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Article: Jacqueline Foley, 68, dancer with Radio City Rockettes
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2007
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While growing up in Brighton, Jacqueline F. Foley dreamed of
becoming a Radio City Rockette, the epitome of high-kicking glitz and
glamour. Her parents pinched pennies so she and her sister could take
dancing lessons and buy costumes for recitals.
Their sacrifice paid off. From 1957 to 1960, Ms. Foley performed
with the Rockettes before going on to dance in some of the country's
poshest clubs. Ms. Foley, who lived in Brighton, died Aug. 31 of
cancer at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington. She was 68.
"Jackie had a sparkling personality, a wonderful smile. and danced
beautifully," said Sandra Simpson Philpott, whose mother founded the
Hazel Boone Studios of Dance Education in Boston, where Ms. ...