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T
hey were once kids
with no interest in
dancing. Then, their
parents enrolled them in a
ballroom dance class.
It was the class all their
friends were taking. The one
to take a year prior to bar
and bat mitzvah, so that
after they read their haftora
and danced the horah, they'd
be ready to boogie.
Unlike many of their
peers, Steven Fink, David
Schechter, Robert Fink,
Steve Jasgur, Steve Wolf
and Ken Harris have not yet
hung up their dance shoes.
The six gentlemen never
left the dance school — Joe
Cornell — that first showed
them how to waltz and
tango. They now work for
Cornell, the guru of
ballroom dancing, whose
studio also employs emcees
for bar mitzvah celebrations.
"My parents made me take
dance lessons; I didn't want
to," said 18-year-old Steven
Fink, a freshman at Mich-
igan State University who
makes the 90-mile drive to
his emcee job in Detroit. It
only took a few lessons
before Fink's attitude
changed. Following in his
brother's footsteps, Fink
joined what he calls The Joe
Cornell Family two years
ago, assistant teaching and
then emceeing.
"The job is a blast," he
said. "You get to eat, dance,
party — and get paid for it."
"The hours fly by at the
different parties I emcee
that I'm almost upset when
they're all over. I enjoy what
I'm doing so much I wouldn't
want to do anything else,"
said Schechter, 19, a
freshman at University of
Michigan.
When he was 12, Robert
Fink studied at Joe Cornell.
By the time he turned 15, he
was assisting its dance
classes. A year later, he was
spinning records, too.
"You have so much fun
with these kids that you
can't pass the job up," said
Fink, 20, a junior at Mich-
igan State University.
Jasgur caught dance fever
nine years ago when he
placed second in Joe
Cornell's Spring Ball, but he
didn't join the Cornell team
until a few years later.
"In 1985, my sister,
Rebecca, was asked by the
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Back: Robert Fink and David Schechter; middle: Steven Fink, Joe
Cornell and Ken Harris; front: Steve Wolf and Steve Jasgur.
studio if she'd be interested
in being an assistant dance
instructor — but she didn't
drive at that time and told
the studio. Joe said, 'Why
not ask your older brother,
Steve?' And that's the only
reason I'm here today be-
cause my sister got the job."
The Jasgur duo were co-
assistant instructors for two
years. For the past four
years, Steve, a junior at the
University of Michigan, has
been emceeing parties.
Wolf, who will graduate
from the University of Mich-
igan's Dental School next
year, took dance lessons
from Joe Cornell for three
years. During that time, he
was a member of Cornell's
exhibition travelling dance
troupe. Wolf was also a
finalist in his bid to appear
on TV's "Dance Fever."
He has worked for Cornell
for the past 10 years.
"Once I get out of school,
I'll be focusing my work on
dentistry, but I'll still want
to emcee a party here and
there," Wolf said.
Harris, an attorney, began
taking lessons in 1968. And
when he's not dancing
around the courtroom, he en-
joys judging (dance competi-
tions) at the parties. He has
been part of the Cornell clan
for more than 12 years.
"It's infectious," said
Harris, 30, a studio cham-
pionship winner in 1972.
"Once you're a part of it, you
don't want to leave. It pro-
vides me with a great bal-
ance." 0
Moore's Film
Opens In Israel
A report in the April 1990
issue of Spy magazine that
the popular film, Roger and
Me, would not be screened in
Israel because of the direc-
tor's "pro-Palestinian" feel-
ings is not accurate, the Anti-
Defamation League learned
this month.
In a May 3 letter to
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL's
national director, Irving N.
Ivers, a vice president of
Warner Brothers, Inc., the
film's distributors, responded
to an inquiry from the
League. His letter said:
"This is to simply confirm
that Roger and Me will be
presented at the Jerusalem
Film Festival and is schedul-
ed to open theatrically in
Israel on either July 12 or Ju-
ly 19."
The Spy article reported
that Warner Brothers had
complied with a request from
Michael Moore that his film
not be shown in Israel. Accor-
ding to the magazine account,
Moore is "adamantly pro-
Palestinian and plans to ex-
amine the Israeli government
in his next documentary, Yit-
zhak and Me?"