Tina M. Shultz Memorial Award

Tina Marie Shultz

1968-1986

Tina Marie Shultz 1968-1986 Tina Marie Shultz was a member of the 1985-86 class of county dairy princesses. Selected to serve as Huntingdon County’s Dairy Princess in June of 1985, she did an outstanding job of promoting the dairy industry and its products under extremely difficult personal complications.

Just three months before her county pageant she lost her left leg to cancer and throughout her reign she battled the insidious disease. Except when she was hospitalized, Tina seldom missed an engagement or opportunity to promote. As Beth Heald, 1985-86 Pennsylvania Dairy Princess, wrote “Tina represented the dairy industry with a sense of pride and devotion that was admired by everyone who knew her. . . (she) fulfilled her role as Dairy Princess with as much enthusiasm and hard work as those of us who are healthy.”

Following Tina’s death in May of 1986, her sister princesses established a fund for an award to be given in her honor. It seemed fitting that the “Outstanding County Promoter Award” initiated in 1985 be designated the “Tina Shultz Memorial Award”. In 1993, a second memorial was attached to the “Tina M. Shultz Memorial Award” in memory of Margaret Shultz of Montgomery County, also a member of the Princess Class of 1985-86 who succumbed to cancer in 1993.

This award is given annually to the Princess who has done the most effective job of serving her area as Dairy Princess. It is based on the number and types of appearances she has made as an individual and the local circumstances under which she has served.

The winner of the Tina M. Shultz Memorial Award must be a dedicated, enthusiastic promoter of the dairy industry who is willing to go “beyond the call of duty” to carry out her assignment.

Former Tina M. Shultz Award Recipients