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The Newsletter of Western Star Dancers, 584 Casfro St.,Suite zl80, San Francisco CA 941 1+2588. E-Mail: fe-lixl @ix.netcom.comA Contemporary American Square Dance Club primarilyserving the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Cmrmuni$.Subscriptions to The Westem Starare free to WSDMembers, $18 to others. Ads are complementary tomembers; commercial advertisers may contact us forpricing information.

As I sit here, a few days before Christmas,"the weather outside is frightful, but in hereit's so delightful and as the fire bums downlow, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow."And, of course, i t did. I admit the snow did-n't st ick, but i t reminded me of Christmasesin the East and Midwest where I lived be-fore moving to San Francisco. I guess toomany people were "dreaming of a whiteChristmas." However, i t made me realizethat it is time to start planning for the newyear and the new mil lennium.

The Board made a decision that this yearall events would be at the same place. Weselected Temple United Methodist Churchat 1111 Junipero Serra Boulevard (at 19hAvenue). To that end we reananged theschedule to fit the Church's. We movedBill Eyler to March 6, 1999 for the 17h An-niversary Dance. "And what to my sur-prise" (no, not a sleigh and 8 tiny reindeer)that is almost the day of Westem Stafsfirst event. The actual day was March 5,1982. Had to do some research on WSD'shistory for an article in Square Up Maga-zine.

For Gay Pride, June 26, 1999, our"Promenade With Pride'99,"we have Dar-ren Gallina from Lompoc. When I men-tioned Gay Pride in San Francisco, I had tobeat him down. I guess he has poor nego-tiating skills. We will not be marching, uh,

square dancing down Market Street on GayPride Day unless some other club does thework. We found it promotes other clubs butnot ours, since classes don't begin unti l No-vember.

On September 25, 1999 Our 'Leather andLace '99," will be with Anne Uebelacker.Leather corset and all. She witt also be call-ing at our booth at the Folsom Street Fairthe next day. So please get ready for that.

On Saturday, May 22,1999, we wil l haveMember Appreciation Dinner. We are bring-ing that Annual Dinner back. We hope thatyou wil l all make it. The Board is also dis-cussing bringing a "Camp Caz" back, but notenough discussion has ensued.

On December 21, 1998 at the General Mem-bership meeting the present Board was ex-tended until regular election time - August,September. Please remember that theBoard has 7 positions and 2 positions arevacant. lf you would like to serve, pleasecontact any of the Board Members.

This yea/s class is doing well. We have aclass of 15. We will be having the ClassWelcome Dinner on January 9, 1999 atGolden Boot Ranch. We thank the resi-dents of Golden Boot Ranch for the use ofthe space.

We hope that you willjoin us for events ofthis coming year. And on behalf of the en-tire Board of Directors, lwish each andevery one of you and your loved ones andfamily a very healthy and happy New Year.And as a resolution make "Don't Stop! Don'tSlow Down!"Yellowrocks.

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The Joy of Angelling (Part 1)by Allan Hurst

In square dance clubs all over the world, it's afamiliar refrain:

"Where are all our angels?"There have been excellent articles on how toangel, and on appropriate behavior for both an-gels and students in a square dance class.Rather than discuss how to angel, let's exam-ine why it's important for dancers to angel.I've heard a number of frequent complaintsfrom experienced dancers who hate angelling.

"Students aren't worth my time. becausethey don't know anything yet."

This argument doesn't hold up logically; everyexperienced dancer started offas a student atsome point. Students can't be expected toknow how to square dance yet; that's whythey're in the class! A square containing expe-rienced angels (especially if circumstances af-ford tire luxury of a "balanced" square with a50Yo angel,50o% student ratio) can dramati-cally enhance and speed up the learning experi-ence.

WHEN YOU ANGEL ... it's a club invest-ment and a personal investment

Students in square dancing (or any activity)can be easily discouraged. If made to feel"shunned" by experienced dancers, studentswill probably leave a class because they won'tfeel welcome. If you want to build up yourclub's membership (and, therefore, the localpool of possible dance partners), it's your dutyas an experienced dancer to make students feelwelcome, so they'll stay not only through theend ofthe class series, but alsojoin the club asongoing, active members. And they'll be ac-tive members that you can dance with at fulllevel.

Potluck with theBlue Class

The Blue Class is moving right along.We have almost 2 squares of class members.They are enthusiastic and learning quickly.

They have met a few club memberswho have been Angeling their class & a fewmore at the Ckistmas Exchange.

However, we would like them tomeet more of us. Therefore, we will be hav-ing the class Welcome Potluck on January9th at the Golden Boot Ranch. The GoldenBoot Ranch is actually a three level houselocated at790 Sanchez Street, #3, SF, CA.

