BY BETSY STITT
Staff Correspondent
ROARING SPRING - Laurie
Smith of Martinsburg R 2 was
crowned Blair County dairy
princess April 25 during the annual
pageant at the Spring Cove Junior
High School.
Laurie, the daughter of Dennis
and Margaret Smith, received her
crown from 1985 princess Sheila
Biddle.
During the event, contestants
were asked questions to test their
knowledge of the dairy industry.
Laurie was asked: “How do you
persuade a football player who
thinks milk is for sissies that it is
good for him?”
Laurie responded that it takes a
big person to stand up to the crowd
who is drinking soda pop and to be
different by drinking milk. She
would also tell him to look at the
many major league athletes who
drink milk.
Laurie is a junior at Central High
School, where she is involved in the
Girl’s Athletic Association, Con
cert Chorus, Health Careers Club
and National Honor Society. She is
a member of St. Matthew’s
Lutheran Church.
Laurie lives with her parents on
the family’s 200-acre dairy farm
and helps milk the 59 Holsteins.
Jenny Bigelow, Williamsburg,
was named alternate princess. She
is the daughter of William and
June Bigelow. Jenny is a junior at
Huntingdon Christian Academy,
where she is a member of the
volleyball and basketball teams.
She plays the piano and organ at
the Calvary Bible Church.
Jenny is a member of the 4-H
dairy club, 4-H baby beef club and
the Blair County dairy judging
Buds, Montgomery youth to attend PAFC Institute
CREAMERY - Five youths
from the Bucks-Montgomery
County area have been selected to
attend the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmers’
Cooperatives Summer Institute,
July 6 to 9, at Juniata College,
Huntingdon.
The youths, representing their 4-
H Clubs and FFA Chapters, were
selected from 14 participants at
tending the annual One-Day In
stitute of the Bucks-Montgomery
PAFC Council. The event was
Selected to represent the Bucks-Montgomery Council at the PAFC Summer Institute
are, front from left, Craig Kinsky, Rick Troxel and Joe Fitzgerald. Back from left, Glenn
Wismer, Bucks-Montgomery PAFC president, Tricia McMahon, Beth Kent, Chenita
Thompson, Renee Quigley and Jon Van Ingen, Bucks-Montgomery PAFC treasurer.
Martinsburg teen
Blair County daily princess
Sheila Biddle crowns Blair County's new dairy princess
Laurie Smith as alternate Jenny Bigelow looks on.
team. She helps milk 50 Holsteins
and Brown Swiss on her family’s
146-acre farm.
Sheila Biddle, 1985 Blair County
dairy princess, showed a slide
presentation of her very busy year.
She wrote over 20 newspaper ar
ticles, recorded 43 radio spots and
spoke to over 100 classes of school
children. She also appeared in
numerous parades in an old
fashioned milk wagon her family
made for her.
Another highlight of the evening
was a parade of future dairy
recently hosted by the Mont
gomery County Extension Service,
Creamery.
Those to attend the Summer
Institute are: Tricia McMahon,
Green Lane, Montgomery County
4-H; Joe Fitzgerald, Philadelphia,
W.B. Saul FFA Chapter; Beth
Kent, Lansdale, Montgomery
County 4-H; Renee Quigley,
Pottstown, West Montgomery
FFA; and Rick Troxel, Perkasie,
Bucks County 4-H. Alternates are
Craig Kinsky, Lansdale, Mont
gomery County 4-H; and Chenita
Thompson, Philadelphia, W.B.
nee/
is
princesses. Over 20 girls aged 4 to
12 participated in the parade.
Pat Bowers of WKMC/WHPA
Radio served as mistress of
ceremonies. Judges for the contest
were Dr. Donald Evans, assistant
dean of Extension at Penn State;
Mrs. Mary Ann Snider, Bedford
County dairy farm wife, and Mrs.
Judy Shade, a member of the
Huntingdon County dairy
promotion committee.
After the pageant, everyone
adjourned to the cafeteria for a pie
and ice cream social.
Saul FFA Chapter.
Miss McMahon is a second-year
PAFC scholar and will participate
in the agribusiness explorers
program. The remaining 4-H and
FFA members are first-year
scholars. Their selection was
based on an activities report and a
quiz on cooperatives.
The PAFC Summer Institute is
held each year and is geared
toward helping high school youth
leam about cooperatives and the
services they provide their
members.
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