VOLUME 64 • NUMBER 9 MAY 2014 PRESIDENT The Kathy Chase New Peninsula Council Team VICE PRESIDENT Gene Currier for Sou’Wester Council 15 TREASURER Tom Rohde Central Puget Sound Council RECORDING SECRETARY Tom Tomlinson Rainier Council CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Ellen Ostrum Mount Baker Council Published by the Square and Folk Dance Federation of Washington MAY 2014 VOL. 64 NO. 9 FOOTNOTES STAFF Margaret Miller..................................Co-Editor CONTENTS Scott & Shirley Marriner.................Co-Editor Table of Contents..............................................1 Kay & Roger Mahan........Business Manager Our Advertisers..................................................2 Urban & Jonnie Jenquin.... 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Little Rock, Arkansas Dancers, Callers, Cuers, Clubs 46th Annual Education & Leadership Seminar Please visit and use the Washington July 11, 12 & 13, 2014 Federation Web Site often Circle 8 Ranch http://www.squaredance-wa.org Cle Elum, Washington Send lesson information 13th USA West Square Dance Convention immediately to Computer Coordinator-Webmaster, August 14 - 16, 2014 Dick Beham Pendleton Convention Center [email protected] Pendleton, Oregon 2 | FOOTNOTES www.squaredance-wa.org May 2014 May 2014 www.squaredance-wa.org FOOTNOTES | 3 THE GAVEL Kathy & Frank Chase 253.857.4320 [email protected] Hello to my dear friends and Square Dance family. It is officially spring time. I wish someone would tell the weather that. I know we live in Washington, but come on, enough with the rain, right? Frank and I first of all want to send our prayers to all of those who live up north and are going through this