The Colonial Crier. October newsletter of Colonial Shag Club, Inc a member of the Association of Carolina Shag Clubs (ACSC)

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1 The Colonial Crier newsletter of Colonial Shag Club, Inc a member of the Association of Carolina Shag Clubs (ACSC) October 2015 Hampton, Newport News, York County, Poquoson, Williamsburg, Virginia Founded In 2001 a note from the club President Fall is officially here, and there are a lot of dances and parties to go to. With SOS just concluding, the final quarter of 2015 will be very busy for the Colonial Shag Club. October 10 th -- at the General Membership Meeting, we will have the presentation of nominees for the 2016 Board of Directors. I encourage everyone to attend this important meeting. October 31 st at the Saturday night social, we will celebrate Halloween and raise money for Menchville House. Halloween costumes are optional. November 14 th at the Saturday night social, we will have our 4 th Quarter General Membership Meeting and elect the Board of Directors for next year. November 28 th we should all come out to the Saturday night social and attempt to dance off all the Thanksgiving meals and leftovers. Isn t shag dancing one of the more pleasant ways to burn off those extra calories. December 19 th our 12 th annual Christmas Party. It seems to me that every year the party is just a little better than the previous year. I think this year will be no exception. The Christmas Party Committee, co-chaired by Carolyn Freeman, Lana Nichols, and Camille Walthall, is working very hard to make the 2015 Christmas Party the best yet. I applaud the Board of Directors for showing appreciation to our members for supporting the club this year by reducing the ticket prices for Regular Members to $30 and holding that price through December 5 th. The entire Colonial Shag Club was proud to help Carmen Rowell s family celebrate Carmen s 90 th Birthday on September 5 th. If you were unable to attend the party, you missed a great time. First, with the help of twenty eight of Carmen s family and friends, we had approximately 155 attendees, which was the largest attendance ever at Two Left Feet. Carmen s son, Gene, entertained everyone by singing You Make Me Feel So Young to Carmen. I m certain Frank Sinatra would have been proud of Gene s version of one of his all-time great hits. On a sad note. We extend our deepest sympathy to Kitty Wineken for the loss of her husband and best friend, Ronnie Wineken on September 15 th. Kitty and Ronnie both shared a love for dancing and were members of the Colonial Shag Club and the Virginia Beach Shag Club. They both loved to travel and, for the short time they were married, were able to visit a lot of places in their motor home. And now for my annual Deejay promotion statement. The Colonial Shag Club is a very unique shag club when it comes to our deejays. I attended the fall ACSC meeting, held on the last Saturday of SOS, and spoke with several of our sister clubs about their deejay situation. Some of the clubs have only one deejay, some have two, and some have rotating guest deejays. Our club is unique in that we have five regular deejays and several excellent substitute deejays. Most clubs in the ACSC have to pay their deejays a fee for each dance event. All five of our regular deejays are members of the very prestigious Association of Beach and Shag Club Deejays (ABSCDJ) organization. To give you a little background on our club s deejays, Larry Black started deejaying for our club back in year 2000, when the charter members first started taking dance lessons. Larry soon advanced to become the club s first deejay, which allowed him to qualify to become an ABSCDJ member. Larry also deejayed for other clubs and private functions and is the senior member of our deejay group. When it became apparent that our club would need other members to step up and deejay for our dances at Tribeca, Jerry Hardy, Greg Howell, and David Miller along with others began to deejay at our weekly dances. Cindy Black became a deejay by playing music while teaching shag lessons, attending shag events, and helping Larry when he was playing at various venues. What I m trying to tell you is that the Colonial Shag Club provided on-the-job opportunities for our regular, and some of our substitute deejays, to become very well qualified deejays. It has been the Colonial Shag Club s practice to be an allvolunteer club, and therefore we ask our deejays to play as volunteers. When you consider the equipment expense and time devoted to our club dances, I feel we should all support our deejays when the tip jar is passed around. You may or may not like the music played at a particular event, but the event would not even exist without music, and our deejays try very hard to play a wide variety of music in hopes of pleasing the majority of dancers. So when you see the tip jar being passed around, please consider supporting our deejays, and remember what the dance would be like if we didn t have music. Harry

