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page 20 Report to Members at December 31, 2005 Northwest Folk Dancers, Incorporated (NFDI) is a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging and promoting folk dancing. Established in 1956, NFDI serves the needs of folk dancers in the northwestern United States and Canada and throughout the world. NFDI publishes a monthly magazine, THE NORTHWEST FOLKDANCER, containing articles and information about the food, dances, music, costumes, and history of other cultures. Membership Benefits: Subscription to the NORTHWEST FOLKDANCER magazine ¾ Calendar of classes, dances, and special events ¾ Costume information ¾ Club news ¾ Articles ¾ Ethnic recipes Membership directory (not for commercial use) Annual scholarship to dance camps & workshops Discounted rates to teacher training workshops Written dance descriptions Copies of folk dance music (for teaching purposes) Index of National Geographic articles from 1900-present Discounted advertising rates in the newsletter For more information or to become a member, visit our Web site at: http://www.scn.org/arts/nfdi/ Additional information: Linda Caspermeyer, 206-525-6143 V OLUME 17, N UMBER 4 ISSN 1087-1497 Report To Members OF THE S OCIETY OF F OLK D ANCE H ISTORIANS AT D ECEMBER 31, 2005 Richard "Dick" Crum [December 8, 1928-December 13, 2005] advertisement NORTHWEST FOLK DANCERS

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Northwest Folk Dancers, Incorporated (NFDI) is a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging and promoting folk dancing. Established in 1956, NFDI serves the needs of folk dancers in the northwestern United States and Canada and throughout the world. NFDI publishes a monthly magazine, THE NORTHWEST FOLKDANCER, containing articles and information about the food, dances, music, costumes, and history of other cultures. Membership Benefits: • Subscription to the NORTHWEST FOLKDANCER magazine

Calendar of classes, dances, and special events Costume information Club news Articles Ethnic recipes

• Membership directory (not for commercial use) • Annual scholarship to dance camps & workshops • Discounted rates to teacher training workshops • Written dance descriptions • Copies of folk dance music (for teaching purposes) • Index of National Geographic articles from 1900-present • Discounted advertising rates in the newsletter For more information or to become a member, visit our Web site at:

http://www.scn.org/arts/nfdi/ Additional information: Linda Caspermeyer, 206-525-6143

VO L U M E 17, NU M B E R 4 ISSN 1087-1497

Report To Members O F T H E SO C IE T Y O F FO LK DA N C E HIS T O R I AN S A T DE C E M B E R 31 , 2005

Richard "Dick" Crum [December 8, 1928-December 13, 2005]

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NORTHWEST FOLK DANCERS

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REPORT TO MEMBERS Ron Houston, Editor published quarterly by SOCIETY OF FOLK DANCE HISTORIANS TRANSFORMING INFORMATION INTO MOVEMENT SINCE 1987 2100 RIO GRANDE ST, AUSTIN TX 78705, USA. [email protected]

OUR COVER: From the March-April 1954 Viltis magazine: Constance Fisher (St. Paul MN) sent this photo of Dick Crum (St. Paul MN) and a Croatian partner at the St. Paul Festival of Nations, circa 1949 or 1950. Connie wrote on the back: "This is the young fellow who was equally at home as a Latin as he was a Pole or anything else."

NOT TO MISS IN THIS ISSUE: T H E L A S T D A N C E ( o b i t u a r i e s ) : IRVING GREENBERG (AUSTIN TX) ........................................... P. 10 LOUIS HYLL (DAYTON OH) .................................................... P. 11 DICK CRUM (THE WORLD) ..................................................... P. 12 GEORGE SENYK [COCOA FL] ................................................. P. 14 UTTA RICHARDSON [BELLINGHAM WA] ................................... P. 14 MIKE LEVINE [FLORAL PARK NY] ............................................ P. 14

YOU SHOULD KNOW (TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS): Several recent reports of SPAM prompt me to advise you: 1 DO NOT OPEN e-mail titled: "Seeking a single source for dance instruction." If you Google "seeking a single source," you'll see why. Similarly, do not open anonymous e-mail with no subject. 2 DO NOT OPEN any e-mail that looks as if it contains the forwarded jokes and photos of cute kittens and puppies. Your well-meaning friends do not realize that some of these things contain auto-responders that send your e-mail address to spam lists as soon as you open the message. 3 Update your operating system weekly. 4 From www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ download and install the free ccleaner. Keep it open on your desktop and run it after EVERY Internet transaction. 5 From www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ download and install the free AdAware. Update and run it weekly. 6 From www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html download and install the free SpyBot. Update and run it weekly.