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The Nevsletter of Westem Star Dancers, 5&4 Castro St.,Suite 480, San Francisco CA 9411+2588. E-Mail: fe-lixl @ix.netcom.comA Contemporary American Square Dance Club primarilysewing the San Francisco Gay and Lestrian Gornmunity.Subscriptions to The Westem Sfarare free to WSDMembers, $l8 to others. Ads are cornpbmeotary tornembersi cornmercial advertiseF may corilaci us forpricing information.

Happy 17th Anniversary. Yes this isWestern Star's 17h Anniversary. Andwe will celebrate it on March 6, 1999. ltseems that this year is using the samecalendar that was used in 1982 whenwe were founded. Our anniversarydance coincides with the first timeWestern Star Dancers met as a group(actually it is on day later). Since Ihave been a member of Western Starsince 1991 how do I know so muchaboui the history of WSD? | neededhelp for an article that appears in thelatest issue of Sguare Up Magazine.For those that don't get Sguare UpMagazine we will have a copy on dis-play at our Class days. The Board ofDirectors hopes that you will come andcelebrate with us on March 6h withCaller Bill Eyler at 7:30 at TempleUnited Methodist Church (see flyer forall other details). Come and meet thenew Class members who will be attend-ing their first dance.

On another note, we will start havingClub night the third Wednesday of themonth starting on March 17h. ldon'tknow who the caller will be but we willbe dancing class levelthrough Plus orwhatever the floor level is. I do hopethat you will come and join us at theEureka Valley Recreation Center at

7:30 PM. We would like to thank Mid-night Squares for the return of theWednesday. The Board would like toalso thank Midnight Squares for the useof their space on Sundays for work-shops for the new class.

The Board of Directors would like tothank all the people who came andmade the new class feelwelcome at theWelcome Pot Luck for the Blue Class.There was plenty of food, fun andfriendship. The Board would like topublicly thank the residents of GoldenBoot Ranch for allowing us to have itthere and to Freeman Stamper, in par-ticular, who generously opened his' - - , _ : ^ _ - L ^ - ! - . - - - j ^ ^ l

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The Board of Directors meeting hasbeen changed from the third Thursdayof the month to the fourth Thursday.The meeting was moved due to the factthat Carlos Mosca, board member andArchangel, was elected Leader of theDefenders/San Francisco(Congratulations Carlos) and had to at-tend the Forum meetings on the thirdThursday. With this we may get ourLeather Dance to be an official LeatherPride Week Event. lf you have anybusiness that needs to be taken careof, please let the board know.

Don't Stop! Don't Slow Down!

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Board Meeting Notes

Thank yous were expressed to all whoassisted with and participated in theWelcome Dinner for the Blue Class andthe Holiday Party. Both were very en-joyable event.

A mail & phone follow up will be donefor Membership Renewals not received.

Plans for lTth Anniversary Dance dis-cussed and necessary umangement di-vided among the Board Members.

The Blue Class will finish Basic aroundthe Anniversary.

There is club property stored at GBR. Therewill be a clean-up day at the EVRC to clean upthe cabinets before trying to bring in anythingelse to store there.

The possibility of reviving a Camp Caztypeweekend was discussed.

The Membership Recognition Dinner was dis-cussed. An alphabetically set-up dinner wasdecided.

The club outfit is still being discussed. Weneed art work in order to make new embroi-dered versions of the logo.

Next Board Meetins will be March 25.

Please Note: LA has added a Leather Tour atconvention on Thursday, July 1. We have in-cluded the new Registration Form in this mail-ing.

Blue Class Reviews

There will be review sessions for members ofthe Blue Class on :

Sunday Ma.rch l4thSunday March 2lst

and Saturday March 27th

We also need angels to assist the class mem-bers in their review. If you can assist at anyor all of these sessions please call Carlos forspecific times and location.

Memberhin Recosnition Dinner

This will be a pot luck on May 22 at7:30 at Temple United and the follow-ing is the break down for dishes:

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EsrEeN Sren DeNcens (WSD) HAD rrs BEGTNNTNGsin fanuary of 1982 when five friends - ScottCarey, Ron Douglass, Dennis Ficken, RogerPerry and Agnes Smith - got together in Ron

and Scott's kitchen to tr)' to figure out what square dancingwas all about. Three phantoms were summoned to make asquare, and a 1954 Square Dancc Manual provided the instruc-tions. All five were members of Skip Barrett's Foggy CitySquares, but Skip had a very idiosyncratic approach - teach-ing singing calls only encouraging rote memorization of eachdance, and not teaching the individual calls very thoroughly oraccurately. They knew there was a lot more to learn, but theyweren't sure ho'w to begin.

A few more dancers from Foggy City Squares soon ex-pressed interest. On Friday, March 5,I9BZ,WSD began weeklydrop-in square dancing at an American Conservatory Theaterrehearsal studio on Geary Street. Records purchased from anOakland Folk Dance Shop were used to conduct the sessions.

