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13th
Annual James Dean Fans Weekend Jeopardy Contest
July 24, 2010
Panel after the game. Gamemaster Lenny in blue tie.
Joe Crace from Arkansas and Donna Copple from Greentown and in
back, Shirley and Bill Blakeney from Fairmount.
Donna Copple bakes these wonderful cookies for the whole group
every Jeopardy event. Lenny poses with Jimmy.
Actor Roger Tappan working on the details. Katerina in a
shirt embellished by Lenny.
Pam Crawford, Arkansas, President of the Fan Club.
Top prelim winner for the panel position, Doug Hemmer, Chicago.
Panelist Mary Emmerick, Chicago, when she arrived with
Shayne, Fairmount, , son of Jayne who was Jimmy's classmate. Sue
Pelletier, Fairmount, (in black shirt) is in charge of game
scoring and grading the preliminary test and much more.
Doug Hemmer, Mary Emmerick and Sandra Weinhardt cracking up over
what we don't know or can't think of under pressure. We probably
had the most questions ever with which we all three sat slack
jawed, silent and embarrassed. But we wouldn't trade that
experience for anything! At least the pace kept us from
drooling.
I really freaked when I won the contest. I thought I must be
dreaming. I am still walking on air. I join a distinguished,
small group listed at the bottom of this page.
Also, the
1998
Jeopardy-style contest shows Mark Kinnaman making the same
face, which I called "he swallowed a goat," when he won!
Maribeth Vaughn interviews Mark Kinnaman of Fairmount for her
article in the Marion Chronicle.
Mark writes the preliminary test. He has won three different
years, so is ineligible to play again.
Maribeth enjoys Phil Zeigler, Fairmount. Phil moved to Fairmount
from the east coast because of his love for Jimmy's memory.
Bill Weinhardt of West Lafayette drove a panelist to the wonderful
weekend. He took some of these pictures.
Jon Tucker and Nancy Allen are very active in Main Street
Fairmount,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Main-Street-Fairmount-Indiana/190037074598.
They also own a
cool
antiques shop with brother
Tony Tucker and Mom Tucker, at the one traffic light in downtown
Fairmount. They work in Haunted Houses in their spare time!
Lenny, happy. It's over for another year, but he begins
making up hard questions right after this weekend ends!
Don Davis from Fairmount, wincing from my flash, and Doug from
Illinois, a loyal fan.
Pam Crawford's fine husband with deservedly spoiled, famous
James Dean
Remembered fan club mascot Molly.
A whole fan family came to town for the weekend activities.
Bill and Shirley Blakeney and Donna Copple.
A Dean clock donated by David Loehr of the James Dean Gallery for
our silent auction. Linda LeVine donated many items and Pam
Crawford did too. The money raised helps pay our enormous
color ink bill for printing the DeanZine fan magazine, the finest
in the land. It's a bargain to receive, with unbelievable
hours of work behind every issue. Thank you, Pam and Sue,
Phil, Kip Brown and all the rest of the writers.
In the gray hat, Mark Kinnaman, extraordinary fan, Fairmount, and
Gypsy Lujin, Fort Wayne, a dance contestant in September festivals
and tattoo artist extraordinaire. Gypsy is Mark's bodyguard,
and mine. See, bad things don't happen to us! Gypsy
has a band and a tattoo parlor in Fort Wayne. He did Mark
Kinnaman's tattoo of James Dean. Read more about Gypsy on
the banquet page.
The awe, shock, horror and hilarity of this year's questions about
did us in. Owww, we coulda hadda V-8! It's so hard to
think of the answer even when you know it well, just because of
the pressure of the game. But you know we will treasure
every minute forever. Here, Doug and Mary decide how much to wager
on the final Jeopardy question. The category was "Fairmount
High School."
Other categories were props used in Dean movies, real names of
actors, scrambled words, colors of clothing in the movies, names
of characters in the movies, states connected to Dean events,
hotels associated with Dean events, songs, names of Dean-involved
people with a common initial in their names, and more.
One thing we lucked out on this year was spelling. We didn't have
to do any! Next year there will be all new categories, as we
do each year.
Now see how good we all look, cleaned up for the
2010 unusual Film Festival and Banquet.
Past Jeopardy Winners and Panelists
1998, Mark Kinnaman won.
I've lost the pages for the rest of it.
1999, Del Ray won, Joe Schulte and Mark
Kinnaman.
2000, Mark Kinnaman won, Christy Pulley
and Scott Purdy.
2001, Mark Kinnaman won, ( therefore he is
"retired" from further competition.)
2002, Curt Whirl won, Pam Crawford and
Jesse Dillinger.
2003, ? Do you know? Tell me!
secop@parlorcity.com
2004, Debbie Collinson won, Del Ray and
Freddie Boles.
2005, Jesse Dillinger won, George Krantz
and Linda LeVine.
2006, Linda LeVine won, Debbie Collinson
Boles on her honeymoon,
2007, Linda LeVine won, Lizzy Truman and
Joe Crace.
2008, Crystal Poole won, Lizzy Truman, Joe
Crace.
2009, Marlin Wilson won, Crystal Poole and
Donna Copple.
2010, Sandra Weinhardt won, Mary Emmerick
and Professor Kurt Hemmer.
If you have already seen the 2010 banquet pictures, my www.deaners.net has a hundred more Dean pages. Don't miss a one!
Pictures of panel are by William Weinhardt. Want to read his ham radio columns ?
James Dean 2010 Birthday Weekend
Dance
photos are ready here!
How to find
Jimmy's mother's grave in Marion, Indiana, updated
MORE EVENTS FOR 2010
35th Annual James Dean Festival
September 24 - 26
James Dean Memorial Service
September 30
For Information Call: (765)
948-3326
taken from David Loehr's website,
www.jamesdeangallery.com
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