822-Lancastw Fanning, Saturday, Junt 7,1986
Pa. Daily
BY MARY MAXWELL
Centre County Correspondent
SPRING MILLS - “I cried when
I accepted the Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess title and I'm sure I’ll cry
when I have to give it up,” says
Beth Heald, state dairy princess.
“Last September’s tears were of
joy and excitement and next
September, they’ll be tears of
sadness.”
Beth’s initial joy and excitement
of being crowned Pennsylvania’s
Dairy Princess has continued as
she promotes dairy products
throughout the state.
“I’ve had some wonderful ex
periences,” she says. “I especially
enjoyed Dairy Day at the
Philadelphia zoo.” Beth spent the
day answering children’s
questions about cows and farms.
TV Talk-Show Host Gary Geers
was also there with his television
crew covering Dairy Day.
Beth remembers another special
time, serving an 8-foot ice cream
sundae in Pittsburgh’s Station
Mall during the Pennsylvania
Holstein Convention. The ice
cream, a gift from Pennsylvania
dairy farmers, took two hours to
serve to Mall shoppers. Beth
remembers that most of the
questions that day were about the
dairy industry.
While she admits that her
schedule sometimes gets pretty
tight, Beth never tires of
promoting Pennsylvania’s dairy
products. She tailors each of her
well-informed presentations of the
Pennsylvania dairy industry to the
interest of the audience, be they
young or old.
In her public appearances she
also encourages questions and
conversation to engage her
audience and discover their in
terests. In this way, she helps them
to understand how using dairy
products will improve their health.
Teresa Herman (keened doge Deity Princess
MANSFIELD - The fourth
annual Dairy Day activities ended
Saturday, May 31 at Mansfield
High School with Teresa Herman
of El, Roaring Branch, being
crowned the 1986 Tioga County
Dairy Princess.
Teresa is the daughter of Larry
and Mary Herman and is a junior
at Canton High School. She is a
member of the Marching Warriors
and concert bands, chorus, varsity
volleyball and track teams. She is
a varsity wrestling cheerleader
and is a member of the National
Honor Society.
Teresa is also a member of
Youth Education Association, the
lettermen’s club, the junior prom
decorating committee, and student
Teresa Herman received the 1986 Tioga County Dairy
Princess crown last Saturday.
Princess Beth Heald Proudly Promotes The Industry
Her presentations to elementary
school children start with an
illustrated talk about cows and the
route milk takes from the farm to •
the supermarket. In the schools
she visits she also encourages
lunch-program personnel to keep
the milk really cold so the children
will realize what a good, refreshing
drink it is.
Most of Beth’s contacts with high
school students are through 4-H or
FFA. “These teenagers know
about dairy production so I em
phasize all the ways to enjoy dairy
products.” She talks about how it’s
possible to balance calories and
calcium in a healthy snack.
With adults she talks about the
versatility of dairy products.
“There could be 15 or more dairy
products in your refrigerator,” she
tells audiences, “And if you have
them there, you’ll use them.”
Urban audiences, of course,
want to know about life on a dairy
farm, and Beth can speak from
personal experience about that.
“When I talk with dairy families,
I urge them to promote dairy
products whenever they can.”
Beth suggests that farm families
make a point of serving dairy foods
to visitors and take foods con
taining dairy products to com
munity and church suppers.
“Encourage fellow shoppers whom
you meet at the dairy case to try a
new cheese,” she suggests. “Dairy
farmers can be better promoters of
their own industry,” she adds.
Beth reminds audiences of all
age groups to use dairy products
with their rich calcium supply to
prevent osteoporosis,, the “brittle
bone” disease. She also promotes
dairy foods for their other
minerals, vitamins and protein.
For those who are calorie con
scious she advocates the many
low-fat dairy foods.
“I’m promoting dairy products
all the time,” says Beth. She
Among American High School
Students. She has been a 4-H’er for
ten years and is a 4-H Keystone
Blueform winner in the dairy
division.
She has shown her Holsteins at
county, district, and state levels.
