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Nearing the century mark. (Readers' Forum).


I saw your request for loyal readers 75 or older. I am now 83 and still teaching Chalif programs. My father, Louis H. Chalif, was one of the first Russian teachers of dancing in America, arriving in 1904. He was hired as first dancer and assistant ballet master bal´let` mas´ter

n. 1. a man who trains ballet dancers.

Noun 1. ballet master - a man who directs and teaches and rehearses dancers for a ballet company
 with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, and taught at various venues.

My studio in Bernardsville, New Jersey Bernardsville is a Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 7,345.

Bernardsville was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, from portions of Bernards
, is called The Barn Studio, established in 1931. My brother, Edward L. Chalif, started it at that time, and when he retired in 1968, my wife and I took over. If I go on teaching for two more years, the Years, The

the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109]

See : Time
 basic Chalif family will have danced in America 100 years!
Amos L. Chalif
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
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Author:Chalif, Amos L.
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Date:Jun 1, 2002
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