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Ben Christensen in the murder mystery and watching the Internation-
al Talent Show. Everyone did a great job with those
Have you applied for the Blab-I-Gail Memori- productions. I have always enjoyed the dealers room
al scholarship? If not, please do! I was awarded the and finding time to go to lunch with clown friends,
scholarship for the 2023 convention and had a won- both old and new. I even entered the paradability
derful time. I was able to bring my immediate family, competition. Even being nervous in the hallway can
Christine, Emma, Isabelle and Elise and reintroduce be fun!
them to my World Clown family. Attending with kids
does make it a little more difficult to attend every Thank you for the scholarship, I am glad I was able
to participate. As we continue to move forward I fig-
class, but the trade offs were ure the best thing anyone can do for the organization
well worth it. We had a is to be involved. So if you plan on participating in
number of clowns in- 2024, go apply for the Blab-I-Gail scholarship! I am so
cluding Jackie Gar- glad I did!
ner, Jane Swiggum,
Nancy Opatich, Rosetta McBride
and our past pres-
ident Robin Bryan I was very lucky to get a scholarship so me and my
go above and be- favorite stuffie, Vlanders, got to go to World Clown
yond to make sure Association Convention 2023. There were a lot of
my little ones felt clowns I had known for years from sites like clown
welcome. Of course, forum and facebook. I have
it was an added bo- done paintings of so many
nus to have my par- of them for many years
ents, Randy and Karen, and it was wonderful
getting to meet
there with us as well. them. Robin Bryan
was one of my
My dad and I have attended most World Clown favorites to meet,
Conventions together since 2010 when I first entered she was kind and
competition with him and we won the group skit cat- I was so happy I
egory. Because we hang out at the convention, most got to give her a
people seem to assume that we perform together a lot. painting in person.
The truth is that we live in different states, my dad The opening show was
in Minnesota and me in Michigan, so it is tough to do fun, I got to try juggling
more than one or two programs together each year. with Karl Krohne and I
That makes hanging out at World Clown and making also got to meet Pastor Gailey and
memories in Orlando even more special. his cute doggy Buddy. Iit was so much fun to see the
dealer room with all the puppets ( my favorite) and
Some of my favorite moments included attending magic stuff. Everything looked so magical and I got
EZ and Kolinda’s circus stories class, watching my a table for my art. I got so many hugs and my stuffie
kids play with the live animals in the working with Vlanders got nice compliments.
animals class, and teaching my own Clown Comedy
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