Dear All,   We have a special announcement to make:  we have just been contacted by Mary Thomas of the ISE (International Student Exchange) who is looking for a family to host a 17 year old German boy named Arthur for the school year.  He is well versed in Classical …

Dear All,   Well.  A noteworthy turn of weather, I must say (“Oh must you?” we hear you all moaning, to which we reply: “How long have you been reading these newsletters?”). We are going to have to flip from our summer spiel (“come to our air-conditioned classroom and beat …

Dear All,   Since August is the month that I send all of my funny-bones to the cleaners, I find that I am bereft of humor at this moment.  I tried to get some “loaners” to replace them, but all they had in stock were some mildly-amusing bones with the …

Dear All,   Now that August is well and truly in progress, we move on to the Foxtrot (Wednesday nights) and Samba (Thursday nights), our truly august nights of August dances.  What we teach will, once again be decided upon who shows up. Last month (July) we had mostly more …