Sandy
Beach Shag Club
January
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NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY
Morganton Elks Lodge
Open to public 8:45-1am
Continental Divide Band (Motown, Oldies, Beach, Soul, variety)
Light snacks, cash bar, champagne toast at midnight
$15 single $25 couple
contact Robin: rsmorley55@hotmail.com or John johnthomas@hotmail.com
CONGRATULATIONS to our January
Members of the Month!!!
Kimmie Ross, Scott Rogers, Debbie
Hensley
SBSC appreciates all the ways in which
you have played an active role in our club!!!
Free admission and a special table will be set up for you and
your friends at our Jan. 8th party!
Happy Birthday in January:
1/1 Lee Wagoner, Richard Hedrick
1/3 Janet Shanahan
1/4 Sam Reep
1/5 Sarah Huffman , Jim Brittain
1/6 Glen Boston
1/6 Helen Still
1/11 Bill Arcebal
1/12 Randy Bumgarner
1/14 Andy St. John
1/17 Gail Sutherland
1/20 Alan Parks
1/22 Randy Bivens
1/26 Brenda Kendrick
1/28 George Brown
1/29 Richard McGee, Kevin Robinson
1/30 Nancy Johnson, Sally Nicks & Jerrell Wilson
If I have overlooked any member, please forgive me!!
SBSC Board Of Directors Meeting Jan. 20
Time and location to be announced
Membership
meeting dates:
Feb.
17, 2011, Apr. 21, 2011
The Board of Directors meet
following each membership meeting
SBSC Hot Dog Supper and Open Dancing on Thursday, January 27,
2011 at 6:30 pm at the Elk's Lodge. We haven't had open
dancing in a long time so put on your dancing shoes and let's eat and party.
Upcoming Lessons:
Line Dance Lessons begin January 6 & 13 at 7pm
Free to members, Guests $5 for each lesson
Shag Lessons:
$20 per person Feb. 3, 10, 24,
Mar. 3. Please arrive 15 minutes early the first night
Beginners I at 6:30 will teach you the
basic shag steps, several turns, the start step, sailor shuffle along with
style and technique points.
Beginners III will begin at 7:45. This will
be a great series of lessons because our goal will be to teach great steps such
as Belly Roll variations and additional lead and follow steps. We will
work on every step until it is mastered.
SBSC Committees :
Here are a
list of SBSC committees. If you would like to donate some time to
serving on any of these committees, contact the head of the committee.
REMEMBER: It takes all of us to make a great shag club. Your help
is always appreciated!!!!
Information/Newsletter
Committee: Susan Whisnant
Email: suwhisnant@hotmail.com
Website: John
Carpenter
Email: johnthomas@hotmail.com
DJ Committee: Steve
Coley
Email: scoley@laneventure.com
Door
Committee: Sam
and Annette Smith: Co-Chairpersons
Email: samueal@bellsouth.net
Members:
Elizabeth Ferguson, Karen Clark, Lela Duke, Ruby Webb, Susan
Whisnant,
Annette Smith, Sam Smith, Debbie & Dean Freisland
Doris
Shelton, Kenneth McFarland, Jim Noggle, Jim Brittain,
Steve
&
Phyllis Killian, Gail Brown, Terri Lockee,
Sandy Koeze Wheeler,
Scott Rogers, and Kimmie
Ross.
Food/Hospitality: Libby
Burns: Chairperson
Email: libby.burns@ncmail.net
Dec-Feb: Lela
Duke, Debbie and Dean Friesland
Mar-May:
Doris Shelton, Phyllis Killian, and Carollyn Pruett.
Ticket
Committee: Sanford
Clark: Chairperson
Email: sclark@chemnut.com
Members-Leah
Turner, James Bentley
Decorations: Louise Dockery:Chairperson
Email: bobbydockery@myway.com
Members-Dean
and Debbie Friesland, Jim Brittain,
Susan Whisnant, Jim Noggle, Gayle
Brown,
Jimmy
Crisp, Dorothy Barrier
Membership: Robin
Morley-Chairperson
Email: rsmorley55@hotmail.com
Members-Karen
Clark, Elizabeth Ferguson, Susan Whisnant, Sam and Annette Smith, Doris
Shelton,
Joyce Kincaid, Alan Brown, Karen
Michael
Adopt a
Highway Jim
Noggle, Chairperson
Email: nogbog44@yahoo.com
Members-Carollyn Pruett, Dean Friesland, Elizabeth
Ferguson, Karen Clark, Ruby Webb,
Debbie
Friesland, Jim Brittan, Joyce Kincaid, Jimmy Crisp, Norma Ollis, John
Carpenter
Social/ Planning
Committee John Carpenter,
Chairperson (temporarily)
Email: johnthomas@hotmail.com
Members:
Shirlene Wike, Jim Noggle, Dean Friesland, Susan Whisnant, Debbie Friesland
Doris
Shelton, Alan Brown, Dorothy Barrier, Rita Sutherland, Kimmie Ross, Scott
Rogers, Carolyn Parks, and Judy Boston.
