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KATHI’S DANCE & GYM CENTER, LLC MARCH NEWSLETTER 2013
KATHI’S DANCE & GYM CENTER 10825 Springfield Rd. .::. Poland, OH 44514 .::. 330.549.2522
STUDIO POLICIES AND NEWS
ABSENCES – Attendance is very important and instrumental to the development
of your child’s skills. If you are not able to attend we ask you to please call the
office to report his/her absence. There are no refunds for missed classes.
TUITION DUE DATE – Tuition is always due the first class of the month. A
10% late fee will be applied to all tuition on the 16th. There are no deductions or
credits for missed classes. Withdrawals must be made before the first class of each
month or you will be billed for the entire month.
OBSERVATION – Observation is the last class of this month. We will also have
observation the last week of May. Parents are welcome to sit and observe the
class. Please remember you are in a learning environment and we must keep noise
to a minimum. Please turn off cell phones.
EASTER VACATION –We will be closed Thursday, March 28—Tuesday, April
2. Classes will resume on Wednesday, April 3. Monday classes will be held on
Tuesday, April 2nd so that the Monday classes get four weeks of classes in April.
CREDIT CARD PROCESSING—We are now able to process MasterCard,
Visa, and Discover cards for payments of tuition, costumes, team fees, etc.
FACEBOOK—If you are on Facebook, Kathi’s Dance & Gym Center does have
a group you may want to join. It’s a great way to touch base, ask questions, and
post any fun things you want about or for our dancers and gymnasts.
SHOW NEWS
DANCE SHOW “Beauty and the Beast” plans are underway. The show will
be held at Powers’ Auditorium on June 12th and 13th.
This is a change in dates due to scheduling conflicts at
Powers Auditorium. Please make sure we have your dance
show form in the office with your costume deposits IMME-
DIATELY. We are currently measuring for costumes and it
is imperative we know who will be participating. We must
receive a costume deposit in order for your costumes to be
ordered. No costumes will be ordered without a deposit. RE-
MEMBER – we still need the form returned, even if you are
not participating in the show.
GYM SHOW
Costumes have been ordered and are in the process of be-
ing made. This year for the gym show, there will be tickets
sold in advance with seat numbers. This should help out a
lot. Start talking to your family to see who wants to come
to the show. As soon as we have a ticket sale date lined up
we will let you know. It will be in sometime in April.
In this Issue…
Studio News & Policies 1 Show News 1 Cecchetti Exams 2 Cecchetti Day 3 Klinke Scholarship 3 Mark Goodman 4 Senior Spotlight 4 Split Club 4 Student News 5 Zumba fundraiser 5 Dance/Gym Show Ad Form 7
Calendar of Upcoming Events & Workshops…
Cecchetti Exams @KDGC March 1-3, 2013
Gorants Candy Orders Due March 9, 2013
Optionals @ Luau in Leos March 9-10, 2013
ODM Convention—Junior Members Cleveland, Ohio March 15-17, 2013
Optional Meet @ G.O. Mag. march March 16-17, 2013
Gorants Candy Pickup March 20, 2013 after 4:00 p.m.
Prep. Opt. State Meet @ Olympic Dream
March 23-24, 2013
Easter Break—Studio Closed March 28-April2
Monday Classes Held April 2, 2013
Klinke Scholarship Due
April 1, 2013
Level 7/8 State Meet @ Hocking Valley April 6-7, 2013
NEOGL Meet @ American Elite April 7 2013
NEOGL Championships @ Ten Pt. O Levels 3 & 5 April 27-28, 2013
NEOGL Championships @ OGI Level 4 & I.O. May 4-5, 2013
Gym Show @ Mohawk High School May 19, 2013
KDGC Dance Show @ Powers Auditorium June 12 & 13, 2013
Like the convenience of e-mail?
Feel free to correspond with Kathi at any time through e-mail at [email protected]
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Spring Cecchetti Exam Dates – Spring Cecchetti Exams are being held here at Kathi’s
the weekend of March 1-3, 2013. We always want to thank all the students that have put so much time
and energy into these exams. Good Luck girls.
Teacher Grade One : Alishia Sparks
Grade Six: Sarah Ahlswede
Grade Five: Jacquelyn Oddo
Grade Four: Hannah Ferenchak
Alyssa Metzler
Mallory Wardle
Grade Three: Kendall Bartels
Gianna Colella
Taryn Patterson
Sophia Schuler
Abigail Whaley
GORANTS CANDY
FUNDRAISER
Orders due—March 9
Pick up—March 20
EASTER BREAK Closed Thursday, March 28—Tuesday,
April 2. We will reopen on April 3.
