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StarPower
2008
Competition
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Hi
Kathryn, I just wanted to tell you I volunteered at Saturday's
Holiday Express event in Wyckoff and was on the bus with your dancers. I
was so impressed by them; the discipline, respect, and training you've
given them were obvious (ok, they have good parents too!). They were
extremely mature, polite young ladies. And then they were incredible at
the event ... not only their always-great performance, but how they
interacted with the mentally / physically disabled adults that made up the
audience.
The
girls were more at ease with them than I was. They didn't stop for a
minute, walking around the room with huge smiles on their faces and
bringing joy to everyone after they'd performed. They showed poise and
maturity well beyond their ages.
Since
you weren't there, I wanted to share this with you. (...and they even
offered to share their potato chips with the adults on the bus even though
the adults couldn't share their beverages with the girls!).
My
friend Cathy has always raved about the experience her girls have been
lucky to receive over the years from you, and the added bonus of being
able to participate with Holiday Express and be exposed to people they
normally likely wouldn't have the opportunity to and be part of the
fabulous volunteer experience that Holiday Express is. I was happy to
tell her, and now you, about what I witnessed yesterday watching girls I
didn't know but very quickly came to be extremely fond of.
You
do great work! -- Loren |
At the 76ers
Barnett Dancers with 76ers Cheerleaders at recent performance at Wachovia
Center
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Dear Mrs. Barnett, ...I hope you know what you
mean to us all and what a positive influence you are on them. On
many, many occasions, the girls can be found doing "the happy dance" like
Mrs. Barnett. That really says a lot as to how much you have touched
their lives in one hour a week you are with them. I appreciate that
you are more than a dance teacher to them. You make their dance
experience more enjoyable through your patience, enthusiasm, spirit, and
energy. And believe me, I know that's not easy every week. |
