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[[File:Vonda_Urban_diagram.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Chains and Rounds diagram by Vonda Urban and Irene Stashinski]]
[[File:Vonda_Urban_diagram.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Chains and Rounds diagram by Vonda Urban and Irene Stashinski]]
In the 1950s, Miss Urban taught ballroom dancing at the elegant '''Aragon Ballroom''' in Chicago. As many as 18,000 patrons visited the venue every week to enjoy the maple dance floor could could hold 8,000 at one time. Six nights a week, radio station WGN broadcast a nationwide hour-long program featuring the famous bands who were playing: the orchestras of Tommy Dorsey, Billy May, Eddy Howard, Teddy Phillips, Dick Jurgens, Chuck Foster, and Buddy Morrow. Lessons in the newest dance styles such as  mambo, rhumba, cha cha, and merengue were offered free every Sunday night, and the classic fox trot and waltz on Tuesdays, with Vonda Urban as the instructor.
== Theosophical work ==
== Theosophical work ==



Revision as of 23:31, 10 February 2024

Vonda Urban

Vonda Urban was a teacher of Theosophy based in Chicago, Illinois.

Early life

Dancing cha cha backstage at the Aragon Ballroom

Dance career

Chains and Rounds diagram by Vonda Urban and Irene Stashinski

In the 1950s, Miss Urban taught ballroom dancing at the elegant Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. As many as 18,000 patrons visited the venue every week to enjoy the maple dance floor could could hold 8,000 at one time. Six nights a week, radio station WGN broadcast a nationwide hour-long program featuring the famous bands who were playing: the orchestras of Tommy Dorsey, Billy May, Eddy Howard, Teddy Phillips, Dick Jurgens, Chuck Foster, and Buddy Morrow. Lessons in the newest dance styles such as mambo, rhumba, cha cha, and merengue were offered free every Sunday night, and the classic fox trot and waltz on Tuesdays, with Vonda Urban as the instructor.

Theosophical work

George Cardinal LeGros (1905-1988) was one of her teachers.

Additional resources

Audio

All of the following lectures were delivered at the Theosophical Society in America, in Wheaton, Illinois.

"Messianic Messenger" lecture in 1991

Video

Mahatma Letter 26
1888 letter from Koot Hoomi to Olcott
Constance Wachtmeister's Reminiscences
Mahatma Letter 44
1885 letter from HPB to Patience Sinnett
H.P. Blavatsky, Tibet, and Tulku by Geoffrey Barborka Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 1966.
Nightmare Tales by H. P. Blavatsky.

Notes

[[Category:Independent Theosophists