Toppers Dance Club: May 11th 2018

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown

Serious Post Dinner Dancing (Page Three)

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After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Cleared for Runway 60E

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Wheels up!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Making the departure turn...

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Neal is the warm-up act this evening...

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Larry addresses the Club, as President, for the last time!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
We have a candidate for President... Craig Colby!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
The crowd goes wild!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Thank You Larry for a job well done!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Our own Uncle Lucky!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Lucky now is #6 in the All-Time Most Famous Memorial Day Speeches!

Did You Know,Luck Is Now #6!

1. Ronald Reagan's Remarks on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, 1982.

Reagan, known as "The Great Communicator," concluded his remarks with a challenge: "Earlier today, with the music that we have heard and that of our National Anthem – I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask."

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1884. Holmes, a veteran of the Civil War, delivered an address titled "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire."

His speech was given in Keene, N.H. two decades before his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court in honor of the fallen of America's most devastating conflict.

Holmes elaborated on the meaning of Memorial Day:

"So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, it celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies in the most impressive form our belief that to act with enthusiasm and faith is the condition of acting greatly."

He summed up, showcasing his powerful oratory skills saying:

"But grief is not the end of all. I seem to hear the funeral march become a paean. I see beyond the forest the moving banners of a hidden column. Our dead brothers still live for us, and bid us think of life, not death – of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and joy of the spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will."

3. Just a mere few months before he ascended to the presidency after the death of Warren G. Harding, then Vice President Calvin Coolidge delivered a Memorial Day speech titled, "The Destiny of America," in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1923.

Coolidge, who often played the role of civic educator, stressed the importance of American ideals and sacrifice in his remarks. He called war "not the worst of evils." He honored America's fallen and Memorial Day by saying we set the day apart "to do honor to all those, now gone, who made the cause of America their supreme choice." Coolidge quoted John 15:13: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

4. In the very first Memorial Day Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, known then as "Decoration Day," a crowd of 5,000 gathered in 1868 to hear then Ohio Congressman and veteran James A. Garfield deliver remarks in honor of the Civil War dead.

Garfield noted the solemnity of the occasion by beginning, "I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion," he added, "If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung.

5. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. delivered another notable speech on Memorial Day titled "The Soldier's Faith," given at a meeting to the graduating class at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts on May 30, 1895.

Holmes gave tribute to the fallen simply saying, "The man who commands attention of his fellows is the man of wealth."

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
"I need a chin strap!"

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
"Did I tell you the one about the blonde who shot an arrow
into the sky? She missed!"

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
We all enjoy Lucky's antics!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Seriously studying the speech!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Getting ready to start dancing again!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Lucky is quite the Master Of Ceremonies!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Gliding across the floor to the Anniversary Waltz

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
A spectacular couple... Hawaii bound to celebrate!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Need someone to carry the bags?

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Remembering our heroes!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Hitting the floor!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
These two are at it again!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Watching the floor!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Craig and Marianne make it look easy!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
The guys played wonderfully this evening... From Waltz's to Sambas!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
The floor was busy the entire evening!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Just thinking of Hawaii and Gary's thong!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Imagine... People dancing close and even touching! Kids could learn a lesson!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Sue and Irene checking out the dancers!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Vicky does double duty tonight... She is also the treasurer!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
The floor was the perfect size... Room to move!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
The reds are really standouts!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Ghislaine and Norman trip the light fantastic

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Mike and Bridgette can make three laps around the floor during a single song!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Smiling the whole time!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
The 1940's-1950's swing is always a favorite

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Keep on moving

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Go Samba Go!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Neal tries two at one time....

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
We had the band change to half-tempo!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Gigi decides to watch the demonstration

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Nita moves like a tigress about to pounce

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Dancing every dance

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
A dashing couple

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
The word “Samba” has African roots as it comes from the word “Semba,” meaning naval bump, an indication to the intimacy of the dance. After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
...and winning the Samba Contest we have... Neal and Nita!

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
"You and Neal are amazing!"

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Heart rate lowering...

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
We checked the time...

After dinner dancing with the Topper's on May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club
Last people standing... Leon and Marsha!

Topper's dinnder dance May 11th 2018 at the Petroleum Club Long Beach

Previous Page Toppers 2017-2018 Season
Page 1 - Pre-Dinner Visiting
Page 2 - Who Was Here Tonight?
Page 3 - Serious Dancing Gets Underway
Page 4 - Comic View Of The Evening
Next Page