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Performance TitleTenth International Dancing Championships 1962, in aid of 'the Friends of Jewish Agricultural Training
Performance Date1 November 1962
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time12:30
Main PerformersRaymond Draper and Molly Mackenzie,
Michael Houseman and Valerie Waite,
Alan Cray and Meryl Marner,
Bill and Bobbie Irvine,
Eric Rowland and June Carloss,
Windsor Hurd and Joan King,
Ray Reeves and Rita Hunter,
Anthony and Valerie Goodyear,
Eric Lashbrooke and Norma Graves,
Jim and Vera Watson,
Johnny Mac and Jacqueline Grieg,
Fred and Joyce Boultwood,
Bill and Greta Todd,
Reg Borrows and Hilda Stirling,
John and Janet Finlay,
Ted and Ann Russell,
Harold Russell and Pat Rees,
Douglas Stewart and Valerie Lown,
Andy Fox and Beryl Wilson,
Peter Eggleton and Brenda Winslade,
Ron Stevens and Joyce Hollingsworth,
Hugh Fowler and Jill Lawrence,
Jack Liddell and Jessie Davis,
Patrick Button and Gladys Fortune,
Tony and Dorothy Lord,
Eric Donaldson and Edna Barnett,
Malcolm and Gwendoline Leach,
Horace and Pauline Parker,
Peter Castle and Doreen Martin,
Stan Page and Beryl Holland,
Roy and Mary Knight,
Ron Briggs and Betty Neale,
Bob Johnson and Audrey Adams,
Dennis Udell and Joyce Brampton,
Ken Bateman and Blanche Ingle,
Dixie and Helen Dean,
Wally Clarke and Wyn Roche,
Freddie Clarke and Pauline Elton,
Michael Needham and Monica Dunsford,
John and Joan Knight,
Paddy Shanahan and June Wilding,
Norman and Patricia Burke,
Bill and Rose Phillips,
Ronald and Hazel Mary Davies,
Tony Clark and Gladys Mortimer,
David and Joyce Harvey,
Wilf Briegel and Josephine Franklin,
Fleming and Eva Horning,
Roger and Micheline Ronnaux,
Wim Voeten and Jeanne Assman,
Walter and Marianne Kaiser

International Amateur Championship Contestants:
Eric Halstead and Barbara Meadows,
Bryan Isaac and Gaye Biffen,
Kevin and Joan Payne,
Michael and Sheila Tailby,
Roger Wood and Marilyn Downton,
Terry Fielden and Sylvia Rimmington,
Bryan and Edna Allen,
Ernie and Myra Chatt,
Alan and Glenice Hutchinson,
Geoffrey and Sheila Baker,
Anthony Dixon and Christine Porter,
Bob Adam and Patricia Fletcher,
John Moffatt and Pam Halliwell,
Roy Whitfield and Elaine Fiddes,
John Vickers and Jean Wood,
George and Betty Pitkeathley,
Tommy and Kay Patterson,
Adrian Leigh and Brenda Forward,
Roy and Mavis Priestley,
Jack and Anne Reavely,
Stan Steptoe and Helen Armstrong,
Michael Gray and Shirley Mullholland,
Seth Thomas and Mary Endacot,
John and Betty Westley,
Eric and Maureen Bass,
Geoff and Doreen Best,
Frank Venables and Carole Akers,
David and Yvonne Osborn,
Frank and Brenda Binmore,
Ray and Sheila Moore,
David Douglas and Bridget Powell,
Jim Donaghey and Irene Harris,
Leslie Banks and Daphne Day,
John and Anne Roberts,
Gordon and Pamela Bellman,
Roy and Maureen Brown,
Peter and Joy Hughes,
Terry O'Connell and Denise Pullin,
Graham Whitehead and Audrey Saunders,
Anthony Etherington and Brenda Clough,
Derek Povey and Barbara Berryman,
Roy Romain and Phyllis Brown,
George Coad and Patricia Thompson,
Syd and Vi Wells,
Byron Charlton and Vivienne Hawley,
Kenneth and Gwen Henderson,
Robin Clarke and Betty Aldridge,
Bill and Sylvia Mitchell,
Brian and Ida McNelly,
Terry and Janet Frowen,
Eddie White and Beryl Singleton,
Charles Ellis and Maureen Canavan,
Brian and Brenda Brereton,
Mervyn Higgins and June Hunt,
Terry Wilkins and Wendy Jones,
Rex and Ruby Pike,
Graham Fox and Barbara Spendlove,
Philip Wylie and Gillian Davis,
Tony Dudden and Barbara Dodd,
Kit and Phyllis Hallewell,
Gordon Revell and Bunty Seal,
Michael Barr and Beverley Scobie,
Jim Nash and Sylvia Walker,
Len Armstrong and Elaine Welch,
John and Patricia Ann Janisch,
Peter Hopkinson and Joan Hinton,
Derek Green and June Aspland,
Rodney Weeks and Sandra Warne,
Herbert and Gladys Thornburn,
Derrick Squires and Peggy Callaghan,
Royston and Sylvia Thomas,
Gerald and Hilda Grady,
Squadron-Leader Charles and Joan Butterworth,
Jarvis West and Jean Brown,
George Smyth and Carole Huson,
Graham Strowbridge and Patricia Carder,
Ron Hainsworth and Fay Coates,
Harry and Olive Bilton,
Norman and Dorothy Bell,
Bryan and Barbara Price,
Syd Carr and Glenys Baxter,
Tommy Gray and Norma Saville,
Alan Barnes and Janet Emberson,
Ron and Pat Shelton,
Erik and Dorrit Hybel,
Joseph and Paulette Ovize,
Henk and Rita Holshuijsen,
James and Mary Megaw,
Mr and Mrs Hans-Rudolf Duby

