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The Gandy Dancers
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 Tom Daw's photos Click HERE for Herb & Millie Hueg's photos
Click HERE for Bob Moriarty's photos
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Click HERE for Donna Tripp's photos
Click HERE for Cookie Wilson's photos
Click HERE for some Gandys flyers
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Click HERE for a Gandy Dancers roster
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Click HERE for a Gandy Dancers performance list
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Click HERE for Gandy Dancers performances
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Click HERE for the Gandy Dancers 50th Birthday Bash Reunion
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CLICK AN IMAGE TO ENLARGE
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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.
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Vince & Robin Evanchuk, 1960
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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.
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Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961
Arkan, Ukrainian
Dick Slater, Rick Tejada-Flores (obscured), Dick Oakes (director),
Anthony Ivancich, Al Vincent, Paul Pritchard, Don Green.
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Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961
Arkan, Ukrainian
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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.
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Gandy Dancers, Disneyland, 1961
Katerina, Ukrainian
Avis Tarvin, Joan Pritchard, Doris Slater,
Nikki Paisner, Alice Gabrielson, Valerie Staigh,
Patti Oakes, Cookie Wilson
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Gandy Dancers,
Disneyland, 1961
Ukrainian
Al Vincent, Valerie Staigh,
Dick Oakes, Patti Oakes![]()
Gandy Dancers
Disneyland, 1961
Ukrainian
Patti Oakes, Dick Oakes
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Gandy Dancers on a bus to a performance, July 1964:
Back Left: Al Vincent, ????. Back Right: ????, Bill Stanton, ????.
Front: Dick Oakes
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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).
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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).
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Gandy Dancers at
Shrine Auditorium 1965:
Linda Oakes, Dick Oakes![]()
Gandy Dancers at
Shrine Auditorium 1965:
Linda Oakes, Eileen Bartold
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Gandy Dancers in performance, 1960s![]()
Gandy Dancers in performance, 1960s
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Gandy Dancers at a 1967 performance:
Susan Tiffany, Linda Oakes,
Mikki Revenaugh, another beautiful woman.