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Square dance classes will begin Tuesday: Square dancing class No. 6 of the Paris Squares Square Dance Club •will begin Tuesday. Sept. 16. Harper Smith will be the instructor. The class lasts for 20 weeks, meeting on Tuesday from 7 to 9 •p.m. at the Community Exhibits 'building on the fairgrounds. Cost is 32 per person, per class and the public is invited and encouraged to -join. Anyone interested may call 784-3427 for further information.3 In late July, 1983. several interested couples met with Harper -and Dorothy Smith to discuss the forming of a new squrc dance club in Paris, later named Paris Squares. The first set of lessons was started on Aug. 28 with Smith iDf Celina, a teacher caller with more than 30 years of experience, as instructor. On Jan. Hi. approximately 30 students received their diplomas.■ The club meets for regulardances on the first and thirdFrida vs of each month with Smith *’calling on the first Friday. Guest callers are engaged for other Fridays. Dances are held at the Community Exhibits Building.Occasionally there is a square dance special which usually falls on a fifth Friday or is held on a weekend basis with nationally famous callers, round and square dance workshops, catered meal and regular dancing. Often there is a display of square dance apparel. * September is recognized as Square Dance Month and 1986 marks the 50th anniversary of Western Square Dancing.According to Tommy Duncan, president of Paris Squares, squaredancing has been an Anglo-Saxon tradition for hundreds of years and arrived in America with the earliest settlers. It was standardized and popularized with the first appearance of Dr. Lloyd Shaw’s vouthful Cheyenne Mountain bancers in 1936. Dr. Shaw later published a book and choreographed square dances for western movies which spread the recreation even more. American soiiders enjoyed the dances during World War II and the dances continued to catch on until square dancing has become a major recreational industry.Duncan added that a unique cookbook has been released in honor of the golden anniversary of American square dancing. Other than recipes, it includes the story of square dancing through little-known historical fact and anecdotes from some of the 6,000.000 square dances in the U.S. and abroad.For details on the cookbook. Pot luck and Petticoats, and other community events celebrating square dance, call the Paris Squares Square Dance Club at 784-3427'.Current officers of the club are Tommy and Billie Lou Duncan, president; Bill and Carolyn Young, vice president; Jerry and Mary Ann Stephens, secretary, and Jesse and Dorothy Bridges, treasurer. Directors arc B.F. and Virginia Clark, Don and Claire Hasiam, Ron and Barbara Kyle, Bobby and Judy Me Lem ore, Tom and Frances Westbrooks and Marshall and Ilene Wilson.
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Paris News
Paris, Texas, US
Sun, Sep 14, 1986
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