816-Lancaslar Farming, Saturday, June 17, 2000
Outgoing, Personable Lancaster Dairy Princess Points To ‘ABCs’ Of Milk
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Lancaster County’s new dairy
princess said she’d describe her
self as “outgoing and person
able,” someone who wouldn’t be
afraid, she said, “to get up in
front of a crowd and wear flashy
outfits” to promote milk.
Elizabeth Young did just that,
wearing coveralls and Holstein
colored socks, holding onto her
two favorite stuffed animals, as
part of her skit to describe the
“ABCs” of milk.
Elizabeth took home the tiara
last Saturday evening when she
was crowned in front of more
than 100 dairy family and
friends at the Farm and Home
Center.
The 17-year-old daughter of
Dave and Carol Young, Peach
Bottom, will be a senior this fall
at Solanco High School.
Elizabeth, outgoing alternate
dairy princess, is “very person
able," she said. “I like meeting
people. . . . I just like people!"
One of the toughest audiences
that dairy royalty, including am
bassadors, face is young children,
noted Elizabeth Smith, mistress
of ceremonies for the event.
And the new dairy princess’s
skit, "The ABCs of Dairy,” fea
tured Elizabeth Young at a tea
party speaking about how milk is
“so rich and creamy, I just love
it." she said.
Elizabeth noted that A stands
Hannah Wentworth, 10, Lancaster County dairy miss,
serves milk punch at the pageant.
for an important vitamin, B for
the B vitamins, C for calcium, D
for dairy princess, E for the im
portance of milk in everyone’s
diet, F for the many flavors of
milk, G for milk’s importance in
growing years, and H for its gen
eral health. She said the I stands
for the many varieties of ice
cream, J for the fact that getting
good nutrition from milk is no
laughing matter, and K means
the many kinds of varieties of
food containing milk.
Elizabeth explained that L
stands for the land needed to
grow feed for a cow, M for the
sound cows make, N for the ad
ditional nutrients in milk, includ
ing protein and iron, O for the
fact that milk helps prevent os
teoporosis, a crippling disease,
and P for Pennsylvania, which
stands fourth in the country in
milk production.
Elizabeth said that Q denotes
the quality of milk and its fresh
ness, R for the Real Seal, S for
the fact that seven out of 10 kids
don’t get enough calcium in their
diet, T for taste, U for universal
appeal, V for versatile, W for the
work done to promote milk, and
X for X-rays taken of bones that
show good health when you
drink milk. Y is for young when
you need milk but before Eliz
abeth could get to Z, the imagi
nary mom called to her, asking if
she had taken the milk and
cheese for the tea party.
Elizabeth works on the fami
ly’s 500-milking cow (900 total)
grade Holstein dairy in Peach
Bottom, a member of the Land
O’ Lakes Cooperative.
Elizabeth vowed to her real
life mother to “remember her da
tebook,” and thanked those in
dairy promotions for allowing
her the chance to serve as prin
cess.
Jill Hoover, Gap, was crowned
Lancaster County alternate dairy
princess.
Jill, 17, is the daughter of Gor
don and Carole Hoover. Jill will
be a senior at Pequea Valley
High School.
She belongs to 4-H and is the
vice president of her FFA.
Jill became a dairy darling at 8
years of age. She’s served as
dairy ambassador the past two
years. She enjoys playing in the
school band and chorus and
plays soccer.
Jill, outgoing dairy ambassa-
dor, plans to be a “music ambas
sador’’ to Europe. She plans to
travel, singing and playing bas
soon. She plans to attend college
and study veterinary sciences
and “something in music,” she
said.
Jill works on a 120-head milk
ing (120 replacement head) Hol
stein dairy, a member of the
Land O’Lakes Cooperative.
Her skit involved preparing a
birthday party for her sister Les
lie, turning 9. Jill was compiling
a “checklist” of important items,
replacing soda with tasty milk
punch, replacing potato chips
and pretzels with cheese and
crackers, and keeping pizza,
cake, and ice cream on the menu
because they contain essential
dairy items.
When asked what two charac
teristics describe herself and how
they would benefit the contestant
as a dairy princess, Jill noted she
Elizabeth Young, center, was crowned Lancaster County dairy princess last Satur
day at the Farm and Home Center. At left is alternate Jill Hoover and right, alternate
Kristi Unger.
is “outgoing and focused,” she
said, with “ease in front of peo
ple.
“When I get myself to do
something, I get it done,” she
said. “For the most part, I get ev
erything done.”
Also selected alternate prin
cess was Kristi Unger, 17, daugh
ter of Jeffrey and Mary Unger,
Quarryville.
Kristi is Solanco FFA reporter.
A senior this year, she works
part-time at Gerhart’s Farm in
New Providence. She milks part
time three days a week.
Kristi, who wants to be a doc
tor, plans to attend York College
or Mansfield University.
During competition, Kristi
presented her skit, “Twisted Old
MacDonald,” about a student in
Mrs. Kegle’s sixth grade class
who gives a speech on the popu
lar children’s tune but with a
dairy message.
Wearing coveralls and straw
hat, Kristi read one of the stan
zas to the song: “A healthy body
comes from milk, this is our
main goal.”
Milk’s calcium and protein
New Lancaster County dairy royalty. Front from left, dairy misses Tiffany Donough
and Hannah Wentworth and dairy darlings Leslie Hoover, Valerie Bollinger, Stephanie
Kauffman, and Toni Kauffman. Back from left, dairy ambassadors Kari Martin, Lisa
Blank, Deb Young, Laura Blank, Stephanie Donough, Cheryl Hershey, and Nicole Ben
ner.
“makes hair shiny and gives
healthy teeth,” she said.
Kristi noted during the im
promptu question that she be
lieves she is “pretty responsible,”
she said. “I have a part-time job
and that helps a lot. I’m organ
ized.”
The 2000-2001 dairy ambassa
dors are Stephanie Donough,
Nicole Benner, Cheryl Hershey,
Kari Martin, Laura Blank, Lisa
Blank, and Deb Young. The
2000-2001 Dairy Misses will be
Tiffany Donough and Hannah
Wentworth.
The 2000-2001 Dairy Darlings
are Valerie Bollinger, Stephanie
Kauffman, Toni Kauffman, and
Leslie Hoover.
Outgoing dairy princess Elisa
Ranck noted that 1,000 years
ago, the site where the pageant
took place was “a wild forest,”
she said. In another 1,000 years,
it would be tough to know what
would stand on the site.
But one thing has been con
stant, Elisa said. “Milk has been
and always will be nature’s most
perfect beverage.”
Though her reign ends, she
said “dairy royalty is in the
blood, for life.”
Dale Smith, mother of
mistress of ceremonies Eliza
beth Smith and co-chairperson
of the county dairy promotion
committee, noted that the am
bassadors themselves have trav
eled a total of 4,500 miles
across the state and in the area,
handing out 1,555 recipes,
10,437 rubber cows and other
erasers, placed a minimum of
15 radio and TV spots, attend
ed 91 school programs, placed
19 articles in the newspaper,
and provided many other farm
and nonfarm events and
promotions.
Judges were Joy Crothers,
Pennsylvania dairy promotion
director from a dairy in Oxford;
Jennifer Davis, Leesport, a for
mer Berks County dairy prin
cess from a 60-cow dairy who
works for an agriculture trade
publication; and James Shifk,
assistant vice president for
PennAg Industries Association
and director of the state poultry
association who lives on the
family farm in Goodville.