CDSS News
The CDSS News is a print publication and, in a slightly shorter format, an online publication. Below are articles and other material from the most recent issues. We hope you find it informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining. Please contact us if you have comments or questions.
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Selections from CDSS News, Spring 2013 Issue
Masthead
Letters and Announcements
New Lifetime Contribution Awardees
CDSS Is Looking for Stars!, by Bev Bernbaum, CDSS Nominating Committee
Donor Thanks for 2012 Now Posted, by Robin Hayden, CDSS Director of Development
New Membership Benefit: Fractured Atlas, by Jeff Martell, CDSS Store and Services Manager
Youth Intern Morphs into Education Associate, Pat MacPherson CDSS Education Department Director
Speaking of Mary, by Mary Wesley
Outreach Outlook, by Linda Henry, CDSS Outreach Manager
Columns
Balance and Sing (Store Update)
Yoga for Dancers: Cranky Knees and Long Quads by Anna Rain
News from Canada: Contra Dancing Has Blown Downwind to Nova Scotia, by Dottie Welch and Eliza West
Articles
Catalyst and Confluence: Director’s Report, by Rima Dael
CDSS Exec Travels, by Jill Allen (Huntsville) and Jenny Beer (Sacramento)
A Feast of Song: Attending the First Annual Youth Traditional Song Weekend, by Emma Schneider
Talking About…Money, by Brendan Taaffe
Growing the Dance Community via a Wiki, by John Nash
The Mountain Dance Trail Preserves Appalachian Square Dancing, by Becky Hill
Country Dancers of Rochester Teach History with Pleasure, by Lisa Brown
Dance
Chinese New Year, by Chris Page
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Selections from CDSS News, Winter 2012-2013 Issue
Masthead
Letters and Announcements
Website Kits Being Considered, by David Means and Scott Higgs
Rethink Those Tunes?, by Stewart Dean
Summer Fundraising Goal Reached
Membership Dues Going Up
Camp Jobs Available
Updates and Corrections to the Last Issue
Gift Membership
Recent Outreach Funds Offered
Lifetime Contribution Award Recommendations Sought for 2013
Lifetime Award Party
Columns
Balance and Sing (Store Update), plus Water Bottles and Tote Bags
Yoga for Dancers—“Shoulders Back”…and So Much More
(News from Canada will return in the next issue)
Articles
Director’s Report, by Rima Dael
President’s Report, by David Millstone
“Come Sound His Praise Abroad”—Sacred Harp Singing Across Europe, by Jesse P. Karlsberg
Dancing the Dance, by Tom Webb
“Good Morning, Michigan”—Henry Ford, Benjamin Lovett and Lovett Hall, by Rick Szumski
CDSS Camp Scholarship Recipients for 2012, by Linda Henry
Poem
A Lesson from Scottish Country Dancing, by Jamie Tanner
Obituaries
Click here for a PDF containing recent obituaries.
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