* Fort Wayne, Ind., Jugglers Anonymous members Valjane Langohr and Giselle Langohr joggled their way to the 26th floor of the Fort Wayne National Bank Building in the "Hoof to the Roof" stair climb, a charity fundraiser in late March.

 

* Rodger French is looking for performers for a new ensemble called 'The Deluxe Vaudeville Orchestra." Applicants must have proficiency on at least one musical instrument and one or more vaudeville skills. Send your promo material to him at:  Alexandria VA.

 

* French ball-spinner Francois Chotard writes from a performing tour of Morocco that, with some help from children in the audience, he is able to spin nine balls at a time on the contraption he holds with a single hand. It's a new record for Chotard, and he will show it to conventioneers in Los Angeles.

 

* Michael Moschen was the first variety act on Ricky Jay's mid-April CBS television variety special called "Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women " (named after the book of the same name written by Jay). Moschen performed his crystal ball manipulation routine, which ends as he tosses the ball to his forehead and lies down on stage with the ball still balanced there.

 

* Several jugglers ran into each other at International Gardens Greenery Expo '90 in Osaka, Japan in May. The Passing Zone (Jon Wee and Owen Morse) and Ned Kelley were there, and ran into Las Piranhas (Fritz Brehm,Franz Johan and Benji Marantz). Elsewhere in Japan, Karen Quest is training employees of a new theme park called Sanno Fantastic Puroland in improvisation, movement and

juggling through September. She was expecting six months of no club passing, but one evening on the train happened to run into Laurel Pickering, whom she had first met eight years ago at the weekly juggling meetings at Valley College in Los Angeles.

 

* Roni Lynn (a registered occupational therapist) presented a workshop in "Juggling as a therapeutic activity" to more than 80 other OTR's in March in Detroit, Mich. Lynn teaches that juggling is a unique therapeutic tool that can be used with a wide variety of diagnoses and can be adapted to meet the challenges of patients from pediatrics to geriatrics. Anyone interested can contact her at Hollywood FL.