In the beginning |
"Milk
Center of the World"
What
started as a small downtown tribute
to the dairy farmer in 1942 became
a major festival by the end of the
decade with 25,000 people attending
Harvard Milk Day staged at the Speedway.
"It is only right and natural
that Harvard should honor the producers
who have made it the Milk Center of
the World." said program chairman
Charles A Minot in 1943. "This
Milk Day will be much more than the
glorified picnic it started out to
be." ....more
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Milk
Day Figures |
1st
Milk Day Queen |
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Norma
Garrett
of Harvard was elected the 1st
Harvard Milk Day Queen in 1945. |
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"One
of my outstanding memories is of sitting
in a huge wooden milk bottle, waiting
for my cue to kick out the door of
the milk bottle and emerge as Harvard's
First Milk Queen."
-Norma (Garrett)
Wittmus |
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 Norma
reenacts her Milk Queen debut
for a photographer. Until the
tradition ended in 1983, each
year the queen would emerge
from the huge milk bottle or
a huge milk carton . |
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Harmilda |
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Harmilda
is
the fiberglass cow that sits
at the intersection of Hwy 14
& 173. Her name is from
the words Harvard Milk
Days. She has become
the town's mascot. |
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