It's New! It's Exciting! It's for Square Dancers and their Friends! SQUARE DANCE Magazine's 1968 SQUARE DANCE TOURS MIAMI - CARIBBEAN - HAWAII Imagine, you, your friends and dozens of other square dancers enjoying the sights, sun and fun of fabulous Miami or Hawaii or the Caribbean. SQUARE DANCE Magazine is now busy planning such tours for 1968. Leading callers will accompany each tour so you're sure there'll be plenty of dancing too. Marilyn and Arvid Olson, Publisher and Editor of SQUARE DANCE Mag- azine, will be your hosts. All air travel will be via North- west Airlines. Brochures giving full details will be available soon. Write for your copy now. No charge or obligation, of course. Fill out coupon below. MAIL COUPON FOR FREE BROCHURES Square Dance Tours, c/o SQUARE DANCE Magazine 1622 North Rand Road, Arlington Heights, Ill. 60004 Please send the brochures I have checked below explaining in detail your SQUARE DANCE TOURS FOR 1968. —MIAMI —CARIBBEAN —HAWAII Name Address City State Zip r- --1 1 1 . Square and Round . i . Dancers . i . i , i i , , i UNITE! , , I Square and Round Dancing is probably America's finest type of re- 1 1 creation. You agree? Fine. But what are you doing personally to 1 I get people acquainted with our recreation? Do you invite people to t i square dance who have never done so? What has been their reaction? 1 1 You have probably found that almost everyone not now square i 1 or round dancing has a very fuzzy notion of what our recreation is. 1 i Square and Round Dancing needs an active NATIONAL organization 1 that will present the true picture, the true image of our recreation t i to all Americans. i 1 I While golf and bowling and numerous other forms of recreation i I have increased in popularity, ours has not grown at the rate it should i have. Why? There are many reasons. That is why the National Square I Dance Association was formed. i The NSDA is dedicated to get national publicity and recognition in all forms the same way bowling and golf have done in the past I 10 years. This takes money and organization. Are you with us? Great! 1 I Send in your application now ... your dues will help us get started. 1 i I There are many other things NSDA can do for present square I and round dancing which will be outlined with your membership 1 i card. Join up now! i i ■ CLIP AND MAIL TODAY I I . NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION . I Enclosed find $5.00 (per person or Please enroll (me) (us) as Charter Mem- I 1 per couple) enrollment fee for one ber(s) in the National Square Dance 1 1 year membership, charter certifi- Association: i cate, m e m b e r s h i p card(s), and (Mr. & Mrs.) (Mr.) (Mrs.) (Miss) 1 l other privileges. I understand $2.50 I of this amount is for SQUARE i I DANCE Magazine subscription (12 Address i 1 issues), the Official Publication of City i the Association. I State Zip I Mail this form and remittance to: Signed I National square Dance Association I 6l2 N. Rand Rd. Remarks I Arlington Heights, III. 60004 ....1 SQUARE VOLUME 23, Number I DANCE SEPTEMBER 1967 Formerly American Squares Publisher and Editor SPECIAL FEATURES ARVID OLSON 8 The Village That Square Dancing Built by Bob Sloan 12 Stir the Bucket Associate Editors by Stan Burdick CATHY BURDICK 14 Swing Your Partner by Herbert E. Smith STAN BURDICK 17 Louisville Awarded 1970 Convention As WILBUR LIEVENS 9,729 Attend 16th National In Philadelphia WILLARD ORLICH 18 What's Being Round Danced? 21 Square Dance Center 37 More Easy Singing Calls by Stan Burdick National Advisory Board EDNA and GENE ARNFIELD AL "TEX" BROWNLEE REGULAR FEATURES LOUIS CALHOUN 6 The Editor's Page JOHNNY DAVIS 7 Mail JERRY HELT 33 Records JOHN HENDRON 39 Notional News and Events PHYL and FRANK LEHNERT 43 Do-Ci-Do Dolores MELTON LUTTRELL SINGIN' SAM MITCHELL VAUGHN PARRISH WORKSHOP 25 Choreography SQUARE DANCE Magazine is pub- lished monthly at 1622 N. Rand Rd. Arlington Heights. III.. 60004 by 26 Caller's Questions American Squares, Inc. Second class postage paid at Arlington Heights, Ill., and additional mailing offices. 26 Basic Breakdown Forms close 1st of month preceding date of issue. Subscription: $5.00 27 Figures and Breaks per year. Single copies: 50 cents each. Copyright 1967 by American Squares, Inc, All rights reserved. 