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Christine Nevins

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2006

69th President and first female to be elected to the National Showmen's Association as President. She was born into the carnival business, started by her grandfather Harold Nevins Sr. The name of the show was H. Nevins Shows. Her father, Harold Nevins Jr., was also born into the carnival business. The show was renamed Nevins Amusements when her grandfather retired. Christine and her sister, Patricia, who is the Secretary of the NSA, learned the business while growing up starting at the age of 5. She could tell the person doing the moonwalk how to deflate it and would tell them not to forget to put the motor into the Merry-Go-Round center. Later at the age of 16, she would help take down and set up the Carousel and could do the wiring up of the carnival. Christine runs her own games and helps with the everyday carnival business. She graduated from Suffolk County Community College and is a bookkeeper. She has a long list of family, associated with the National Showmen&'s Association. Her grandmother, Francis Nevins, belonged to the Ladies Auxiliary of the NSA. Her grandfather was President in 1975; her dad, Harold Nevins Jr., was president in 1977; uncle, William Nevins, was president in 1982; brother, Jeffery A. Nevins, President 1993. Her brother, Harold Nevins 3rd, although not a president, is a life member and great contributor of the NSA.