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I
bought a filing cabinet today to help me better juggle all the
news you deifiers of gravity send. For months now, I've
imagined it in my office, four tall drawers standing at
permanent attention beside the typing desk. The whole squat
character of the room will grow delightfully taller.
Never
more will I stoop to dig through a stack of paper on the floor
in search of ads or scraps of copy. With everything organized
at waist level, the whole process of Newsletter production
will take a giant step into the modem era.
There's
progress to report in other areas of the juggling movement,
too, as you'll read inside. There's word from Washington, news
from Nepal and epistles from England. IJA members fill my
mailbox with fact and fiction from around the world. It's my
privilege to rephrase it, retype it and reassemble it with
artwork. In other words, I organize it; no more, no less.
Plenty
of other people are working toward organizational juggling.
They, too, realize the benefits therein. One sure sign of
organization in the modem era is money, and the IJA has a few
thousand dollars of it now. It is used almost exclusively to
publish the Newsletter, reimburse officers and stage the
annual convention.
The
IJA is just beginning to grow as a professional service
organization. A tax exempt status would speed the process,
helping us attract donations from juggling philanthropists
and private foundations. However, to be recognized as a
tax exempt organization by the Internal Revenue Service, the
IJA needs a bit more money.
A
Catch-22 IRS statute insists that to become tax exempt, the
IJA needs first to demonstrate the potential to attract
future donations. So, we're asking you to give $25 out of
your good heart today as a" bet on being able to deduct
next year's $25 donation from your 1981 tax form. Ha! Some
deal, huh!
You're
dern right it is! And you can bet it's a good deal for your
personal attachment to juggling, too. Everyone interested in
helping that cause should demonstrate it now. To quote Rev.
Lee Willingham, "My check's in the mail, how about
yours?" Mail yours now to IJA,
Box 29
,
Kenmore
,
NY
14217
.
My
fiscal sermon concludes with that passing of the offering
plate. I return to my file drawer, resolutely waiting for me
with its bulk gleaming. In my mind's ear, I hear the slick
friction of metal rollers on rails, as a bottom drawer
slides open. I quickly pick out the desired manila folder
and attack its contents.
With
its high-tech, high-efficiency design, my new metal box will
accommodate far more folders that I have now, but the mail
shows no signs of slackening. The file drawer is a good
tool, and as a craftsman of print, I'm proud to own it. The
only trouble is, I gave the man a check five days ago and
have yet to see the delivery truck! On a brighter note,
here's the October 1980 Newsletter.
Juggling
Benefit
On
Jan. 7,1981, the Northgate Mall in
Seattle
will be the scene of the largest gathering of jugglers in
the Northwest since the Eugene Convention in 1978. Two
events will be taking place; an attempt to set a world's
record for non-stop juggling and a fund raising jugglathon
to raise money for United Cerebral Palsy, sponsored by
Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers.
The
jugglathon is an expanded version of a 1978 event in which
67 jugglers raised $4,000 for therapy equipment by juggling
60 minutes each. Every minute counts toward sponsors'
pledges, sollcited in advance by the jugglers. The 1981
jugglathon has a $30,000 goal, for which 500 jugglers are
needed. The event will be televised on the United Cerebral
Palsy Telethon.
Guiness
has already sanctioned the world record attempt, and it is
open to all. Andy Swan from
Sacramento
,
CA
, holds the current Guiness record of 11 hours straight on
Nov. 9, 1977. Anyone wishing to try to better that on Jan.
17, 1981 in
Seattle
,
WA
, should contact me by January 1.
Dave
Finnigan c/o Wendy's Jugglathon -
Edmonds
,
WA
The
Entertainers
(The
Newsletter will publish performance schedules for professional
jugglers. Mail them to the editor. Schedules for the next
Newsletter should cover the period January 1 - March 15.)
Michael
Roy Baldridge sent in this performance schedule.
Nov.
6 - Spring Arbor Col., Spring Arbor, MI Nov.
7---Grove City Col., Grove City, PA Nov. 8 -
Pittsburgh, PA
Nov.
9 -
Johnstown
,
PA
Nov.
10 -
Camden
Catholic H.S.,
Phila.
,
PA
Nov. 11-12-NewYork City
Nov.
13 - Woodlawn Sr. H.S,
Baltimore
,
Nov.
14 - Storybrook Sch., Storybrook, NY Nov. 15---Gordon Coli.,
Wenham
,
MA
Jean
Claude, the French antipodist, will appear at the Prince
of Wales Theatre in
London
beginning in October.
Tommy
Curtin and his show "Fantasy on Ice" will be in
Gainesville
,
GA
, Nov. 14-16 and in
Asheville
,
NC
, Nov. 20-23 appearing at trade fairs in those two cities.
For
East Coasters, Francis Brunn will be appearing at the
Chateau Madrid in New York through December 20.
The
No Elephant Circus from New YorK City performs every
Saturday at noon at The Villlage Gate in New York City.
Barrett
FeIker will be appearing with the Hartem Globetrotters
during their 1980-81 season.
Also
appearing with the Globetrotters in the United Slates after
Christmas will be the Fackellis, an East German duo
specializing in fire club passing and tandem foot kickups.
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