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Box 50 • Marlborough, NH 03455-0050 AMERICAN VOLUME 51, No 6 SQUAREDANCE JUNE 1996 THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE WITH THE SWINGING LINES THE ASD LINE-UP SQUARE DANCE SCENE 2 Editor's Notebook 17 What's Going On 4 By Line In Square Dancing 8 Ask Dave 30 People and Events 9 Dancing Jewels 82 A/C Lines 13 Book Nook Advanced & Challenge 23 Tempo 88 Dateline 25 USA West 95 45' National Convention 27 ACA 29 Correction & Apologies ROUNDS 35 Notes From A Veteran Caller 37 Cue Tips 38 Joys Of Square Dancing 56 Flip Side Rounds 40 Circle Right 85 Round Dance Pulse Poll 46 Jewelry 53 As 1 See It 65 Meandering FOR CALLERS 70 Hemline 3 Three Rs 75 Callerlab Viewpoints 24 Square Dance Pulse Poll 83 A Shot In The Arm 39 Accredited Caller Coaches 92 Classifieds 42 Creative Choreography 96 Finish Line 63 Flip Side Squares 72 Easy Level OUR READERS SPEAK 86 Colleges Are Coming 57 Feedback 76 Grand Zip CONTRA/CW 80 Straight Talk 15 Contra Corners 50 The Country Line 62 Dancing Contra TEXAS 19% Editorial Assistants Publishers and Editors Jeanne Briscoe Phyllis Arthur Jon & Susan Sanborn Dorothy Walker Phone: 408-443-0761 Fax: 408-443-6402 E-mail: [email protected] Workshop Editors Member of NASRDS National Association 01 S&P/0 Suppliers Bob Howell Jack Murtha L&S Kopman Don Ward Tony Speranzo Jim Cholmondeley American Square Dance (ISSN-0091-3383) is published monthly by Sanborn Enterprises, 661 Middlefield Rd., Salinas, CA 93906-1004. Second Feature Writers class postage paid at Salinas, CA and additional mailing Ed Foote offices. Copy deadline five weeks preceding first day of Phyllis Mugrage Mac McCullar issue month. Subscription: $20 per year U.S., $23 per Stan & Cathie Burdick Bill & Bobbie Davis year Canada, $32 per year foreign. Single copies: $2.50 each POSTMASTER: Send address change to Record Reviewers American Square Dance, 661 Middlefield Rd., Salinas Frank & Phyl Lehman Tom Dillander CA 93906-1004. ft.) 1996 by Sanborn Enterprises. All rights reserved. • American Squaredance. June 1996 Editor's NOTEBOOK by Jon Sanborn T une already! How time flies! And the world J is going through so many changes! What an exciting time to be alive! It also has its haz- ards, however. The way time flies and the world changes, we should be more sensitive to how precious or more and I need a rest. When I feel like get- life is. In today's world, a Rip Van Winkle ting back into it again I'll start dancing regu- doesn't have to sleep 30 years to wake up in a larly." Many times this leads to dropping out new world; every morning we wake up in a because the routine has been broken and the will new world. may not be there to get back into it again. What Enjoy each beautiful moment; savor it. I'm trying to say is this: Square dancing has Don't try to hold it but let it go. The next mo- lost a friend and the dropout is going to miss ment is as marvelous as the one before, if you out on all of the good times, fun and friendship. look for its beauty. Let's consider now that you, the new gradu- In the course of the life of a person, it's the ate, are going to stay with the activity and take moments of crisis that give an opportunity for advantage of the good time, the fun and the fel- growth. Welcome the pain! It means you are lowship. Do you join a club or become a alive and gives you a chance to stretch into a "floater?" There are many advantages of belong- bigger person. ing to a club, including developing lasting Time is too short and flies away too quickly friendships, the feeling of helping others, self- to fritter it away with grumblings. Tomorrow fulfillment, and a sense of belonging. I can only is a new world! I can hardly wait to see what's think of one disadvantage, if in fact it is a dis- next....and may we share a moment of joy with advantage, and that is the responsibility to help someone; the world really needs it. keep the club in operation. Without dancers help- • • • • • ing there would be no clubs in which to dance. uite often you will hear a new graduate In closing, a final few words of advice are in say "I'm going to take a break for awhile order. Make square dancing just one of your in- Qbecause I have been going steady for 36 weeks %a'Ci%ki\WCC\%R. vC%USCC\% PRESENTS BM 173 Back On My Mind Again by Stan BM 177 Marina by Mac Mac McCuilar Stan Cole San Luis Obispo, CA SC 44 Song Of The Night by Ken Croft and Elena de Zorda Oakhurst, CA NOW AVAILABLE BM 152 Patriotic Medley by Mac CURRENT RELEASES ROUNDS BM 172 Back In Your Own Backyard by Mac by Ken Croft and Elena de Zorda BM 171 Good Loving by Mac SC 54 Never Say Never - PH 3+ 1 BM 170 I'm Telling Myself A Lie by Stan SC 55 Destiny - A Waltz - PH 2 BM 164 Firefly by Ted Wegner SC 56 Hazel Eyes - PH 3 BM 160 Smoke Smoke by Jeanne Briscoe PO Box 1448, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406 Tel: 805-543-2827 American Squaredance. June 1996 terests. There's such a thing as burning one's self out — yes, even with square dancing. Avoid being a "hobby-jumper." Avoid tunnel-vision WHAT IS THE dancing. Be a doer. Try a simple round dance, a mixer, or a contra. Avoid being typecast as just NATIONAL a one level dancer, such as: High level, a Plus level or an A 1 level dancer. Remember, you were once a beginner. Be a giver. Learn the plea- TEACHERS sure giving of yourself. Rather than always hav- ing someone else doing the club chores, roll up ASSOCIATION your sleeves, pitch in, get involved and join the by Carol Frtichie, President FUN. V any times individuals ask just what is Mthe NTA? The following article will THREE Rs answer that question. Recently Released Records The NTA is the oldest and most established Now Available country western teachers association in the Information supplied by Hanhurst's Tape & Record Service world. It was established in 1985 with its in- PO Box SO, Marlborough NH 03455-0050 ception stemming from the Dance Teachers USA & Canada: 1-800-445-7398 Fax: I-800-346-4867 or 603-876-4001 Association of California (DTA). Membership Foreign: 1-603-876-3636 is over 3,800 worldwide. Our instructors are E-mail! 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DR 65 dances, develop and maintain high standards After The Last Goodbye, for country western dance teachers and promote Jim Logan HD 131 regional meetings of country western dance Back In Your Own Backyard, teachers." Mac McCullar BM 172 We are a non-profit organization incorpo- Stand At Your Window Some Night, rated under the laws of the State of Ohio. Our Vince Spillane OR 54 board of directors consists of a president, ex- Heaven In My Woman's Eyes, ecutive vice president, 2nd vice president, sec- Darryl McMillan RH 226 retary, treasurer, zone directors (9), dance coun- U.S. Armed Forces Melody cil chair and newsletter editor. We offer our U.S. National Anthem, BS 2423 members a member manual, membership di- U.S.