One night an experienced dancer by the name of Bill Kleindropped by and volunteered to teach an organized class usingCallerlab definitions and teaching order. His offer was eagerlyaccepted. Since the dancers already had some experience, Billtaught all 68 Basic and Mainstream calls in only ten weeks.This class was taught in the second floor lobby of the CivicCenterYMCA.

After graduating its first class, WSD elected its first BoardofDirectors - the five founders and Larry Foster and paulZimmerman. They then began the steps to formally organizeas a nonprofit organization.

Bill taught another class that fall and a second night forclub dancing was added to the schedule. Bill, however, was ba-sically a dancer rather than a teacher. He soon informed theBoard that he would like to move on. Fortunately, severalmembers had met an experienced caller named phil payton ata California Motorcycle Club Carnival in November - an im-promptu exhibition with Linda lane and Western Electric (acountry western band) had been hastily arranged for the enter-tainment of the crowd. Phil agreed to teach the third class infanuary 1983 and became the primary club caller.

At this point WSD moved from the lobby to the yMCA

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Theater, which would serve as the club's home for the next sev-eral years. With Phil - and later Bil l Hanzel - doing most ofthe teaching and call ing, an increasing outreach was made to thestraight square dance community for club night guest callers. In1986, club member Bob Belville became the first openly gayman to be approved for full membership in the Northern Cali-fornia Callers Association. Bob later took over as principalcaller.

In 1988, Bill Whitefield became the club instructor. On April3, 1989 WSD began its long association with the San FranciscoParks and Recreation at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center inthe heart of the Castro District. In 1989 Eddie. (read as EddiePeriod) Smith became part of the teaching team. In 1991, RonMasker became the class teacher and is still in that role.

WSD has organized an annual retreat since 1983. First heldat Wildwood, it moved to Cazadero Music Camp from l9g4 to1986, and Camp Swig in 1987. After a one )'€ar hiatus, westarted a long retreat tradition at Camp Cazadero in 19g9. Thisfirst retreat was held three days after the 1989 San FranciscoEarthquake. Nerves were shot and everyone was ready for timeto relax. Chris Phillips was here from Florida. He was used tohurricanes, not earthquakes, so w:ls yery nervous. On Saturdayafternoon, Gold Rush threw its famous Margaritaville party.They ran out of margarita mix, so tequila was frosted in theblender and limes were recycled into the puree. The first thing... ou know Chris Phillips. was so drunk, he could hardly seestraight. After several cold showers and many, many cups of hotcoffee, Chris was ready to call the dancing that night. (Ed: Sybilwas mixing the drinks, and apparently there was some confu-sion about which were virgin (no-alcohol), and which were slut(tequila). Chris recalls'I didn't feel so bad'til I saw the othersurvivors of the Margarita Party trying to actually'dance!")

In 1999, Billy Eyler will call our l7d Anniversary Dance onMarch 6. On June 26 Darren Gallina will call our'promenadewith Pride'99" Gay Pride Dance. On September 25, AnneUebelacker will call at our annual lrather and Lace Dance aspart of the San Francisco Leather Week - we have assuredAnne that she would be welcomed in her little leather outfit. Shewill also be calling on Sunday at San Francisco's infamousFolsom Street Fair. All dances, except for the Folsom Steet Fair,will be at Temple United Methodist Church, I I I I f uniperoSerra Blvd (at 196 Avenue), San Francisco. The site has plenty ofparking on Beverly Street and can be reached by the "M"Oceanview Muni Line.

The present Board has high hopes in planning another re-treat in 1999. We will also be trying to get together with FoggyCity Dancers and Midnight Squares to plan a San Francisco Fly-In.

At this time, we have 56 members and dance through plus.We dance on Mondays at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center,100 Collingwood (between l8d and l9,h Streets) at7:30 pM. Allactivities can be checked out at our website at: www.iagsdc.org/westernstar. I

The Joy of Angeling_ (Part 2)by A-llen Iftirst

"Class dancing doesn't qive me floorfi-q ?-s good as dancing at fulllevel.tt

This is another argument I've heardfrequently, and one which also doesn'thold water.

When you angel, floor time is floortime. Dancers who complain that theycan't get enough floor time at a givenlevel, but who won't angel for thatlevel's current class, aren't working intheir own best interest.

For example, let's say you want toimprove your A2 dancing. You canpractice A2 just as effectively in classas you can on a dance floor--only withbetter feedback and supervision in aclass. It may not be the flowing, grace-fill extended patter tips you prefer, butit's still good practice to help polishyow technique.

Another advantage of dancing inclass as an angel: if you're feeling weakon a particular call, there's no stigma at-tached in asking the caller "Could youreview again, please?" Learning and re-view is precisely what classes are de-signed for.

"Sfudents are too roughtt

Unfortunately, this is often true.Many new dancers use very rough and/or painful hand holds, or push/pulldancers very hard. Part of the responsi-bilrty lies with each clubls instructor,who should talk about handholds andbody motion. But an even larger part ofthis responsibility lies with the class an-gels.