2 The beat goes on thanks to our club board of directors and committees - Directors and Officers Harry Walthall, President , thewalthalls@cox.net Janice McGrew, Vice President , htrdmom@aol.com Mel Hemphill, Treasurer , mkhemphill@verizon.net Carolyn Felder, Corresponding Secretary , swecrln@aol.com Lisa Jones, Recording Secretary , imljones@cox.net Directors At Large Sandy Basnight , just1nemore@yahoo.com Michael Guida , mvguida460@gmail.com J.R. Jones , jrj1s5522@gmail.com Janet Richards , no1shagger@gmail.com Committees Audit Laura Smith Budget Mel Hemphill Beverage Warren Crusenberry Bylaws Lloyd Pitzen, Michael Guida, Brickey Hughes, Jerry Nichols, Janet Richards Cards Sharon Hooks Charity LaDonna Finch Christmas party Carolyn Freeman, Lana Nichols, Camille Walthall Christmas party decorations tbd Dance development Jerry Nichols Elections tbd Facebook Lisa Jones Historian Cindy Black Hospitality Dee & Deb Fertitta Membership Lloyd Pitzen Music and deejays Harry Walthall Name tags Stan Crockett Newsletter Lloyd Pitzen Nominations Dee Fertitta, Belinda Gray, Michael Guida, Lisa Jones, Don Milton Photographer Heldur Liivak Riverwalk events Ed Hardy, Donal Campbell, Michael Zarecky Social Events Pat Hughes Ways & Means Colette Quinn Web Page Joe Mitchell The Colonial Crier October 2015 page 2 the music goes on thanks to our colonial tunesmiths October 3 Larry Black 10 Cindy Black 17 David Miller 1 Rhonda DePaul 6 Carol Michaelis 10 Micki Decker 11 Steve Anderson 12 Donal Campbell 13 Barney Mars 14 Elena Gilmore 16 Betsea Kinne 16 Sue Williamson 20 Dottie Carpenter 21 Jay Magness 24 Jerry Hardy 31 Greg Howell 21 LaDonna Finch 23 Beth Liivak 25 Karen Hornstein 27 Debby Quinn 28 Lil Berrios 29 Ron Fox 29 Bill Quinn 30 Don Krause 31 David Puckett 31 Sheila Kerr-Jones Our caring thoughts go to those experiencing illness Carolyn Felder Burnie Williams The Colonial Crier is published monthly for the Colonial Shag Club members. The deadline for submissions is the 25 th of the month for the next month s publication. Editor: Lloyd Pitzen, newsletter@colonialshagclub.com

3 The Colonial Crier October 2015 page 3 Dance lessons at the club s Saturday night socials 6-7pm Beginner shag dance lessons each week of each odd-numbered month The lessons are progressive starting with the basic steps and adding a few turns/moves in the following weeks. Intermediate shag dance lessons each week of each even-numbered month. The subject of each lesson is chosen by the instructors. Our Events Club social Saturdays 6-10pm at Two Left Feet Dance Studio in Fairway Plaza Shopping Center, 1405 Kiln Creek Parkway, Newport News. Lessons 6-7pm. Dancing to deejay music 7-10pm Cover charge $5 regular member, $7 everyone else You may bring your own beverage and snacks (including beer, wine, and alcohol) Elections and Fourth Quarter General Membership meeting November 14 Halloween party November 31 Christmas party December 19 Jerry and Lana Nichols are teaching intermediate lessons in October A Proud Member Of The: Colonial Shag Club Other Shag Dance Events Va. Beach Shag Club Mix & Mingle Tuesdays at The Banque, Norfolk. See VBshagclub.com Boogie On the Bay Shag Club social Friday nights at Big Woody s in Chesapeake Square Mall in Chesapeake Lessons by Boogie on the Bay Shag Club instructors Tom Edwards and Marsha Ruth every Tuesday night at Big Woody s in Chesapeake Square Mall in Chesapeake, 7-9pm Northern Neck Shaggers dancing every Thursday night at KC's Crabs and Cues on Rt. 200 a few miles north of Kilmarnock, Virginia. Deejay Greg Howell. See Northern Neck Shaggers on Facebook Colonial Shag Club, Inc. P.O. Box Newport News, VA Where to shag dance in Hampton Roads? Go to shagquest.com What s going on beyond Hampton Roads? Go to shagtour.com

