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r-v (Orlando ftrntinrl Sunday, July 23, 1972 Volusia 7 1 tn Haaa 7 -ft'1' J-' .1 5T K- After reading the book "Aerobics," Jackie Sorenson wrote to the author about her idea for aerobic dancing. With his encouragement, she worked out 150 routines including running kind of steos to various rhythms. She's now teaching aerobic dancing J-tk 1 to other teachers in key areas around the notion. Lady On The Run --Dancing To The Tune Of Aerobics 1 I '-jf 7 yT a 1 taken 14 dance lessons per week from age 6 to 18, Jacki did some professional restaurant-theater dancing after high school in California and then was a choreographer for four years at the University of California at Berkeley where she earned a degree in social sciences. She was a pom pom girl who danced at sports events.

She met her husband there when he was student director of the marching band. After attending graduate school and being certified to teach, Jacki found1 she liked the physical education part of her elementary grade teaching best. IT WAS AT Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico, where her By BLANCHE FEARINGTON Jacki Sorensen raced for the first time in her life nine months ago at Atlantic City in a 26-mile marathon. She finished in three and one-half hours, second for women and ahead of some men. The five -foot-four 29-year-old blonde long-distance runner averages between 15 and 20 miles per week.

I ORIGINATOR OF aerobic dancing, she teaches this form of physical fitness, which "makes people happy," to 300 women in YMCA classes in South Orange, N.J., and to credit classes at Seton Hall University and Bluefield College, both in New Jersey. As a clinician on the President's husband, then a pilot in the Air Force, was stationed that she read Dr. Kenneth Cooper's book "Aerobics," just off the press and adopted by thei Air Force. "I decided to take his 12-minute running test because I was curious and had never done any of the exercises he claimed 'get you in good condition'," Jacki said. She scored "good," which, according to Dr.

Cooper, only two out of 10 Americans were able to do. Jacki wrote to Dr. Cooper and said she thought aerobic dancing would be "vigorous, simple and fun." He suggested she make up such dances from her experience and said that if she could prove such a program effective, the new approach would be good for people Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Jack! shows other teachers in clinics around the U.S. how they can put physical fitness Into physical education programs. WHILE VISITING her father, Roy Mills, in DeLand, Jacki gave a demonstration of aerobic dancing at Florida Technological University.

When Ken Renner, FTU intra-mural director, met her at the National Intra-Mural Association Convention at Champaign, 111., he invited her to FTU. What is aerobic dancing and how did she start it? It is a combination of simple steps from all kinds of dances: jazz, modern, folk, waltz, cha cha and square dancing. Some le ading moves are also included. who prefer to exercise indoors. SHE COMPILED 150 routines that included steps like running in different rhythms.

She began the program at the Air Force base. It snowballed to a base TV show, to a daily NBC television show, then to increasingly popular classes in New Jersey after her husband's separation from the service' Her pupils must have medical clearance if over 30 years of age. She starts them off gently. Every step can be done on three levels of intensity: walking, jogging or running. "Each woman can find her level to start and pace herself during the 45-minute classes," said the teacher.

When one goes into a class, she things "dance" and not Jacki said. "This is what makes the program unique. They learn skills through experience of dancing instead of acquiring skills and then dancing." Motivation is also stimulated by changing routines. Classes never do the same thing more than 10 weeks. "If I can keep the class where I'm never bored, the women will love it too," Jacki said.

SHE IS TRYING to get women to look at their physical well-being more intellectually, to try to build up muscle tone, cardiovas cular endurance and psychological outlook. And, said Jacki, "Women tell me how much happier they are since they're physically fit." Puppet Production. From Clay To Stage: 'Child's Play' and also made the puppet heads of clay, painted them and will dress them and act out the play. LINDA BOSCO, David's four-and-a-half-year-old sister, is the youngest member of this class which meets for two hours weekly. She was greatly interested in making the puppets and also plastic butterflies and flowers, as was five-year-old Mindy Ottinger who confided she'd like to become an artist.

Curly-haired Angela Cannon, age six, confessed, "I like the class because of the things we make and do. I'm learning a lot and I think I can help the other students neixt year because I know what 10 times 10 is 100." SHARPE, who instructs in art at DeLand Senior High School in winter, is directing this class under the summer enrichment program for Volusia County. He said, "There's a wonderful edu-c a i a 1 experience outside the classroom, and learning to live in the world is part of it." Because so many parents wanted activities for first and second-graders, registration for that age group doubled at the museum this summer and, even then, some had to be turned away because of space. Said Millaine O'Brieti, museum director, "You can see the perceptions of those in the class develop as they go along." "My mom has to bug me about coming, but when I get here I like everything. What I like best is making monsters." David Bosco, six years old, was just finishing a class in puppetry, taught by Bill Sharpe at the DeLand Museum to 14 children of preschool age to second grade.

THE MONSTERS avid referred to were on the backdrops the children made for the puppet show they will perform at the end-of-summer-classes party on Friday. The children wrote the play which they named "The Cops Chase the Monsters that's Eating the Pizza that's Robbing DeLand," I if A. ft I iJr h7 7-7--' 'M'fJfJWm a'- S( I fulfil' I A. '5'1'; 7, I Angela Cannon and David Bosco, left, work at potter's wheel. At right, Lisa McKelvy and Tom Lawrence have just finished puppet heads.

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