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MORE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS: "I've been trying to reach you by phone, but you never answer." Unfortunately, you cannot reach us by phone. The solicitations have become incredibly obnoxious. We do not answer anonymous, out-of-area, 'private', or 'no data sent' calls. The "Do Not Call" lists have so many loopholes that you might think the legislators who wrote them own the telemarketing companies. Why must we 'opt out' of anything to protect our basic right of privacy? Why didn't the legislators mandate an 'opt in' list, instead? The telephone network once was, and could be again, a tremendous public good. Instead, the relatively few telemarketers who prey upon the naïve spoil it for everyone. But beyond telemarketing abuse, Tatiana and I cannot drop our schoolwork (we both entered doctoral candidacy this year), parenting, housework, SOFDH work, and employment to talk on the phone. If you want to contact us, please, PLEASE write or e-mail.

SOCIETY DOINGS: VISITS:

Tani photographed Roo Lester, who dropped by in November.

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CONTRIBUTIONS: 55 households donated $2,439 this year, a bit over $44 each. Karin Gottier (Tolland CT) and Elnora Boykin (Pharr TX) sent archives of IFD camps and leaders from the Northeast. Charles Rusnacko (Minneapolis) sent a much-needed case for holding maybe 150 to 200 7" phonograph records. Rae Tauber (La Jolla CA) sent movies and videos of her legendary OPA! folklore tours. Ginny Brandmaier (Harrington Park NJ) sent many printed and recorded folk dance publications. Barbara Strey (Austin TX) donated videos and syllabi of camps. Hanny Budnick (Philadelphia) sent California memorabilia. Members of the Kyklos group (Portland OR) facilitated the donation of a huge, seminal archive of Pacific Northwest IFD. Is that everybody? Who did I miss? I'm sorry! Please tell me! STAYING IN TOUCH:

Charlottesville IFD (revived and doing well at the U of VA), with Elaine, a UV student; Ezher Uremez; and Prof. John Wheeler. Photo by Jay Darmstadter

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Barbara and I were in Poland this June and spent some 2 1/2 weeks in the southeast of the country, hiking in the Tatras, hearing some truly wonderful Goral and Spisz - style music, and visiting the Lemko (Ukrainian minority) areas in the hills along the Polish/Slovak border. This area was subject to a sort of "ethnic cleansing" of its own after World War II, and many Uniates were driven from their homes, deported to Ukraine, or killed. The current Polish govern-ment, to its credit, discusses all this openly, and many of the Lemko have been invited to return to their ancestral villages (the Boyko further east did not fare so well). The area is full of amazing wooden churches, now often being used by the Catholic population that was resettled into the area. Attached is a picture of Kwiaton (1700, and restored in 1810) to show how remarkable these structures are.-John Uhlemann (Saint Louis MO) More than you thought one person possibly could know about step dancing, 19th century Irish quadrilles and country dances, aviation pioneers, takeha conservation, broad gauge railways, "tall ships," and other diverse subjects appears at the site of Senior IT Consultant Chris Brady (London, England). Check it out at: www.chrisjbrady.com or www.chrisbrady.itgo.com.

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Myrtle Hoppe, Paul Stafura (Director, Duquesne U. Tamburitzans) & Lois Crum Evanoff (Dick Crum's sister), at the August 11 Tammies performance at Arden Hills MN (Photo from Myrtle)

"Holy Bread - Botiza, Romania, 2005" Last fall, Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin displayed her remarkable photographs of Romania and spoke at Cypress College, California. Try to catch her showings when she is in your area.

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Forrest and Carol Johnson (Big Bend WI) continue their successful World Movement Traditions Class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "The class meets in a private room at Hart Park for the first part of the evening to learn dances and then joins the Tuesday Night Folk Dancers to actually use and reinforce what they have learned by dancing with the group. You know it's a tough class when they get graded on how well they party!" Here, the students join the Tuesday night group's Crazy Character Capers Party.

