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All right. So. You were going to mention and you didn't mention it how we met. Okay. I don't know if you want to bring that up. I'll probably talk about that in the script. Are we running? Yeah. Once again, tell me about the competition. Competition was in 1986. I entered with two other people, a national crystal light, a robot championship. And we won the Northeast region. We competed up in New York. And from there we were sent out to California to compete. Then the National Crystal Light Aerobics Championship and we were on the national television show. So if you won the major champion and I was a Northeast champion, regional champion, amateur. Thank you. Thank you. Come in. Let's give the devil or do. Right. Your champion and. Yes. And how many how many aerobics champions like yourself are there in the area? I mean, are there a lot from our area? Yeah. No. 1 to 1050. Probably in this area. Maybe in Maryland? No, but in D.C.. No, no. In Maryland. In Baltimore? No. Not from Baltimore. What? No championship? No. Just. You're the only champion. What am I, two partners? So, I mean, that's a big deal. And as far as the Baltimore area, you are the champion Aerobics. What? Crystal light. Regional. National. No. Crystal light regional champion. But is aerobics about what is called aerobics or any special kind of aerobics? Well, you have to do certain things. You have to do a certain amount of pushups or mental high kicks. So in other words, what you are then you are the regional champion. That's great. Aerobics. 1986, 1986, 1987 I entered again and we came in second. So you won the championship in 1980? That's correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865#t=0.33,142.32"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865/transcript/71645/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They. You're nowhere near the age to retire. But what's in the future for you? I'm going back to school. Went back to school. To check our plan to take up assistant physical therapy. Q You're going to get a degree. Another degree, yes. And that's going to do what for you? Just I just want to have it all. I just want to have it. It means something to me just to have a backup. I mean, do you plan on getting a rocking chair and rocking your grandma? There's no way. I'll be in fitness for the rest of my life somehow. What about the rocking chair? Forget the rocking chair. There's no way you can hold me in the rocking chair. You know that. One more time and I'm fishing. I was good. Just react. Okay. I know you're much too young to even think about retiring. Penetrate around the corner, actually. Wait a minute. Back up. Back up here. It's not right around the corner. Well, for some of us, some of us, when we reach a certain age, we begin to think about retirement. I'm not anywhere near that age. But there is a rocking chair there waiting for you somewhere way down the road or way down the road here. I met you in Cross Street Market. You told me you had flowered underwear, a long thermal underwear, long blond, your fair skin flowered. Long? Yes. Yes. Nor is that one of your hobbies. Yes. Tell me about your hobbies. I have a lot of hobbies. Skiing, cross-country and downhill. Walking, hiking, snorkeling, horseback riding. You're going to go on? No. Okay. Thank you. What about your start? I went to the Cayman Islands and was snorkeling and just loved it. Do you do that often? When I can afford it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865#t=143.55,271.13"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865/transcript/71645/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Which is not at all. Unfortunately, all these women out here, they seem to have to hold you in high esteem. What do you do for these women? Get them in shape. Keep them happy. That's what it's all about. I hate to be a chauvinist, but does. Does the men. I mean, their men appreciate what you do for them? I hope so. They better. Is that a consideration still? But they are doing it for themselves. I know that. But is it. I mean, it used to be when a woman would go and get pretty. She was doing it for her man. Now, that was. That's the old days. That's right. What about now? Now that you do it for? We do it for ourselves, not for the men. Be honest. You are devilish look in your eye. Be honest. Well, maybe a little bit. A little bit. That's good. Is that okay? It's fine. We're not out altogether. That right? We're on the same wavelength. You work hard out there, Jerry. I work very hard, and I love my job. I have never seen anybody really, honestly. With. Work as hard and as long. I had that camera rolling for quite a while and you never stopped. How do you do it? It's just. I love what I'm doing. I love what I'm doing. I mean, how do you get that kind of energy? I've had it since I was a kid. I've just had it. It's just been there. I don't know. I was born with it. Genetics. But you want to say genes? That my genes. It's in my genes. My dad was like that full of energy. You know, he took two steps instead of one. You dance? Yes, I dance. I mean, do you go out? Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865#t=271.28,379.92"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865/transcript/71645/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I love it. Yes, I love to dance. Distal chap? Yes. You got a tap for me? You want me to tap for you? I'm that for you. All right. All right. That's it. We're done. How was it? You are. Now what? Now I'm the athletics director at Bear Health Athletic Club. So you're in charge of all these weightlifters out here? That's right. Dancers and all these people are struggling for jobs. Yes. And I love it. Now I going to get you in shape. You were born and raised where? Baltimore. You're a city. I'm a city girl. And then moved to the county. And your dad had a place. And I mean your. Your dad and your granddad and your great granddad had a place down on the Park Street. That street, right? They had a harbor hotel. Hotel. A little hotel for seamen. For the same city. And then when the men came in from my saying they were the seamen. She okay? Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. All right, let's try that again. Okay. Let me try that again. It was a hotel for merchant seamen. That's correct. Yes. Thank you. And there are occasions where you actually go out on Bad street and dance. That's correct. Yes. We have pictures of that. Yeah. And tell me a little just briefly, all those little pictures of you. When you were younger, you knew the camera was on you and you knew how you were posing. Tell me about that. What was going on in your mind? I just love the camera. And I don't know, I just my mind just goes like a mile a minute all the time. But you knew the camera was on. You've had this with this show biz gene in you somewhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865#t=380.58,497.03"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865/transcript/71645/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. There was something I always wanted to be. What? A comedian? A comedian. A comedian. Stand up. Yes. You know any good jokes. Now, that's why I'm not a comedian. But, you know, like I say. Yeah. We're still not where you were when they. When the camera was on you. You knew. You knew. And you poked and you performed what was in you in those young days that. Well, what were you thinking? I really wanted to be then back then, a Rockette. I wanted to dance and go to New York, but I was too short. But I loved dancing. It was just in my blood and my. My James. And you were too sure. I was too sure. I forget how tall you had to be to be a Rockette. I should have been a jockey then. A lot of horses. So instead, you go. You directed your energy to you. Still dancing, but. How did you find an outlet for your for your talent and your and your and your gift, which is how did you when you realized you couldn't be a professional dancer like a rocket, When did you decide to go? I just started taking a lot of aerobics classes and then found out that I just loved it. And then they trained band at the Y. And how was it when you got to settle in having a family, being a being a wife and then you got pregnant? Well, yes, in some way, yes. And then I was a talent that was into tennis. You were playing tennis? The Good Wife in the driveway, playing tennis. Tennis. You got pregnant, You gained some weight and still play tennis. What about it? With all this weight? Then somebody called me one day out of Clear Blue and said, Let's go to one of our Woods class.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865#t=498.68,623.81"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865/transcript/71645/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I knew right then and there that's what I was going to do. And I've been doing it ever, ever since. And that's been over almost 20, almost 20 years. And now you're the you're the head of aerobics in this area. Chip, thank you. It's a nice compliment. Now that all? You understand? I. Someone. I couldn't. But I could. Do you still want to send that picture of the costume my mother is expressing? Drop that off. Not. Not. Job comes in that right. 6:47 p.m.. I know that. Especially. But we now have. Explain yourself. Birthday party. Are the back at the typewriter? Yes. God. Yeah, but what's his real name? All in good fashion. She was one of the nation's. Going out for Crash. I see him. I didn't say that, Susan. You said that. Did you hear her? She said. Our number. Right now. All that. Her friends hired a stripper on her 40th birthday. Such a 35th birthday. That's my theory, said the 40 year old Shattered, which friends hired. So she does get a chance to dance with men. He's not he's not recording something. I sat on the air. Don't you give my age away? Try to get day. No, not my father. My father. Where's your mother from? North Carolina. He said there are other there are male aerobics dancers. And from time to time he gets a chance to dance with them. Are you talking to the camera? Yeah. Well. Did you open your present? I know it wasn't. I just. I love it. I'm sorry. I just didn't want to replace Open. I asked her in a group of students or other dance students who had given her all they have. It's it now and that. I danced on television when I was five years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865#t=624.56,852.15"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136853/file/253865/transcript/71645/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay, go ahead. I don't know when I'll get off the deep end. This is Nick Eastman, our director. You know, I remember when they first opened, I think when we got here this quarter. I know it's been a long, long time ago yet, but I'm learning more. You know, cause. Well, I think. No. It seems that they've been 500. 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