Various new partnerships are forming out of the MIT Juggling club. Skip King and John ,Rogers are now beginning to perform together~ and Rawd Holbrook has begun performing with Don and Lana Reed in the Fantasy Jugglers.

Mike Marlin writes that he will be touring with Doug Henning from May 2 until June 25, playing the central upper U.S. and finishing off in Washington D.C. Mike says that anyone who sees the show advertised in his area. should drop by and say "hi."

Don and Lana Reed report talking to Bert Hanley on Boston Common at one of their recent performances. Bert, I believe, is the author of the very valuable articles on formation club juggling which appeared in the 1951 and 1952 Jugglers' Bulletin Annuals. . While performing around and about Boston, Don and Lana report they also occasionally run into one of the Tierney family. The Tierney family was active in the IJA during its earliest years.

The March/April 1978 double issue of Calliope, the journal of the Clowns of America, is all about the history of the Clowns organization, in honor of the organization's tenth anniversary. The role two early IJA members, Vin Carey and Lou Meyer, played in the formation of the Clowns of America is discussed at one point in the issue. In addition to a variety of other IJA activities, Vin and Lou served jointly and separately as editors of the IJA Newsletter in the IJA's early years.

Craig Barnes sent a newspaper clipping from the March 29, 1978, issue of the San Pablo News which included two front page photographers of Craig juggling. Craig also notes that at the Berkeley juggling class they are keeping busy inventing multi-person passing patterns (e.g., interlocking drop-back lines, left- and both-handed passing) which they hope to pass on at the Eugene convention.

Stewart Bryan writes to say that the University of North Carolina jugglers have been more or less organized since last April. They get some assistance from the University (for instance, ~he University loaned them a van to go to the Delaware convention last July). They meet every Thursday and Sunday afternoon by the Old Well on campus in Chapel Hill.

JUGGLING LITERATURE AND THIS AND THAT WHICH MIGHT INTEREST JUGGLERS

Compiled by Mary Wilkins

Donald D. Brown. The Mastery of Juggling (14 page pamphlet), six juggling lessons 1974 Donald D. Brown, Allentown, PA (it came in a boxed set of juggling equipment for kids).

R.O. Bleckman. The Juggler of Our Lady, an adapted medieval legend in pictures and captions. Henry Holt & Co., Inc., N.Y. $2.50 , 1953.

Dr. Henry R. Evans. "Jugglers and Juggling" in The Linking Ring Magicians Journal, February, 1938, Vol XVII, No. 12.

Charles R. Meyer. How to be a Juggler, A Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Book, David McKay Co., Inc., N.Y. $5.95,1977. Describes how to become a juggler and instructs the novice in the manipulation of all kinds of objects (contains good juggling photographs from R.B.B.&B. Circus and Circus World Museum).

Marcello Truzzi with Massimiliano Truzzi. "Notes Toward a History of Juggling" in Bandwagon, The Journal of the Circus Historical Society, Vo. 18, No.2, March­April, 1974.

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