American Square Dance Vol. 29, No. 10
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THE EDITOBS' PAGE cing. One can't put a toe in the water, What's red, white and blue, name- and then stay aloof from the activity. less, and eleven feet long? Give up? It's Twenty-six years ago at camp, we a small sailboat, defying formal both had sailed. After three weeks "at classification by many sailors we en- sea" in August, with the help of a countered, but seaworthy and saucy. friend and a book, much of the old It certainly resurrected old skills and knowledge came back. It's the same generated new fun for us this past sum- with square dancing. We get rusty, but mer. with a little practice and some help, Sailing is an unhurried way of life. the lessons once learned return again. After a few minutes on the water, The biggest thrill of the summer moving slowly along, one realizes that was the mastery of a new skill. The the craft will only move as fast as the biggest lesson learned was that we need wind determines, that one can only do to "relax and enjoy." We are all so a minimum of speeding it up or slow- geared to a busy life that we want to ing it down, and that one might as well "get there in a hurry," and we try too "relax and enjoy" — and think. often to do this even in hobbies and Thought brought out some similari- recreation. ties between our sailing experiences We need to relax and enjoy our and square dancing. The first realiza- square dancing moments, cherishing tion that sailing took a large chunk of their memories through the next busy commitment came on the windy day work stretch. We need to have the var- Cathie submerged with a splash trying ied experiences, during a single dance to climb into the boat. Then and there, program, of drifting gently with a calm we discovered that if we were to be- breeze, maneuvering under full sail, and come sailors, we could relinquish all occasionally having our skill taxed in a dignity and plunge whole-hog into the high wind to the very brink of the sport. It's the same with square dan- "drink." 2 \\II RI( \\ VOLUME 29, No. 10 ss October, 1974 E SQURRE • DRNCE m "THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE m WITH THE SWINGING LINES" o s Publishers and Editors os Stan & Cathie Burdick Workshop Editors m Willard Orlich Bob Howell Ed Fraidenburg Record Reviewers essom 2 Editors Page Doug Edwards 4 Grand Zip Frank & Phyl Lehnert 6 Meanderings oss Feature Writers 9 Timing Harold & Lill Bausch 12 Caller-Leader Directory Jim Kassel 13 Square Pair Mary Jenkins 15 Teaching the Two-Step Editorial Assistants 17 Folk Fun at Oglebay Park Mona Bird 20 Dancing Fit For A Queen 25 Best Club Trick Mary Fabik 26 Feedback Jo Homyak 29 Straight Talk Mef Merrell 31 Encore National Advisory Board 32 Dancing Tips Edna & Gene Arnfield 33 Calling Tips Bob Augustin 35 Keep 'em Dancing Al "Tex" Brownlee 38 Easy Level Page Louis Calhoun 41 Callerlab Confab Orphie Easson 42 Club Color Code mmommumm Phyl & Frank Lehnert 44 Challenge Chatter Singin' Sam Mitchell 47 Workshop Ken Oppenlander 55 Ladies' Choice Vaughn Parrish 56 Sketchpad Commentary Dave Taylor ome 57 Dandy Idea Bob 'VVickers 59 National News 63 Product Line Box 788 mm 64 Events SANDUSKY, OHIO 44870 68 Steal A Little Peek AMERICAN SQUAREDANCE magazine is 69 Pulse Poll published monthly at 216 Williams St., Hur- 71 R/D Record Reviews on, Ohio, by Burdick Enterprises. Second mse 72 S/D Record Reviews class postage paid at Sandusky, Ohio. Copy 76 24th Nat. S/D Convention deadline first of month preceding date of is- 80 Puzzle Page sue. Subscription: $6.00 per year. Sngle co- m 81 Bookshelf pies: 60 cents each. Mailing address: Box 788, o Sandusky, Ohio 44870. Copyright 1974 by 83 Finish Line m 84 Do-Ci-Do Dolores Burdick Enterprises. All rights reserved. s 3 Squaredance. The accompanying tri- bute left me speechless and quite em- barassed. 