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f t AMERICAN SQUARE DANC NOVEMBER 1979 Annual $8. Single Copy $1. \f-t wash., Meet THE BOSS BY Power enough for 100 squares— twice the power of our previous models, yet small and lightweight for quick, convenient portability. Exceptional Reliability— tre\ 410 proven in years of square dance use. \40 \ A $1,000. Value— _211. but priced at just $595.! * Why the P-400 is the Finest Professional SouncTli7System This 17-pound system, housed in a 14"x14"x5" sewn vinyl carrying case, is easy to transport and set up, yet will deliver an effortless 120 R.M.S. watts of clear, clean power. Conservative design which lets the equipment "loaf" results in high reliability and long life. Yet this small powerhouse has more useful features than we have ever offered before: VU meter for convenient visual sound level indication Two separate power amplifiers Two separately adjustable microphone channels Optional remote music control 5-gram stylus pressure for extended record life (Others use up to 10!) Internal strobe BUILT-IN music-only monitor power amplifier Tape input and output Convenient control panel Exclusive Clinton Features Only Clinton has a floating pickup/turntable suspension, so that an accidental bump as you reach for a control knob will not cause needle skip. Only Clinton equipment can be operated on an inverter, on high line voltage, or under conditions of output overload without damage. Only Clinton offers a dual speed control— normal and extended range (0-80 r.p.m.) and automatic speed change from 33 to 45 rpm Clinton alone rates power output, supplies a comprehensive service handbook including SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS for easy emergen- cy service, and makes available plug-in components for such service We Back Up Our Products If you don't like the P-400 for any reason, return it within 30 days for a full refund (except shipping). Parts and labor for any factory service within one year are fully warranted. For as long as you, the original purchaser, own your Clinton, we will supply loan equipment should you wish to return it to us for service. If price were no object, the P-400 would still be the best performing and most reliable system on the market. Yet this new standard of excellence is priced at a modest $595. THE BOSS is the best choice at any price. Say you saw it in ASD (Credit Burdick) CLINTON INSTRUMENT COMPANY, PO Box 505, Clinton CT 06413 Tel: 203-669-7548 2 AMERICAN Volume 34, No. 11 November 1979 SOURRE ORNCE 4 Co-Editorial THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE 6 Grand Zip 7 By-Line WITH THE SWINGING LINES 8 Meanderings 11 The First American Dance.... 13 Hall-Building How-To 14 A Word To The Wise 15 The Old Square Dance Barn 17 A Clean Mind & Dirty Fingernails 18 Overseas Dancers Reunion 21 Fancy Footwork 23 Stepping Out Publishers and Editors 25 Coming Up Roses 27 Callerlab Confab Stan & Cathie Burdick 29 Rhyme Time Workshop Editors 31 Best Club Trick Ed Fraidenburg 32 Straight Talk 35 Square Line Bob Howell 36 Dandy Idea 37 Encore Record Reviewers 39 Hemline John Swindle 41 29th National Convention Frank & Phyl Lehnert 43 Feedback 45 More Feedback Feature Writers 46 Square 'Em Up Harold & Lill Bausch 47 Calling Tips Jim Kassel 48 Easy Level Page 50 Stompin' On A Stump Mary Jenkins 52 Puzzle Page Dave & Shirley Fleck 53 Sketchpad Commentary 54 Challenge Chatter Editorial Assistants 56 Creative Choreography Mona Bird 62 People 64 International News Mary Fabik 68 Product Line Ruth Garris 69 Flip Side— Rounds Pat Gillam 69 Choreography Ratings Bob Mellen 70 Flip Side— Squares 74 Events Mef Merrell 78 S/D Pulse Poll 79 RID Pulse Poll 80 Steal A Peek 81 Underlining 83 Speakina of Singles AMERICAN SQUAREDANCE Maga- 93 Dancing Tips zine (ISSN 0091-3383) is published by 97 Book Nook Burdick Enterprises. Second class pos- 98 Finish Line tage paid at Sandusky, Ohio. Copy 100 Laugh Line deadline first of month preceding date of issue. Subscription: $8.00 per year. Member of NASRDS Single copies: $1 each. Mailing address: National Assoc. of S&R /D Suppliers Box 488, Huron OH 44839. Copyright The appearance of advertisement in 1979 by Burdick Enterprises. All rights American Squaredance does not consti- reserved. tute an endorsement of the product. American