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We are the last thing, officailly we're doing is, we're having a rafle. Itsm from NM and
Budweiser. All the moeys made off of this is going to go to Immunocise and AIDS Crisis Fund at
Cathedral of Hope.
Drawing April 15.
25 for the competition squad plus three alternates. Average 40-45.
35-50 is where it's been since I started it.
May 1993.
Chuck Clift, whoh as been the coach, coach for the national squad,a he has cheered, chuck is 37
now, and he was on four national championship squads. He has got, he's the one who pulledin
the girls for this. They want to continue to hcer. He's thought up the name Mill. 2000. What
their focus is right this minute is for the all-star competition. Doing events they will get paid
for. Situation with Greyhound in April, wanted Cheer Dallas to do. We're going to do this, but
they're going to get paid $50 a person to do that.
We di8d not get paid for anything. Everybody that did it they did it becaseu their hearts were
in it. When we wnet out of town, they had to pay for it, and a lot fo times some ppl couldn't go
because of the cost factor.
I look back and say, my god, to have done what we did is just mind-boggling.
I really hate to stop it. But if you don't have the support and you don't have the enthusiasm,
and you're not doign what you were set up to do, then it's time to move on.
The ppl that hav ecalled, have said we don't want to stop.
I'd say that's a fourth of the ppl on the squad.
Right now, I'm going to take ayear off. I need that time for myself. Literally, ,my life has been
fo4r six years, Cheer Dallas.
Middle of next month, basically everything shut down. But I'll still keep all the legal things,
the charter, etc. Inactive.
With the thought of a pssible new squae. But their mission would be totally different.
Cheer Dallas did their ting. I f another one starts, then they need to do something totally
different.
This is really k/o, the saddest thing I've had to do, because I[ve put so much of myself into it.
And the ppl that I've been able to collaborate with that have been on the board of diretors and
on the squad, they're wonderful, wonderful people
But I'm relieved. When I finally talked this over with the board . . . it just once we decided and
everyone voted on it and it was unanimous. Everyone said, yes, it's time to move on. And the
pressure lifted. I was totally relieved.
But it makes me a little nervois to. Community has been so supportive. And I feel like we're
letting them down.
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Vercher, Dennis. [Communication and notes on Cheer Dallas planning], text, Spring 1993; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc786222/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.