When you angel, it's a feedbackmechanism for the caller.

In most cases, callers/instructorsdon't dance during teaching tips. Whilebodies may be moving into the right po-sitions, there's no way for the caller toknow that a glven student is using abone crushing grp. In such a situation,an angel can easily let a caller knowthat students are freating other dancerstoo roughly. This gives the caller achance to correct the problem immedi-ately, before it becomes an ingrainedhabit

When you angel, it's a feedbackmechanism for the sfudent

If a specific student is too rough, it'sperfectly OK for the angel to quietlyand politely inform them that they're be-ing too rough, anci show them a gentlerhand hold or more subtle body lan-guage. If an isolated student is havingproblems with a specific call, an angel(or group of angels) can tutor the stu-dent on the call between tips.

When you angel, you can train stu-dents to dance the way you want.

Does your club have favorite stylingor sound effects? When it's appropriatefor your class' students to learn suchthings, you can help them pick up thosetechniques faster by personal demon-stration and tutorial. This is an op-portunity to help create a new danceparbrer for yourself that you'll enjoydancing with!

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On behalf of the Board of Directors, I wishyou a happy Gay Pride Day.

There are two important events this period,oops, excuse me three. The first is theMembership Appreciation Dinner on May22 at7:30 PM. This is where we as aBoard give recognition to all of you. Thesecond is our annual Gay Pride Dance -Promenade With Pride '99 - with DarrenGallina on June 26 at7:30 PM. We hopethat you willjoin us for these events atTemple United Methodist Church. Thethird event is Blue'98 Class Graduation onJune 7 at 7:30 PM at the Eureka Valley.Recreation Center. Please come and joinus as we welcome these new dancers intoour ranks. The class did very well and theyare good dancers. One great accomplish-ment is that allthe dancers that started theclass are still in class and graduating.

There is one announcement; Westem Starwill be dark all through June (except June7) due to the resurfacing of the floors atthe Recreation Center. We will be startingup again on July 13 for the Plus Class andJuly 21 for Club Night.

I am writing this right after Easter, and assuch I traditionally read The Robe and QuoVadis. Both books have to do with theearly history of the spread of Christianity. Ihear "What does this have to do withSquare Dancing?" What lwas thinking of

was the fervor, tenacity, dedication, andenthusiasm of the early Christians as theyspread the gospel. Although our new Pur-ple Class '99 introductory nights do not be-gin until October, it is time to start thinkingabout the recruitment drive we will be do-ing. We must be like the early Christiansand get out there to spread our "gospel"with the same enthusiasm and dedication.Although we will not have a booth at thePride Festivalthis year, we have found anoutlet for our flyers. Our big push begins inSeptember at the Folsom Street Fair(September 26). Our caller for September25 Leather and Lace Dance is Anne Uebe-lacker and she has consented to callfor usat the fair at our booth. The following weekwe do the same thing (minus Anne) at theCastro Street Fair (October 3), then a fewtimes in the Castro Area with GuerillaSquares, then either October 9 or 16 forour Leam to Square Dance for the LeatherCommunity. This is where we need you.Come out and help us give out flyers, takenames, and DANCE. I am asking you tomake some time on those dates now togive you time to schedule us. Let us belike those early Christians and spread our"gospel" to those not knowing about it.

Lastly, in August we will be taking namesfor those who would like to run for theBoard. We ask all of you - old or new - tothink seriously about it.

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VESTS - We have been getting requests forvests, since they are the club outfit, but wehave a problem. We do not have enough ma-terials to make the required number of vests.Some of these people would like to go to con-vention and wear the club vest in the GrandMarch and for the Club Picture. If anybodyout there has an extra vest or their own thatthey are willing to lend to the Board so we canlend them to those going to the convention, wewould greatly appreciate it. Please either callthe Felix (826-7526) or bring it by on Mon-days or at any other Western Star Event.Meanwhile the Board will be taking ideas foranother club outfit. We would also like tohear from someone who can do graphic de-signing. We need original drawings of our lo-gos to get vest parts made. Thank you.

CONI-VENTION IS COMING !!!CONVENTION IS COMING! !!

"Lights, Camera, Linear Action" is justaround the corner.

Have you registered for Convention???For the Hotel??? Made Airline reserva-tions???

GET A MOVE ON!!!

You do not want to be left out!!!

The most fun event of the year is the Con-vention. You can dance 'til you drop.You'll get to meet new friends and see oldfriends from all over the country.

Registration packets are available throughthe Board and at all club events. An applica-tion is included in this newsletter.

It was the 17th Anniversary of Western Star,but it was the lst dance for our Blue Class.

Like all of us, they came to their first dancefull of fears. Will they remember the steps?Will they be able to keep up with the speed?Will they breakdown the square?But they did GREAT!!! And they had a funtime doing it.

