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Boots Annual General meeting is held on the Wednesday 26th October 08
Members elected for 2009 were
President ------ Carol Flegg
Secretary ------ Marilyn Bycroft
Treasurer ------ Noel Bycroft
Committee 2009
Kirsty Bycroft
Graham Hull
Jenelle Hunt
Carol Flegg - Dance Co-Ordinator and Primary Instructor for Boots Dance Company
Carol Flegg is first and foremost the proud mother of five children, two of whom her husband and she adopted from overseas. She is also the very proud grandmother of 11 grandchildren.
Before she started line dancing, Carol was heavily involved in Softball as a player, scorer and Coach and is a Life Member of the Sulphide Welfare Softball Club. She was presented with a plaque in Canberra recognising her as the 100,000th accredited Coach through the Australian Institute of Sport.
Carol Flegg began line dancing in July 1994 with her daughter Simone. They joined Boots Dance Company the following week. In February 1995 Carol ventured into the world of teaching when she opened her own classes at Swansea Workers Club. These lessons continue today, still going strong with lessons two days a week. Then in 1996 she started doing some relief instructing for Boots. In 1998 she began a Beginner class for Boots on Tuesday mornings and this class is still running today. As well as the classes already mentioned, Carol also currently teaches the "middle" or early intermediate class on Thursday night at Hamilton RSL.
In 1995 Carol was elected to the Boots Dance Company Committee. Since that time she has remained on the committee continuously and has held several positions, including President, and presently holds the position of Treasurer.
During her line dancing career, Carol has travelled as far away as Brisbane to attend workshops that in the early years were only available to Line Dance Instructors. This was pre-Internet when the dances taught were decided up by word of mouth and via these Instructor only workshops. She is also an accredited Judge with the ACDA and has been very involved in local competitions and demonstrations in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley regions over the years.
She has been the Boots Dance Co-Ordinator for many years, a role which sees her investigating and discussing the dances that are chosen by and with the other instructors for consideration for teaching. It is also a role by which she encourages, supports and assists the other instructors. She has also been responsible for the training of the young teachers that have passed through Boots over the years.
In 2005 Carol was awarded Life Membership in recognition of her ongoing contribution to the running of and the success of Boots Dance Company, an award of which she is very proud.
Robyn Groot has been instructing with Westlakes Line Dancers for many years now, and on occasion, helped out at Boots when Kirsty was unavailable due to school, then work restrictions. When Kirsty was no longer able to continue teaching for Boots due to her new job, it was a natural progression for Robyn to take over the Intermediate class from 8pm till 9pm on a permanent basis.
Robyn has collaborated with Linda Wolfe, Cheryl & Gary Parker on a number of choreographies....the most well known being Nothing Much, Bible & A Bus Ticket and Settle Down.
She was priveleged to have been invited to hold workshops at Boots for their annual Birthday Ball and Workshop on two occasions. As well as Boots, she was also invited her to hold workshops at the last two Scone Horse Week festivals organised by Muswellbrook Line Dance Express, the 2009 Baby Boomers Workshop & Social at Forster, the Easter Hoedown at Coffs Harbour/Macksville and for Peter Heath at St Pats in Tamworth at the Country Music Festival.
She was also invited to hold a workshop in Penang, Malaysia in 2006 and taught in several venues/classes in the UK in 2008.
Janet Foster - Janet began dancing in 1993 when she lived in Sydney, and was a pupil of Gordon Elliott. She remains friends with Gordon (who affectionately refers to her as "Miss Janet") and recently went on his dancing cruise to Fiji. After moving to Port Stephens about nine years ago, she attended the classes in Nelson Bay - firstly with Ian Kneath and then with Simone when Boots took over the running - until those classes folded.
Janet began teaching line-dancing on an informal basis to a few friends in the village where she resides, and this experience proved to be of some benefit when Shanon Dickson left Boots in July, 2006. Janet took over his Monday night class at Muree Golf Club in Raymond Terrace, and says that she enjoys teaching there because the people in the class make such a great group!
