Northern Virginia NNVVCWCWDDA Country-Western Dance Association NEWSLETTER Vol. XXXI, No. 2 Official Publication Fourth Quarter 2016 President's Report by Eileen Scott Charter Members Attending Anniversary Dance Wow!!! What a great turnout for the Anniversary Dance! It was so good to see our friends from the past as well as current and new dancers and friends. Read all about our event throughout this newsletter. Thanks to everyone who joined us and especially the entire board who worked especially hard to make this a memorable evening. There were many who were not able to make it that evening. It is not too late to come visit us. We can celebrate our 30 years all year long. We would really love to see all of you whenever you are in the Northern VA area, especially the rest of you charter and life members. If you did Wright Photos courtesy of Bruce come to the Anniversary dance, please Left to right: Joyce Leamon, Bill Cole, Linda-B Woodworth, Bill Markland. Linda-B Wood- come back to dance with us again worth and Bill Markland also achieved Life Member status through their many contribu- whenever you can. tions to the growth and management of the organization. More information and photos We don’t seem to have correct from the 30th Anniversary Dance are included in this issue of the newsletter. addresses for many of you. Hopefully you keep in touch by reading this New Year’s Eve 2016 newsletter and/or visiting the website and will see this plea for you to send The NVCWDA will hold its New Year's us your updated information so we can Eve Dance at Accotink Universalist keep in touch. Please send updated Unitarian Church: 10125 Lakehaven Court, Burke, VA addresses, phone numbers, and email Keep watch for details on the website: www.nvcwda.org addresses to the membership director ([email protected]). Do you have any pictures from the Please Stay in Touch! In this issue . past that you would you like to share Memories 2 with us? Erin Mainey had some pictures Through our website: of the Rockin’ Country Dance Team www.nvcwda.org Special Dance Attendees 2 and also the All Association Dance that Through email: 30th Anniversary 3 was held at Glen Echo many years ago. [email protected] Planning Director's Report 6 Pictures of some of the earlier dances Through Facebook: Search Membership Director's Note 6 and our special benefit dances for Northern Virginia Country-Western Children’s Hospital could be printed in Dance Association (NVCWDA) or John Eastes Memoriam 7 our newsletter or posted on Facebook scan the code on page 8. Board Meeting Summary 7 for everyone to see. Please send these to the communications director Through our hotline: Treasurer's Report 7 (703) 860-4941 ([email protected]). Birthdays and New Members 8 See ya on the dance floor! Through the Post Office: Newsletter Deadline 8 P.O. Box 384 Merrifield, VA 22116-0384 Membership Application 8 Fourth Quarter 2016 NVCWDA Hotline (703) 860-4941 • NVCWDA Website www.nvcwda.org 1 2016-2017 NVCWDA Memories Board of Directors by Lydia Vitale NNVVCWCWDDA The Anniversary Dance was an uplifting event for me. It was so wonderful to OFFICERS see familiar faces from the past! Memories flooded back from my years with the Association. My first lesson was at Herndon Intermediate with Bob Smith in 1991. President Eileen Scott There I learned the Cowgirl Hustle. The first dance I dared attend was at Fairfax Elks Lodge run by Bill Markland. I took lessons from John Gentile at Ida Lee Park. I took Vice President Wayne Herndon many lessons at Buckhall Firehall from Linda-B Woodworth and attended dances Secretary Nancy Vogelman there until it shut down. I used to dance until midnight at a packed Association Dance sporting a "Wanna Dance" ribbon and choosing a seat on the very edge Treasurer Bill Wong of a table facing the oncoming traffic in an attempt to let the men know I was eager and ready to dance. I can remember Lee District Recreation Center packed, DIRECTORS Wakefield Recreation Center packed, Herndon Community Center packed and me staying until the stroke of midnight at which time I headed to the Red Moon Dance Linda Bloyer Saloon for more. There was a Christmas evening that I headed to Blackie's after Communications Lydia Vitale dinner to get some dancing in. Snow didn't stop me. I had a Toyota Landcruiser that could get me there. Membership Bernie Vitale In 1997 Bernie joined in my dancing fever and helped me close down the Planning Bruce Wright bars after the NVCWDA dances ended for the night. He was able to experience the popularity of Country Western dancing and enjoyed it so much he joined the Special Events Debbie Hetterly Buckhall Dance