KAREN BUTLER
Maryland Correspondent
FREDERICK, Md. Erin
Feuillet, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of Jean-Pierre and
Donna Feuillet of Damascus,
Montgomery County, is the new
Maryland dairy princess. Erin
was presented with her tiara by
outgoing princess Emily O’Hara
at the 37th Maryland Dairy
Princess Coronation held here at
the Holiday Inn.
Four young ladies, all serving
terms as regional dairy princess
es, vied for the state title.
Feuillet represented Montgomery
and Howard Counties and
Southern Maryland as the
South Central dairy princess.
Erin Kernan, the Upper
Chesapeake dairy princes, was
named the alternate Maryland
dairy princess. Enn in the 16-
year-old daughter of Eugene and
Pamela Kenan of Parkton,
Maryland. Also competing in the
contest was April Enlow, the
Allcgany-Garrett dairy princess
April is the 18-year-old daughter
of William and Kristen Enlow of
Fnendsville. Jennifer Seiss, the
current Frederick County dairy
princess, also participated in the
contest. Jen is the 18-year-old
daughter of Glenn and Nancy
Seiss of Rocky Ridge.
Erin Feuillet will be a sopho
more at the University of
Maryland this fall, where she is
majoring in agriculture and
resource economics. In the
future, she says, she would like
to add a double major in mar-
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keting. She said she would like
to eventually work for an associ
ation marketing milk.
“My interest in dairy market
ing was started a long time ago,”
said the dairy princess, “It
intensified when I was South
Central dairy princess.”
At college she is a member of
her student union marketing
committee.
She has raised and
Jerseys for the past 10 years,
and has success at the county,
state, and national levels. She
has also been active in dairy
judging, and her involvement in
judging has taken her to
Madison, Wisconsin for the
National judging competition,
where her team placed fourth
overall. She won the R.N. Whipp
judging award for two consecu
tive years.
Erin said she first got
involved in dairy projects
through her babysitter, who
Erin Feuillet, the new Pennsylvania is a member of
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lived on a dairy farm. “My
babistter since I was six months
old was on a dairy farm,” she
explained, “So I got involved
that way. I always helped on the
farm.” That was with the Marty
and Geraldine Stiles family at
their Hidden Valley Farm in
Damascus. Spending time at
Hidden Valley Farm, Erin devel
oped a love of Jersey cows. She
was able to keep her animals
there, caring for them each day
when she visited the farm.
Her interest in agriculture
has led to a 10-year career in 4-
H, where Erin has been a mem
ber and held leadership roles in
the Damascus 4-H dairy club,
the Montgomery County junior
Jersey calf club, the
Montgomery County sheep and
swine club, and the Montgomery
County beef club. She is also a
10-year member of the state
junior Jersey club, where she
- has been a secretary.
In other awards presneted at
the evening gala, outgoing
Maryland dairy princess was
honored for her oustandmg
scrapbook. Miss Congeniality
went to alternate state princess
Erin Kernan, whose radio spot
was also selected the best in the
show. Erin Feuillet was awarded
the Francis Kepler Memorial
Scholarship, and was honored
for the best skit of the evening.
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of selecting dairy royalty.
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Seated is Erin Feuillet, the newly crowned Maryland
dairy princess. Behind Erin are, on the left: Emily O’Hara,
outgoing Maryland dairy princess, and, on the right: Erin
Kernan, the new alternate Maryland dairy princess.
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