In later years when I was dancing professionally, she watched my children so I could attend classes and rehearsals. My mother had a long, enjoyable and healthy life until she contracted Lou Gehrig's disease. She had never spent a day in a hospital and seldom even needed to go to a doctor. She first lost all strength and movement in her arms, then her legs and eventually throughout her entire muscular and nervous system. My mother practiced living.
Life is a dance, to be experienced now.
I hope each of you will have good memories of dance here to add to your life experiences. The Tane Memorial Scholarship and Award is presented annually to the outstanding student. Your support will help. No amount is too small. Since this is my last year here, I am hoping to build up this Fund so that this scholarship can continue, long after I am gone, to help make today's dream a vision of reality.