The Daily Alaska Empire

COMMUNITY CENTER TEEN AGE CLUB WELL KNOWN, ESTABLISHED

Growing out of two provisions of the charter for the Teen Age Club, the Tuesday night Community Center at the club has been held for over two and a half years.

Those two provisions are to work cooperatively with adults in joint enterprises leading to community betterment and to help young people and adults better to understand each other.

The teen-agers have been donating the club house to the adults one night a week at no expense to the adults. This recreation program that adults of the community have been sharing has been on a modest scale but the program has grown into a very popular enterprise. On Tuesday nights attendance at present ranges from 75 to 100. The youngest is in the late teens and the oldest in or near the 80's. It is hoped and believed that the attendance will be doubled by autumn.

The main form of entertainment for the Tuesday night programs has been square dancing to an old time fiddle and piano. Of late, the juke box with square dance recordings has also been used. Throughout the evening other forms of entertainment are pool, ping pong, cards, various table games, and after the square dancing, dancing to the juke box.

The man who played fiddle for the old time dances is Ed McIntyre. At the piano have been Mesdames Ethel Jones, Carl Collen, Elizabeth Hughes, Ray Nevin, and Will Reedy, and Misses Ruth Brooks and Dorianne Barnes. Square dance callers have included Art Van Humbeck, Ensign "Dutch" Batdorf, Will Reedy, Dan Norris, Carl D'Epiro, Ray Nevin, Frank Stragier, and Lester Linehan.

Everyone is especially grateful for the remarkable leadership of Will Reedy whose coming to Juneau created such intense interest in square dancing.