October 2, 1996 

Dear Community Members,

I'm writing you because you either signed up at dance camp to be on the Dance New England Community Search Committee (CSC) or you have been identified as having an expertise that can help us in our search for a new dance camp site.

It is now official, Omni is not a choice for 1997. If we return to Omni it will be for a 9 day camp only. The need to find a new site this year is critical.

The Elders met this past Saturday and decided that it was inappropriate for us to decide who should be on the CSC and who should be off. We decided that everyone who has applied to be on the committee has been accepted. The committee is composed of 29 New England people, 2 West Coast people and 5 folks who have volunteered to be resources for us. The Elders did determine that the committee was reasonably diverse.

Our first meeting will be Sunday, Oct. 20, 1996 from 12 noon - 5:00PM, at the Purple Palace, 21 Bedford Lane in Lincoln, MA. This first meeting will be facilitated by Steve Robins and/or Jonathon Conant. We are asking folks to bring a BAGGED LUNCH to this meeting. At this first meeting a smaller (5-7) Coordinating Team (CT) will be selected by attendees. If you can't make the meeting and you have an opinion about who should be on this Coordinating Team, please let me know (Carolyn Fuller - fuller@mit.edu). The CT will be our leadership. They will be coordinating and responsible for the work of this committee. It is critical that this work begin before the Oct. 20 meeting. Therefore, if you are interested in being on the CT, you should contact Bill McCarthy ( wrmcfs@aol.com) now to find out what you can be doing in the next couple of weeks.

In the meantime, I've set up an electronic listserv, DNESrch@mitvma.mit.edu, to facilitate discussion and disseminate information. If you have an e-mail address listed, you were automatically added to this listserv and have begun receiving mail from and maybe even sending mail to the list. If you have or get an e-mail address and want to be added to the list, please let me know.

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