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SEWING SPECIALTIES 7429 4TH AVE SO , RICHFIELD, MN 55423 612-869-2650 AMERICAN ro SaURRE DRNCE VOLUME 39, No. 11 THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 1984 WITH THE SWINGING LINES IA PA IUMIIVIOUIRill PP PA PA P.111 PAM PA PflpJtPJIPAPAtPAMMMMMP ASD FEATURES FOR ALL ROUNDS 4 Co-editorial 45 Facing the L.0 D 5 By-Line 47 Cue Tips 7 Meanderings 67 Flip Side/Rounds 11 Creator of the Dance 82 RID Pulse Poll 13 The Master Plan 92 Choreo Ratings 15 The Magic Bag 108 Check Your Objectives 17 Mesa, the S/D Capital 19 The Peril of Placing Partners FOR CALLERS 23 Gripe, Gripe, Gripe 53 Calling Tips 27 Linelight 54 Easy Level Page 29 Rhyme Time 60 Creative Choreography 41 Hem-Line 64 PS/MS 43 Product Line 68 Flip Side/Squares 49 Plumb Line 83 S/D Pulse Poll 51 Dancing Tips 86 Steal A Little Peek 70 People in the News 88 Underlining 77 Puzzle Page 108 Check Your Objectives 84 Dandy Idea 85 Best Club Trick SQUARE DANCE SCENE 91 Encore 21 I'm Alabamy Bound 109 Book Nook 37 LEGACY 110 Finish Line 39 State Line 112 Laugh Line 58 Challenge Chatter OUR READERS SPEAK 72 International News 87 Speaking of Singles 6 Grand Zip 94 Dateline 31 Feedback 98 Callerlab 35 Straight Talk 107 The Clogging Line 105 Rave IIAI IN VA VII VA VII Old NV NI IN MI VII VS NV Will VA Vi MAI WI WA MI VA Vi Vi Publishers and Editors Editorial Assistants Stan & Cathie Burdick Mona Bird Mary Jane Connerth Mary Fabik Phyllis Lockwood Bob Mellen Member of NASRDS Workshop Editors National Association of S&R/D Supplier Ed Fraidenburg Bob Howell Walt Cole AMERICAN SQUAREDANCE Magazine Feature Writers (ISSN 0091-3383) is published by Burdick Harold & Lill Bausch Bev Warner Enterprises. Second class postage paid Mary Jenkins Russ & Nancy Nichols at Huron, Ohio. Copy deadline first of Gene & Thelma Trimmer month preceding date of issue. Sub- Record Reviewers scription: $9.00 per year. Single copies: Frank & Phyl Lehnert John & Gail Swindle $1.00 each. Mailing address: Box 488. Huron OH 44839. Copyright 1984 by Bur Canadian Representative dick Enterprises. All rights reserved. Orphie Easson 3 American Squareclance, November 1984 It's a small world! We all know that. and we know that with modern com- munication and transportation systems, the world grows smaller. Neighbors and friends are not only next door or in our home square dance clubs but on the other side of the world. Our oldest son has gone to Hawaii to teach for a term. There he met two daughters of an old friend of ours from YMCA work days. A few days later, walk- ing the beach at Waikiki, he heard square dance music. Introducing him- self at a break, he found himself talking to Ed Foote from Pennsylvania. Small world. We're always being reminded how small it really is! Hearing a talk on "sharing," we begin to muse about our world of square dan- cing, both wide-spread and small at the same time. The speaker was reminding C,-4) his audience that when you share know- sponsored and dancers has more fun! ledge, you don't lose anything. You still In any refusal to share, the square have the knowledge, but so does the dance activity loses, and individuals "sharee" then have the knowledge. You build walls of loneliness, grudges. may even gain because you enlarge your power-seeking and other "bricks" that own capacity to learn and grow as you separate people in the hobby. share. Thinking about the sharing that goes Many readers who are new to square on now in local associations and federa- dancing may not remember the days tions, in the two national round dance when every caller had "his dancers" and associations, in Callerlab, in LEGACY his little black book of calls, jealously and Mini-LEGACIES, and around the guarded. If a caller originated a figure, it edges of every dance floor, we decided was "his" figure, not to be shared by any that's what we're thankful for in other caller. We may sound ancient—of November 1984. What a bountiful har- course, we started dancing at a very vest of sharing opportunities have open- young age, but 36 years ago, that's the ed up, besides those offered when we way it was, for the most part! join eight hands and circle to the music! 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Among the other goodies at our Thanksgiving feast are: A discussion by Phyllis McCall on the role of the caller's wife. Phyllis is half of the Mac McCall calling team in the Washington D.C. area. The revelation of the contents of a "magic bag" by Bill Barr, a newer caller from Connecticut, who obviously enjoys writing, too. The explanation of Mesa, Arizona's claim to being the square dance capital of the world, by Wayne and Norma Wylie, well-known round dance leaders who moved to that area in the last decade. Another adventure of the A-Team by Dan and Carol Parkinson, following closely upon the article on "partners in ocean waves" and treating the same topic more lightly, as befits fiction. Two articles by Bev Warner, one in "Hem- Line" and the other giving tips on how to deal with the habitual complainer (Try her tips for yourself.) Maggie Wade's cartoon is deceptive in its simplicity, but accomplishes its purpose—a smile, or perhaps a laugh! Mary Heisey reminds us with a square dance poem that we should participate in November's big event, the national election. Don't forget to vote! And enjoy your Thanksgiving dances and feasts! ADVERTISERS LISTING For extra convenience to readers. we are listing our advertisers (space ads only) and numbering each. Readers should still write directly to advertisers as they wish, but any who desire information from several advertisers may circle the numbers on the blank below and we will forward their requests to the proper advertisers. I Allemande Shop 76 Double J Services 51 Merrbach Record Service 75 Sewing Specialties 2 AST) Tours 27 EEI Graphics 57 Micro Plastics 77 Shirley's S/D Shoppe 3 Ashton Electronics 28. 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