6tatut Zip The small contribution Bertha and I have made to square dancing has been returned, in thousands of ways, through the friendship and love ex- tended to us by square dancers. We are very grateful for the kind expression of American Squaredance magazine for our past efforts. Charlie & Bertha Baldwin Norwell, Massachusetts Thanks for publishing the correla- tion of Basics, the Intermediate and the Everything was just simply fantas- Experimental Basics in the August is- tic at this year's convention, including sue. I've always wondered even though the Infantinos in their role as Will Orlich's book had a set-up . GLO-ETTES and we did enjoy so much Jarvis Windom the black lite and special effects. Wheatland, Wyoming Mr. Chuck Teeple and his wife . Sorry you had to send a sec- Margie, General Chairman of the 1975 ond notice on our subscription to National Convention in Kansas City, American Squaredance. We enjoy it so MO came down at my invitation Satur- much and feel the material is especially day afternoon and made the welcome geared to the dancers and their enjoy- speech on that night, also inviting our ment . dancers to their National next year. We Bobbie & Chuck Myers were real thrilled that they would take Dayton, Ohio their time to come this far to be with Just received American Squaredance us. and naturally the first thing I read is Mr. Teeple said the exhibition of "Challenge Chatter." You did a marve- black lite was the very best he had ever lous job covering the Challenge Conven- seen. He and his wife Margie sat on the tion in your article. I was very happy balcony and watched the exhibition. to have you point out the fact that the We had a club here who danced the square were not all set up. waltz quadrille and the dancers were Being a caller's wife, I am very in- excited over this as we had never had a terested and concerned that there is special exhibition group in Little Rock "good feeling" between all the dancers, Nadine Higgins, before. no matter what the level. Here in Day- General Chairman ASDCI ton, we have a very good rapport with Little Rock, AR all the dancers in every level, which is very important. Thanks for being able to use Dave's Just had to let you know that I article about our trip to Fontana in think all your articles are good and your September issue. It was very en- since I was at the Challenge Conven- joyable traveling with the group and tion, you couldn't have said it any bet- perhaps others will be inspired by the ter; best of all, it's all true! article and try it . Dave & Carol Hodson Dave & Shirley Fleck Dayton, Ohio Toledo, Ohio Nothing could have been more sur- prising than finding my picture on the cover of the August issue of American 4 its not al)it too soon• III .... to think about Christmas gifts for your caller and dancer friends! The holder of a gift certificate ... may choose his own Christmas present this year! GIFT CERTIFICATES are available from AMERICAN SQUAREDANCE Magazine which can be used to purchase SUBSCRIPTIONS ANY BOOK published by American Squaredance ANY BOOK published by Will Orlich TELL US THE AMOUNT - WE'LL MAIL YOU THE CERTIFICATE FOR PRESENTATION AS A GIFT. P 0 BO X 7 88 A NI E RICANWURRE DRNCE SANDUSkY OHIO 44870 Please start my subscription NOW. My check (or money order) is enclosed. One Year at $6 Two Years at $10 Canadian and Foreign add 50g per year postage. NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP CODE 5 something to many mini-mobile, minimally-molded mike manipulators. Somehow we accomplished a mara- thon weekend of lecture/discussion/ dancing/eats/fun/games/individual cri- tiques with that great bunch, and the superb talents of those coupla dozen guys was unbelievable. One of them, Wilf (and Dot) Wihli- dahl, took me to his home in Calgary overnight, so I could easily catch my plane to Saskatoon the following day. There's an extra fine dedicated young Gosh, picture me if you can, literal- couple. You northern travelers (or ly puffed up and ready to burst with a southern Canadian travellers) will know half a ton of memories to share. (That's that Calgary is the city with that spec- not hard to picture. Co-ed.) tacular space needle that, l ike the ones Once again Canadian hospitality be- in Seattle and San Antonio, makes an came a reconfirmed attribute as I flew umbrella-shaped shadow over the ur- to central Alberta and conducted a ban environs when the sun rises and dance and callers clinic on a three-day sets. And of course the notable Stam- weekend in August. The site was Jim pede is legend up that way. Loafing a (and Marie) Hopkins' beautiful wooded bit in Calgary on Monday, I watched campground and ranch near Innisfail, a quiet drama of a vet removing porcu- where Jim's prize Arabian stallions pine quills from a mare's nose and roam the same fields as elk, moose, chin. Porcupine quills are like bad ha- bear, and wild Yukon women, so the bits — easy to pick up but tough to story goes. Any of the five species can shake off. Ask your local vet. Or ask be found tapping on your bedroom your local caller/trainer. window at night, they say. In constant fear of the latter, I didn't sleep a wink.