Your "tolo" memories requested

[Ros' Haruo]

Today at a church convention (Evergreen Association of American Baptist
Churches' annual meeting) to which I was a delegate, I had a chance to ask
several women delegates if they knew and used the word tolo, what it meant,
and when and where they had first learned it. They all agreed as to the
meaning ("a dance where the girls ask the boys"). Three women had been
raised in Seattle Public Schools and had first heard the term when they were
in high school; two of these women are in their seventies, the third in her
late sixties. One went to Garfield, two to Roosevelt. The fourth woman
(currently my church's interim pastor) is in her fifties, and learned the
term in *Pennsylvania* schools (she said her high school had had a "tolo").
None of them had any prior notion that the term was Chinook.

FWIW; my pastor's Pennsylvanian recollection strikes me as intriguing.

lilEnd

        ROS' Haruo / 2355 Eastlake Ave E / Seattle WA 98102 / Usono
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              ROS' Haruo = Leland Bryant ROSS




>From: David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>Reply-To: David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Your "tolo" memories requested
>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:01:47 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>Those of you who know "tolo" as a word for a kind of dance, please email
>me.  I'm writing a paper about this word & the institution it represents.
>
>- I'd like to know your earliest memory of hearing the word "tolo".
>
>- Did your parents remember going to "tolos" also?
>
>- Where did you / your parents grow up & hear about "tolos"?
>
>- Did you ever hear about "tolos" happening elsewhere?
>
>Thanks very much!
>
>--Dave R.
>
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