The Israel Trophy - Latin-American Professional Trophy - Four Dance Contest - Contestants:
John and Joan Knight,
Jeffrey Horton and Jean Hollidge,
Anthony Malcolm and Valerie Harriett Goodyear,
Jimmy Hulbert and Carol Dourof,
Walter and Marianne Kaiser,
Anthony John Holloway and Ruby Renard,
Bill and Rose Phillips,
Richard John and Anne Elizabeth Broadbridge,
Bob Burgess and Doreen Freeman,
Wim Voeten and Jeanne Assman,
Peter Cornish and Molly Berry,
Fraser Field and Diana Gradwell,
Dan Judah and Joan Curtis,
Ron Smith and Jill Stephens,
John and Ann Powell,
Robert and Margaret O'Hara,
Walter Laird and Lorraine,
Val Gomes and Lynn Hayward,
Thomas Traynor and Mary Fagan,
Dennis and Maureen Byrom,
Roy Devitt and Diane Quickenden,
Ronald Ross and Christine Andrews,
Russell Page and Georgina Smith,
Tommy Moss and Prudence Ravelle,
Roland and Vicki Brown,
Alfred Freeman and Lillian Sullivan,
Brian Robert Oastler and Mary Woodman,
Melvin Devine and Pearl Lindsay,
Harry Tonkin and Patricia Viccars,
Peter Varley and Diana Talbot

The Jewish Observer Trophy - Latin-American Amateur Trophy - Four Dance Contest - Contestants:
Ian Jeffrey McQueen and Annette Joan Shermans,
Frank and Pamela Fronda,
David Edward Douglas and Bridget Powell,
Derek and Sheila Hillyard,
Peter W.Davis and Gwendolyn Sales,
Barney Conway and Evelyn Hislop,
Frank Witham and Susan Ann Tarr,
Ronald and Maureen Fox,
Peter and Marion Brown,
John Brogan and Valerie Retter,
David Hamnett and Carole Rose,
Monsieur and Madame Joseph Ovize,
James and Mary Megaw,
Percival Robert Roberts and Barbara Elizabeth Sykes,
Desmond McIntyre and Linda Curtis,
George Smyth and Carole Huson,
Anthony Rex and Joan Woodings,
Ian Casson and Carol Ongeri,
Alan Shaw and Ann Tinkley,
Lawrence Frank and June Poynter,
Robert Taylor and Anita Louise Gent,
John Vickers and Jean Wood,
Peter Hopkinson and Joan Hinton,
Stephen J.Lovegrove and Jeanne Burminster,
John Richard and Maureen Ann Moase,
Basil and Doris Pescott,
Ted and Pam Conway,
Roy Harris and Jan Vincent,
Leonard Thwaites and Jackie Buiron,
Peter Bowler and Pam Peters,
Alan Fisher and Carol Frost,
Colin Mayhew and Ann Lawson,
Keith and Rita Withers,
Anthony Dixon and Christine Porter,
Anthony Wilson and Cynthia Wild,
Alan and Irene Davis,
Raymond Rouse and Janet Wade,
Roy and Sheila French,
Boyd Norman and Carole Lovell,
Michael Frank Spencer and Carole Ann Piper

