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Folk Dance Performance Group A Tribute |
Here's what I have so far. Please send anything you may have with which I may augment this tribute to the Gandy Dancers. I need the Gandys history and lots more photos. Thanks, Dick Oakes
By the way, the letters in the Gandy Dancers logo (FDP&S) mean "Folk Dancing, Pure and Simple." (Thanks to Ed Goller for the keychain that was handed out by Anthony Ivancich at the 50th Birthday Bash reunion on August 28, 1998!)
Click HERE for Herb & Millie Hueg's photos
Click HERE for Bob Moriarty's photos 
Click HERE for Donna Tripp's photos
Click HERE for Cookie Wilson's photos
Click HERE for some Gandys flyers
Click HERE for a Gandy Dancers roster
Click HERE for a Gandy Dancers performance list 
Click HERE for Gandy Dancers performances
Click HERE for the Gandy Dancers 50th Birthday Bash Reunion
Gandy Dancers at Lemon Grove Playground, December 16, 1960 Dancing: Anthony Ivancich, Elsie Ivancich Dunin; Jim Martin, Melinda Martin; Dick Oakes, Avis Tarvin. Notes: This was Dick's first attendance at Gandys. Marion Wilson is in the background. |
Vince & Robin Evanchuk, 1960 |
Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961 Arkan and Katerina, Ukrainian Bob Moriarty, Avis Tarvin, Paul Pritchard, Joan Pritchard, Don Green, Alice Gabrielson, Rick Tejada-Flores, Nikki Paisner, Dick Slater, Doris Slater, Anthony Ivancich, Valerie Staigh, Dick Oakes (director), Patti Oakes, Al Vincent, Cookie Wilson. |
Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961 Arkan, Ukrainian Dick Slater, Rick Tejada-Flores (obscured), Dick Oakes (director), Anthony Ivancich, Al Vincent, Paul Pritchard, Don Green. |
Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961 Arkan, Ukrainian |
Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961 Arkan, Ukrainian Dick Slater, Dick Oakes (director), Jim Martin, Al Vincent, Rick Tejada-Flores, Anthony Ivancich, Don Green, Bob Moriarty, Paul Pritchard. |
Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961 Katerina, Ukrainian Avis Tarvin, Joan Pritchard, Doris Slater, Nikki Paisner, Alice Gabrielson, Valerie Staigh, Patti Oakes, Cookie Wilson |
Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961 Ukrainian Al Vincent, Valerie Staigh, Dick Oakes, Patti Oakes |
Gandy Dancers Disneyland, 1961 Ukrainian Patti Oakes, Dick Oakes |
Standing: Jim Martin, Andor Czompo (HM), Bill Bein, Anthony Ivancich, Elsie Ivancich Dunin, Dick Oakes, John Tiffany, Ruth Garber, Bill Garber, Dorothy Daw, Donna Tripp, Marion Wilson, Valerie Staigh, Al Vincent, Dave Brandon, Avis Tarvin Seated: Melinda Martin, Linda Ortiz, Isabelle Persh, Eileen Bartold, Ann I. Czompo (HM) |
Gandy Dancers on a bus to a performance, July 1964: Back Left: Al Vincent, ????. Back Right: ????, Bill Stanton, ????. Front: Dick Oakes |
Gandy Dancers at the 1965 Santa Barbara Folk Dance Conference (#1): Standing: Dick Oakes, Dolly Czompo, Melinda Martin, Dave Brandon, Avis Tarvin, Ruth Garber, honorary member Andor Czompo, Susan Tiffany, Valerie Staigh, John Tiffany, Marion Wilson, Ed Wilson, Ed Goller, Carol Goller, Herb Hueg. Kneeling: Jim Martin, Isabelle Persh, Don Green, Millie Hueg, Dorothy Singleton (Daw). |
Gandy Dancers at the 1965 Santa Barbara Folk Dance Conference (#2): Standing: Dick Oakes, Dolly Czompo, Melinda Martin, Dave Brandon, Avis Tarvin, Ruth Garber, honorary member Andor Czompo, Susan Tiffany, John Tiffany, Valerie Staigh, Marion Wilson, Ed Wilson, Ed Goller, Carol Goller, Herb Hueg. Kneeling: Bob Moriarty, Jim Martin, Isabelle Persh, Wayne Gunderson, Don Green, Millie Hueg, Dorothy Singleton (Daw). |
Gandy Dancers at Shrine Auditorium 1965: Linda Oakes, Dick Oakes |
Gandy Dancers at Shrine Auditorium 1965: Linda Oakes, Eileen Bartold |
Gandy Dancers in performance, 1960s |
Gandy Dancers in performance, 1960s |
Gandy Dancers at a 1967 performance: Susan Tiffany, Linda Oakes, Mikki Revenaugh, another beautiful woman. |