Squaredance. November 1979 3 If one looks through the "wrong end" of a telescope, one sees "little things" that fill the whole picture. Little things — occurrences, happenings, events— can overshadow the wide-angle views of CO-EDITOR& our worlds. In "meanderings" this month, Stan tells of one trip's adventures with a flat tire, heavy rains and loss of electrical power. A week later, we again spent several hours hovering over another car that wouldn't quite start — our son's. After it was towed away to the Opel hospital for major surgery, we reflected on the frustration and futility experi- enced. We are definitely not the Pollyanna type and little wrong things have a way of (momentarily, at least) coloring our attitudes, turning nice days into depressing ones, sapping energies squares, the squares who dance their and warping once happy outlooks. own steps regardless of the calls, the Much as we extol the happiness and joy lack of thanks for jobs done, the of square dancing in clubs, we know difficulties of getting and of being that sad "little things" do occur which officers. These are all minor things that are as frustrating as our flat tires and can be corrected, and they are never cranky motors. found all in one telescopic look at any Several articles this month deal with one club. (It's a good thing; such a club some of these "little things." And they could not long survive.) are small and not worth being given a This is Thanksgiving month. "Thank lion's share of attention. But they do you" is one of the happier "little happen and constantly. Some of them things" in life and in square dancing. are "little things" to be called to the Put it into practice. Thank your officers, attention of the square dance "family" thank your callers, thank your hosts and and ironed out. They should never be hostesses on refreshment committees, aired to the general public, for whom we thank the caller's wife, thank your paint bright pictures of square dancing guests — be lavish with thanks for as the epitome of fun and fellowship. everyone. Throw in a compliment, Read our articles in this light, and keep whenever deserved, and watch your in mind that the seemingly negative club's image glow, beacon-like, to all approach of listing some problems is the dancers in your area. only to bring them to your attention for We're thankful, too, that what repair and resolution. seemed to be a late spring slump in When we turn our telescope right-- many clubs has been reversed into side round, we bring the long view flourishing classes, round-ups of drop- closer. If we could maintain this outs, and some of the largest annual objective outlook, we'd see all the good dances ever. It'll take more than a gas things in dancing that far outweigh the shortage and galloping inflation to frustrations. We'd see the anticipation stamp out an activity that lets us forget of dancers arriving, the happy expecta- these problems and kick up our heels tion in squaring up. the smiles and jokes joyfully. in the squares. the satisfaction for both Thanks, too, to all the faithful readers caller and dancers in arriving at who write us their opinions, their allemande left successfully, the sharing feedback, send their articles and keep of refreshments, the pleasant tiredness us informed of square dance events and following the evening. We could ignore happenings all over the world. We the closed squares, the unwelcoming appreciate you. We really do. Thank clubs, the caller who gleefully stops you! 4 American Squaredance, November 1979 CLIP AND MAIL AMERICAN I SQUARE I We'll keep it under I DANCE P.O. BOX 788, SANDUSKY, OHIO 44870 I our hat until Xmas I I Enclosed is . 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Thank you for the fine article "Dancing With Good Vibes" and the Puzzle Page by Edward Graff in the September issue. I'm sure that you will be pleased to learn of the intense total communication (both sign language and speech) conversation that it provoked when I shared it with my co-worker at HEW in Washington, D.C.— Dr. Boyce Williams. Dr. Williams is the Director of the Office of Deafness and Communi- cative Disorders in the Rehabilitation We the Stintfang Square Dancers of Services Administration and is the Hamburg are planning a big USA-trip highest ranking deaf person, I believe, with 45 participants.