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Gateway St (619) 469-7133 Evelyn George (310) 202-6166 Beverly Barr SAN DIEGO, Balboa Park, WEST L.A., Brockton School Casa del Prado room 206 St Scene 1309 Armacost Ave DESERT INT’L FOLK DANCERS Volume 40, No. 1 Tue 7:30-9:30 SAN DIEGO FOLK DANCERS (760)327-8684 Dwight Fine February 2006 WEST VALLEY FOLK DANCERS (760)342-1297 Helen Smith Mon 7:30-9:30 Fri 7:15-10:00 PALM SPRINGS, Step By Step Dance (858) 571-2730 Kin Ho Editor’s Corner (818) 368-1957 Jill Michtom Studio 316 N. Palm Canyon SAN DIEGO, Balboa Park Club, "Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never CANOGA PARK, Senior Center Balboa Park 7326 Jordan Ave be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's FOLK DANCE CENTER heaven on earth." – William Purkey. SAN PEDRO KOLO DANCERS Every Evening Call for Schedule. Three prominent members of our folk dance WESTCHESTER LARIATS (619) 281-5656 Mon 7:30-9:30 Mon 3:30-9:00 SAN DIEGO, 4569 30th Street (310) 832-1074 Pauline Klak community have passed away since December. I knew (310) 645-5078 Ann Stenglein SAN PEDRO, Dalmatian-American each of them for over 25 years. Their passing reminds Richard D. "Dick" Crum was born in the United LOS ANGELES, Westchester FOLK DANCE CLASS Club, 1639 S Palos Verdes St. me to dance, and love, and sing, and live, every day to States of German-Irish extraction and was raised in a Methodist Church, 8065 Emerson Mon 10-11:30am Wed 10:15-11:45am its fullest. Romanian neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, where (310) 652-8706 Tikva Mason SANTA BARBARA Dick Crum – master teacher, historian, linguist and WESTWOOD CO-OP he attended school at the Romanian church. He was L.A. Robertson Rec Ctr. 1641 Preuss BALKAN FOLK DANCERS humorist.