H. Cubed Happy Hopper Happenings 2016 Business meetings are held the first Tues. after the first Wed. 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. of each month at Cedarcrest Middle School, 6400 88 th Street NE, Marysville. Next meeting will be November 8, 2016 (Election Day). Happy Hoppers are a member organization and all members are welcome to attend meetings and be on the board, volunteer as committee chairs or participate in the activities necessary to run our member organization. If you haven t attended a meeting, please come and share your ideas!!! Calendar Upcoming Dances: December 3 Caller/Cuer Craig Abercrombie December 17 Christmas Ball Caller: Richard Lane Cuer: Stephanie Speelman President s Message Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Happy Hopper family! Our classes are going well (25 students) and we had 6 squares dancing last lesson, but we could sure use more Angels to dance with them and fill out the squares. Students that complete the classes and then join our club are our lifeblood. Our goal for 2016-2017 is to recruit at least 18 new members. To foster this goal, a Student Appreciation Party will be held on Sunday December 4th at Ron and Sharon s community club house, the Glendale Mobile Estates on 64th in Marysville. Games, food and fun for all. Gently used clothing will be available for free for the students. Please consider coming to this party to socialize with the new students, and let them experience what a wonderful, friendly group of people we are!!! Our next dance on Dec 3 is a "Toys for Tots" drive featuring Craig Abercrombie calling and cuing. Dance Location: Stillaquamish Sr. Center 19303 Smokey Point Blvd. Arlington, WA 98223 Dance Times: Pre-Rounds 7:30 MS Squares: 8:00 pm Plus Tip at end of MS Dance See you on the floor! Rod Davidson President
Page 2, HCubed November 2016 Happy Hopper Happenings 2016 2017 Happy Hoppers Management and Officers President Rod Davidson Vice President Ken Price & Frank Rousseau Newsletter Anne Lucas Secretary Tinamarie Hephzibah Nominating Frank Rousseau, Kenny Price, Treasurer Ron James Margil Crowley Trustee Rick Homme Dance Themes Marlys Schirmer Committees Publicity Al Jeske Booking Open Publicity Flyers Melody Scalzo Kitchen Bertha Davidson Printing Jean Raymond By Laws Open Membership Nancy Larsen Telephone Margil Crowley Caravans Evelyn Orona & Jim LaMontagne MBC Delegate Rod Davidson/Melody Scalzo Classes Eric & Cindy Selby Dinner Meeting Doug Newman Footnotes Open Handbook Nancy Larsen Historian Peggy Streeter Sunshine Sherrie Weaver Webmaster Clara Grager Ila Williams Award Again it is time for all our square & round dance friends within Mt. Baker Council to be thinking about who you would like to see selected as the recipient of the Ila Williams Award for this year. This award is to honor and dancer (individual, couple, caller or cuer) within our Council area who has done an outstanding job of promoting square, round, clog or contra dancing. Click for letter & guidelines from Ron and Gailyn Ploeg (2016 recipients). Deadline for submission is February 1, 2017.
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Page 4, HCubed November 2016 REMINDER******REMINDER******REMINDER 2016-2017 DANCE DUTIES December 3 ~ Toys for Tots Kitchen ~ Bjorn & Nancy Host/Hostess ~ Ray & Anne Decorations ~ Robert December 17 ~ Christmas Ball Kitchen ~ Carol & Chris Host/Hostess ~ Carol Fiore Decorations ~ Ken & Sheila Thank you Hoppers for all the time you give to the club dances to make them as successful as they are!!! Outgoing Caravan Schedule - NO outgoing caravans scheduled until January 2017. C A R A V A N S ~ December 2016 Date Club Caller Theme (If Any) Incoming Caravans Schedule December 3 Whirly Birds Craig Abercrombie Toys for Tots Dance
Page 5, HCubed November 2016 ATTENTION ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Peggy Streeter needs photos for the club scrapbooks. Please email them to her or call her if you have photos to share. Email: streeterp71@gmail.com SUNSHINE REPORT Please contact Sherrie Weaver at tsweave@aol.com and let her know about someone that is in need of a little sunshine. Website:happyhoppers.org. Check out the updated, contemporary website to access anywhere for current information regarding our club s activities including the Dance Schedule, Lessons, Member s Site with Announcements, Caravan Information, Volunteer Schedule, Newsletter, Square Dance Links, Contact Info, Photos and Videos. Clara Grager is the club s Webmaster. Explore the Titles on the Home Page to access information you need. An example: The Newsletter is available under Members.
Page 6, HCubed November 2016 and Frank s on Saturday, with a great turnout of greenery gathered from the enjoyed with homemade morsels. the Black & White Dance Thank you to Jean and The wreath making party at Jean November 12 th was a great success Hoppers making wreaths from tree farm. A bountiful lunch was soups, chili and other enjoyable Two wreaths were donated at on Saturday for door prizes. Frank for their generosity!! Scott wearing a wreath!!! (2014) Jean and Frank also graciously had a drawing at the October meeting for five Christmas trees to be cut from their Tree Farm. Names drawn were Anne Lucas, Margil Crowley, Rick Homme, Nancy Larsen and Marlys Schirmer. Thank you so much Jean and Frank!!! So don t forget to pick up your tree at the farm at 10:00 a.m. Sunday the 27!!
Page 7, HCubed November Class Coordinator Report Nov. 8, 2016 Our student headcount is 26. The breakdown of students, angels & money collected each class: Oct. 17: Oct. 24: Oct. 31: Nov. 7: 16 students, 29 angels, 6 squares ($36 cash) 19 students, 30 angels, 6 squares ($60 cash) 14 students, 20 angels, 4 squares ($36 cash) 16 students, 21 angels, 4 squares ($42 cash) The Dudes & Dolls level dance on Oct. 14 had 5 HH students and 10 HH angels. The Samena Squares Masquerade Ball on Oct. 28 had 9 HH students and 10 HH angels and we got a banner! The Mount Baker Council Dance on Oct. 29 had a good turnout for Dave Harry s No Experience Hall 7 HH students participated and we all had a great time. The Nov. 4 Friday Funfest had 7 HH students and 19 HH angels, and the Nov. 6 Freewheelers level dance had 7 HH students and 8 HH angels. Upcoming student level dances in November include the Nov. 12 Fern Bluff Turkey Lurkey dance and our own Happy Hopper Black & White student dance on Nov. 19. The Mt. Baker Singles & Skagit Squares have a student dance on Nov. 22 and the Stanwood Sashayers have a dance on Nov. 26. We hope you will join us at these student level dances to help ensure our students have fun. And please continue to come to lessons to help it s always reassuring to have experienced dancers in squares with our students. Please let us know if you would like to be added to the e-mail list when we send out info to our students. Eric & Cindy Selby HH Class Coordinators
Page 8, HCubed November 2016 Happy Hoppers NEWSLETTER For newsletter contributions, pictures and information please contact Anne Lucas @: raggedyanne27@comcast.net Thank you to all of you who have sent pictures and suggestions for the Newsletter!! I appreciate your contributions each Month!!! There has been a lot of positive feedback for the Newsletter so let s keep it going. Thank you, Anne Please NOTE: The HCubed Newsletter is now being posted on the Mt. Baker Council Website look for it on the left of the Home Page under Newsletters. Thanks to Al Jeschke for posting it. It is also posted on the Happy Hoppers Website Happy Hoppers Square Dance Club ~ Marysville, WA Website:www.happyhoppers.org Mt. Baker Council:www.sqdance.org Newsletter Editor Anne Lucas