After Party
Clean-Up Jeff
Morse, Chairperson
Email: jmorse@ci.valdese.nc.us
Members:
A collection of dedicated
volunteers!
Upcoming
SBSC 2011 Parties
All Saturday parties are held
at the Morganton Elks Lodge. Members $5 Guests $7
7:30-11:30pm- Light
snacks, cash bar, and DJ
All in a smoke-free
environment--
Contact: johnthomas@hotmail.com
All
members are encouraged to bring a snack with a serving dish to each of our
parties. Sample items are: peanuts, chips/dip, cookies/brownies, Cheetos, pretzels, pickles/olives etc.
Food table volunteers:
Lela Duke
& Debbie/Dean Friesland--Dec-Feb.
Doris Shelton,Phyllis
Killian, Carollyn Pruett—Mar.-May
NEXT PARTY: 1/8 DJ Eddie Teeter
Other party dates:
2/12,
3/26, 5/21, 6/11, 7/23,
8/13, 10/29, 11/19, 12/17
Area
Happenings:
Check out these shag websites for upcoming events:
shagdance.com shagtour.com
Saturday, Jan. 8 SBSC Party
DJ Eddie Teeter
Morganton Elks Lodge
Saturday, Jan 15th
Brushy Mountain Shag Club's Re-Up Party
"Genuine" Gene Hensley will be
the DJ
8-11pm
Elks Lodge 100 Finley Avenue,
North Wilkesboro, NC (336) 838-8591
Friday, Jan. 28
Statesville Shag Club's Re-up
party from 8 till 12
"Genuine" Gene Hensley will be the
DJ
Location: VFW Post 2031 Statesville, NC
(Directions on www.statesvilleshag.com)
Saturday, Jan. 29 Lake Hickory Shag Club Party
at the VFW
320 1st Avenue Northwest
Hickory, NC 28601-6123
(828) 323-3818
SBSC History Tidbits
(final article)
As you saw from last month’s newsletter, our club was inactive from
2000-2004.
Our
last president before our club’s period of dormancy was Robin Morley.
Four years later, our next president
for our NEWLY re-established club was William Honeycutt. It was his honor
to get our club back in the Association of Carolina Shag Clubs (ACSC) in
2004.
Remember Deanes
Short who served as our second president years before??- once again he was called to be “Leader of The Pack” for the
2005-2006 year.
Robin Morley stood up again to
give legs (and I mean dancing legs) to our club from 2007-2009. I would
like to insert here how Marlene and I met Robin at Godrey’s
in 2007. We had visited to learn a line dance for a March of Dimes fund
raiser. She not only taught us the Continental she invited us to the
SBSC’s Christmas party. What a great ambassador she was and continues to
be to this day.
Arlene Coley stepped into the president
slot for the 2009-2010 period. She not only
gives support to one of the best DJ’s in the business, her husband Steve (Hit
Man) Coley, she did a fantastic job as our president.
Our current president, John Carpenter,
is rolling right along to promote and preserve the shag dance and
culture.
We have covered all the presidents and
a few interesting facts in the past months. These presidents could not
have succeeded without good officers supporting them wholeheartedly. The
officers served unpretentiously and efficiently in the background and deserve
all our thanks and gratitude.
I would like to share a thought from
the 2007 SOS Carefree Times that was written by Ron Lancaster, a former SBSC
membership chairperson: “Members are the backbone of a club. Participation of
our members makes our club strong.” With this said, I would like to extend
to all our members an open invitation from John Carpenter, our current
president, for each member to give just 30 minutes of their time to help grow
our club. By your participation you can be the catalyst for our shag club
to continue making its own history.
Thank-you
Gary and Marlene for gathering the information about the history of our club
over the years. Much time and effort was given to
compile these articles. SBSC appreciates you giving the membership a
“walk in history.”Hats off to both of you!!!
Happy New Year to all of YOU!!
Be safe!!
Susan
Whisnant
Board of Directors
President: John Carpenter
VP: Libby Burns
Treasurers: Denny/Marie Young
Secretary: Susan Whisnant
Members-at-large: Andy St.
John, Sanford Clark
Former president: Arlene Coley
United We Dance!!!