L to R: Vanja Suvajac-Basara, Alma Sulejmanovic, Melissa Eitrem (Wonder Woman), Gao Zang Thao, Emily Vander Geeten, Rebeca Juarez, Mallory Schaefer, Lorena Rocha, Katie Rostermundt, Rebecca Bailey, & Stephanie Pride (absent - Serenity Ramirez). Photo by Carol Johnson Society hurricane victims got out in time, survived, returned, and are rebuilding their lives, with varying but lethargic and miniscule degrees of cooperation from the agencies and insurance companies who supposedly are assisting them. Homes, business equipment, possessions, and documents flooded or were washed away. The Illini FD Society (Urbana IL) at the U of Illinois celebrated 49 years of folk dancing on October 11, with at least one original member in attendance. Such continuity is most admirable.

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Helen Lenyk (San Diego) sent this recent photo of her famous Polish costume, the subject of the cover of the Dec. 31, 2002 issue of the Report. And if I forgot before, many thanks to Ed "Juni" Yacher (San Diego) for keeping up with old friends.

R E P O R T S F R O M M E M B E R S :

FOLKRAFT LP GIVEAWAY: [42 people ordered the Folkraft LPs we gave away this quarter.-rdh] "Happy Holidays to you! My records arrived three days ago. All in excellent condition. I'm having a ball going through them and playing them on my old record player. Thanks a lot."-ms "the records were on my doorstep when I got home yesterday; they are washed and dry and we listened to one side of the Assyrian one before I had to rush off to something. I am thrilled to death to have these! Thank you so much for making them available!"-sj "Well, I tried what you had written earlier, just washing in gentle soap and air drying. That didn't work too well or else the sound just wasn't good to begin with. I haven't had much time to try to analyze the problem."-sk IN GENERAL: "Your magazine and Problem Solver get better every year."-mf "Thanks for your efforts on behalf of all of us folk dance aficionados! As usual, the Helper is superb, and there's some neat information in the Newsletter as well. Truly, a labor of love!"-hb

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FOLK DANCE PROBLEM SOLVER: [Several Members became Charter Members this quarter by filling out their sets of Problem Solvers. Some of these were their comments.-rdh] "We really enjoy the Problem Solvers--the regional variants on the dances, the helpful organization by both country and dance. And how would we ever have known that Jana's man would sell the house to dance the kolo with her? And that Joan says we shouldn't twist our hips on Cimpoi? Seriously, the Problem Solvers are a wonderful resource for new teachers like ourselves."-mm "I have been going through some of the Problem Solvers tonight. What fun - - -and interesting too! We have been trying to revive some oldies but goodies from time to time, and the notes have been helpful. Thanks for the efforts."-jg "Other things crossed my mind as I read, but they escape me at the moment. I just want to make sure you know your work is appreciated, and is still timely!! Thank you!!"-sj "We are still working on Lerikos, and your added info was a good addition to our 'speech' which precedes the dance. Also, Jovano Jovanke has reemerged - which is interesting timing as always."-bg "As always, another great work of art! Very grateful to you for sharing all that immense knowledge with us and for all the incredible time and dedication you put into this beautiful production along with all the family and friends who help you make it happen year after year, you folks are amazing !"-eu "terrific job on the 2005 FDPS. I had to smile when I read the 'Boleslav' entry because of the music being included. I like to play the actual tunes and many times they aren't available in printed form. I was impressed with the Greek [script] in 'Ais Giorgis' as well. I always learn so much from these books because of your research and excellent presentations of same."-jk FOLK DANCE PHONE BOOK AND GROUP DIRECTORY: "Thanks for making this [the listing form] so easy!"-rs "I used the Directory to Dance in Hawaii this Month. Great to have when I Travel."-kh "the Folk Dance Phone Book and Group Directory is getting thinner and thinner every year. Something must be done to arrest this decline. I don't know what you can do about it. But if you wish I can write a letter to the Editor"-kg [Good idea. But OUR readers already know! Why not write to the editors of OTHER folk dance magazines?-rdh]

