Jill Snyder crowned 1984 Beever/Uwrence County Dairy Princess
BY BARBARA RADER
Staff Correspondent
NEW CASTLE Honors were
bestowed for the second time to the
Joseph W. Snyder family, Volant,
as their second daughter, Jill,
received the Beaver/Lawrence
Dairy Princess banner and tiara
Saturday, June 2.
The seventeen-year-old brunette
accepted the crown and bouquet of
Alternate Kristen Swick and the newly crowned 1
Beaver/Lawrence Dairy Princess Jill Snyder, who was also
voted by the contestant as Miss Congeniality.
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roses with tears in her hazel eyes
as her sister Jolene Snyder Kroll,
the 1982 Beaver/Lawrence and
Pennsylvania Dairy Princess was
among the first to greet her. This is
the first time that sisters have won
the coveted crown since the
beginning of the dairy princess
pageants in 1975.
She was also voted by the other
contestants as ‘Miss
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Jill Snyder, 1984 Beaver/Lawrence Co. Dairy Princess, portrayed the “Hare" who
runs the Susie's Super Dairy Spa and who was working to get in shape for the Marathon
Milk Race. At the end of the finish line there was milk for everyone and the “Hare"
passed out Marathon Cards to the audience.
Congeniality.”
Jill has just completed her junior
year at Wilmington Area High
School where she was active in the
girls basketball and volleyball
teams and a member of the
National Honor Society and Latin
Club. She was also the high school
sports reported for the New
Wilmington Globe News.
The family’s 250-acre dairy farm
with 76 Holsteins keeps Jill busy
with the daily chores. She owns
five head and is a junior member
of the Holstein Association. As a
Yankee 4-H Dairy Club member
for eight years has had the op
portunity to show her projects and
to be on the Lawrence County
dairy bowl team. Throughout her
years in 4-H she has served on
various committees.
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Being employed as a waitress at
Forbes Drive-In, a popular ice
cream restaurant, JiU may help
them increase their business! She
is a member of the Plain Grove
Presbyterian Church and her
future plans are to become a
physical therapist after
graduation.
Jill as the “Hare” at Susie’s
Super Dairy Spa captured the
audience’s attention while she
prepared and excerised for the
MILK Marathon Race during her
presentation. Making contact with
the audience, she passed out Milk
Marathon Race cards, adding the
finishing touch to her skit.
Kristen Swick, 17-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Swick, Beaver Falls, was selected
as the alternate. Her family owns
over 100 head of registered Brown
Swiss, five of which are hers. She
also owns two registered Jerseys,
and has been a member of the
Jersey Association of the past
seven years.
An eight-year member of the
Beaver County 4-H Dairy Club, she
recently won a Jersey calf from
the Beaver County Kiwanis Club
who sponsored a scrapbook contest
for the county’s daily 4-H mem
bers. Showing her prize animals
and milking on the farm are only a
few of her many talents.
Her main school activities in
cluded track, cross county, Varsity
R and Tri-Hi-Y. She just completed
her junior year at Riverside High
School.
She posed as Lerk from outer
space and conducted a unique
conversation with her Robot.
Coining from the Planet Cola, Lerk
states, “Who knows, they may
even change the name to M I L K
Planet when I get back! ”
Other contestants were Cindy
Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Fisher, Portersville, and
Arietta Smith, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James D. Smith,
Georgetown. Cindy’s presentation
was on “Gertrude the Guernsey
Cow” on the Fisher Dairy Farm.
Posing as “Bessie the Cow,”
Arietta concluded her skit by
giving a summer cooler drink
recipe.
Master of Ceremonies for the
event was David Rynd, the
regional program leader of
agriculture in the western region
of the Pennsylvania State
University, Shenango Campus,
Sharon. To celebrate the county’s
10th anniversary each dairy
princess received a long-stem red
rose and spoke before all at
tending. Past county dairy prin
cesses attending were 1975 princess
Debbie Trotter Liggett, 1978
princess Kim Teets Sharpless, 1980
princess Renee Swick, 1981
princess Sharlene Reno, 1982
princess Jolene Snyder Kroll and
the 1982 Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess. Bidding farewell this
year was April Kroll, who com
pleted her last appearance by
saying, “Whomever wins, it will be
a very special thing in her life.”
Judges were Mr. Mel Eckhaus,
director of field services of the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, Camp Hill; Miss Judy
Wolford, writer for Farm and
Dairy of Salem, Ohio; and Mr.
William Phillips, Magoning County
Ag. Extension Agent, Canfield,
Ohio, who addressed the girls
before the crowning saying,
“There are winners and there is
the rest of us! You have restored
the faith in the youth of America! ”