Miscellaneous
2006 Dancers over 40 Holiday Party - A Great Success
Happy Holidays from VP Ron Stratton, Marge Beddow,
Pres John Sefakis and Treasurer Kathy Seng Gurland!
It was SRO for the DO40 Holiday Party Sunday, December 17th at President John Sefakis’ apartment in mid-town Manhattan. New members mingled with old, unexpected guests arrived and food and drink were plentiful!
Marge Beddow, Lawrence Merritt, Valerie
Carol Cady, Annette MacDonald, Marge
Beddow, Nancy Murton, Gemze de Lappe, Kathryn Sullivan, Ron Stratton and Kathy Seng Gurland watching the old Ed Sullivan show clips, looking for Ronnie Stratton and Frank Pietri – with hair
Dancing Generations – Denice Pence
(producer of Circle of Friends with DO40, Nancy Murton (producer of the Phil Black tribute with DO40) and Nicole Barth.
Someone’s in the kitchen with Kathy!
Over 30 gifts were raffled off – and eve the losers got a small going away present! Many thanks to all who participated – and volunteered to help with the set up
The Board (Gregg Mayer, Ron Sratton and
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Former dancer – and actress Valerie Harper was in town from L.A. and stopped by, as did Tracy Aron, one of the producers of Chita Rivera’s show and director/ choreographer Karen Giombetti.
Lawrence Merrit, Gemze de Lappe,
Tap Dance King Jerry Ames (winner of thiis year’s Flo-bert Award) stopped by, and long-time members Frank Pietri and Gene Gavin made an appearance.
Tapper Jerry Ames and Choreographer
Lawrence Merrit brought videos of previous Tony Awards ceremonies featuring many DO40 members and snippets from the old Ed Sullivan shows with Lawrence and Frank Pietri in their prime!
Frank Pietri and Penny Worth (Jerry Ames and Kathryn Sullivan in the background)
Carol Cady, Nancy Murton, Penny Worth and
Lawrence Merritt and very bad girl
The Board (Gregg Mayer, Ron Sratton and
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