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Performing a Tribute to

Dean "Bo Dino" Weiss

Bruce "Charlie" Johnson

Photos by Phil Addis taken at Clown Camp 2023
Drawings by Bruce "Charlie" Johnson

I was honored that Kenny Ahern invited me to Clown Camp in 1990 and passed away several years
perform a Staff on Stage show this year at Clown ago.
Camp. My show was the first event on Sunday, June
11. 2023. It was the last show of the program. I started by performing musical comedy bits
associated with Arthur and Dottie.
I began the show with tributes to Richard Snowberg,
Patty Wooten, Arthur Pedlar, and Fran Etzkorn. All Then I performed a Broken and Restored Dental Floss
four of them had passed away since the last session routine that I call The Thread of Life. In that routine,
of Clown Camp in 2019., and Dottie Goldfarb. Richard as I broke the dental floss, I talked about how we feel
was the founder and director of Clown Camp. Patty that our connection to someone has been broken when
and Arthur were veteran Clown Camp staff members. they pass away. As I mentioned each of the five people
Richard and Arthur were World Clown Association that I was paying tribute to, I broke off another piece
Past Presidents. Fran had participated in Clown Camp of floss. Then I talked about others the people present
many times, and was a long time WCA member. I also may be remembering who had passed away. Then as I
paid tribute to Dottie Goldfarb who had attended
restored the floss to one unbroken piece, I said,

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