Just as everyone supported them at thedance - Come and celebrate with them asthey graduate from Mainstream on June 7th!

AT\NOUNCEMENT

General Membership Meeting - Thismeeting will be held in conjunction with theMember Recognition Dinner onMay 22.

JULY INFO

This is a quickie newsletter since l won't get to print it unti l next week.

PLUS CLASS

However we wanted to remind you that our Plus Class begins July 12 at 7:30 PMat the Eureka Valley Recreation Center with Ron Hirsch teaching. Tell all yourfiends and of course we can always use angels for the class. The class will begraduating on October 4.

PURPLE CLASS RECRUITINGHere is a schedule for Purple Class recruiting:

September 1B - Learn to Square Dance for the Leather CommunitySeptember 26 - Folsom Street Fair

\- October 3 - Castro Street FairOctober 16 - Guerilla Squares 12 Noon - 18th and CastroOctober 18 - Purple Class Intro NightOctober 23 - Guerilla Squares 12 Noon - 18th and CastroOctober 25 - Purple Class lntro NightNovember 1 .. Purple Class Intro NightNovember 8 - Purple Class begins

Please try to be at one of these events to help out.

ELECTIONSElections are coming up please think about running for a position on the Board.

August 2 - Nominations OpenAugust 18 - Nominations ClosedAugust 23 - Ballots mailedSeptember 15 - Ballots counted

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The Newsletter of Western Star Dancers, 584 Castro St.,Suite 480, San Francisco CA 941 1+2588. E-Mail: fe-lixl @ix.netcom.comA Contemporary American Square Dance Club primarilyserving the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Community.Subscriptions lo The Westem Sfar are free to WSDMembers, $18 to others, Ads are complementary tomembers; commercial advertisers may contact us forpricing information.

I u'ould first likc to congratulatc thc Bluc '98 classon thcir graduation and rvclconrc thcm in to tltccommunitv of squarc dance rs. I u'ould also likc tothank thc pcrson rvho donated thc menrbership fccsfor thc Bluc'98 class so that thcy could be mcm-bcrs of thc club. Thcy now nro\rc on to Plus u'hichstart Juh' l3 rvith Ron Hirsch tcaching. Rcmcm-bcr rvc can alu'avs use angcls.

It is rrith docp rcgrct that I nrakc thc fbllo*,ing an-nounccnrcnt I)trc to thc rising cost of cvcnthing(hall, callcrs, ctc.) thc Board madc thc dccisionthat starting in 2000 thc cost of danccs u,ill go upto $10. N4cmbcrs of Wcstcrn Star u, i l lgct a dis-count at thc door. Wc may bc thc first but rvcuon't bc thc last. Al though thc $10 sccnrs high, i tis lou'cr than somc across the country. TimcsSquarcs (Nnv York Citl') chargcs highcr f'ccs forclub night

To givc 1,ou u'hat the Board is u,orking on. \\'chavc sccurcd Tcmplc Unitcd Mcthodist Church fora l l danccs in 2000 N{erch . l 119" 'Ann ivcrsary ' ) ,June 24 (Gay Pridc), Scptcmbcr 23 (LcathcrDancc). Wc havc Saundra Bryant for our annivcr-sarv, Deborah Parnell for Gay Pridc, and GrantIto for the Leather Dancc. I talked to all threc atthc Convention in LA

We havc planncd the opcn housc nights for thcPurple'99 Class (or as it is refcrrcd to bv theBoard - The Tinky Winky' Class) - Octobcr l1l,2-5, and Novembcr lat EVRC. If you knorv peoplesho might bc intcrcsted, please tcll thcnr to con1c.Gueri l la Squarcs is on October l6 and 23 at 12

Noon at Hibernia Bcach (18ft and Castro for younerv peoplc - A little gay history). There is alsoa Learn To Square Dance for the Leather/LeviCommunity on Septcrlber l8 at Live OakSchool.

\\/c also arc hoping that thc mcnrbcrs u,ill conrcout and help us on Scptcmber 26 at thc FolsomStrcct Fair uterc Arnc Ucbclackcr u'il l bc call-ing (aftcr calling on thc 25 at our Leathcr andLace Dancc) and Octobcr 3 for the Castro StrcctFair. Thcsc cvcnts arc our opening shots at gct-trng a nnv cl : tss.

Last l r . lc ui l lbs cstabl ishing an Elcct ion Corn-nrrt tcc Tho'r i i l l bc cal l ing around and asking i frou uould l ike to run fbr thc Board. Plcase givcthis sonrc thought. Nominations br:gin August 2and cnd August 18. Bal lots arc to bc mai lcdAugust 23. Elcct ion Rcsults u' i l l bc announccdon Scptcrnbcr l -5 at our Club Night. That nightr i i l l a lso bc our Gcncral Nlcnrbcrship Mcct inguhcrc one of thc itcnrs u'c u'il l be discussing is angi Club Outfit. Plcasc bc thcrc.

