Mrs. Suzy Melin from Pasadena, California: “I’m going to teach the
panel how to spin the hula-hoop”
The show is right on top of this fad,
which swept the nation in 1958. Mrs.
Melin is the wife of Arthur “Spud” Melin, one of the founders of the Wham-O toy
company. Wham-O made its name with the
Hula-Hoop, and also brought to market many other iconic toys, including the
Frisbee, the high-bouncing Super Ball, the Slip ‘N Slide and Silly String.
Mrs. Ella Jane Pickles Sanders from Anna, Illinois: “I was
Kathern’s high school English teacher last year…I taught her mother in 1931…I
taught her grandmother in 1911”
Mrs. Rebecca Newton, daughter Alice Newton Ellis and granddaughter Kathern are all on hand. Mrs. Sanders has taught for 51
years, 40 of them at the high school Kathern attends.
Special Guests Louis Nye, Don Knotts
and Tom Poston, along with three random women from the audience, dance a
variety of different steps to music that only they can hear in their
headphones. Nye, Knotts and Poston would
all go on to have successful comedic careers individually, but the three of
them collectively received a huge boost early on with zany regular appearances
on Steve Allen’s variety show, especially as characters in his “Man on the
Street” sketches. Nye’s in-character greeting, “Hi Ho, Steverino” became a
national catchphrase.
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