Upon
arrival at UIC, the fantasy began. The cool decorations in the halls, rooms and
bathrooms helped create the proper atmosphere. Our terrific callers, followed
by our talented "Cabaret Speak EZ" singers, and all those who wore their
wonderful costumes, helped make for a fun time of dancing, eating, and meeting
up with friends old and new! We
reached 157 total participants, 119 full registrations and 38 coming for
various numbers of single sessions. The following clubs were represented:
a
Club | Attendance | Club | Attendance | | Boots
In Squares | 1 | Independence
Squares | 1 | | Cadillac
Squares | 2 | Midnight
Squares | 1 | | Chesapeake
Squares | 1 | Rocky
Mountain Rainbeaus | 1 | | Chi-Town
Squares | 60 | Sho-Me
Squares | 4 | | Desert
Valley Squares | 2 | Squares
Across the Border | 2 | | Gateway
Squares | 8 | Sun
Coast Squares | 2 | | Grand
River Squares | 2 | Times
Squares | 8 | | Hotlanta
Squares | 1 | Triangle
Squares | 1 | *
22 participants did not
include their club name on their registration forms |
An event like this requires
a lot of help and we are so grateful to all the Chi-Town members who contributed
to this success. Special thanks to the invaluable
Crossfire 2006 Committee:
Ken Jancy, Edward Kappus, Matt Hutchinson, Ray Wohl, Nancy Vedder, Scott Hawkins,
Michael Maltenfort, Rob Sierzega and Chuck Pease. Also thanks to Robert Jeffrey,
Jerry Garcia and Grace Wallace, who helped Ray with creating the decorations (which
were outstanding by the way!) Though
the committee does a lot of work in planning the fly-in, it would never happen
without the help of members throughout the weekend - volunteering for various
tasks from staffing the registration table to putting up decorations, selling
raffle tickets, singing, cooking, etc., etc. Many, many thanks to the following
for all they did over the course of the weekend: Michael Brown, Larry Tradup,
Brian Treglown, Peter Kimmel, Saundra Bryant, John DeProsperis, Fester, Michael
Pemberton, Phil Davis, Doug Kershner, Glenna O'Doul, Mike Blizzard, Peter Holden,
Jim Lagestee, Kevin Randall, Stephen Pijanowski, Kathy Zottmann, Pat Kurauski,
BeeJay Douglas, Arlene Kaspik, Kim Roberts, Sammy Ip, Bill Whitman, Steve Johnson,
Joe Kerouac, Ricky Martell, Kate Reed, Rick Simkin, Tom Nickel, Larry Lesperance,
Carl Smith, Julie Lenfest, Michael Deets, Rich Rathmell, Mike Weis, Roscoe's and
CP Printing. Kudos to all the others who may not have been officially signed up
as volunteers but helped with whatever needed to be done at various points. A
fly-in wouldn't be a fly-in without callers. We were so fortunate to have
the wonderful energy and incredible skills of our good/evil twins Saundra Bryant
and Anne Uebelacker as our primary callers. John Oldfield and Kris Jensen again
made a dynamic duo throughout the weekend- what a team! We also appreciated both
John and Kris calling at Roscoe's Sunday night for the 24+ people who wanted a
little more square dancing mixed with two stepping, line dancing and country/western.
We
were also fortunate to have fantastically talented out of town guest callers:
Bruce Hayes, Allan Hurst, Alan Hirsch, Ken Sale and Aaron Wells. In addition,
special thanks to our very own Arlene Kaspik, Michael Maltenfort and Larry Tradup
who just keep getting better and better! It was so wonderful to have so many callers
and so many opportunities for dancing.
Thank you all again for making Crossfire 2006 the success it was. Crossfire
2007 is already beautifully taking shape. Our co-chairs will be Bob Sundal and
Ken Jancy. Mark your calendars now for August 31 - September 3, 2007. Saundra
Bryant and Vic Ceder will be our featured callers. Our theme centers on the renaissance,
"A Gayla At The King Crossfire Court". See you all there!! Ed
Siegel & Bob Sundal
Co-Chairs of Crossfire 2006 |
