HOME SCHEDULE MEMBERSHIP LESSONS DIRECTIONS NEWSLETTER Newsletter - September 2011 Click Here for the latest Newsletter in PDF format... Then use your browser's "back" button to return to this page. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Dear Members, Our Sunday, September 18, CPBDA dance is special for three reasons: First, it's our first dance of the Fall; second, it's our second ten-year anniversary; and third, it's in the third week of September, which is National Ballroom Dance Week. Dance: For many of us our September dance is our first time back after a busy Summer elsewhere. Please join us for our 4:30 PM dance lesson in Bolero with our professional ballroom dance instructor Greg Sipe and then enjoy a buffet dinner featuring Chicken Tarragon while dancing the night away to live music performed by The Headlinersi, one of our favorite bands. This is good time to renew your membership if you haven't already done so and also an especially good time to invite guests who might become members. The full buffet menu and a membership form are included in this newsletter. We will be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the CPBDA's first dance, which was in September 1991. If you were present at that first dance or know anyone else who was, please contact me at def2@psu.edu. We look forward to reminiscing during the first intermission about how the CPBDA originated and to meeting many of the people who contributed over many years to its ongoing success, including many of its founders. The Penn State Competition Ballroom Dance Team will complete the celebration by performing two showcase dances for our enjoyment. National Ballroom Dance Week this year is September 16 to 25. This is, of course, an effort by national dance organizations to promote themselves, but we should also take advantage of it to reach out to potential new members. If you have friends who enjoyed any of the recent ballroom dancing movies or who watch any of the dancing programs on TV, please invite them to attend as your guests. Our September dance is an especially good time for this. CPBDA policy is that first time guests who are considering becoming members may experience a lesson and regular dance without charge. It is very important that we all continue to renew our Association by actively inviting newcomers to experience and enjoy our dance activities. Email: A member recently informed me that her copy of the monthly email reminder I send to members shortly before each dance was unreadable as received on her computer. I was very surprised because I double check to make sure that the email and the newsletter are transmitted properly. In her case we were eventually able to send a clean copy, but now I'm wondering how many other members may receive unreadable email from us despite our best efforts. Please let me know at def2@psu.edu if this happens to you. Hoping to see you on September 18 for our dance and Twentieth-Anniversary Celebration. ~ Don Fahnline