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THE LAST D AN CE : Isadore Irving Greenberg (Austin TX [1917-2005]) at right, entertains Jan DeWitt (Austin TX) as Antonio Angeles and Dean Linscott look on, at the home of Alura Flores de Angeles (Mexico DF), following the Dec. 1976 Festival Folklórico. Irving hunted subs in the Gulf for the Civil Air Patrol. Forced to join the Air Force, eyesight grounded him. So he became a certificated clock and watch maker. Bachelor's and master's degrees led to a counseling career. Irving found folk dancing one dark and stormy night in 1974 when my group was locked out of Woolridge Hall, yet he returned for the 25 years the group lasted. Folk dancing led to music collecting and then to accordion playing and repair. Legally blind, he continued to drive and visit folk dance camps, but heart surgery slowed him down, and he began multiple folkdance- and watch/clock- cruises abroad. Always up for a party, he hosted an annual 39th birth-day party, until neighbors closed down the event. Irving Greenberg, aviator, watchmaker, counselor, traveler, father, uncle, and dear friend, will be missed. Condolences to daughter Linda and niece JoAnn. You were never far from his thoughts.

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Leslie Hyll sent this sad news. See the related story in the March 31 Report. Louis H. Hyll, recreational dance leader in Dayton, Ohio, passed away October 12, due to long term health problems. He was 77. Lou started calling traditional squares in 1948 as a substitute for local YMCA community dances. As square dancing evolved during the 50s and 60s into modern club dancing, Lou's calling also evolved. He was club caller for several local clubs. He taught western square dance classes for the City of Dayton in 1957-58. However in the late 1960s, Lou gave up most of his club calling to devote his time to leading recreational dance programs for non-dancers. His motto was "If you can walk out onto this dance floor, you can dance." He introduced thousands of Dayton area people to square, folk, contra, historical, and line dancing through programs with community groups, schools, scout groups, universities, church groups, professional and business organizations, handicapped and disabled groups, private parties, wedding receptions, hospitals and nursing homes, drug rehabilitation centers, historical societies, re- enactment groups, and folk groups. Lou was also very interested in historical dance, starting and leading the Kettering Historical Dancers 1975-82 and the Springfield Country Dancers 1983-86. An active dancer in addition to being a caller, Lou was a member of 23 Dayton area clubs during his 57 years of dancing. However, his longest association was over 30 years with the Miami Valley Folk Dancers in Dayton, Ohio. Lou is survived by his wife of 48 years, Nancy, and two daughters, Dona Luann Hyll and Leslie Kay Hyll and son-in-law, Eddie Cordray, all continuing to be active in the greater Dayton dance community. Some of the dances written by Lou include: Phrase Craze Mixer (published in the book "Dancing for Busy People"), Joy of the Waltz (contra), and Ludwig's Long Four (whole set). P.S. On November 18, Dayton-area dancers gave Lou a stirring send-off with a memorial dance/party. His favorite dances, foods, past-times, and jokes entertained the many friends who will not soon forget him. The next Problem Solver will contain the remarkable saga of Lou's dance "Phase Craze Mixer."

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Dick Crum, quite simply, the most entertaining, authoritative, efficient, and effective, folk dance teacher the world has ever known, has died, and the communi- ties of recre- ational dance and dance scholarship are the poorer for it. Born Dec. 8, 1928 in the Romanian settlement of St. Paul MN, of German-Irish extraction, Dick grew up speaking Romanian. He went on to learn Bulgarian, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, and probably other languages. Dick acquired dance (see cover photo) as well as languages. In those days, as now, Minneapolis-St. Paul was a hotbed of ethnic groups and activities. In his childhood and at the St. Paul Festival of Nations, Dick mastered the styles of virtually every dance dialect in the world of international folk dance. With the Duquesne University Tamburtizans, he visited and performed in many countries and later conducted dance and music research on solo trips abroad. In the 1950s, he became the most sought-after teacher of folk dance in North America. Few films and videos of Dick survive, but those that do mark him as one of the most graceful male solo dancers since Fred Astaire.

