Photos: Up with People anniversary moments
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Moments in the 50 year history of Up with People, as selected by Up with People staff. The anniversary concert is March 6-7 at the Fox Theatre, Tucson. For tickets, go to upwithpeople.org/tucson
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, an early supporter of Up with People watches a performance of Sing Out '66 in Indio, CA 1967 with Blanton Belk
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Cast 72B performing at Olympic Cultural Center, Munich, Sept. 1972
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Up with People performed for an unprecedented fourth time at Super Bowl XX in the Louisiana Superdome on January 26, 1986
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During a peace rally in Kalinin, USSR a young boy delights in his first encounter with an American Up with People participant, June 1988
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The original lead group, the Colwell Brothers and Sing Out '65
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Headlines from a variety of domestic and international newspapers
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Up with People song book #6 on top of music scores
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Four students in native costumes from Rhythm of the World show, 1991-1993
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Cast 93C participants painting globe for hearing impaired children in Suhr, Switzerland, Spring 1994
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Up with People Founder J. Blanton Belk and Mrs. Belk, 1991
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Former Chancellor of Germany Konrad Adenauer greets Sing Out '66 cast members, June 1966
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Three of Up with People's musical founders, Paul Colwell, Ralph Colwell and Herb Allen talking with principal writer Ken Ashby, circa 1972. The fourth musical founder, Steve Colwell is missing from the photo
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Pope John Paul II meeting with members of Cast 84C on April 24, 1985.. The cast performed on the steps of St. Peter's Square for an estimated 30,000 people
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Cast 82B alumni posing on steps of the Westin La Paloma, Tucson, August, 1987
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Board Member and Olympian Jesse Owens, an early supporter signing autographs for cast members at the ARCO Jesse Owens Games, June 1978
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Up with People participants posing in front of the colorful Australia sign during the World Expo '88 in Brisbane, Sept. 1988
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Small group on stage during Countdown to '95, New Year's Eve, Victoria Park, Hong Kong, December, 1994
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Tribal dancer and Up with People cast members at a Southwestern U.S. Native American community action event
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DeWitt Wallace, co-founder of the Reader's Digest and an early supporter of Up with People with Mr. and Mrs. Belk at a luncheon in his honor, April 1980
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Cast 91E of Up with People performing in front of the Tallinn Town Hall Square during the tour of Estonia on September 9-19, 1991
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For its 100th anniversary, Coca-Cola Japan sponsored a 17-city tour in Spring,1986 and was endorsed by the Ministries of Education and Finance. Cast 85D split into two groups to better cover Japan simultaneously.
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Up with People's performance at Alken, Belgium on Armistice Day,1983 was attended by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium together with Princess Margriet of The Netherlands and her consort, Pieter van Vollenhoven
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Musical Director Herb Allen, writer Pat Murphy and Director/Choreographer Lynne Morris
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Four children posing with a bilingual Project Pride poster, Los Angeles, May, 1993
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Up with People and the Smithfields performing with Bob Hope for the National Governors Conference at The White House, February 24, 1971
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Two 81D soloists taping a TV special in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb.13, 1982
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Up with People truck leaving ferry in Alaska, April 1993
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Dance rehearsal with combined casts with Choreographer Lynne Morris during staging in Tucson, Summer 1980
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Staff posing outside of the new Up with People World Headquarters in Denver, June 1994
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Staff posing outside of the Up With People Office on Campbell Ave.,Tucson, AZ
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