{"id":1070,"date":"2009-08-24T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2009-08-24T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T17:18:59","slug":"frye-at-an-undergrad-mixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/08\/24\/frye-at-an-undergrad-mixer\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye at an Undergrad Mixer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1073\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/dance30s.jpg\" alt=\"dance30s\" width=\"433\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/dance30s.jpg 433w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/dance30s-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A note from Bob Denham:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For your edification, here\u2019s the last paragraph in a letter from [class of \u201933 member] Pete Colgrove, now 85, living in Santa Fe, NM:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I could mention an instance of Norrie\u2019s sense of humor. With immense dry relish he would tell the story of the first dance he went to after trying to absorb all my anxiously persistent coaching, a tea-dance at one of the girls\u2019 residences, called a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mixer_dance\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Jones\u2019<\/a>: a circle of boys facing in around a circle of girls facing out; when the march music stops without warning, the couples facing pair off to dance; this happens several times and so becomes a \u2018mixer.\u2019 Norrie, who was of average height, had to dance in succession with the three tallest girls in our year\u2014each well over six feet tall! Well, Norrie would wind up this story magnificently describing how he couldn\u2019t see where he was leading, and worse, could see neither to the left nor right since his nose was buried between the bosoms of his partners.\u2019 (Pete had learned ballroom dancing from his two female cousins.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from Bob Denham: For your edification, here\u2019s the last paragraph in a letter from [class of \u201933 member] Pete Colgrove, now 85, living in Santa Fe, NM: I could mention an instance of Norrie\u2019s sense of humor. With immense dry relish he would tell the story of the first dance he went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Frye at an Undergrad Mixer - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/08\/24\/frye-at-an-undergrad-mixer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frye at an Undergrad Mixer - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A note from Bob Denham: For your edification, here\u2019s the last paragraph in a letter from [class of \u201933 member] Pete Colgrove, now 85, living in Santa Fe, NM: I could mention an instance of Norrie\u2019s sense of humor. 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