sc! 001.
how did her fellow
students react when they
found out about the Apple
Queen title? Kris said she
was amazed that one guy in
her class said he expected
her to have gotten a “big
head” over the whole thing,
and expected her to walk
around with her nose m the
air.
Kns chuckled and popped
her knuckles. “I just told
him I don’t feel any dif
ferent ... why should I
act different?” Actually,
she added, her fellow
students are proud of her in a
teasing way. “It makes me
happy to know I have their
support.”
A semor at Gettysburg
High School, Kns is the
editor of the school
newspaper. But, after
graduation this June, Kns is
not planning to continue in
the wntmg field.
She said she would like to
pursue an education in social
work. Although she had
been scheduled to begin her
schooling at Bluffton
College, Ohio, this Fall, Kns
said she has delayed it until
January. This will give her
more time, she said, to fulfill
her responsibilities as Apple
Queen.
Why social work? Kns
explained that she has gotten
her im&rest in the field after
helping at the migrant day
care centers during the
summer.
She recounted the history
of the centers in Adams
County, saying the first one
was started in 1970 at
Bendersville. Kris worked at
a more recently organized
center located in Fairfield,
that is strictly for children
between the ages of one and
three.
“While the kids are at the
center, we’re their
‘parents’,” Kris said. “We
give them the affection,,
care, and comfort they need.
I feel a deep compassion for
these kids because they don’t
see their parents all day.”
Kris learns how to ‘put on her best face' with
make-up advice from Joyce Taljan, a professional
model and cosmetologist. This was part of a queen
workshop put on by the Pa. Department of
Agriculture’s Betty Rode.
At the center, Kris said she
was in charge of 3-4 kids. She
said she was their ‘mother
image’. She pointed out
there were a few men who
helped at the center, but the
staff was made up of mostly
women.
While at the center, the
migrant children are taught
to count, play, and learn
coordination games. This is
not an easy task when most
of the children speak
Spanish, said Kns.
“Some of the kids leam to
walk at the center,” she
said. “At the end of the
summer, it’s hard to leave
because I get so attached to
them.”
Kris recalled a little two
year-old called Shcky. “He
was a little sweetheart and
flirt—l still miss him. I
speak only a little Spanish,
so communicating was
frustrating. The kids talk so
fast and with dialects, and it
is terrible when I can’t say
what I want to because of a
language barrier.”
But where language
becomes a hindrance, the
love and affection displayed
by the children and staff do
not need an interpreter.
“There was one migrant
child that came back for the
second year. Even though he
didn’t remember me, there
was still a bond,” Kris
recalled.
After she completes her
education at Bluffton, Kns
stated she hopes to return to
Adams County and work
with the migrants. “They’re
a group of people who are
used to being shuffled
around. They try to take the
best of what an area has to
offer them while they’re
there,” she said.
The Apple Queen said
she’d like to come back to
her family’s orchard. If a
social work job is not
available, her years on the
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