*** Monday students will have class on
Tuesday, April 2nd so that they get their 36
classes in for the year
Grade Two: Madison Bowen
Gianna Carbon
Olivia Donadee
Corie Kramer
Gabriela Romano
Amanda Wilson
Grade One: Aliya Abeid
Madysen Bailey
Lia Fecko
RAFFLE TICKET FUNDRAISER – If you have signed up for the dance
show in June you will be receiving raffle tickets along with your newsletter. This
fundraiser is very important to the studio enabling it to afford Powers Auditorium for
our show. The tickets are $5.00 and a ticket will be drawn each day (except Sun-
days) in April. Multiple winners are a possibility. If your ticket is drawn Monday
thru Friday you will receive $25 and a Saturday drawing is worth $50.00. Please
help support this fundraiser.
COSTUME DEPOSITS – If you have not yet paid your dance show costume deposits or turned
in your dance show sign up form, please due so immediately. We will not order costumes unless we
have received a costume deposit from you. If you are not participating in the June show, please still
take the time to fill out a form to let the office know.
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CECCHETTI OHIO BALLET DAY On Sunday, February 10th, KDGC hosted Cecchetti Ohio Ballet Day. We had several girls receive scholarships that day. Alyssa Swank was awarded 2nd place of the Cecchetti Grade V & VI scholarship audition and received paid tuition to Cecchetti Summer Intensive program at Hope College in Michigan. McKala Lehman received 2nd place in the Cecchetti Grade III & IV scholarship audition and also received paid tuition to the two week summer in-tensive program at Hope College. We had three of our graduating senior participate in the Cecchetti Council of Ohio’s College Scholarship process. Katie Rubesa placed 1st and re-ceived a $1,000 college scholarship. Jacquelyn Oddo placed 3rd and Sarah Ahlswede placed 5th and they both received a $250.00 college scholarship. Congratulations to all of the girls.
DANCE and Gym SHOW
PROGRAM ADS
At the back of this newsletter you will find a
program ad order form. This form may be
used to place an ad in the dance show or gym
show program. By accepting ads, we are able
to distribute these programs at the shows
without charging for them. You may place
personal ads or solicit ads from local busi-
nesses. Every dance line member is required
to submit one ad for the dance show program
and competitive members are to submit one
ad to gym show program to help defray the
cost of pictures in the program. If a line
member does not submit an ad, they will be
charged a picture assessment. Check for due
dates on the form at the back of newsletter.
KLINKE SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE
PEGGY KLINKE SCHOLARSHIP
The Peggy Klinke Scholarship will be awarded at
this year’s dance show in June. It is a $500.00
scholarship to a summer dance workshop of your
choice and it is given in memory of Peggy, one of
our former dancers, who was fatally assaulted.
The requirements are as follows:
At least 11 years of age
Submit a 1 ½ minute video in a dance disci-
pline of your choice
Submit a 500-word essay, typed, doubled-
spaced and titled “How Dance has Influenced
my Life”
Please submit video and essay no later than
April 1st.
Cechetti V & VI Scholarship Audition Group
Congratulations to Alyssa Swank, Sarah Ahlswede,
Elizabeth Lepiane, Sarah Swank, Paige Rowland, and
Jacquelyn Oddo
Cecchetti III & IV Scholarship Audtion Group
Congratulations to McKala Lehman,
Taryn Patterson and Juliana Kreatsoulas
College Scholarship Recipients
including our students Sarah
Ahlswede, Jacquelyn Oddo, &
Katie Rubesa
Katie Rubesa,
$1,000 College
Scholarship Winner
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STUDIO UPDATE
All tap line members will soon be receiving their fliers about the Mark Goodman workshops on April30 & May 1. These classes are manda-tory for all tap line members. Please mark these dates on your calen-dar now. Company tappers will be learning their choreography for the dance show at this time as well. All company tappers should talk to Kathi about scheduling your privates now as well.
SENIOR SPOTLIGHT KATIE RUBESA—Katie is a member of the class of 2013 of Poland Seminary High School. Katie is involved in many school activities, such as Spanish Club, Leadership, and National Honors Society. She has been cheering for over 10 years, and is a member of the varsity cheerleading squad at her school. Katie has managed to maintain a 3.9 grade point average throughout her high school career. She plans to study nursing at Ohio University to eventually become a pediatric nurse practitioner. Katie hopes to con-tinue dancing throughout college and in the future. She wishes everyone good luck this year, especially her fellow seniors. Katie is thankful for the memories and life lessons she has learned at Kathi’s, and will be forever grateful for her time spent here.
