THE VILLAGES, FL

Elin Jones
Team Captain.
Elin Peltola Jones was Ohio State Twirling Champion in 1959, 1961 and 1962. She won 5th place in solo competition at United States Twirling Association’s National Championships at Galveston Texas in 1962. She won approximately 500 trophies and 350 medals in solo competition over an eight year period.
Elin worked for H. J. Heinz Co. for 18 years. She was the first female Area Sales Manager in that company. Elin’s husband, Jack, is involved with promoting the team, and acts as their announcer during performances.
Elin dreamed for years of forming her own baton twirling team. After moving to The Villages, and in March of 2007 she formed the Prime Time Twirlers.
Venise Berube
Lewiston, Maine
Venise
Berube is from
on left, 4th row up
Peggy Walsh
Westchester, Illinois
Peggy Walsh was a majorette in high school. Performed for school functions, also the Chicago Christmas parades during her four years.
At one time
Kathleen Kennedy 
Kathleen (Hickman) Kennedy started twirling at age 9. Majorette at Scecina Memorial High School in Indianapolis, IN for 4 years.
She enjoyed many state competition. Kathy taught baton twirling at several High Schools in Indianapolis after graduation. Her high school majorettes marched with the Indiana American Legion Band and in the Indy 500 Parade.
After graduation from Indiana University with a Masters in Education, Kathy taught in the Indianapolis Public School System for 37 and was Teacher of the Year in 1998 for work with "The Organization of 100 Black Men" who work and mentor the inner city children in Indianapolis.
Jan Edwards Runyon
Chester, SC
Jan Edwards Runyon started twirling as a majorette with Chester Senior High School in Chester, SC during her junior & senior years of high school. She marched & performed in high school sporting events, numerous parades and NASCAR pre-race festivities in S.C.
Jan worked in Springfield, VA for the Department of the Army for 30 years traveling to Army installations worldwide installing computers and training soldiers & civilians. Her husband, Toby, retired from the Army and they moved to The Villages in 2006.
She is delighted to be a part of the Prime Time Twirlers and learning to twirl again after 40+ years of not touching a baton.

Maureen Carr
Canandaigua,
New York
Maureen McClafferty Carr grew up in Norwich, Connecticut and has been twirling since the age of five. She was one of the lead twirlers in high school. Her greatest joy was getting through a routine without dropping the baton.
She was a high school math teacher and after graduating from William and Mary she was a high school counselor at Midlakes High School for thirty years and lived in Canandaigua, New York.
Maureen was so excited to discover The Prime Time Twirlers, she joined the group two days after moving to The Villages with her husband, Michael, the love of her life.She was thrilled to find this sisterhood in twirling and has never been happier.
Jeanne Spinks 
Jeanne Spinks joined the Prime Time Twirler in 2009. She always wanted to be a twirler, and when she moved to the Villages with her husband Charlie, went to the Villages Collage to learn to twirler. So you see, it's never to late to learn.
Sandy Plano