Team. He also became the leader of the Buckhall Kids Team. We At Large Linda Buckle participated in the huge Children's Hospital Benefits run by Linda-B and even made it onto televison as part of the fundraiser telethon. It was great fun to be arrested Past President Rick Humbert and locked in the stocks at the benefits. There were Jack and Jill contests, photo booths and a huge silent auction. When Linda-B and Richard Woodworth gave up DJing, they gave us their The NVCWDA is a non-profit organiza- equipment and we found ourselves up at the front of the dances playing music. tion dedicated to teaching and promot- We stumbled a bit at first. Bill Cole was kind enough to let us DJ at his dance in ing CW dancing for the enjoyment of our Southern Maryland and we made it through, learning the value of making a playlist, members and friends. getting music started and counting in line dancers before tending to a visitor. Quite a few years back Linda-B managed to get me to assist with the newsletter The NVCWDA Newsletter is published and somehow one thing led to another until I ended up doing the page layout and quarterly by the Northern Virginia Country- Western Dance Association, Inc.; P.O. having it printed. I think George Jones (Lifetime Member) was keeping an eye on it Box 384; Merrifield, VA 22116-0384. all and one day I got a call and he stopped by with his library of antique newsletters Initial memberships and annual renewals to pass on to me. I have them still if anyone is wondering where copies may be. are $18 per year or $36 for two years We made many friends in the Association and attended nearly every New payable to NVCWDA at the address above. Year's Eve Dance that was held. As time has gone by, we appreciate still having our Advertising deadline is the 15th of the friends and still having our Association. We run lessons of our own these days and month preceding publication. Advertising enjoy the enthusiasm of our line dancers as they experience the joy of conquering rates: camera ready full page display ads, $160; 1/2 page, $80; 1/4 page, $40; a line dance and the joy of making new friends. The friendliness and the support business-card ads, $20. Email prepaid of our dance community has been a blessing to us and a big part of our lives. We advertising material (high resolution pdf so appreciate you all. if available) to communications@nvcwda. org. Mail check to NVCWDA, P.O. Box 384, Anniversary Dance Special Attendees: A huge thank you to everyone Merrifield, VA 22116-0384. who showed up special for the Anniversary Dance. Some of you came from great distances! Here are a few (now regretting not having a guest book and name tags): Linda-B (came up from Florida) and Richard Woodworth, Bill COMMUNICATIONS TEAM Cole, Bill Markland and his wife Donna, Bob and Diane Arendts (came up from Alabama), Chris and Murray Ross (came up from North Carolina), David Newsletter Coordinator Lydia Vitale Scriven, Linda Meyer, Brian and Kathy Henning, Tom and Erin Mainey, Chuck [email protected] and Donna Case, Mike and Angie Case and two children, Ron and Patti Harris, Newsletter Design Lydia Vitale Betty Duke, Rita Interdonato, Joyce Leamon, Ella Broughton. Webmaster/Facebook Kerie Hitt [email protected] Lessons taught at NVCWDA Dances Step sheets for most of the dances that have been taught are available Hotline Mistress Diane Foster on our website, under the “DANCE INFO” tab. 2 NVCWDA Hotline (703) 860-4941 • NVCWDA Website www.nvcwda.org Fourth Quarter 2016 30th Anniversary Dance film of the year. by Wayne Herndon Politics—Note that I’ve created separate categories for Politics and Entertainment. I’m not sure if that is appropriate On September 17th we celebrated NVCWDA’s 30 years any more as the two seem to have merged recently. Or, with an Anniversary Dance at the Salvation Army facility in maybe history is repeating itself. Back in 1986, we had a Fairfax. Eileen asked me to emcee the half-time show since movie star as President (yep, Ronald Reagan). 1986 was Lady Gaga was unavailable. As an aside, apparently Lady also the year Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, Gaga is the favorite to do the Superbowl LI halftime show started shredding documents that implicated them in selling instead. “LI,” by the way, is “51” for those of you who don’t weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund speak Roman. In keeping with the tradition of numbering the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. This started what became big events with Roman numerals, we considered calling known as the “Iran Contra Affair.” If I recall correctly, their this our XXX Anniversary Dance.