MARK GOODMAN TAP WORKSHOP
2012-13 SPLIT CLUB Over the last couple months we have really tried to update our split club list so that
we could accurately post it in our newsletter. To be a member of split club, a dancer or gym-
nast must have all three of her splits: right, left, and straddle. The following list of girls cur-rently have all three splits!! New members have an asterisk by their name. If you feel we
have left your name off of this list, please talk to your teacher. Congratulations girls!!
Maddie Bova
Adrianna Candella
Gianna Carbon * Abigail Catlos
Kate Coppola
Taylor Creighton *
Kendra DeWitt *
Haley DiLullo
Ava DiMuzio Brooke Dinopoulos
Olivia Donadee *
Graciella Ebert
Alexa Fecko *
Lia Fecko * Madelyn Filisky
Natalie Filisky *
Jillian Gady
Lauren Gates
Celina Gaudio
Gianna Gentile Abby George
Kess Gordon *
Teegan Graff
Haven Hancox
Amanda Heffron Reagan Irons
Asia Kerr
Erica Kerr
McKala Lehman
Abby Lyons *
Carmyn Manna * Kinley Mason
Haleigh McCalla
Taylor McConnell
Jillian McIntosh
Sarah McKim Kayla Metzka *
Rachel Mowad *
Taylor Myers
Sophia Neddy
Paige Patterson
Nicolina Pezzone * Gracie Raymer *
Amanda Reevely *
Maya Reevely *
Jewelina Reevely *
Emily Russell * Taylor Sackella
Katilyn Sakely
Julianna Sandine
Sophia Schuler *
Gizalia Smith-Kelso *
Cailtin Slattery Carly Stitzel
Alyssa Swank
Ayla Thompson *
Jamie Trotter
Gianna Vagnarelli Mackenzie Wardle
Mallory Wardle *
Morgan Wardle
Zoe Weaver
Adeline Whaley
Lexi Wonner Nadia Zarbaugh
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ZUMBA CHANGE
The Saturday ZUMBA Class will now be at 2:30—3:00 p.m. beginning Satur-
day,
Ohio Dance Masters Junior Members We have a group of dancers that are Junior Members of the Ohio Dance Masters
Organization of which Kathi is a very dedicated member. For the March conven-
tion, the girls are making Chinese Auction baskets to raise
money for Dancing Wheels, a non-profit organization of
young men and women who dance in wheel chairs. We
thought if anyone would like to donate a scratch off lottery
ticket or an item from Victoria’s Secret for the two baskets our
girls are creating, that would be awesome. These items need
to be turned in by Wednesday, March 13th at the office.
Thank you for your generosity.
ST. JUDE’S CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL FUNDRAISER On Sunday, March 10th at 3:00 p.m., Jami Byler will be holding a ZUMBA class in
Studio A, to raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. This is the third year
Jami has done this fundraiser. Last year $700.00 was raised and donated. The minimum dona-
tion to take the class is $6.00. Please come out and support this great cause if you are available
that Friday. Hope to see you there.
ATTENTION ALL LINE DANCERS Remember there is a mandatory $50.00
fundraising assessment to all line dancers to
help defray the cost of Powers Auditorium.
This can be generated through any fundrais-
ers (ex. Gorant’s candies, raffle tickets, etc.)
or paid directly to the office.
GYM SHOW PROP HELP We are looking for some items for the gym show that we are hoping our
families can help us out with. If you have any Little Tikes or similar chil-
dren’s household items (iron, ironing board, vacuum, kitchen, furniture) that
we could use that would help with scenery a lot. Also we are looking for
youth large suit coats in blues or grays. If you have any of these items and
are willing to let us use them, please
bring them in with your name on the
item somewhere. We want to be able to
get it back to you easily.
THANK YOU!!!!
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2013 DANCE SHOW/GYM SHOW PROGRAM AD ORDER FORM
BUSINESS NAME: PHONE:
ADDRESS:
CITY: STATE: ZIP:
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL PLACING AD:
SIZE OF AD: (PLEASE CHECK ALL APPROPRIATE SPACES)
DANCE SHOW GYM SHOW
(Deadline May20) (Deadline April 25)
1/8 Page (2 1/2 X 2) $30 ________$30
1/4 Page (2 1/2 X 4) $60 ________ $60
1/2 Page (5 X 4) $120 _______ $120
_____ Adding Photo _____ $20 ____ Photo Attached
____ Please Return Photo
Based on 5 1/2 X 7 program size
PLEASE USE SAME COPY AS LAST YEAR
(PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR BUSINESS CARD)
COPY OF NEW AD ENCLOSED
(PLEASE SHOW LAYOUT ON THE BACK)
ENCLOSED IS A CHECK IN THE AMOUNT OF $
(PLEASE MAKE CHECK OUT TO KATHI’S DANCE & GYM CENTER)