Miriam Baker's Home Page

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Baker and Alexander Family links

• Sidney Alexander (Miriam's father)
• Clark Baker (Miriam's husband)
• Lindsay Russell (Clark's uncle)
• Decendents of Hannah Sandusky PNG PDF (Miriam's great great grandmother)
• Bube Hannah Sandusky Reunion, August 7 & 8, 2010
• 1936 letter home from Sidney Alexander
• Edna Ann Simon interviewing Esther Simon (MP3 format, from wire recording circa 1957)
• 1978 interview with Eva Simon (notes taken by Selwyn Greene)

Clark's pages for general consumption, mostly square dancing related

Historical (1980 or earlier) or about history of square dance

• A Brief History of Square and Round Dancing by Veronica Ann McClure
• Square Dancing—a Bob Osgood film from 1951
• Western Style Square Dancing is in trouble [also in German]
• Tech Squares early history
• Ralph Sweet's 2005 NECCA Clinic talk
• Ralph Sweet's Handout (links to many interesting pages)
• Edson Cole: Fiddler, caller, and dancing master
• Duke Miller, audio of a 1965 square and contra dance by Walter Lenk
• The Dances in Bradford NH by Walter Lenk
• The Challenge Square Dancing Handbook written in 1978 by Clark Baker (3.4Mb)
  The Challenge Square Dance Handbook by Clark Baker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. (Library of Congress Catalog Record)
• Computer Numbers (for mixing dancers) — A History by Don Beck

Modern (since 1980)

• Clark Baker's Square Dance Calling schedule
• Clark calling Mainstream: patter tip #1 (Samba Hoedown, ABC 8), patter tip #2 (Popcorn, RYL 413)
• Clark Baker dance tapes for sale by Keith Rubow
• Clark Baker an Unsinging Hero—a 1993 article by Donaleen Kohn
• Clark Baker Interview—transcript of a 2006 interview by Bob Brundage
• Directional Characteristics of Column Loudspeakers by Ervin E. Gross — of interest to Yak Stack owners
• Rule of 78 explained
• Boardgames Clark Likes
• Dominion teaching idea—for those easily overwhelmed
• A Brief History of Square and Round Dancing by Veronica Ann McClure
• Database of all Square Dance Calls (1Mb)
• Challenge Square Dancing: Myths and Responses
• 10 Important Square Dance Calls
• Helping in a square [also in German]
• Square Games
• Hexagon Squares
  • Hexagon Squares (Eastern Style) — Clark Baker
  • Hexagon Squares (Western Style) — Bill Eyler
  • Handout from 54th National Square Dance Convention Clinic — Doug Davis, Nasser Shukayr
  • Introduction to Bi-gons — Sue Curtis (New)
• Barstool Dancing
• Alternative Patter Music
• Learning Styles and Square Dancing (New)
• Mainstream Teaching Order Design
• C2 Teaching Order
• C3A Teaching Order
• C3B List (revised May 2007)
• C3B List voting results (May 2007)
• C3B Teaching Order
• C3B Teach Tapes (free, online, in progress)
• C4 Frequency Counts
• Stan Winchester Singing Calls
• Disposable Experimentals
• The Twisted Concept
• A collection of good MWSD Choreography
• Dave Wilson's Ocean Wave Resolution Method
• Musings On Definitions
• The Rights of Square Dance Call Authors
• Will Square Dancing Survive?
• Solving the Age Gap by Patricia Wahle (e-mail posted to the Square Dance 2050 mailing list)
• North Central College
  • Professor innovates course on "Mathematics of Square Dancing"
  • The Art of Square Dancing: Math in Motion by Christina Lorenzo (Senior Honors Thesis)
• Articles by Don Beck
  • Teaching Principles That Will Help Students Succeed
  • Creating A Teaching Order That Will Help Students Succeed
  • Six Couple Dancing for Callers — Summary of Techniques
  • Smoothness Workshop (Designing Smoothness Into Your Calling)
  • Shortcuts for Moving Square Dance Dolls (Checkers)
• Teaching Techniques by Jerry Reed (New)
• John Sybalsky (March 27, 1953 - May 25, 2009)
  • What Makes Square Dancing Hard? — Cognitive Psychology and Square Dancing by John Sybalsky (New)
• Mike Jacobs (1951 - December 2, 2009)
• Gimmicks: A talk I gave at Callerlab 2005
• Introduction to the PPC Initiative: A talk I gave at Callerlab 2005
• Things I Believe about One-Time Party Dances: A talk I gave at the 2007 Beginning Dance Party Leader Seminar
• Teaching Square Dancing to Grade 7: A talk I gave at the 2008 Beginning Dance Party Leader Seminar
• Inside The Definitions: A talk I gave at Callerlab 2008
• Digital Music — Editing: A talk I gave at Callerlab 2008
• Beat Math: A talk I gave at Callerlab 2009
• Applying Our Research: A talk I gave at the 2009 Beginning Dance Party Leader Seminar
• 3, 5, 6 Couple Dancing: A talk I gave at Callerlab 2010
• Phrase Craze: A talk I gave at Callerlab 2010
• Disposable Calls A talk I gave at Callerlab 2011
• Games A talk I gave with Vernon Jones and Bear Miller at Callerlab 2011
• Call Evolution A talk I gave with Don Beck at Callerlab 2011
• 2011 Chairman's Award: An award I received at Callerlab 2011
• Caller Judgment: A talk I gave at Callerlab 2012
• True and Technical Zeros: A talk I gave with Tim Marriner at Callerlab 2012

Contra Dancing

• First Fridays Challenging Contra Dance Series in Concord, MA
• Explaining Traditional Squares and Contras to MWSD folks
• Contra Dances which include Clark as an author

Clark's Dances and Weekends

• Todd & Clark C3A and C3B Weekends (June and September)
• New Years Weekend (Hard C3B)
• Tech Squares Weekend (private weekend)
• Fall Challenge Weekend (private weekend)

Poll results

• Lead Right
• Mishearing Calls
• Thumb Wheel Use

CALLERLAB Definition Committee business

• DRAFT Formations (reference document)
• Land-Grant Colleges and Universities
• Ladies Chain Definition (proposed definition)

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