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Carolyn Foy Hoffer
“Miss Carolyn” Carolyn is most known as Carolyn Foy, previously of Foy Dance Studio in Yuba City. “Miss Carolyn”, as she is known by her students and colleagues in the arts, owned and operated her own dance studio with late husband, Jack Foy, for 34 ½ years. Carolyn remarried in December of 2001. She and her husband, Dr. Terrence Hoffer were married in Maui, Hawaii and live in Yuba City. Miss Carolyn graduated from La Sierra High School in Sacramento, in 1959. She studied ballet under Barbara and Dean Crockett, who were the founding directors of the Sacramento Ballet Company. The Crocketts were members and at one time, dancers with the San Francisco Ballet Company. Carolyn became a member of the Sacramento Ballet Company as an adolescent, dancing with them between her 8th and 12th years in school. First in the “corps” ballet and then as a soloist. She became a lifetime member of that Company and has danced in many venues in places around the country. She is known as a very fine dancer of ballet. Carolyn’s earliest recollection is of dancing from the age of three. She took ballet, tap, and “hula”. Her first recital at that age involved doing the “hula” on stage. She recalls a large group of sailors present who began to shout and make noise at her. She became so frightened that she froze and did not move during her entire act! For some time during the sixties, Carolyn became the majorette choreographer at Yuba City High School under Barrie Wells. She is known as an instructor of high caliber and high standards, a perfect match for the staff at YCHS. She and then husband, Jack Foy, became personal friends of Barrie and Lois Wells and Carolyn remains so today. Everywhere the band went to march, Miss Carolyn would be seen with her husband or with her close friend Lois. They were often appalled at dress codes imposed on them by school regulations during frigid weather and often recall how they “froze” following the band around, as the students were fortunate enough to have on wool uniforms! Carolyn and Lois were also official “band inspectors” for Mr. Wells and would walk up and down the ranks, inspecting the “troops” for him. Looking for crooked lines or anything out of place. Miss Carolyn continues to study under her friends and mentors, the Crocketts. Only now, they do not teach her the dance. Instead they teach her how to become “a better teacher”. The new Mrs. Hoffer has not only enough students to probably number in the thousands, but has been the choreographer for most of the musical dramas in area schools and theatres, most especially Ponderosa Theatre and Yuba College. Carolyn, has three children: Zane, Craig, and Jilleen. And also, a granddaughter who is her alternate “computer tutor”. She is a youthful, spirited, professional, and sometimes mischievous lady who refers to herself as “happily married, living happily every after in the dance community of Yuba City”! written by Neva Nix |
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