Photos and highlights
FAYETTEVILLE AREA SHAGGERS HALL OF FAME
INDUCTION CEREMONY AND PARTY
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
INDUCTION CEREMONY AND PARTY
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
FASA FEBRUARY PARTY PHOTOS 2020
January "Souper" Party Donates to Fayetteville Urban Ministry
Many, many thanks to everyone for their generosity. FASA Members donated cans soup and other non-perishables at our 2nd Annual “Souper” Party in January. All items collected will be donated to the Fayetteville Urban Ministry Food Pantry. This year we collected 103 cans — last year we donated 91 cans — so we’re happy that our donation increased this year.
Here’s something about this worthy charity: “ For over 40 years the mission of Fayetteville Urban Ministry, Inc. has been showing God’s compassion for our neighbors in need, and thus build our community together. With 4 incredible programs that provide faith, hope, love, and security to the lives of thousands Cumberland County residents every year, free of charge, it’s easy to see why there’s never been a better place to give your time, talent, and treasure.”
In addition to the Food Pantry, their other programs include: “...emergency assis-tance with food, clothing, firewood, serving at risk kids, house repairs for elderly or low income families and household items. Programs provided are Adult Reading, Emergency Assistance, Nehemiah & Find-A-Friend”.
The organization always welcome volunteers so consider visiting them to find out what you can do to help. They are located at 701 Whitfield Street Fayetteville, NC 28306, Phone: 910-483-5944
Website:www.fayurbmin.org
Here’s something about this worthy charity: “ For over 40 years the mission of Fayetteville Urban Ministry, Inc. has been showing God’s compassion for our neighbors in need, and thus build our community together. With 4 incredible programs that provide faith, hope, love, and security to the lives of thousands Cumberland County residents every year, free of charge, it’s easy to see why there’s never been a better place to give your time, talent, and treasure.”
In addition to the Food Pantry, their other programs include: “...emergency assis-tance with food, clothing, firewood, serving at risk kids, house repairs for elderly or low income families and household items. Programs provided are Adult Reading, Emergency Assistance, Nehemiah & Find-A-Friend”.
The organization always welcome volunteers so consider visiting them to find out what you can do to help. They are located at 701 Whitfield Street Fayetteville, NC 28306, Phone: 910-483-5944
Website:www.fayurbmin.org
Left to right-Pat Trujillo, FASA Vice President, Dwight Vinson, FASA President, Johnny Wilson, Director, Fayetteville Urban Ministry, Pat Chabra, FASA Member and Board Member Fayetteville Urban Ministry
JANUARY 2020 FASA PARTY
DECEMBER 2019 CHRISTMAS PARTY
SEPTEMBER "SEA CRUISE" PARTY
FASA June Hall of Fame Party 2019
FASA DONATES TO FAYETTEVILLE URBAN MINISTRY FOOD PANTRY
At our January 2019 "Soup’s On" Re-Up Party, members and guests were asked to bring at least one can of soup to donate to the Fayetteville Urban Ministry Food Pantry. A generous crowd of members and guests came through the door with not just one can of soup, but bags of soup to donate to this worthy cause. Thanks to you, 91 cans of soup and other food items were donated to an organization whose Emergency Assistance program is devoted “to meeting the basic needs for food, clothing, and crisis support to members of the community who need assistance.”
This organization has many wonderful facets in addition to their Emergency Assistance Program. They also offer a Find-A-Friend youth program, Adult Literacy & Education Center and Nehemiah Project. They always appreciate donations of time, talent or treasure.
In the photo left to right, Pat Trujillo, FASA President, Johnny Wilson, Executive Director, Fayetteville Urban Ministry and Patricia Chabra, FASA Member and Board Member, Fayetteville Urban Ministry. Photo credit: Austin Duke, Community Outreach Coordinator, Fayetteville Urban Ministry.
https://www.fayurbmin.org/
This organization has many wonderful facets in addition to their Emergency Assistance Program. They also offer a Find-A-Friend youth program, Adult Literacy & Education Center and Nehemiah Project. They always appreciate donations of time, talent or treasure.
