AMERICAN Single Copy $1.00 FEBRUARY 1984 Annual $9.00 SOURRE DANCE "THE BOSS" by Woo Power enough for 100 squares— twice the power of our previous models, yet small and lightweight for quick, convenient portability. Exceptional Reliability— proven in years of square dance use. A $1,000. Value— but priced at just $725.! Why the P-400 Is the Finest Professional Sound System Available This 17-pound system, housed in a 14"x14"x5" sewn vinyl carrying 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 "loarresults 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!) Int3rnal 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 emergency 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 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 $725. THE BOSS is the best choice at any price. Say you saw 11 in ASD (Credit Burdick) CLINTON INSTRUMENT COMPANY, PO BOX 505, CLINTON CT 06413 Tel: 203-669-7548 2 AMERICAN P1 SCJURRE ORNCE VOLUME 39, No. 2 THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE FEBRUARY. 1984 WITH THE SWINGING LINES P.M PA PJII P11 Itn P.A Pit Pill P.01 Pfil Pfil P.11 Pfl PAPA P.PI 1111 Poll PAMPA WI ASD FEATURES FOR ALL SQUARE DANCE SCENE 4 Co-editorial 29 Speaking of Singles 5 By-Line 41 33rd National Convention 7 Meandering With Stan 52 State Line 11 S/D Should Be A Circle 57 Challenge Chatter 13 Coming Up Roses 66 International News 15 Square Dancing— Hawaiian Style 83 LEGACY 17 Michigan House Party 97 Date-Line 19 How To Make A Class Fun 21 Dandy Idea OUR morns SPEAK 30 Top of the Line 6 Grand Zip 31 Linelight 23 Straight Talk 33 Rave 43 Feedback 35 Hemline ROUNDS 37 Encore 45 Rhyme Time 25 Roundalab 47 Best Club Trick 63 Facing the RLOD 48 Dancing Tips 75 Flip Side/Rounds 64 People in the News 75 Choreo Ratings 69 Double 35th 85 R/D Pulse Poll 71 Steal A Peek 93 Cue Tips 79 Puzzle Page FOR CALLERS 82 Long Lineage Line-up 88 Bread Line 49 Calling Tips 89 Plumb Line 50 Easy Level 91 Product Line 58 Creative Choreography 105 Book Nook 62 PS/MS 106 Finish Line 76 Flip Side/Squares 108 DoCiDo Dolores 84 S/D Pulse Poll 86 Underlining the Note Services iwW WWWWWWWWWfaI WI IWIWIfWVI WW We VI VI MO Mil WI VA Workshop Editors Publishers and Editors Ed Fraidenburg Bob Howell Stan & Cathie Burdick Howie Shirley Feature Writers Harold & Lill Bausch Dave & Lonnie Fleck Member of NASRDS Mary Jenkins Russ & Nancy Nichols National Association of S&R/D Suppliers Gene & Thelma Trimmer Bev Warner AMERICAN SQUAREDANCE Magazine Editorial Assistants (ISSN 0091-3383) is published by Burdick Mona Bird Virginia Bridgman Enterprises. Second class postage paid Mary Jane Connerth Mary Fabik at Huron, Ohio. Copy deadline first of Bob Mellen Mef Merrell 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 American Squaredance, February 1984 3 "Moody Blues" may be a romantic name for a song title, but moody blues are in reality no fun at all! Everyone knows that! One of the very positive things that many new dancers say about square dancing is that gloomy and de- pressed feelings are chased away by the fun and the concentration of an evening's dancing. We live very close to Lake Erie and often note the changing moods of the seascape— serene and lovely, angry and churning. Sailing on Lake George has taught us, too, how quickly a lake's mood can change from peaceful to treacherous. Here in northern Ohio, while we dec- orate insides and outsides of homes for the holidays, we have had an excep- tionally gloomy month, weatherwise, ac- companied by the usual gripes about the "yucky" rain and mud. Just this hour. as outside circumstances influence his/her we sit at the typesetter, the sun peeked moods no matter how well this is dis- through. What a change in mood! Just guised by humor and effervescence. as John Denver sings. "Sunshine