Few women as danee-callers
’ Mrs Oiphie Easson. of L Canada, who is regarded as K one of the most experienced I", female square-dance callers n I in the world, arrived in Christchurch on Monday. j I Accompanied by about 200 a ! other Canadians, Mrs Easson ” will attend the Air New Zea-j land southern hemisphere 11 square and round dance coni|vention this week-end. 11 Few women became square - (dance callers —there were s | only four female callers of 3(a reasonable standard in r i Canada, said Mrs Easson. ! One reason might be that s jmen had louder voices which a carried further, but nowj adays electrical equipment J; amplified a caller’s instruc-; 1 tions. > Brought up in a country » district of Ontario, near Niagara Falls, Mrs Easson began square dancing as a ■ child. She has been calling . for 22 years.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33453, 7 February 1974, Page 15
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