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BRIEF NOTES

Peter Nicolaus, Utica, Nebraska, is looking for a ride to the convention. Utica is about five miles off Interstate 80 and about ninety miles west of Omaha.

Jan Cornish, Santa Cruz, California, is interested in getting together with other jugglers in the Santa Cruz area weekly or bi-weekly.

Adrian Sullivan has given Historian Dennis Soldati a collection of correspondence with various jugglers and historical juggling material. Dennis Soldati also reports that John McPeak and Dick Francis are both in Europe, each with a unit of the Globetrotters. Incidentally, Dennis notes that Dick Francis now prefers to go by the name of Dick Franco (or simply Franco). Speaking of names, Dennis points out that Bela Kremo's was misspelled in the last issue of the Newsletter, and that Bela Kremo was known as Trenton at the beginning of his career. Finally, Dennis says that the juggler called Dieto in the last issue is actually named Dieter Tasso.

Vice-President Bill Barr sent a newspaper clipping for the Oakland Tribune edition of March 22, 1978 (page 15), which includes an article on The Open Education Exchange of the San Francisco Bay Area and a nice photo of Bill juggling five balls. Bill shares his juggling skills with other individuals through the exchange.

Mary Wilkins sent a newspaper clipping from The Daily Report, page 16, March 10, 1978, which describes Mary's efforts in teaching juggling to the students in a special class for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Margarita Elementary School in Montclair, California. The article mentions the IJA and includes nice photos of two of Mary's students, David Smith and Heidi Martins, juggling.

The March 19, 1978, edition of the Boston Globe New England magazine includes a story on IJA members Suzy and Red Lynde, their Victorian house, and their New England heritage. The article includes nice photos of Suzy and Red.

Matt Stock has written to say that he is scheduled to perform in the Bentonville High School production of the musical Carnival. Naturally, Matt will be juggling as well as playing two smaller parts in the chorus. The show is April 27 and 28. Matt also reports that he recently performed as a street juggler at the Siloam Springs Dogwood Festival.

Alan Howard has written to say that he has formed a juggling act with Anthony Allen and Doug Broane. They learned to juggle from IJA member Fred Mills, their teacher at Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and they perform under the name "Nobody's Perfect."

In the "Brief Notes" colume on page 12 of the January-February 1978 issue of the Newsletter, mention is made of the movie "Telethon" which briefly showed a juggler. The supposition was made that this juggler was Picaso. Ivor Price has written to say that the juggler was in fact one of the Fercos of the Dunes' "Casino de Paris" show. Ivor points out that Picaso works solo.

Russ Campbell sent a newspaper clipping fran the University of South Florida's Oracle from March 1, 1978. The clipping includes a picture of some USF jugglers and an article about their weekly meeting. On Saturday, April 8th, about seventy-five jugglers gathered on the Columbia University Quadrangle for a successful juggling get-together. Jugglers from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey travelled to the city to join a larger number of New York City area enthusiasts for a wonderful (though chilly) afternoon. Meeting organizer Dave Thomson was pleased by the turnout and the large number of spectators. Crews from two New York City television stations filmed stories for their evening news programs. Two couples attempted a two-high club passing pattern for the cameras, but Eric Roberts stole the show by teaching the news woman to juggle.