on my Although our decorations here and shoulder almost always makes me now are Christmas trees and wreaths, high!" when you read this, it will be almost time What's the point of all this talk of to hang up the lacy hearts and red Valen- moods? Just to bring it to readers' atten- tine streamers. February is a "people" tion that we don't often consider moods month, when we honor those we love as or take them seriously. Just as Mother Valentines, and those we admire as pa- Nature's moods change the weather and triots. How about "reaching out" with the lakes, our moods vary day by day. love and admiration to those around you Callers need to remember this in work- who operate your club, teach your class, ing constantly with dancers and with call your dance program, take your hand clubs. (Did you realize that clubs and in the square? Love them in spite of the classes have moods, too, and some ses- occasional bad mood, help them sions will be colored strongly by those through the next "sticky" chore or moods, both "high" and "low?") Dan- broken-down square, and see if your cers should realize that no caller is mood isn't improved, too. Happy Feb- always at his peak performance, that ruary! Squa,te Sfteceeateed SQUARE DANCE HOSTESS ACCESSORIES P.O. BOX 7263 PORT ST. LUCIE, FL 33485 25 Bev or Lunch Napkins .80 50 Bev or Lunch Napkins SQUARE DANCE HOSTESS ACCESSORIES 1.40 24 Coasters SPECIALTY PRINTING AND LAMINATING .75 24 Place Mats 1.35 1 Decal DICouple Motif Evie & Dick Thomas .60 1 Decal Crossed Sqs. 421 Ruffner Court .50 Port Si Lucie. FL 40 Pcs Party Pak: Nap, Coast, Mat 1.95 33452 24 Pcs Snak Pak: Napkins 8 Coasters .85 48 Pcs Gill Box: Napkins 8 Coasters 1.75 1 Key Tag, plastic wiDance Couple 500 Address Labels siCouple $3.50 .75 1 Boot Case, leather key holder .90 Send for Free Mail Order Catalog 1 Boxed Stationery, DlCouple Motif 2.10 Dealer inquiries welcome. Please add S1.00 for Handling Charge 4 American Squaredance. February 1984. Three authors and two poets have bylines in this February issue, which means that more of the features were written by regular writers and by your editors. Brian Eddings authored the story on Hawaiian square dancing. while Agnes Grit. for describes a square dance house party of many years ago. A presentation for a Washington State Leadership Seminar by caller Harris Stockard is reprinted. Fre- quent contributors Mary Heisey and Ida Reilinger appear once again in "Rhyme Time." Space remains, then. io present Valentines to regular ASD writers, Harold and Lill Bausch, Mary Jenkins, Mary Fabik, Russ and Nancy Nichols, Gene and Thelma Trimmer and Beverly Warner. Faithful reviewers Frank and Phyl Lehnert and John and Gail Swindle deserve many lacy bouquets for their record reviews. Workshop writers Ed Fraidenburg, Bob Howell and Howie Shirley have provided material for hundreds of callers and many more dancers through their efforts. We call attention to a new addition to our masthead: Orphie Easson, who has agreed to serve as our Canadian representative. Orphie has staffed the ASD booth at Canadian conventions and has been featured in the Professional Profile series. She was a member of the Advisory Board of this magazine some years ago. Welcome aboard, Orphie. 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. t Authentic Patterns 21 ESP Records 41 Maverick Enterprises 61 Sewing Specialties 2 Bachelors N Bacheloreltes "z2 Fontana Village Resort 42 Merrbach Record Service 62 Share Recreation Centers 3 Badge Holders Inc 23 Four Bar B 43 Micro Plastics 63 Shirley's Sill Snoppe 4 Balloon Baron 24 Ed Fraidenburg 44 Mustang Records 64 Meg Simkins 5 B & S S/D Strop 25 Fun Valley Resort 45 MW Records 65 Sound Lott 6 Blackwood Travel .6 Grenn Records 46 National S/D Directory 66 S/D Callers Assoc 01 So.