Updated January 14, 2004 URL is www.tentativetimes.net/dean/03fest/dance03.html
Updated January 14, 2004
URL is
www.tentativetimes.net/dean/03fest/dance03.html
James Dean Festival Dance Contest
September 2003
Fairmount, Indiana
The Dancers
Just show up at the stage, sign your name before the contest starts, and you too can be featured on the internet forever! No charge to enter. The contest is on the last full weekend in September on Saturday night.
Garnering first place in slow and fast dancing, this Fairmount grad and his date
made the crowd scream for them to win! Cheers for Rob Arbuckle
and Betty Milger!
Rob is a Fairmount High School graduate.
Dave Pope
and his daughter Randa won trophies and were so happy that they bought
the Quaker Inn eatery and moved up here from Blanco, Texas. Mr. Pope
cooks, his wife runs the restaurant and Randa waitresses when she isn't in high
school. Photos coming soon.
The Bopper wants
to thank this next couple.
Dan
and Diana Taylor of Hagerstown, Indiana danced every dance for two
hours in the afternoon. They hadn't known there would be a dance contest
in the evening. The crowd urged them to enter it, so they stayed around and did
enter it. They left with trophies! They were a great addition. Can
you imagine even being able to stand up in those high heels?
Melanie Thimnes and Mindy Owens, the happiest two girls at the
festival set an example for everyone. Let us all be this cheery all year!
They love dancing and entertained like professional dancers.
If this is couple #123, it's Tony and
Sharon Meredith from Wabash, Indiana. Cute, cute, cute!
Joyce Mitchell and Rudy Wilson
from Indianapolis knew all the steps and moves!
Betty Milger put a lot of
work into this great costume.
No photo available of Bailey and his mom Ericka McCord of central Indiana. But see Bailey in the Junior lookalike contest. (Link is in index.)
Judges and Their Friends
Fans in the Audience
Naomi Yamada comes yearly, from Japan.
LINKS OUT
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