In the photo left to right, Pat Trujillo, FASA President, Johnny Wilson, Executive Director, Fayetteville Urban Ministry and Patricia Chabra, FASA Member and Board Member, Fayetteville Urban Ministry. Photo credit: Austin Duke, Community Outreach Coordinator, Fayetteville Urban Ministry.
https://www.fayurbmin.org/
FASA Thanks the Fayetteville Observer for covering our Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Party and the Carolina Shag in an article dated July 1, 2018.
www.fayobserver.com/entertainmentlife/20180630/carolina-shag-expression-of-kinship-camaraderie-style
www.fayobserver.com/entertainmentlife/20180630/carolina-shag-expression-of-kinship-camaraderie-style
Congraulations to the 2018 Fayetteville Area Shaggers Hall of Fame Inductees
Left to right: Gray Allen (Men), Rhonda Holmes (Women), Grey Welborn (Men), Betty Hughes and Dawn Fleck (representing Posthumous inductee Cecelia Maultsby) and Peppi Masa (representing his daughter Staci Masa Smyth Inductee in the Women's category). Not pictured: Bill Kirby, Jr. (Honorary)
Thanks to the "SOS Carefree Times" publication team who accepted our article regarding the birthday party our shag club held for Ray McLauren.
The article and party photos appeared in the
2017 Mid-Winter Edition.
The article and party photos appeared in the
2017 Mid-Winter Edition.
OCTOBER HALLOWEEN PARTY
SEPTEMBER FASA PARTY
AUGUST FASA PARTY CELEBRATING
RAY mcLAURIN'S 86TH BIRTHDAY
We had a "Large Time" at the August Party which celebrated FASA member Ray McLaurin's 86th Birthday! We also enjoyed shopping at the Chinese Auction. Thanks to all who helped plan the party and donated to the auction!
JULY PARTY PHOTOS!
2017 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Party PHotos!
2017 Hall of Fame Inductees
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Congratulations to the
2017 Hall of Fame Inductees. To view the Biographies and Photos of the entire Hall of Fame Membership click on the Tab "Hall of Fame Members by Year of Induction and Alphabetically and select individual Tabs. 
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Fayetteville Area Shaggers' Hall of Fame
Fayetteville Area Shaggers' Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Party featured in local Fayetteville Observer. Journalist/Author Bill Kirby; Posted Jun 22, 2017 at 6:15 PM
You could find them at dance pavilions such as Williams Lake, Lakewood, White Lake, Country Club Lake and down at Ocean Drive, South Carolina, where their love for the dance was never-ending.
The “shag,” as some call it, originated along the southern East Coast from North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Carolina Beach and Virginia Beach, Virginia. The dance made legends of footwork-artists such as Harry Driver, Charlie Boone and Clarice Reavis of Fayetteville. Learn those six to eight basic steps, add your customized moves and bit of “sand in your shoes,” and you were forever young.
“I will never forget my first time at Williams Lake with my future husband, Robert,” says Rosemary Ramos Haney, 71, who Saturday night will be one of seven to join the Fayetteville Area Shag Association Hall of Fame, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Highland Country Club. “He bopped and I shagged. I fell in love with him that night. I was a military wife 26 years and never stopped dancing, even when my husband was deployed. I would play my favorite beach music and dance like everyone was watching.”
Others to be inducted are Susan Bays Johnson, Hollis Britt, Bob Dickerson, Gary Horne, the late Linda Kay Best Brooks and the late Marvin Johnson, all who will bring the legends’ roster to 225 since 1992.
“Being inducted into the FASA Hall of Fame is a dream I never thought I would have as I had come to the party so late,” Susan Bays Johnson, 70, says. But “dreams do come true.”
Britt, 71, learned the steps and moves in his hometown of Lumberton.
“I fell in love with shag music,” says Britt, who is a retired N.C. Highway patrolman, “and the dance.”
Dickerson, 72, spent 26 years in the Navy, including a hitch in 1980 at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he met his wife.
