BMancatter Fanning, Saturday, Saptambar 23, 1995
‘Distinguish Yourself Becomes Natalie’s Motto
GAY BROWNLEE
Somerset Co. Correspondent
BERLIN (Somerset Co.)
After September 23, the sparkling
crown and diagonal banner of Pen
nsylvania State Dairy Princces
Natalie Dawn Welch will no lon
ger be a constant reminder that her
best image must be foremost
that her behavior must always be
exemplary. Because then, those
responsibilities will go to her suc
cessor at the state contest.
But laying aside the tangible
things, for Natalie, won’t close the
book on values, like the little
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motto that’s pasted in her dad’s
pickup truck “Distinguish
Yourself.”
The brief message caused Nata
lie, when she was younger to ask
her dad, David Wlech, a doctor of
veterinary medicine and farmer,
what it meant.
“He said, ‘Nobody else will do it
for you. Each person must strive to
go above and beyond,”’ the prin
cess recalled, adding, “I try to do
that in my school work and every
thing by putting extra effort into
it.”
Natalie, who’s enrolled as a
freshman at the Bob Jones Univer
sity. Greenville, S.C., quickly
teamed her duties as the state dairy
princess had few similarities with
her concurrent reign as the Some
rset County dairy princess.
For one thing, she was expected
to make numerous speeches at
official functions where influential
people in high places were present.
If she knew absolutely nobody at
these affairs except her chaperone,
Jan Harding, the youngest of the
four Welch children, had to rise to
the occasion by “distinguishing
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A reflective young woman who
enjoys thinking. Natalie says the
dairy princess experience helped
her to understand how she is per
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