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Three
buddies from
Massachusetts, Colin and Mike Moeschen
and Penn Jillette, juggled balls and rode unicycles. They
picked up many new tricks. Newcomers to the juggling scene
included Marcus Jones, Stephen Kraynak, Irvin Perry, Bruce
Rothchild, Carl Bajor and Ben Baldwin. Certainly no newcomer to
juggling was Will Brown, who was a
professional juggler and rope twirler many years ago. He was
accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Sullivan.
Familiar
faces to Eastern juggling gatherings were George Barvin, Adrian
Sullivan, Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kois and Jerry Greenberg t; s
family - wife Effie, daughter Lisa and friend Linda, who have
begun mastering the fundamentals of juggling. Some jugglers were
only able to stay a short while, including Phil Berube former
IJA artist, Bill Freeborn, Julius Dobzinski, Mel Melchner and
Mr. & Mrs. Ray Smith. Ray is a former IJA official
photographer.
Many
of the newcomers visited the convention in response to
the excellent publicity arranged by the Greater Hartford
Convention Bureau which included 3 major newspaper articles, a
local magazine article and an excellent TV news spot.
The
following items were discussed at the first business meeting on
Saturday, conducted by Roger Dollarhide at the suggestion of
Vice President Stu Raynolds. Approximately 13 members were
present.
1.
World Juggling Championships.
Roger
brought up for discussion criticisms and ideas for changes of
the Championships that he had received. A lengthy discussion
followed during which it was decided the word "World"
should be dropped from the title which would then read IJA
Championships. Judy and Hovey Burgess suggested that the
competition should include more of the artistic aspects of
juggling and that the time limit should be increased in all
events to at least 2 and perhaps 3 or more minutes. In
addition, there should be specific categories to allow less
experience jugglers to compete against one another. Roger will
rewrite the rules and present them
to the officers for approval.
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