Florida Memories pg.2
Key Crest School in Ft. Lauder dale, Florida. We enrolled Lee in this school for Dancing Lessons, Lee may have been around (4) years old. Since he had so much energy thought he would do well in something that would use a lot of his ” get up and go ” learning to dance and to practice. Of course I would take him for his lessons, and some of us mothers would sit and watch what our children were doing and how the teacher instructed the boys and girls. The steps of dance had names which I wrote in my note book and I also made notes as they were being instructed, so that when we were going to practice that evening I would be able to remember how you do the particular step.
The picture of the class of dance students with their teacher, in front of the school has seven (7) boys and (6) six girls, and I am so grateful and thankful to have this memory. The pictures we save are worth thousands of words of memory – that without the “picture” would be gone forever.
Later in the year, after learning their dance steps and a regular dance routine . Lee was in a dance with just the girls! The girls wore a green costume with white fluffy feathery stuff around the bottoms of their short skirts and Lee wore a green coat and white long pants. When it came time for the recital to be at the War Memorial Auditorium and before the show started we found that our family was sitting with families of older dance students. The ages of the students in Lee’s class were from (4) to (8) years of age. Following the program and now Lee’s group of girls and he are on stage dancing and I am standing and taking pictures.
Every thing is going so nice on the stage and all of a sudden – some one with “poor eyesight ” says, “ that one little girl must have been too cold – she had to wear long pants!” I just could not let everybody think that was a little girl and had to reply, “Read the program – that’s my son, Lee Aldrich!”
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