A total of six women will compete to hold the title of Alice in Dairyland for the next year.
State officials named the finalists last week for the jobs that serves as a state-employed ambassador for Wisconsin’s food and agricultural industries. The winner will be selected during three days of finals May 15 through 17 in Clark County and will replace current Alice in Dairyland Kristin Olson for a one year term.
The finalists are Allyson Binversie of Manitowoc, who’s pursuing a master’s degree at Gonzaga in clinical mental health counseling; Zoey Brooks of Waupaca, who will graduate this spring from U-W Madison with a degree in animal science; Katie Dogs of Watertown, the public relations manager at Didion Milling; Kristin Klossner of New Glarus, a substitute teacher mainly in special education; Melissa Ploeckelman of Stetsonville, an agricultural teacher and FFA advisor in the Colby school district; and Whitney Rathke of Fredonia, a graduate student at Concordia and an elementary after-school educator in Beaver Dam.