SQUARIN’ –A- ROUND

Square-‘N-Round – January 1961

Kay Hucks – Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Vancouver Dancers will be “squaring” on into Holiday Dances this month. An Open Boxing Day Dance will be held at the “Hayloft” o Monday, December 26^th, and most of the Clubs will be holding their Christmas Parties a week or so before Christmas.

On November 18^th, the “Tamaracks” went down to the “Hard of Hearing League” party put on by the Quota Club, where they danced for and with them, and as usual had a wonderful time with some of the happiest people we’ve seen in a long time. We were amazed, as we usually are when we go to their Annual Party, at the way they pick up the various figures of the dances, and seldom have to be shown more than once. It all has to do with “vibrations” it seems, - from “touch” and from “The Floor”. Dick Cameron put them through their dances of easy level, including a mixer, “Five Foot Two”, which proved to be a huge success.

Pete Prentice had his “Totem Dancers”, who are a teen-age display group, at the Grey Cup Football classic luncheon on Grey Cup Day at the P.N.E. Building at Exhibition Park. They were top entertainment at the Luncheon before the “big game”, and were, as usual, - “really tops”. This group, their picturesque costumes are widely known for their exhibition work.

ROUND DANCES WE ARE DOING:

* Silk and Satin

* A Happy Pair

* It Had To Be You

* The Happy Waltz

* Nellie

* Kon-Tiki (seems we’ll never tire of thisone)

* The Wizard – (we’ve been having fun with this one).

Latest news from “Aquaducker”, Jean Cameron, is that she has received a request for applications for Aquaduck Badges from the overseas Army and Navy Square Dancers and these are already on their way by Airmail.

Well, here we go again: Requests for another Beginner’s Club. So – in January another will begin. This one will be sponsored by all Clubs in the “Hayloft”, and will act as a “feeder group” for all Clubs.