Square Dance January 1976
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Box 505, Clinton CT 06413 (203) 669-7548 2 AMERICAN El VOLUME 33, No. 1 • JANUARY 1978 SQURRE ORNCE Mr. and Mrs. RusFc,11 THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE Hoekstra 67 Forest CI WITH THE SWINGING LINES .n Road Longmeadow, %L.ss. 01106 CONTENTS • 4 Co-Editorial • 6 Grand Zip • 7 By-Line • 8 Meanderings • 11 Professional Profile Publishers and Editors • 15 Signs Of The Times Stan & Cathie Burdick • 19 A Grand Square • 21 What's Happening? Workshop Editors * 23 Digging Up The Past Willard Orlich * 27 The Case Is Closed Bob Howell * 29 Good Styling— Who Needs It? * 31 Encore Ed Fraidenburg * 33 Dandy Idea Record Reviewers * 34 Straight Talk • 35 Feedback John Swindle • 37 Rhyme Time Frank & Phyl Lehnert • 39 Wheeling & Dealing Festival Feature Writers 41 LEGACY • 43 Hem-Line Harold & Lill Bausch 4t 44 Callerlab Confab Jim Kassel • 45 Notes Of Nostalgia Mary Jenkins 46 Keep 'Em Dancing • 48 Dancing Tips Editorial Assistants • 49 Calling Tips Mona Bird • 50 Easy Level Page Mary Fabik 52 Let's All Meet in OK City • 57 Challenge Chatter Ruth Garris • 58 Workshop 66 ASDA/Int. Report Jo Homyak • Mef Merrell 67 Sketchpad Commentary • 69 Puzzle Page • 70 People • 72 International News • 76 Steal A Little Peek • 77 Product Line • 78 R/D Record Reviews AMERICAN SQUAREDANCE maga- • 79 SID Record Reviews zine is published by Burdick Enter- • 83 Speaking Of Singles prises. Second class postage paid at • 84 Events Sandusky, Ohio. Copy deadline first of * 88 It Really Happened month preceding date of issue. Sub- * 90 SID Pulse Poll scription: $7.00 per year. Single copies: • 91 RID Pulse Poll 70 cents each. Mailing address: Box * 100 Best Club Trick 788, Sandusky OH 44870. Copyright * 105 Book Nook 1977 by Burdick Enterprises. All rights * 107 Finish Line reserved. • 108 Laugh Line 3 January 1978! Another return of the month named for the two-faced God Janus, who looks into the past and future at the same time. Our look toward the past shows us that since the advent of square thru and wheel and deal in modern western square dancing, dancers have moaned about the great influx of new basics. We focus on this in our current two-way sighting because the outcry has recently suffer from the format change. grown much stronger. Many dancers All levels now have standardized lists and callers are convinced that the of basics. A moratorium would enable greatest problem facing us in 1978 is the each group of dancers to work at really number of "new" basics and the knowing everything on their list from all incapability of all of us to learn so much positions. It would enable dancers to in order to enjoy club dancing. move into the next higher level if they We don't remember who was first to wished. rather than having to cope with suggest a "year's moratorium on new a constant barrage of "new" figures. basics" but we've certainly seen (See the comment in "Challenge enough letters mentioning this and Chatter.") articles suggesting that something must A moratorium would only be operable be done to warrant bringing up the if generally agreed to. However, there matter in an editorial. (See "What's is now an organization through which Happening?") the proposal could be discussed, A year's moratorium would not solve accepted or rejected by the callers, and the total problem of dropouts. Also that organization is Callerlab. needed are improvements in caller How about it. readers? The sugges- training and relaxing of the pressures tion came from one of you. Do you agree on newer dancers. But perhaps if a with the proponents of a year's consensus of the square dancing moratorium? If so. write to this population calls for the moratorium, magazine or to John Kaltenthaler, 1978 is the year it may come to pass. executive secretary of Callerlab. PO Box The publishing of material in our 679, Pocono Pines PA 18350. "Workshop" would not change. Thou- This problem of overwhelming sands of variations are possible with the amounts of material seems to be basics we now have. Note service causing great concern as 1978 begins. publishers around the world could Only we, the square dancers. can solve follow the same procedure, rather than it. A moratorium on new figures is one print "new" experimentals, and not suggestion: do you have others? 