The Royal Palm DanceSport Championships NQE & WDSF Open is a very successful, exciting, and fun annual event! The Competition – now in its 17th year, sponsored by the USA Dance, Royal Palm Chapter, is now a USA Dance National Qualifying Event, which includes WDSF Open Events, and divisions for Amateurs, Pro/Am, Collegiate, and Professionals. It attracts hundreds of excellent dancers and spectators from Florida, around the U.S., Canada, and the World.
We are grateful to our many dedicated volunteers who form our annual Volunteer Organizing Team and help make this event happen each year. They do a remarkable job, as illustrated by the many Comments of praise we receive from participants in the Competition each year. In addition, our volunteers become a wonderful “Circle of Friends.”
Our 2019 Volunteer Organizing Team for our
February 9, 2019 Royal Palm DanceSport Championships NQE & WDSF Open:
for our Royal Palm DanceSport Championships NQE and WDSF Open on February 9, 2019:
Co-Chair, Organizing Committee: Lee Fox
Competition Registrars & O2cm Managers: Connie Barnhart Koontz Dave Koontz
Competition Heating, Schedule & Program: Connie Barnhart Koontz
Onsite Registration: Sterling Sightler
Deck Captain: Paula Mendelsohn
Assistant Deck Captain & Support for Competitors: Linda Miller Autumn Nikirk
Competitor Package Assembly: Connie Barnhart Koontz Dave Koontz
Reception/ Competitor Check-in: Millie Ledoux Sterling Sightler Linda Miller Patti MacDonald
with help from Members of Logistics Team
Collegiate Outreach & FAU Team Sponsor: Carolyne New
Support for Judges: Marcia Miller Al Guzzi Dave Koontz Syrus Partian
Ernie Arcaro & Logistics Team
Logistics Director: Ernie Arcaro
Logistics Team:
(Alphabetical order)
Ernie Arcaro, Bee Behar, Elizabeth Coldren, Matthew Dindial, Rita Ferraraccio, Real Forget, Jill Fragale,
Steven Goldstein, Susan Horowitz, Tammy Light, Marcia Miller, Rosalie Monte, Syrus Partian, Nancy Price,
Roni Sarvas, Jo Ann Scali, Ann Smith, Sheila Smith, Lou Stojanov, Angela Territo, Aileen Waech
Spectator Ticket Sales & Seating: Terry O’Donnell Ernie Arcaro Angela Territo Susan Horowitz
Ann Smith Sheila Smith
Set Up & Take Down (part of Logistics): Advisors: Les & Patti MacDonald John Rannella
Ernie Arcaro Aileen Waech Syrus Partian Other members of Logistics Team
Grants & Scholarships Fundraising: Connie Barnhart Koontz Crystal S.H. Wong, CPA Our Whole Board
Awards: Connie Barnhart Koontz Crystal S.H. Wong, CPA
Awards Platform: Millie Ledoux Robert Kassover
Computers & Electronic Equipment: Dave Koontz Scrutineer, Daniel Dilley
Food Arrangements:
Connie Barnhart Koontz Goldcoast Ballroom Ernie Arcaro Logistics Team
Hotel Arrangements, Vendor Arrangements & Shuttle Arrangements: Connie Barnhart Koontz
Promotion & Communications: Connie Barnhart Koontz Dave Koontz
Our Entire Board & Competition Advisory Committee
Competition Webmasters: Connie and Dave Koontz
(Competition website – www.RoyalPalmDancesport.org)
Chapter Webmaster: Marius Ungureanu
(Chapter website – www.USADance-RoyalPalm.org)
Chapter Newsletter: Terry O’Donnell
Chapter Photographer: Lee Ranger
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To Volunteer:
If you want to be part of the camaraderie of this great Team of volunteers and volunteer to join our 2020 Volunteer Organizing Team, e-mail the Organizer at Organizer@royalpalmdancesport.org.
Or simply fill out the Form below, and click “Send” at the bottom:
Offer to Volunteer/ Application to Join 2020 Volunteer Organizing Team
Thank you for your Offer to join the 2020 Volunteer Organizing Team for the Royal Palm DanceSport Championships NQE & WDSF Open Competition!
We will get back to you as soon as possible.
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Why Volunteer to Help, and Become a Member of
our 2020 Volunteer Organizing Team?
• In addition to the reward of being a part of the Team producing such a beautiful and well received event,
• Benefits We Give Back:
In recognition and gratitude for our wonderful Volunteers, the Royal Palm Chapter will provide to each of our Volunteers who are members of our 2020 Volunteer Organizing Team and help at the Competition:
- Free Admission to the 2020 Competition, All Day and All Evening (wearing a “Volunteer/ Staff” Badge) on the day on which you volunteer .
- Free Lunch, if you work through that lunch period and work at least 6 hours that day.
- Free Buffet Dinner at the Saturday Evening Session of the Competition, if you work at least 8 hours on Saturday!
- Free Admission to one of our first three monthly Chapter Social Dances after the Competition (your choice).
- Recognition with gratitude at the Competition, at our Chapter Dances following the Competition, and listing as a Member of the 2020 Volunteer Organizing Team in the Competition Program, on this website, and in our Chapter Newsletter.
• Have Fun and Be Part of a Great Circle of Friends. Our volunteers have a great time socializing, watching the amazing dancing we see each year, or performing and competing themselves. As someone said, “Dancers are the nicest people, and the most energetic, engaging, and fun friends!” Whoever said that was right!
Volunteer to help with the Competition and become a member of our 2020 Volunteer Organizing Team! It is great fun to be part of this amazing Team of friends!
• The Services You Donate are Tax-Deductible at “Fair Market Value” In addition, services and items donated to USA Dance, Inc. are tax deductible at their fair market value, as USA Dance, Inc. is qualified as a charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Tax Code. If you volunteer, you can request a Donation Receipt for your hours of service, for your tax records. (The Internal Revenue Code places the responsibility for estimating the value of services or items donated upon the donor rather than the organization receiving the gift. The IRS advises that “fair market value” is interpreted as the price which a buyer is willing to pay and the seller is willing to accept, when the two are independent and dealing at arm’s length.)
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What Can you Do to Help, as a Member of our 2020 Volunteer Organizing Team?
Among the tasks with which we need volunteer help for the Competition are the following:
- Registration Desk — Works with Registrar to ensure all couples are properly registered for competition event.
- Ticket Seller — Sells any tickets remaining on competition weekend and helps with selling programs etc.
- Door Attendant — Checks audience tickets at entrance to ballroom.
- Ushers –Assists guests in finding their assigned seats.
- Clerical Help — Helps with printing programs, labeling tickets & reserved tables, stuffing Registration packets, and other clerical and secretarial tasks.
- Hospitality — Helps with membership issues and answering questions about USA Dance, and welcoming and assisting competitors and guests at the Competition.
- Support for Judges — Keeps the Judges’ tables & area clean and makes sure that the snacks are out and replenished.
- Floater — Someone who wants to do a little of everything.
- Logistics & Setup/Take-Down — (always need people in this area) Looking for super volunteers who can take initiative but are team players, willing to work, do what needs to be done, and have fun! If you help set up (Thursday) or take down (Saturday at end of the Competition) you will receive, not just one, but two free admission tickets to our next USA Dance monthly dances following the Competition.
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