31 New Ideas Met any NEW Square Dancers Lately? Why not introc uce them to us? New dancers are usually very enthusiastic about their new found hobby. They like to learn and read all they can that will help them enjoy their hobby more and make them good dancers faster. SQUARE DANCE Magazine is the national magazine that every new dancer should get to know as soon as possible. Here each month the newcomer will get concise but complete details on what's going on in the square and round dance field throughout the country. Then there are features and articles by nationally known callers and leaders that certainly every new dancer will en- joy. Yes, to help those new dancers become "old pros" there's nothing like reading as well as dancing . and there's no national square dance magazine quite like SQUARE DANCE. Why not give this copy to that new dancer. Tell him the sub- scription price is only $5.00 per year. We'll be glad to give him more details. SQUARE DANCE Magazine 1622 N. Rand Rd., Arlington Heights, Ill. 60004 (312) 255-4060 • SQUARE DANCE Magazine is 23 years old! O It's the oldest and most influential publication O in the square dance field. Square dance callers O and leaders rely on SQUARE DANCE. Dancers find each issue especially helpful to them. The O ideas, comments, and material presented help O them to enjoy their hobby more. O During these 23 years SQUARE DANCE O has changed. So has the entire square dance O movement. SQUARE DANCE (formerly Amer- • ican Squares) has grown from a two page O mimeographed newsletter to a slick, top qual- ❑ ity publication that averages 24 times the O number of pages as in the beginning. O Square dancing has grown from a folk ❑ activity based on fun and wholesome recreation ❑ to a movement involving over 30 million O people. Square dancing today is world wide. O It has changed and it will continue to change. Publisher and Editor Some of the changes we predict include the ARVID OLSON O • following. Bigger and better facilities such as • our Square Dance Center. Within five years there will be Centers in many metropolitan O areas where square dancers can get together to 0 enjoy their hobby. THE Calling and teaching will reach a profes- • sional status. The trend is in this direction. O Years ago, it was hard to find a good caller. O Today virtually every city and town has at O least one professional or semi-professional EDITOR'S O caller. Callers spend more time and money im- ❑ proving their abilities. They attend callers O colleges, subscribe to as much material as they O can find, and invest in better sound equip- • ment. PAGE O The level of dancing will continue to be- • come higher. As the abilities of callers grow, O the level of dancing will improve, become O smoother, and offer more of a challenge to ❑ all dancers. This is not to say that easy dancing will disappear. One night stands, fun level O clubs, and easy dances will make more of an O impact on the entire movement than ever O before. O National media will give more coverage to O square dance events and happenings as report- O ers and editors become more aware of the O square dance movement. This, in turn, will O stimulate more publicity. ❑ But as these changes come about, square O dancing will continue to be a couple activity O that provides endless amounts of enjoyment ❑ for young and old. As the population increases, there will be more and more square dancers. O ❑ The activity will continue to grow and grow and grow. The fun and fellowship of square O dancing will insure that growth. 0 0 6 criminated toward none. Keep up the good work. As a matter of interest, . we are making history out this way. I just called the world's first symphony square dance. It was a smash hit. Brought several hundred non-square dancers on the floor at the close to A very enthusiastic thank you for show them how easy it was to learn. the square dance records which I lost I feel we did a tremendous lot of not a minute putting on the turntable. good. It is many years since I did any square Harold Bausch dancing. It is interesting to listen to Leigh, Nebr. these recordings and to some of the new figures which have been de- . As a caller and teacher of veloped. square and round dancing, I use quite Winnif red Gill a bit of the material that is printed in New York, N. Y. SQUARE DANCE. One of our clubs workshops most of the figures each month. I am writing this letter to compli- . Keep up the good work. ment you on the good Willard Orlich Carl Miller is doing with the Workshop material Pasadena, Tex. and the straight forward answers to Callers' Questions in SQUARE DANCE Magazine.