Elsa Wells Trophy - The Junior Trophy - Four Dance Conest - Contestants:
Michael Bateman and Pauline Pitcher,
Roderick Walford and Marian Slark,
Keith Brewer and Toni Bryman,
Anthony Savino and Gloria Margaret Dean,
Roger Edward Newbon and June Christine Short,
Martyn Goddard and Jennifer Farmer,
Leslie Learoyd and Evelyn Elizabeth Wade,
Graham Large and Denise Harris,
James McVicar and Linda Crane,
Michael George Mills and Pamela Budden,
Peter William G.Hards and Janice Dumbleton,
Geoffrey Parks and Linda Till,
Michael Cunningham and Linda Knox,
Michael Hatchwell and Jacqueline Morris,
Barry Uden and Patricia Howe,
Raymond Root and Frances Spires,
Neville Smith and Jennifer Cockerton,
Glen Boyce and Heather Stacey,
Alan Ian Fletcher and Gillian Kay Tarling,
Rodney Johnson and Vicky Green,
Roger Harris and Susan Ann Pickard,
Geoffrey Minor and June Ambridge,
Henry William Bradbury and Jennifer Rees,
Brian Harrison and Brenda Smith,
Peter Stephen Simpson and Jacqueline Gripton,
Graham Austin and Lyn Giles,
Derek Richard Weidner and Linda Norris,
Ross Walker and Heather Cooke,
Allan Stuart Nicholson and Brenda Whiteside,
John Thompson and Rta Shone,
Howard Paul Ellis and Carol Fieldsend,
Paul Ian Wishart and Linda Hall,
Adrian Ayscough and Susan Taylor

The Lawson Trophy - The Juvenile Trophy - Four Dance Contest - Contestants:
Robert Ian Bellinger and Linda Barbara Hunt,
David Farmer and Andrea Large,
Paul Timothy Harwood and Pauline Bennett,
Roger Uden and Linda Mary Heath,
Paul Ernest Turner and Ann Bernadette Smith,
James Arthur Hyham and Sandra Elizabeth Page,
Roger Smith and Christine Harvey,
Robin Maurice Jenn and Rosalind Helen Lacey,
Peter Black and Susan Whitley,
Kenneth Welsh and Catharine Owen,
Peter Barker and Sally Foster,
Malcolm Kingsley Knight and Pamela Marie McGill,
Michael Leslie Cowlishaw and Lynn Hewson,
Keith George Malpass and Suzanne Hilary Abrahams,
Graham Martin Johnson and Eileen Margaret Spenceley,
David Bridgman and Christine Collins

Duel of the Giants:
John Del'Roy and Maria Das,
Leonard Patrick and Doreen Key
Secondary PerformersLavy Bakstansky - dance committee chairman,
Charles Jacobs - chief scrutineer,
Frank Alback, Ralph Joseph, Joseph Kay, Alfred Klein, S.Pizer, Cecil Sharpe - scrutineers

Josephine Bradley, Elsa Wells, Eveline Burchill, Wim Bonel, Gaston D'Erlimont, Charles Paumen, Albert Schmucki, Madame Ilett, Laura Dixon, Constance Grant, Phyllis Haylor, Doris Lavelle, Anne Letts, Hildora Mac, Gwen Silvester, Marie Taylor, Gwenethe Walshe, Victor Barrett, Sonny Binick, Ernest Brant, Sidney Francis, Wally Fryer, Bob Garganico, George Holden, Henry Kingston, Alex Moore, Leonard Morgan, Jack Orton-Smith, Dimitri Petrides, Monsieur Pierre, Tommy Rogers, Herbert Saunders, Len Scrivener, Bobby Short, Jimmy Small, Harry Smith-Hampshire, Charles Thiebault, Harry Tucker, Alex Warren, Jimmy Wilde - adjudicators

Mrs John Lawson, Peter Morrison - prize givers
Orchestra or BandVictor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra,
Bob Miller and His Millermen,
Edmundo Ros and His Latin-American Orchestra
Set ListInternational Professional Championship,
International Amateur Championship,
The Israel Trophy,
Latin American Profesional Trophy,
Four Dance Contest - Rumba, Salsa, Paso-Doble, Jive and Cha Cha Cha,
The Jewish Observer Trophy,
Latin-American Amateur Trophy,
Four Dance Contest - Rumba, Samba, Paso-Doble, Jive, Cha Cha Cha,
Elsa Wells Trophy,
The Junior Trophy,
Four Dance Contest - Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep,
The Lawson Trophy,
The Juvenile Trophy,
Four Dance Contest - Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep,
'Hatikvah',
'God Save the Queen', (National Anthem)
Performance NotesFilm footage of this event is available from British Pathe (Film ID 1703.26) Running time 1min 42secs.

The event was televised by the BBC at 23:00 on 1 November 1962 with commentators Elsa Wells and Brian Johnston and television presenter John Vernon.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1962/152)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1962/152Tenth International Dancing Championships 19621 November 1962
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Ooxokezyp_MehTenth International Dancing Championships 1962, in aid of 'the Friends of Jewish Agricultural Training1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/9233Grant; Constance (fl 1950s-1960s); British dance school proprietor
DS/UK/9762Garganico; Bob (fl 1950s-1960s); British dance school proprietor
DS/UK/3643Silvester; Victor Marlborough (1900-1978); English dancer, author, musician, bandleader
DS/UK/11602Miller; Bob (fl 1950s-1960s); British saxophonist, bandleader
DS/UK/2947Ros; Edmundo William (1910-2011); OBE; Trinidadian musician, singer, bandleader
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