\\1e har,c madc thcrncs for our 2 club nights rnJulv and August. Thc Julv 2l ' ' Club Night rv i l lbc Nostalgia Night, u'here tr,c u'il l borrorv a TVfrorn the Ccntcr and shorv Vidcos of old WSDc\ cnts. Plclsc comc bv n ith l 'our nostalgiaThe August l8 ' r ' Club Night * ' i l l bc Hot AugustI.-Aliglrts. Our caller in August rvill be RonN'llskcr

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Promenade With Pride

Darrin Gallina called Promenade With Pridefor us on June 26,1999. He did a terrific andupbeat job. The fact that his lover, andALL the members of his club, Cuesta Squareswere with him certainly didn't hurt. It was alot of fun and a great warn up for Conventionfor our new graduates and all ofus. Thankyou to all who came and helped us enjoy an-other aspect of the San Francisco Gay PrideWeek-end.

plus Class BegirE

Monday, July 12, 1999 at 7:30 pm is the startof Weslern Star's Plus Class. The class willbe taught by Ron Hirsch. So grab a friend (or2 or 3 or. . .) and become paft of the class orclass angels. Classes will be held in the refur-bished Eureka Valley Rec Center so soft soleshoes only can be worn.

The plans for making the class known andencouraging dancers to join the class are out-lined in the opening letter. If anyone has anyother suggestions please let a member of theBoard know (see pg. 2) BUT be willing to as-sist in rnaking it happen.

This also includes angeling the class. This as-sists the class members. the instructor andgives you a review too. It is a great way to"ease back" into the club & dancine!!

Blue Class's Graduation

On Monday, June 7, 1999 our Blue Classgraduated l2 dancers from Mainstream.After completing their classes and having afun party they are now ready to enjoy the up-conring Convention in LA and prepared toparticipate in our fall Plus Class. Thankyou to all the non-graduates who helped usgive them a great welcorning celebration.

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New Club Outfits Anvone??

The Board is considering the suggestion ofnew club outfits for Westem Star. Some of theissues brought up have been the weight of ourcurrent vests, the use of pink shirts and the factthat both the vests & the shirts fade over tinreand so we have a rnult i tude of hues.

'l'hcrefbre, everyone who has a suggestion of

an alternative club outf i t must bring a sampleto the (ieneral Membership rneeting on Sep-ternber l5th lor consideration. The ou1fit ma1,bu1 does not have to include a vcst. Rementbcrthis is nol a sewing contest or an art cxhibit ion.' l 'he

sarnplc. iust has to be ablc to convey whalyour idea is to others.

l)uring that nreeting it wil l be dcterntined i l 'wervi l l stay with our current club outl l t or towlrich o1-thc ncw oulf i ts rve wil l change . So itis Vlr l lY important that you altend this rneet-ing and express your opinion while thc dcci-sion is being made and NO'l-. iust bitch al ier t l ielact .

The Fun Badge Tour took us all through WestFlollywood, Rodeo Drive (we didn't dance) butwe danced near the Santa Monica Pier, AtUCLA, at Mann's Chinese theater where thestreet was closed and WE were the tourist at-traction.

General Membership MeetingSeptember 15, 1999

Mark your calendar now!! The General Mem-bership meeting will be held during the clubnight on September l5th at Eureka Vly RecCenter. So far the main topics of discussionwil l be the Election of a Board for the club andour club outf i ts. I f there is something else youfccl the mernbcrship should be discussing atthis nrectinc,. NOW is the t ime let one of thcBoard rnentbers know (see page 2) so everyonecan be informed and prepared.

Lights. Camera. Linear Action

As another Convent ion comes to an end thoseol-us who attended have a new col lect ion ol 'memorics. N4any of us renewcd old li ' iend-ships and al i of us made new ones. Askingonc o1-the nerv class members i f t l re convcn-t ion was rvhat he expected, he answered: " l t

was al l t l iat and much more!."

It was great to have so many members presentat the convention - now how about keeping itup & being present for c lub funct ions??!!

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Western Star's Leather & Lace Dance w/ Anne Uebel-acker Temple United Methodist Church

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It 's that time of the year. The Folsom StreetFair. The Castro Street Fair. Halloween. ThePurple Class. The Purple Class? Yes the PurpleClass, we have gone that far in the rainbow.

Let me try to enjoin your memory with what is go-ing on. Elections are proceeding and we remindal lwho wi l l be sending their bal lots by snai l mai lthat the ballots MUST reach us by September 15,1999. That is the night of the General Member-ship meeting. We at Western Star do not suFscribe to the Richard Daly School of Politics(t/cte Ea:'ly and Often), excepi in the first pat. o'tvoting early.

