814-LancMter Farming, Saturday, January 29, 2000
14th Pennsylvania State
JAYNE SEBRIGHT
Lancaster Farming Staff
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
Jana Duttry from Clearfield
County Fair is the new Pennsyl
vania State Fair Queen. Dayton
Fair’s Katie Cornish was
awarded first runner up during
the coronation held last Satur
day at the Hershey Lodge and
Convention Center.
19-year-old Duttry is the
daughter of Daniel and Marlene
Duttry of Dußois. A freshman
at the Pennsylvania State Uni
versity, she is majoring in agri
cultural business management.
She was a 1999 state finalist for
the Outstanding Equine
Member Award and the recipi
ent of the Lewis Greene Memo
rial 4-H Scholarship.
While in high school, Jana
was active in cheerleading, the
drama club, Spanish club, and
student council. She was also
homecoming queen and vice
president of her senior class. She
enjoys showing and riding her
Arabian horses.
Seventeen-year-old Cornish is
the daughter of Van and Mari
lyn Cornish, dairy farmers from
Dayton. A senior at Shannock
Valley High School, Cornish is a
member of the National Honor
Nicknamed the “Queen Mother,” State Fair Queen
Committee co-chairperson Sarah Long poses with both
the 1999 and 2000 Pennsylvania Fair Queens, Julie
Sechler and Jana Duttry.
Five state finalists were named during the coronation. From left are 1999
Pennsylvania Fair Queen Juiie Sechler, 2000 Fair Queen Jana Duttry, 2000 First
Runner Up Katie Cornish, (top row from left) Charbi Anne Webb from Luzerne Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Sam Hayes, Jr.,
County Fair, Julie Polka from Westmoreland County Fair, and Natalie Foxwell congratulates the newly-crowned state fair royalty,
from Somerset County Fair. Jana Duttry and Katie Cornish.
Society, band, and chorus. She
also is very active in the school’s
drama club and participated is
summer theatre festivals.
Cornish is a member of Who’s
Who Among American High
School Students and is an All-
American Scholar. She plans to
attend Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, majoring in his
tory.
For Duttry, being crowned
Pennsylvania Fair Queen was
overwhelming. “I was involved
in the fair since I was a little
girl,” she said. “I always wanted
to have the opportunity to visit
more fairs, and I am looking for
ward to learning more about
every county fair.”
Duttry first ran for Clearfield
County Fair Queen when she
was 17. “I was first runner up in
that contest, which usually has
about IS contestants,” said
Duttry. “The Clearfield County
Queen usually finishes in the top
ten at the state coronation, but
we have never had a state queen.
I am honored to be the first.”
“It feels wonderful,” she said.
“I am so honored and shocked
that I got first runner up.”
Cornish is the twelfth Dayton
Fair Queen, but the first to have
finished as first runner up in the
Fair Queen Is From Clearfield Count
The Clearfield County Fair Board congratulates its newly-crowned Pennsylva
nia Fair Queen, originally the Clearfield County Fair Queen. From left are Wade
Cowder, Jason McCracken, Brenda Hunter, Jana Duttry, Jeff Williams. Allen
Roseberry, Dave McCracken, and John McCrar'
In her first remarks as Pennsylvania Fair Queen, Jana Duttry commends . of
the contestants for being winners. “I am proud to be up here for all of you,” she
said. “Because each one of you deserves to be state queen.”
state. Cornish’s role as first
runner up is to fill in when
Duttry can’t attend a state fair
queen activity, although the girls
plan to attend events together.
“We’re already talking about
attending each other’s fair,”
said Cornish. “And I am looking
forward to helping Jana as
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The newly-crowned Pennsylvania Fair Queen poses
with her biggest supporters, her family. From left are
Jana’s father Daniel, Jana, her mother Marlene, and
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