Throughout the night screeching shrieks erupted when the first few bars of the “Chicken Dance,” the “Hokey Pokey” and the “Cha-Cha-Slide” began and during each popular tune, the dance floor was nowhere to be found as stockinged, bare and patent leather-encased feet pounded to the beats. Director Kathryn Chapman-Dreibelbis puts on the event not only to promote the Summerfest but to encourage male family members (fathers, step-fathers, grandparents or uncles) to be involved in their littlest ladies’ lives, to give the girls a sense of being the center of attention and the experience of attending a “real” formal dance.
This year, with registered attendants and those paying at the door, the Matchett Square Senior Center in Bourbon was jam-packed with partygoers and the handful of volunteers that make the event such a success. “I couldn’t do this without them,” said Chapman-Dreibelbis.
Miranda Doll, Courtney Horvath, Arminda Dreibelbis, Alitza Stoner, Melia Follmer and Maci Irvine each won awards from a drawing held in between the DJ’d dance music.