American Square Dance Vol. 55, No. 6 (June 2000)
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June 2000 42 On the Record - Squares - Chris Pinkharn 58 Point of Order - Wayne & Priscilla Griffin 78 Rhyme Time 46 A/C Lines 38 Round Dance Pulse Poll - Ed Foote - Bev & Bob Casteel 22 As I See It 62 Sewing 101 - Donna Ipock - Bob Osgood 60 So You Want To Be A Caller 11 ASD News - Larry Cole 70 CALLERLAB Viewpoints 79 The Country Line - Bob Osgood - Jim & Jean Cholmondeley 36 Club Leadership Notes 51 The Koreo Korner - Steve Kopman - Bernie Coulthurst 77 Third Class Passengers Wanted 72 Convention News - Jack Polmans 26 Cory-Ography in the Classroom 81 What's Ahead - Corben "Cog" Geis 61 Country Kitchen - Louise Harrop 48 Creative Choreography - Lee & Steve Kopman 68 Cue Tips - Sandi Simmons 56 Dancing Contra - Don Ward 28 Easy Level - Bob Howell 6 From The Editors - Ed cc Pat Juaire 8 From The Mail Room 21 Honors Book - Stan & Cathie Burdick 64 Horace K. Porter 1837-1921 - Dave Robeson 52 Notes In A Nutshell - Frank Lescrinier 32 On the Record - Rounds - Ralph & Joan Collipi AMERICAN rf)- Volume 55 Number 6 June 2000 SQUAREDANCE The irdernanona ility(u.ler of Spuarc Dapeav• Editorial Assistants Subscriptions Louise Harrop Michelle Merchant Publishers - Editors Michelle Merchant Ed & Pat Juaire Cartoonist TI Enod Corben Geis 4 American SquareDance, June 2000 *********************************** * *rtawhide Regds Buckskin * * * * * * * * -, T”e * * * * * 6 40, : * Becky & Dick Waibel Larry Cole Dale McClary Otto Degner * * * * • NEW RAWHIDE RELEASES * RWH-213 PATRIOTIC MEDLEY by Tom * RWH-212 SANTO DOMINGO by Jerry * * • COMING SOON * RWH-214 MY HAPPINESS by Larry * * *Grace Wheatley. 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The best form for attracting new And if you don't do your function at dancers has always been word of night, call it the fun day or whatever mouth. When one person is infected you feel but make it special - and at a with the fun of square dancing, they reduced price. We all love to save will tell their friends. And we know something but if you offer square from past practices how this will then dancing for nothing... well you get the attract others to try square dancing. point. We have a recreation with a But do you offer any "Fall Specials?" value and nothing of value should be We've never thought that we should given away free. It loses it's value give away our recreation. There is a altogether. strong feeling that if you pay for See you in Baltimore and something you will have a better Happy Summer Dancing! 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This is what makes your maga- who knew him from fully appreciating zine successful. his contribution, and now very few Sincerely, people have any idea who he was and Darrell Newell how important he was to our hobby. I'd Beaverton, Oregon like to help at least a few more people appreciate what this man did for us. Ervin Gross Ervin was an acoustics engineer. As I read in your April Magazine, with best I can remember, he worked for great sadness, that Ervin Gross passed General Radio (later GenRad) in Mas- away. Gary Johnston wrote that he sachusetts, and was a fellow in the helped develop the Yak Stack in 1961. Acoustics Society of America. He un- I'd like to embellish on that, since Ery derstood acoustics, acoustic instru- is one of the people who is responsible mentation, and how to design things for square dancing as we now know it that accomplished jobs that needed to today. Even when he was still actively be done. In square dancing, high fidel- 2000 - The "Red Rock Ramblers" of Lyons, Colorado - 2000 Announce their 42" d Season of Summer Saturday Square Dances *(Sunday Special: 9/3/2000 - Labor Day (Plus) Rounds 2pm, Squares 2:30 - 5pm) June 9-10 — MAGIC MILLENNIUM-UNC — GREELEY, CO — SEE YOU THERE! Every Saturday Elem.