Pennsylvania Dairy Princess and Promotion Services, Inc
Mission Statement: The mission of Pennsylvania Dairy Princess and Promotion Services, Inc. is to work with the local county committees in their promotional efforts and their dairy princess programs to promote the sale and consumption of milk and dairy products at the grassroots level throughout the state of Pennsylvania; to plan and conduct the training of young people to serve as dairy industry promoters now and to be future agricultural leaders; to coordinate the selection and activities of the State Royalty.
Staff
Junia
Isiminger, Executive
Director
JuniaPDPPS@aol.com
District Coordinators

At-Large Coordinator and 2004 Co- Chairperson- Jan Harding
Northeast
Coordinator and 2004 Treasurer - Betty
Reibson
mreibson@epix.net
Bradford, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Sullivan, SUN Area, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming

Southeast
Coordinator and 2004 Chairperson - Charlene
Ranck
mranck@juno.com
Adams, Berks, Carbon, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Fulton, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Perry, Schuylkill, York
Northwest
Coordinator - Roberta
McConnell
robertas-tours@earthlink.net
Cameron, Crawford, Clarion, Elk, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Potter, Venango, Warren
At-Large Coordinator and 2004 Secretary - Donna Werley
PENNSYLVANIA
DAIRY PRINCESS HISTORY
1956 to 2004
Since its inception in 1956, hundreds of young people and their families
have been involved in the promotion of the dairy industry at the local,
grassroots level through the Dairy Princess Programs.
Initiated and run until 1966 by the Pennsylvania Association of Milk
Dealers as the Miss Milk Maid Contest, contestants represented milk marketing
areas from one to fourteen counties. In
1967 there was no state contest, although promotion continued at the local
level.
In 1968 the Pennsylvania Holstein Association assumed the responsibility
for the program and geographic representation was changed to the county dairy
promotion system of today. This
change offered more contestants the opportunity to vie for the state title and
provided increased dairy promotion at the local level.
Form 18956 through 1971, the Pennsylvania Dairy Princess participated in
a national contest sponsored by the American Dairy Association.
The national contest was discontinued in 1972.
For several years, commencing in 1970, the Bureau of Markets of the
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture coordinated the program and employed the
Pennsylvania Dairy Princess to travel throughout the state during the summer to
educate the consuming public on the value of dairy products. From 1972 to the present, the Pennsylvania Dairy Princess
Pageant and Coronation has been held annually in September in conjunction with
the All American Dairy Show.
In 1975, district coordinators were appointed to help increase program
activities at the county level and serve as resource personnel. In 1978, an incentive award program was initiated to
encourage local princesses to take part in a wider variety of promotional
activities. From 1979 through 1983,
Atlantic Dairy Association served as coordinator of the princess program working
together with the six district coordinators and the county dairy promotion
committees.
In 1983, in order to provide a more uniform program which would serve all
areas of Pennsylvania equally, the district coordinators established the present
Pennsylvania Dairy Princess and Promotion Services, Inc.
which maintains its own office and is coordinated by an executive
director. The organization is
supported by Pennsylvania’s dairy farmers throughput the advertising and
promotion agencies of the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program, American Dairy
Association & Dairy Council –Mideast, Mid Atlantic Dairy Association; American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, Inc.,
and Allied Milk Producers, in addition to contributions from the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture and other dairy related organizations and individuals.
Its primary function is to work with the local county committees in their
promotional efforts and their princess programs and to plan and conduct the
training of these young people, and to coordinate the selection and activities
of the State Dairy Princess and her Alternates.