On September 30, Duane Tomka resigned as Syrena artistic director / choreographer to focus on his family. We are extremely grateful to Duane for his many years of dedicated artistic leadership and instruction of the Syrena Dancers and we wish him the best. Our Syrenka youth instructor, Casey Stefanowski, is a graduate of the Polish folk dance instructors course, “kurs”,' in Poland and has now skillfully assumed the duties of Syrena dance instructor.