Foster Johnson Memorial Sohl-Donnell (Ellison), Linda performer Social Event 1982-01-03 Memorial tribute of 500 to tap dance master Foster Johnson (who died of an aortic aneurism on October 29, 1981), attended by Nicholas Brothers, John Bubbles, Willie Covan, Sandman Sims, Gene Bell, Al Williams, Leonard Reed, Eugene Jackson, Louis DaPron, and many of Johnson's students, colleagues, friends, and admirers. Also an ad hoc company called the Foster Johnson Dance Company performing such Johnson choreographies as "Tapsimatisimology" by "Evolution of the Blues" Hannah Dean and Karen Brown; by dancers Francis Nealy, Martha Gooden, and Chester Whitmore, Lynn Dally and Fred Strickler; by the Universal Dance Company, Ironjaw, the Karen Brown Dance Company, and Sandman Sims; by elder statesman Nicholas, Covan, Jackson, Reed, DaPron, and Bell, who closed the show by taking to the stage in a free-for-all jam session. Linda Sohl-Donnell and her designer husband Cecil Donnell were those responsible for the Johnson Memorial. (Janice-Laureen Arkatov, "Taps for Vveteran Tap-Dancer" Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 1982, L64) Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Linda Sohl-Donnell (biography) loc.music.tdabio.67 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.188