She lias also competed in speech
competition on local, district and
state levels. Teresa participated in
the Tioga County Trinidad-Tobabo
international exchange program in
the summer of 1984. She is a
member of New Life Temple
Church in Canton.
Also competing for the title were
Carolyn Norman, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Norman of
Liberty, and Dawn Staments,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Staments of Or olf Both '
Adding more dairy products to existing recipes is of special interest to Beth Heald,
Pennsylvania's dairy princess. She often makes her Royal Dairy Bread for family and
visitors. It is a recipe she created by adding yogurt and two kinds of cheese to a
traditional cheese bread recipe.
covers the walls of her dorm room
at Penn State with colorful dairy
promotional posters. When her
dorm friends ask her why, she
eagerly tells them about the
benefits of eating dairy foods.
“Now even casual friends whom I
meet in the cafeteria urge me to
notice that they’re drinking milk,
not soda, with their meals.”
Beth, a Penn State dairy science
major, developed her interest in
the dairy industry long before she
came to Penn State. Her father,
Bill, is in dairy science extension
and her mother, Judy, is a
nutritionist. Her family lives on a
farm near Spring Mills where Beth
named dairy princess alternates.
During the pageant the con
testants had to answer questions,
posed by master of ceremonies
James Welch of Mansfield. The
questions were all about dairy
products. The contestants each
had to perform a skit for dairy
promotion. Teresa chose to do her
skit on balanced diet and weight
control.
The Mansfield Men’s Choir
entertained the audience with a
selection of songs, including
“There Ain’t Nothing Like A Cow.”
During the day the contestants
participated in a parade and met
people in Smythe Park during the
afternoon and distributed milk
promotion stickers. They also had
interviews with the judges,
Carolyn Miller, Greta Eichlin, and
Stuart Hartung, all of New Jersey.
Before the pageant the con
testants, their families, and the
committee had a buffet dinner at
Mark’s Brothers Restaurant in
Mansfield. Teresa was crowned by
last year’s dairy princess, Brenda
Doan, after Brenda reflected on
her reign as 1985 Tioga County
Dairy Princess.
The 1986 Dairy Day started with
a 10K Dairy dash at 9 a.m. Ed
Clark was the overall winner with
a time of 34:56, and Cindy Tinkham
won the women’s trophy with a
time of 45:26.
The race was followed by a dairy
parade consisting of several floats,
dignitaries, bands, and a milk
tanker.
The afternoon was packed full of
activities at Smythe Park, in
cluding a chicken barbeque,
displays and flea markets, games
and contests.
Other activities included a
coloring contest, dunking booth,
horse-drawn hayrides, sheep
shearing demonstration, and a
petting zoo.
tends the young dairy stock when
she is not in school. Two summers
ago, she worked and lived on the
Centre County dairy farm of Joe
Hartle, Jr.
As a member of the Penn State
Dairy Science Club, Beth will be
attending the National Dairy
Conference in California later this
month. For that event she designed
a slide show illustrating how the
Penn State club promotes dairy
_iry pi pt. ly
full during June Dairy Month. Here Beth reviews her schedule
with her mother, Judy.
Centre Co. Com
Mary Maxwell is the new
caster Farming correspond
the Centre County area. Shi
her family live outside of
College. “This property,”
says, “had ceased to be a 1
when we moved here twenty;
ago. But through the 4H and
interests of our children it is
a working farm.”
Mary graduated from
College of Agriculture al
University of Wisconsin
degrees in Child Developmei.
Family Relations. She has tai
in preschool, public sc.
university and continuing
education programs.
In her community, Mary has in the Mid-State Literacy program,
served as Girl Scout leader, school written for a loca j
classroom volunteer and most newspaper, MeCaM’s Maraiina, and
recently as an adult reading tutor «.
products.
Beth’s commitment to dairy
promotion will not end when she
passes her crown to the new state
princess in September. She will
pursue a career in the industry for
which she is now a spokesperson.
“These past months as Penn
sylvania Dairy Princess have
helped me realize that’s what I
want to do with my dairy science
background.” she says.
Mary Maxwell