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Newsletter
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February, 1973 Volume 25 No.2
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This
Newsletter is the official publication of the International Jugglers
Association. Editors, Ken and Carol Benge, Hanover Park, Ill.
CONVENTION
ANNOUNCEMENT Ron
Graham and Phil Berube have planned the 1973 I.J.A. convention for May
26, 27, and 28 at the Holiday Inn, 550 W.. Mt. Pleasant Ave.,
Livingston, New Jersey. For hotel reservations you can call the
Holiday Inn nearest you and have them arrange reservations for you at
the Livingston Inn.
. Ron
informs us that the juggling room has an 11 1/2 foot ceiling and it
will work fine for juggling. Also on May 25, in the evening, there
will be a get together at Ron's home for those who arrive early.
R.S.V.F. Ron if you plan on attending. Check
the dates on your calender, this is a 3 day weekend
THE
WAY THE BALL BOUNCE A
recent most pleasant visit from Rosto, the Dutch Juggler who is
currently working school assemblies and stopped off during the
Christmas holidays on his way from Nebraska to Arkansas, gave me a
chance to go through some of my collection and become reacquainted
with the wide variety of collectables of juggling interest. Usually
when one thinks of Juggling collections one thinks primarily of books
and photos, but there are some other fields of equal interest that can
be less costly to collect and can even offer more of a challenge. One
such field is the collecting of Christmas, birthday, and other greeting
cards having some juggling theme. Of course, some jugglers make up an
original card and these are perhaps the most prized. To mind comes the
annual card from the Willers who manage to work into the design both
Betty's juggling and Ken's one-hand stand. And then along different
lines would be Rosto's full color reproduction photo of an 1894
lithograph used by the 7 Perezoffs. still another type is a commercially
available card doctored up to give it a juggling theme. A unique one of
this type was sent to me by the late Tom Breen. The card showed a
fireplace with a set of andirons whose front looked a bit like juggling
clubs. Tom had an arrow pointing to them and wrote, "Look what I
did with my clubs:" Over a period of years, the quantity of
commercial cards having a juggling theme may surprise you. |