“We became entranced with the beat of ‘one and two, three and four, five six’” says Dickerson, who served as the FASA president in 2009. “I will always love beach music and the shag dance, as they seem to run through my veins.”
Horne, 68, worked for his father as a kid at the old Steve’s Tower-in-the Sky Drive-In restaurant on Gillespie Street, a popular hangout for teenagers in the late 1950s and 1960s.
“I grew to love the dance,” Horne says, “and beach music.”
Linda Kay Best Brooks found the love of her life dancing at the Lakewood pavilion in what is now the Gates Four community. Brooks died in 1992 at age 49 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Marvin Johnson, who once owned the House of Raeford turkey plant in Hoke County, crafted his own style of the dance as a youngster at Carolina Beach. He died at age 89 on Aug. 17, 2016.
They danced with one another. They danced the nights away. But they never danced alone.
“Thank heaven,” Rosemary Ramos Haney says, “for door knobs.”
www.fayobserver.com/news/20170622/bill-kirby-jr-they-danced-nights-away-but-they-never-danced-alone
You could find them at dance pavilions such as Williams Lake, Lakewood, White Lake, Country Club Lake and down at Ocean Drive, South Carolina, where their love for the dance was never-ending.
The “shag,” as some call it, originated along the southern East Coast from North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Carolina Beach and Virginia Beach, Virginia. The dance made legends of footwork-artists such as Harry Driver, Charlie Boone and Clarice Reavis of Fayetteville. Learn those six to eight basic steps, add your customized moves and bit of “sand in your shoes,” and you were forever young.
“I will never forget my first time at Williams Lake with my future husband, Robert,” says Rosemary Ramos Haney, 71, who Saturday night will be one of seven to join the Fayetteville Area Shag Association Hall of Fame, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Highland Country Club. “He bopped and I shagged. I fell in love with him that night. I was a military wife 26 years and never stopped dancing, even when my husband was deployed. I would play my favorite beach music and dance like everyone was watching.”
Others to be inducted are Susan Bays Johnson, Hollis Britt, Bob Dickerson, Gary Horne, the late Linda Kay Best Brooks and the late Marvin Johnson, all who will bring the legends’ roster to 225 since 1992.
“Being inducted into the FASA Hall of Fame is a dream I never thought I would have as I had come to the party so late,” Susan Bays Johnson, 70, says. But “dreams do come true.”
Britt, 71, learned the steps and moves in his hometown of Lumberton.
“I fell in love with shag music,” says Britt, who is a retired N.C. Highway patrolman, “and the dance.”
Dickerson, 72, spent 26 years in the Navy, including a hitch in 1980 at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he met his wife.
“We became entranced with the beat of ‘one and two, three and four, five six’” says Dickerson, who served as the FASA president in 2009. “I will always love beach music and the shag dance, as they seem to run through my veins.”
Horne, 68, worked for his father as a kid at the old Steve’s Tower-in-the Sky Drive-In restaurant on Gillespie Street, a popular hangout for teenagers in the late 1950s and 1960s.
“I grew to love the dance,” Horne says, “and beach music.”
Linda Kay Best Brooks found the love of her life dancing at the Lakewood pavilion in what is now the Gates Four community. Brooks died in 1992 at age 49 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Marvin Johnson, who once owned the House of Raeford turkey plant in Hoke County, crafted his own style of the dance as a youngster at Carolina Beach. He died at age 89 on Aug. 17, 2016.
They danced with one another. They danced the nights away. But they never danced alone.
“Thank heaven,” Rosemary Ramos Haney says, “for door knobs.”
www.fayobserver.com/news/20170622/bill-kirby-jr-they-danced-nights-away-but-they-never-danced-alone
FASA April "IRS" I'd Rather Shag Party.
Thanks to guest DJ Norman Mills for wonderful music!
Photos by Steve Miller
Thanks to guest DJ Norman Mills for wonderful music!
Photos by Steve Miller
MARCH FASA Party Photos!
Thanks to the Planning Committee for a great meal.