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As an entertainer, Dick had no peer. Whether teaching, serving as MC, hosting a 'culture corner', or simply talking as a friend, Dick utterly captivated his audiences. Early recreational international folk dancing had almost no non-partner dances. Vyts Beliajus, Jane Farwell, Michael Herman, Dave Rosenberg, and John Filcich had taught a few, and Pales-tinian/Israeli non-partner dances appeared after WWII. But by 1956, Dick Crum had increased the number of kolos exponen-tially, establishing a foundation for the non-partner 'Balkan' music and dance community, at that time called 'Kolomaniacs'. Between 1954 and 1959, Viltis printed four identifiable photos of Dick. In order, they appear on the cover of this Report, at left, in the June 30 Report, and below. While Dick put on weight over the years and grew a mustache and beard, He will remain in our hearts as he appears in these photos, the eternal imp. From p. 17 of the Oct-Nov 1959 Viltis: "The Minnesotans at the Stockton camp: The Gelmans, the Cohens, the Perraults, Myrtle Hoppe, Lillian Kurkowski and Ex-Minnesotans Dick Crum and Gordy Engler Foto Benny Gepner)." Dick left loving relatives, unfinished manuscripts, and thousands of respectful admirers, and he also left the feeling that he had lived his life the way he wanted to live it. In that sense, he left his own best epitaph: "You buttered your bread, now lie in it."

From the cover of the Oct.-Nov. 1954 Viltis.

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George Senyk (Cocoa FL), 86, passed away on November 24 after a hugely vital career in recreation. A Canadian Olympic gymnast before WWII and RCAF during the war, he led and taught recreation for Manitoba after the war while finishing his B.S. degree. Thence to Montreal, and thence NYC, where he met and married Onie. They traveled the continent and the world, teaching and calling. George and Onie finally settled in Florida, running the Lloyd Shaw Foundation Records Division, conducting at least four international and country dance groups and an annual country dance retreat. Condolences to Onie, who carries on well with at least three of the groups.

Dear Friends, I must tell you with much sorrow that my husband Mike Levine died last year. He enjoyed being a member of the Society & reading your publications. He had taught folk dancing in Great Neck, NY for 35 years and loved it. I am enclosing a check in his memory. He was 85 years old when he died and danced until a few months before his death. -Vilma Levine

Following Pearl Atkinson in March, the Northwest lost another influential folk dance leader and teacher: Utta Richardson (Bellingham WA), 68, passed away October 13. Born in Denmark, Utta was proud of her Danish and Scandi heritage and expres-sed it, among other ways, through her love of dance. She not only taught dancing, she taught dance teaching in a far-sighted effort to perpetuate the movement. Trella Hastings joined many others in remembering Utta with phrases such as "She breathed life into every room she walked into. She seemed to know no stranger and would have them dancing in no time at all. The 'eternal optimist' is a mild statement to describe her." Utta owned "Dances We Dance," which sold instructional video and audio recordings to those wishing to learn how to teach dance (www.danceswedance.com). Condolences to her brother, son, 2 daughters, 7 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, and many, many appreciative students. Mange tak to Trella for most of this information.

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Tom Blenko (San Jose CA) sent photos of Pearl Atkinson (at right), this one of her receiving an award at Reed College (a remarkable institution in itself) with two colleagues in 1999. "I was thinking and talking about Vyts [Beliajus] last week and it made my heart good to see his picture [in the last Report], he was a rare soul. I loved his magazine and I loved having little discussions with him, he left a big void but you are truly regarded as the person who followed in his footsteps."-eu "I noted recently that Dave Rosenberg died [see the March 31, 2005 Report]. I danced with Dave at the old Roosevelt High School in northwest Washington [DC] in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Subsequently, folk dancing came to a screeching halt in Washington proper with the assassination of Martin Luther King. . . . Dave was a lot of fun to dance with. It was my first exposure to folk dances other than couple dances. He had a nice balance of different type of dances. Late in that period, Nancy Kane appeared on the scene to join him in teaching the dances."-pm Truly, this has been a memorable year with the passing of so many of the post-war generation of pioneering folk dance leaders. Let us honor them in spirit as well as in word.-rdh

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FROM THE ARCHIVES:

Solen Turkish Folk Dancers of Rochester (NY) [1985-2001] circa l991. Ezher Uremez leads, with Michael Leach, Sonia Efron, Jeff Dosch, Alev, Turncay, and an unidentified dancer.

