[Squaredancing] FW: Only in America

[Cynde Sadler]

This happened five years ago and you met a person a few days ago who 
remembers it? That's a lot of damage done by Reader's Digest! Who knows how 
many wannabe dancers never turned up to give it a look-see? 100s? 1,000s?
Did they ever write a more positive article about SD? If not let bombard 
them now with pressure to write one with all the positive qualities showing. 
Friends of my almost 80-year-old mother say that she looks and acts younger 
than she did 5 years ago when she started. She thanks me so often for 
'forcing' her to start. She round dances now, too and absolutely loves it 
all. She feels I (+ SD) saved her life*. Tell THAT to Reader's Digest!
Cynde

* There was nothing wrong with her just a widow and lonely at times

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James W. Spinks.1" <james.w.spinks.1 at arczip.com>
To: "Square Dancing Mailing List" <Squaredancing at rbnsn.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:46 AM
Subject: [Squaredancing] FW: Only in America


> FYI a few years old but I was talking with some one a few days ago...a non
> SDer who's
> only experience with SDing was in High School and thought it "Silly" and
> "Hillbillyish"
> and had seen the Reader's Digest article/qwip in a Doctors office copy of
> RD.
>
> Don't remember if I passed this on to the listserve group back in 2004 or
> not.
> SDers need POSITIVE publicity NOT NEGATIVE especially from a magazine
> with as large a readership as does Readers Digest.
>
> Below is the reply and the message I had written to RD's editor at that
> time.
>
> Jim Spinks
>
>