Thanks to DJ Betty Brown for the wonderful music.
Thanks to the Planning Committee for a great meal.
Thanks to DJ Betty Brown for the wonderful music.
FEBRUARY FASA Party Photos! A Good Time Was Had By All!
FASA Highlights at the January Membership Meeting...
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FASA President Peggy Perry (left) presented 2016 FASA President Andy Privette (right) with his Past President's Pin, compliments of the Association of Carolina Shag Clubs, and a plaque thanking him for his service to FASA.
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FASA President Peggy Peggy (left) thanked outgoing Treasurer Penny Council (right) for her service as Treasurer. Penny volunteered to serve as Treasurer a total of 5 times. That is certainly a record. Peggy presented Penny with a corsage made of play money and a certificate of appreciation.
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FASA Party - January 2017
FASA Highlight...
FASA had the pleasure of providing free shag lessons to students of the Physician Assistant Studies Program at Methodist College in Fayetteville, NC to help them get ready to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the program at a Beach Party.
FASA Highlight...
The Fayetteville Area Shag Association presented a check in the amount of $5269.56 to ALS Chapter of North Carolina representative Joanna Nunez on September 13th. The check represents proceeds from the “Fluff Daddy” Memorial Dance Contest held on August 19-20. “Fluff Daddy” was the nickname of Mike Blanton, a FASA member, who died of ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, at age 60. In the photo are Cathy Blanton, wife of the late Mike Blanton, Andy Privette, FASA President, Eric Rowe, Dance Contest Chairman, and Joanna Nunez, ALS Foundation Representative.
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FASA Highlight...
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The Fayetteville area shaggers' hall of fame 2016
June 11th - Highland Country Club
Inductees Honored:
Inductees Honored:
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Women
Faye Allen Peggy Perry Men Bob Horton Larry Royal |
Honorary
Paula Sue Truesdale Posthumous Jean Daughtry Judy Hair |
Click on individual photos to see entire picture!
FASA Highlight...
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The 2nd Annual FASA "Fluff Daddy" CSA Dance Contest, held in August 2015, successfully raised $4,500 for the Catfish Hunter Chapter of the ALS Association.
The contest is named in honor of FASA member Mike "Fluff Daddy" Blanton who passed away on January 31, 2008 from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, A highly successful Silent Auction was a new feature of the event this year. |
In the photo below, FASA members Eric Rowe (Silent Auction Chairman), Cathy Blanton (wife of Mike Blanton), and Grey Welborn (2015 FASA President) present a check in the amount of $4500 to Joanne Nunez of the Catfish Hunter Chapter of the ALS Association.
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Two FASA Past Presidents - Don Bunn and Kathi Baloyot - were announced as recipients of the 2015 ACSC Shagging Icon Award at the membership meeting on January 18th in North Myrtle Beach. The award presentation will be on April 25th at the ACSC membership meeting in North Myrtle Beach.
FASA Highlight...
FASA Donates to ALS Charity
The FASA-sponsored "Fluff Daddy" CSA Dance Contest, held in October 2014, was named in memoriam for Mike Blanton, FASA Member and Friend, who passed away on January 31, 2008 from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Mike was an active and supportive member of FASA and served on the Board Directors and as a committee chairman in many capacities. He was inducted into the Fayetteville Area Shaggers' Hall of Fame in 2004. Mike and his wife, Cathy Jackson Blanton, were a lovely partnership both on and off the dance floor.
Mike was an active and supportive member of FASA and served on the Board Directors and as a committee chairman in many capacities. He was inducted into the Fayetteville Area Shaggers' Hall of Fame in 2004. Mike and his wife, Cathy Jackson Blanton, were a lovely partnership both on and off the dance floor.
At the December Membership Meeting, a check in the amount of $2527, proceeds from the "Fluff Daddy" dance contest, was presented to Joanne Nunez of the Catfish Hunter Chapter of the ALS Association.
Left to Right: Joanne Nunez, Cathy Jackson Blanton, John Adkins, 2014 FASA President.