The next event will be the General Membershipmeeting on Wednesday, September 15, 1999.I cannot put enough emphasis on attendance atthis meeting. lf you haven't attended a meeting,then this is the one to attend. One item we willbe discussing is a change in the WSD Club Out-fit. lf you would like to submit an entry then youmust bring a prototype and it MUST incorporatethe present logo that is on the back of our vests.The prototype does not need to be professionallysown or sown at all, just so that we can get theidea of what you are presenting. The Board willbe submitting its own idea at that time. There willbe other items for discussion (refer to letter datedAugust 21, 1999 which was mai led to each mem-ber previously).

Saturday, September 18, 1999, br ings us to thebeginning of Leather Week. As such if you wouldlike to please join us as we present a Learn toSquare Dance for the Leather Community at LiveOak School on Diamond Street at 7:30 PM.

Saturday, September 25, 1999, br ings us Anne

Uebelacker and our annual Leather and LaceDance at 7:30 PM at Temple United MethodistChurch at 1111 Junipero Serra Boulevard.Come and join us for the fun! You don't evenneed to wear leather or lace.

Sunday, September 26, 1999, br ings us theFolsom Street Fair. We will be there fromabout 8AM to 6PM. We can use your help instaffing the booth, as well as, helping us danceto Anne Uebelacker as our first event to getclass members for the Purple Class. A sign upsheet will be available at all WSD events.

Sunday, October 3, 1999, br ings us to theCastro Street Fair where again we will be therefrom about 8AM to 6PM. Again we can useyour help in staffing the booth and dancing forthe next event to get class members for thePurple class. A sign up sheet will be availableat all \nJSD e..,ents.

Saturdays, October 16 and 23 we wi l l be do-ing Guerrilla Squares. We will meet at 12 Noonat the Bank of America on 18th and Castro. Wewill dance there, probably the Chevron Stationand we have been invited by Philip Stover todance in front of Male lmage. Please come outand join us. These events are also planned toget new people interested in becoming a part ofthe Purple Class.

Then we have our Introductory Nights for thePurple Class on October 18 and 25 and No-vember 1. We hope that you can send us oneperson on those nights. We will be havingpunch, cookies and other goodies. We can alsouse you. In this case Uncle Sam doesnt wantyou, but Uncle Fel ix does.

We have a full schedule for September and Oc-tober. We hope that we can count on you aswe have done in the past.

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Election of the Board

Nominations for this year's Board of Directorsfor Western Star Dancers opened on August2nd and closed on August 18th. Those run-ning for a position on the Board are: Bob L.,Carlos M., Fabian A., Felix F., and Gino

Ballots will be mailed our on August 23rd andmust be RECEIVED by Septernber f5th bythe beginning of the General MembershipMeeting.

General Membership Meetins

Wednesday, September 15, 1999 at 7:30 pmis the start of Western Star's third membershipmeeting for 1999. The future of YOUR clubwill be determined at this meeting. The resultsof the election of the Board of Directors willbe announced. Whether or not the club outfitshould be changed, and if so to what outfit willbe discussed.

We will also be discussing all the eventsplanned to promote the Purple Class which willbe starting this fall. Remember new membersis the life of any club - and our club needsmembers if we are going to keep alive.So participation in all the planned events byeveryone is critical. If you don't do anythingelse for the club this year please make the time& effort to help with thcse events. Sign upsheets for each event will be available at theGeneral Meeting & all events thereafter.

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IMPOKIANT!IMPOKIANT!IMPORIANT!New Postal regulations make this an-nouncement very important. The way thatWestern Star's address is written on rnailcoming to WSD must be as follows:

WESTERN STAR DANCERSPMB 480584 Castro StreetSan Francisco CA 94114-2594

According to the Post Office, if the mail isnot addressed as above, they will send themail back. It must use all FOUR lines.This change was issued because the PostOffice was afraid that there were peopletrying to get around postal regulations withthese private mail boxes. PO Plus foughtvery hard so that we could keep our addressas suite 480 but they lost.. So I pass on thisinformation onto you. This is to be effec-tive October 1, 1999. We have been doingthis for 2 months now.

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Diablo Dancer's "Swing thru the Season" WDick HenschelPleasant Hill Education Center

Western Star's Leather & Lace Dance w/ Anne UebelackerTemple United Methodist Church

Diablo Dancer's Basic Class & Plus Class beeinsWillow Pass Rec. Center

Folsom Street Fair - Dancing with Arure Uebelacker

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On behalf of the Board of Directors of WSD, Iwould l ike to wish you a Happy Thanksgiv ing.Also, since this is a bimonthly newsletter, toour Jewish members and f r iends a HappyChanukah, to our Chr is t ian members andfriends a Merry Christmas, to our African-Amer ican members and f r iends a HappyKwanza, and, of course, a Happy New Mil len-nium (to the purists - a Happy New Year). Toevery one a happy and healthy holiday sea-son. I think that takes care of everyone.

