you recognize the first Pennsylvania Dairy Princess? She is Susan Gaii Coskery, now Mrs. James Taylor, looking as though she had just stepped from a Cinderella storybook. Susan was from Lehigh County and at the time was called a Milk Maid Queen. From 1956 Tuesday night marks the silver anniversary of the PA Dairy Princess Program an institution that has provided the dairy industry with a con sumer education program as well as top-notch promotion. LANCASTER - When Cindy Neely, current Pennsylvania Dairy Princess, crowns her suc cessor on Tuesday night, it will maiic the silver anniversary of such an event 25 years of tears, crowns, pageants, promotion and plan ol’ hard work in Penn sylvania's dairy industry. We thought you niight like to take a walk with us through the years and see how the program has changed, improved, and blossomed, and how some of the girls have changed since their reign as princess. X ■» BY DEBBIE KOONTZ Lancaster Farming, Saturday r SaptaaAar 19,1951-Cl5 until today When Susan Gail Coskery of Lehigh County was crowned Pa.’s first dairy princess representative in 1956, she was known as a “Milk Maid Queen” and the contest was initiated by the Pennsylvania Association of Milk Dealers. Milk Maids were chosen according to Pennsylvania milk marketing areas. Thus was the progression of coronations for twelve years. Today Susan is Mrs. James Taylor of St. Clair, Michigan, mother of two. Susan reports participation in the National Dairy (Turn to Page Cl 6) You' should be able to name this outstanding young princess. She is Cindy Neely from Clarion-Venango counties, the 1980 state dairy princess. Cindy will turn her crown over to another lucky.winner this Tuesday night
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