JUST-ARRIVED LETTERS DEPARTMENT: Beverly Elinoff, Society Member and Member of the Board of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library of Denver University's Penrose Library, reports the extremely good news that the library has made available to scholars the collections of Vyts Beliajus, DeWayne Young, and the Lloyd Shaw Foundation. The collections include all of the Viltis magazines, dance books, pictures & small books on folk dancing, plus syllabi and many other items explaining the history and practice of international recreational folk and square dancing. A tremendous job. Well done, Beverly and Carson-Brierly Dance Library!

RECENT GATHERINGS: "The 2005 Tamburitza Extravaganza in Los Angeles was wonderful. 5 nights and days nonstop Tamburitza music/singing and dancing. Every day and night was packed and felt like 28 hours. A dress up event and not an ethnic level -- American time so more could be squeezed in a day."-Nancy Milligan, Caltech Folkdancers President, Committee member ZIVALA 2005.

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"Please join us to celebrate and honor the many contributions that Fred Kedney has made to the Twin Cities dance community for over 60 years. Friday, October 7th from 7-11pm at Tapestry Folkdance Center (3748 Minnehaha Avenue, Minneapolis)." The party, October 7, celebrated Fred's 60+ years of dancing and being part of the Twin Cities folkdance community. It was also a fundraiser for Ethnic Dance Theatre and Tapestry Folk Dance Center, both organizations which Fred has supported in many, many ways through the years. The evening had four sections - teaching of easy international dances by Sandy Lipsky (to recorded music), then an hour of inter-national dancing to live music by our superb "Orkestar Bez Ime" and their lead singer, Natalie Nowytzki (2nd CD out soon). The next hour was dancing to Finn Hall, a wonderful local Scandi band, and the last hour was contra dancing to the music of Pig's Eye Landing. The evening covered most of Fred's dance areas of interest (he also has been a loooooong-time member of the local German/Bavarian/Austrian group, earlier evolutions of Vide'ki Hungarian Group and Dolina Polish Folk Dancers, Dannebrog Danish Dancers, and the St Paul Czech and Slovak Folk Dancers, to name the ones I can think of. I've been told about 150 people came, many coming at the beginning and staying 'til the end.

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During the changes of bands a proclamation was read, the women danced Lakodalmi Tanc with Fred in the center, and many shared memories and thank yous. Pictures back to the fifties lined one wall - Fred in various festival outfits, canoeing, partying, and just plain folk dancing. I contributed copies of a poem about folk dancing written in the fifties by Ray Conrad who was dancing in the Twin Cities then; he and Fred were good friends and Fred is immortalized in one line of the poem. I also brought a column from a long past issue of The Tennis Shoe Tuesday Night Rag in which Fred was interviewed as Folkdancer of the Month. Ron, there's a coda to all of this. The last weekend in October, Tapestry hosted Dick Crum and David Vinski in a weekend workshop. Fred was there, of course, and we got a photo of him and Dick sitting side by side in Tapestry's two rocking chairs. [Text and photos by Ceil Wirth (Minneapolis)] FUTURE GATHERINGS: February 24-26: Columbus (OH) Folk Dancers Workshop with

Joseph Pimentel (English Country Dance) and Leslie Scott (International). Contact anyone in Columbus!

March 10-12: English Country Dance Weekend at Folklore Village, www.folklorevillage.org

March 31-April 2: Cajun Dance & Music Weekend at Folklore Village, www.folklorevillage.org

April 21-23 (tentative date): Spring Scandinavian Dance & Music Weekend at Folklore Village, www.folklorevillage.org

August 4-6: Rochester NY area second ever reunion for International Folk, Israeli, or Contra dancers. Please ask anyone who ever danced there to contact Alene Boyar or Sarada George (they're in the directory).

September 18-25: Detroit MI. At the Marriott - Renaissance Center - Tamburitza Extravaganza. Five nights and days of nonstop tamburitza music/singing, and dancing. Details forthcoming. Save the date!

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