That taken care or, we can move on to thenews. On September 15, we had our quar-terly membership meeting. At that meetingwe found out that the new member of Boardwi l l be Gino Gal lardo (who at the Board meet-ing fol lowing was elected to the post of Secre.tary). Congratulations Gino! At the meetingwe also gave back the third Wednesday of themonth to Midnight Squares except for variousfunctions (l ike membership meetings). Also,we changed the Western Star Vest. The oldvest was made of grey corduroy with a red l in-ing. The new vest wil l be black cotton insideand out . This vest wi l l be l ighter . The backof the vest was kept as to the rhinestones,patch and ribbon, but the fr inge is gone. Alsoi t was decided that instead of a p ink 'sh i r t i twould be a white western shirt with darkpants. (As an as ide - a l l the c lubs in SanFrancisco are now c lubs in b lack - MidnightSquares - a b lack T-shi r t wi th b lack pants;Foggy City - Black Western Shirt with redscarf and black pants; WSD with a black vest,dark pants and a white shirt.) At the OctoberBoard Meeting vests wil l be discussed.

We had a successful two weekends at theFolsom and Castro Street Fairs. We handedout over 2500 f lyers. Our thanks to al l thepeople who came down to help: the Boardmembers, Gino, Sam, Becky, Russ, MarkScott, Scott, Phil ip, Jerry, Mario and any-body else that I can't remember as I writethis (after this is published, I wil l remem-ber). Our thanks to members of Foggy City,Diablo Dancers, Midnight Squares, E lCamino Reelers, Tinsletown Squares andWestern Star Dancers who danced up astorm at both Fairs. Also, a big thanks toAnne Uber lacker , Car los Mosca, and RonMasker for ca l l ing at the Fai rs .

One item at the September meeting was weneeded a function for the new class beforeJanuary 22 when we had planned the Wel-come Pot Luck. The Board has scheduled aMeet and Greet the Purple Class at Fa-bian's Condo's Party House on November20. Please see the f lyer for detai ls and di-rections. We are asking the members tobring f inger foods and the Board wil l be sup-p ly ing soda and water . There usual ly is alo t o f park ing there and the Muni in forma-tion and street map is on the back of theflyer. Please come and make the new classwelcome and part of the family of WesternStar Dancers. We have had one night of theopen house and the people are wonderfuland a few have already said that they wil l betaking the class. The January 22 Potluckwi l l again be at Fabian 's Condo.

Lastly, we ask you to come and Angel for thec lass. We a lways can use angels .

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Meet & GreetThe Purple Class

Saturday, November 2O, 1999 at7:30pm is the Meet & Greet with thenew Purp le Calss members.

I t w i l l be he ld at Fabian 's Condo'sParty House (see f lyer for address &direct ions).

Western Star members are asked tocome and make the class membersfeel welcome. Please bring f ingerfood to share at the gathering. TheBoard wi l l be providing soda & water.

Hol iday Party &General Membership Meet ing

December 15th we wil l be having ourannul Hol iday Party with Gif t Exchangenight .EVERYONE is invited for the fun. Thistradit ion is more l ike an opportunity toget r id of a "White Elephant" type ob-ject than a usual gi f t exchange. So justbring a fun/ joke gif t not worth morethan $10.00. Everyone who brings agif t takes home a gif t (using the termloosely in th is case) . l t is a great dealof fun guess ing what is in a l l those n ice(deceptively)wrapped packages. Andeven more fun to "steal" the gif t youwant. Confused? Come enjoy and learna new understanding of " l t is better togive than to receive".

The Board wi l l a lso be g iv ing the mem-bersh ip a qu ick quar ter ly update.

Purple Class

Our introductory nights for the newpurp le c lass are October 18 & 25and November 1.

The the c lass wi l l begin in earnest onNovember 8. Please try and sendjust one person to the new c lass.Those that have come so far are fun& enthus iast ic .

l f you have been away from dancingfor awhi le and would l ike a brush upAngel ing a class is a great way to getback up to speed and get to knoweveryone again. And i f you haven'tbeen away from dancing you know wealways need angels for a class. Thisnot on ly he lps the new dancers learn,but a lso makes them fee l the c lubmembers care.

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Capital City Squares' lSth AnniversaryDance with Joe Saltel

Squares Across the Border Anniversary Fly-Inwith Anne Uebelacker & Kris JensenVancouver, British Columbia, Canada

PACE Extravaganz^- Ventura, CAwith V.Ceder, R.Howell, L.Kendall & L.Kopman

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4th "Relay the Raindeer" at Diablo Dancerswith Gina Darcv

3rd - 5th "Save the Last Dance for Me" (Chase Right'99)with Mike DeSisito, Anne Uebelacker &

Andy FinchNeon Squares - Las Vegas, NV

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