814-Lancaster Farming. Saturday, July 9, 1994
GAIL STROCK
Mifflin Co. Correspondent
LINCOLN (Huntingdon Co.)
The tradition of a strong dairy
promotion program in Hunting
don County continued on Satur
day, June 11, when sponsors, sup
porters, parents and others
gathered at the Lincoln Grange
Hall to see Monica Goshorn
accept the 1994-1995 Huntingdon
County Dairy Princess crown and
sash.
Kara Tussey, last year’s dairy
princess, passed the honors and
responsibilities* on to Goshom, a
17-year-old senior at Southern
Huntingdon High School.
Goshom is the daughter of John
and Jennifer Goshom of Blairs
Mills. She is president of the
Southeraette 4-H club, student
council secretary, junior class sec
retary, FFA Chapter secretary, and
is involved in SADD, St. Mary’s
Catholic Church Youth Group,
band, chorus, and Jr. Class play.
On September 24 she will com
pete in the state pageant in
Harrisburg.
Goshom’s sole competitor was
Crystal Couch of Huntingdon. She
is the 16-year-old daughter of Bill
and Anne Couch and a junior at
Huntingdon Area High School.
She serves as president of the
Stone Valley 4-H Club, and is
involved in the Spanish Club, the
Grange as a Junior member, her
youth and Sunday school classes.
Crystal enjoys cooking, flower
gardening, playing softball, and
working with 4-H animals.
Couch presented "The Cow
Comer” skit and Goshom told
about “The Six Breeds of Dairy
Cows”.
Emcee James Palmer, an agri
cultural education instructor at the
Huntingdon Area High School,
introduced what many hope is a
strong continuation of the dairy
princess program in Huntingdon
County the Dairy Maid, Dairy
Miss, and Li*l Dairy Miss
participants.
The 13-15-year-old Dairy
Maids are Stephanie Couch,
Aprylc Hoover, Sherri Hoover,
Lawanda Kling, Amber Lem in,
and Emily Metz. Huntingdon
County’s Dairy Miss’ are
8-12-year-old Jenny Barnett, Ash
, new ;ess
Goshorn (left) and alternate Crystal Couch are Joined by
last year's princess Kara Tussey, center.
Huntingdon Chooses Dairy Princess
ley Carper, Kelly Clark, Lillian
Couch, Jodi Heeter, Jodi Keith,
and Melinda Kling. Serving as
Li’l Dairy Miss’ are 4-7-year-olds
Stacie Keith and Stacy Lemin.
Kara Tussey, one of seven
finalists at the State Pageant last
year, presented her award
winning skit which features “Dro
plet”, die life of a drop of milk
from udder to consumption. Tus
sey won the state contest in Har
risburg with this skit. Tussey is a
dairy and animal science student a
Penn State and a distinguished
junior member of the National
Holstein Association.
In her farewell speech, Tussey
said with the number of farmers
declining to below 2%. it is easy
to see how a lack of public know
ledge about agriculture exists.
Tussey said it is up to us to put
forth the effort to educate, and that
is exacdy what a dairy princess
does.
Couch and Goshom presented
their skits before three judges
dairy fanner Robert Gable of
Newport, Perry County, and Dave
and Kay Slusser of State College.
Dave is general manager of DHIA
and former dairy farmer and Kay
is a former home economist.
Dairy Princess coordinator and
vice-president of dairy promotion
Shirley Heeter introduced the rest
of the committee, co-coordinator
Jennifer Goshom, Cindy Lemin,
and Brucette Metz. Tom Eberle
serves as president of the Hunting
don County dairy Promotion
Program along with secretary
Maurice Heffner and treasurer
Leslie McGargle.
Earlier in the evening, Hunting
don County Extension Agent Ter
ry Maddox welcomed the crowd
and said the dairy princess prog
ram serves several important pur
poses including:
- to promote the consumption
and use of dairy produces,
- to create a better relationship
between the urban and rural
sectors,
- to have a one-on-one contact
at the local level,
• to provide a competitive situa
tion for participants with monet
ary rewards,
- to develop an educational
program, and
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The future of the Huntingdon v junty Dairy Princess Program looks promising as
Dairy Maids. Dairy Miss’ and LI’I Dairy Miss’ line up for photos. K 8
- to provide for the participants
a chance to develop speaking
skills and confidence while prom
oting the goodness of dairy
products.
According to Maddox, the dairy
promotion program began in 1956
Denise Heidorn Accepts
Bedford County Crown
LINDA WILLIAMS
Bedford Co. Correspopndent
BEDFORD (Bedford Co.)
Denise Heidorn, daughter of Rick
and Marie Heidom of Everett, has
accepted the Bedford County
Dairy Princess title.
The crowening was done at a
special program held on Saturday
evening, June 18, at the Northern
Bedford County High School.
At IS, Denise will be too young
to participate in state competition,
but she is looking forward to a
productive year serving as Bcd
ford County’s Dairy
representative.
Denise’s father is a herdsman
for Rodney Hershberger, where he
helps to milk ISO Holsteins.
A junior at Bedford High
School, Denise is active in the
National Honor Society, is a three
year member of the Pennsylvania
Junior Academy of Science,
serves on the Student Council, and
is a member of the Environmental
Team.
She is a member of the Bedford
County 4-H Club, Friendly Moo
Moo’s 4-H Club, the Chestnut
Ridge Horseman’s Club, and vol
unteers at the Art Center.
Last summer, she was a Moun
tain Top Bible Camp junior
counselor.
Denise likes all animals and has
a Jersey cow, several sheep, and a
riding horse. Last year, she won
junior reserve champion with her
Jersey cow.
The brown-eyed brunette says
she agreed to be dairy princess
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by the Milk Dealers Association
and included six regions in the
state who sent contestants to com
pete for the title “Milk Maid”. It
continued that way for 11 years,
disbanded for one or two years.
because “I believe in the dairy
industry and wanted to do some
thing for it”
Last year, dairy princess Amy
Mearkle presented 32 school
programs, wrote 35 newspaper
articles, did 79 radio/television
appearances, and went on 29
store/mall promotions. She distri
buted 3,370 recipes and 3,160
other pieces of promotional mater
ials and attended 17 non-farm
meetings, 12 farm meetings, and
17 special events.
Amy, who was also first runner-
n loves , kinds of animals. Because her
Jersey cow was In the pasture on the day this photo was
taken, she asked to pose with her horse.
then was reorganized by the Pen
nsylvania Holstein Association in
1968 on a county level.
Stacey Knepper provided piano
music for the evening and the
Dairy Promotion Committee
sponsored the milk bar.
up in the state, traveled a total of
4,386 miles.
She was assisted in her endea
vors by Jennifer Brumbaugh, the
Bedford County dairy miss.
Dairy maids accepting the hon
ors for 1994 include Amber Clark
and Lyneice Renee Chamberlain.
Amber is the 12-year-old
daughter of Beth and Richard
Clark of New Enterprise.
Lyneice is 14 and the daughter
of Lynn and Genavie Chamberlain
of Chamberlain’s Fairview Farm
at Ciearville.