4 The Colonial Crier October 2015 page 4 The November 2014 newsletter jubilantly chimed the wedding bell for Ronnie and Kitty Wineken, who wed on October 5th last year. Now, the bell tolls for Ronnie who passed away on September 15 th. As posted on the Colonial Shag Club Facebook page on September 15, The Colonial Shag Club is very sad to share that Ronnie Wineken passed away unexpectedly this morning. Our hearts go out to our dear Kitty. May you feel embraced in the love of all who know and love you. The story is on the wall Jubilant articles are typically easy to write. But when we lose a member of our shag club family, thoughts of writing are coated with procrastination until a theme presents itself. This theme presented itself in the musical notes artistically painted on the walls of our Saturday night haven. There are many stories to be told by those notes. The stories, like the notes, have highs and lows on the staff of life. At each Saturday night social, like the notes flowing on studio walls through peaks and valleys, announcements run the gamut from evoking jubilation, drawing out concern for those who are ill, and, in the case of the September 19 th social, sharing the foreboding news that Ronnie will be with us no more in body to dance. And after such announcements each week, we take our thoughts to the dance floor and cherish the fact that we can dance. And we strive to maintain the uplifting spirals on the wall as the prevailing theme. As we listen to announcements at each social, we wonder, where will we be next week. Those of us who can return to the social do so with things that happened throughout the week that have changed us. And we share that with others so as to again get synchronized on the rock-step. The Saturday night socials could be considered milestones on the highway of life. We are never guaranteed that there is another milestone ahead. Each Saturday night social is not just another Saturday night social. Any dance could be forever more one s last dance so make it good.

5 The Colonial Crier October 2015 page 5 Thank you to all our friends at Colonial Shag Club for all your cards and words of encouragement during my Father s illness and death. Our club truly is like an extended family in the way we support each other in the good times and the bad. Peggy & Mel Hemphill General membership meeting will be held October 10 th at the club s Saturday night social. As part of the meeting, the nominations committee will announce the nominees for the 2016 Board of Directors and then will take nominations from the floor. For your Beach Music listening pleasure Larry s Beach Party Live radio show - WFOS 88.7 FM - Saturdays from noon to 4pm. Listen on line at (select WFOS Live Radio). To notify the club about any change of your contact data (address, telephone, ), send an to: membership@colonialshagclub.com Old news from November 2014 newsletter Beginning October 4th,{2014} the Colonial Shag Club will be dancing at our new home, the Two Left Feet Dance Studio in the Fairway Plaza Shopping Center on Kiln Creek Parkway in Newport News Shag, swing, line dancing every Wednesday night 6 10 pm Royal Courtyard 329 Birchwood Park Dr, Virginia Beach and Sunday nights Shag dancing every Thursday night at Mario's Italian Restaurant/Nick's Too Lounge, 611 Airline Blvd, Portsmouth starts at 6pm deejay Jerry Canada Food and drinks available Deejay: Jerry Hardy free beginner shag dance lessons by Ron & Linda Bessent royalcourtyard.com/events

6 The Colonial Crier October 2015 page 6 Enjoy dinner, dancing, and fellowship at the Colonial Shag Club Christmas party Saturday, December 19 th 7-11pm Saint Michael Hall 144 Harpersville Rd Newport News Appetizers, dinner, and dessert catered by The Cooking Lady Music provided by our club deejays BYOB, set ups available Ticket price Before December 6: $30 Regular Member $40 not regular member Thereafter: add $5 to each price shown above No tickets sold after December 12 th No Refunds Tickets can be purchased at a Saturday night social or mail check and return self-addressed, postage-paid envelope to: CSC, PO Box 12104, Newport News, VA All tickets must be paid for before the Christmas party. Contacts: Carolyn Freeman Lana Nichols Camille Walthall To see what s happening at Two Left Feet Dance studio go to twoleftfeetdancestudio.net at the Banque October 18 th Ocean Breeze band November 8 th The Carolina Breakers November 22 nd The Main Event band December 6 th The Entertainers December 13 th Ocean Breeze band The Banque 1849 East Little Creek Road, Norfolk