4 ... and remember there's SNOW time like the present to renew your subscription to ASD.... AMERICAN SIURRE DRNCE Sandusky 66 Ohio 44870 Please start my subscription NOW. My check (or money order) is enclosed. ❑ One Year at $7 ❑ Two Years at $12 Canadian and Foreign add $1 per year postage NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP CODE help to make it our favorite dance publication. Sign us again for another year of it! Buzz & Dianne Pereira Stevensville, Ml I am new to square dancing, in fact I am still in basic training. I have been shown sample copies of your publication American Squaredance and am im- pressed with the quality of the material and what you are doing for the movement. I want to get the right start as a square dancer. Enclosed Asa money order to cover the cost of a two year subscription. Mike Migliaccio Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Enclosed is my subscription to your magazine. It is a valuable source of Thank you for helping me to have a information. I've been square dancing a beautiful day yesterday. I was very little over a year, learning to be a caller surprised and quite pleased to receive and I'm teaching for the first time to a your November issue with my poem group of fine students, clogging. This "Dancing at the White House" inclu- magazine helps me with all three. I ded. Many thanks for the.... kind won't ever have to worry about keeping mention of me in your "By-Line" on top of things. credits. I look forward to writing for you Another reason I love this magazine again. What a handsome cover on the is because it talks about places I've November issue! I see something new been to and I also have relatives there. I in it every time I look at its was born in Greenville, SC, I've been all variety-packed tribute to square dan- over Georgia, Tennessee and North cing. You certainly chose well. Carolina. It's like receiving a part of Mary F. Heisey home each time. Thank you so much for York, Pennsylvania making me feel good. Beckie A. Dupree Another year? The days do indeed Kingsville, TX pass quickly. Enclosed is the magazine advertising order. We wish you every Thank you for publishing my poem continued success with your magazine, "Dance In A Square". I appreciate your and are glad to be participating with corrections, and I will retype my copy to you. the one published. Happy dancing and happy editing! Cheers to Valerie Titus for her story. Jennie Lee — Armeta Inch by inch, "A Partner for Isaac", is a Milwaukie, Oregon beautiful story that is very touching. I I enclose my check, for which please also liked George Pollack's "How To enter my subscription to your magazine. Become A Well-Known Square Danc- In the free copy which I picked up in er." Atlantic City last June, I noticed a I've enjoyed reading your magazine. "Wanted" ad (Page 84 in June and July Gordon D. Leslie issues). Also in the November issue of Trenton, New Jersey Square Dancing there is a letter to the editor regarding round and square As round dance leaders and avid dance gigolos. square dancers, we too truly enjoy Your "Wanted" ad and the gigolo American Squaredance magazine. The letter have given me an idea. I have quality of the paper used to print your been single for about two years and fine magazine and the interesting have been searching for a single female articles of square and round dancing Continued on Page 96 6 One of the fringe benefits of square dancing is the international fellowship we enjoy. It is often said that the best feature of any convention is seeing old friends and making new ones. In looking over the list of authors for this month, we realized that we knew each of them personally and that we had met them at a variety of events in locations from coast to coast. To illustrate the point, we have to make "By-Line" a little personal, but here goes: We met Ed Butenhof at a New England Convention — that's the east coast. Ed is currently moderator of the Caller's Co-op in Rochester, New York, and chairman of the Callerlab Committee on Traditional Dancing. Bob Wright we met at the 1969 National Convention in Seattle, Washington — that's west. Bob was the keynote speaker of the 1977 Washington Leadership Seminar and his speech is digested in this issue and the next. Howie Shirley was present at a callers' clinic in the Washington, D.C. area (That's Mid-Atlantic!) when Stan met him.