814-Lancatttr Farming, Saturday, lima 6,1987
Promotional Activities Fill Pa, Daily Princess Pam Kindig's Schedule
BY SUZANNE KEENE
CONESTOGA A typical week
might include two speaking
engagements, an interview with a
news reporter and a meeting with
the state governor. The phone is
always ringing, a full datebook is
the rule, and television and radio
appearances are not uncommon.
The above sounds like a
description of a busy politician’s
lifestyle, but in fact, it paints a
partial picture of Pennsylvania
State Dairy Princess Pamela
Kindig’s hectic schedule. To be
completely accurate, it must also
include attending high school
classes, working part-time at the
local swimming pool, and going out
with friends.
“I don’t think I’ve had too many
full days of school,” says the high
school senior who will speak at her
graduation ceremony later this
week. The majority of those
hours she spends out of school are
devoted to promoting Penn
sylvania’s dairy industry. The
school’s administrators have been
very supportive of her dairy
princess activities, Pam says,
noting, “I have a message and I
really am doing something.”
As Pennsylvania Dairy Prin
cess, Pamela attends numerous
functions as the dairy industry’s
ambassador. She helped to build at
100-foot banana split at a local
dairy store, presented Penn State
football coach Joe Patemo with a
bronze milk can, toasted the
governor at the Pennsylvania
Farm Show, and told groups of all
ages about the importance of milk
and dairy products in a healthy
diet.
Pamela’s message to the groups
she has addressed since claiming
the dairy princess crown in Sep
tember 1986 is that dairy products
are for everyone. “No matter what
age you are, you can enjoy dairy
products,” she says.
The recipe brochure she
distributes at promotions also
focuses on that message. Bearing
Pam’s photo and a number of
family recipes which feature dairy
products, the pamphlet is titled,
“Dairy Delights For The Young At
Heart.”
The dairy princess position is a
hefty job for anyone, even an
energetic young woman like Pam.
In fact, it would probably be im
possible without the support of
family, friends and other dairy
promoters.
Pamela especially credits her
parents, J. Robert and Roberta
Kindig of Conestoga, for their help.
Mom, she says, is her detail per
son. Mrs. Kindig handles much of
the scheduling, gathers materials
for store promotions and and does
little, but necessary, things like
make sure the right dress is done
at the drycleaners in time for the
next meeting.
Her father helps her write
speeches and her 16-year-old
brother John gives her a hand with
school presentations. Everyone in
the family, even 10-year-old Andy,
has become accustomed to taking
telephone messages for the busy
dairy princess.
Helping with bam chores and
milking on the family’s dairy farm
in Conestoga used to be a part of
Pam’s schedule, but she has little
time to help at home anymore. Her
brothers have assumed some of
her chores and a hired man helps
Robert with the milking.
Family support is almost ex
pected, but Pam was pleasantly
surprised by her friends’ reactions
to her role. At first, Pam admits,
she was a bit worried about how
her peers would react to her dairy
princess position. “Your peers are
the most critical,” she notes.
But her worry for was for
naught. So far she has done three
high school presentations, in
cluding one for her own math
class, which was quite successful.
“They all left the room with T Love
Lancaster County Dairy Princess, has devoted much of the
past year to promoting the state's dairy industry.
Milk’ stickers on their math “ T just laughed too,” and then
books,” she recalls. corrected my mistake, she said.
Pam says she most enjoys giving Anyone who has ever suffered
presentations for elementary shaky knees when called to the
school students. Her best friend, Podium knows public speaking is
Melissa, occasionally ac- not easy. Pam credits a Dale
companies her wearing a cow Carnegie course she received as a
costume, and Pam reports, they S ift for her confidence before
are always well received. groups. “It’s just tremendous,”
But not every presentation goes she says of the course, adding that
smoothly, Pam says, recalling a when she had completed the
blunder she made at the National classes, “My year went so much
DHIA Convention in March. When better.”
she got up to welcome the group to
the convention, she said “I’d like to
welcome you to the Holstein
Convention.” People laughed, and
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a day.
of the world than she would sitting
at a desk in the classroom. “I may
not be in school, but I’m learning a
lot,” she says. “I feel more con
fident about myself and that helps
me to get my message across
better ”
Even though her high school
days are nearly over, Pam will
return to the classroom this fall
when she begins courses at the
University of Delaware, where she
will major in physical therapy.
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With her reign as Lancaster
County dairy princess ending in
June and as state dairy princess
ending in September, Pam has no
regrets that she gave so much of
her senior year of high school to
promoting milk. “I missed a lot of
things in school,” she says, noting
that she had to drop out of field
hockey and basketball to make
time for dairy princess com
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“Everything balances out, your
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