The Night Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 18, 1970 Page: 2 of 4
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It was suggested that the Vienamese practice
English as much as they could in their spare time.
The American teachers were also suggested to practice
Vietnamese in order to understand the language
barriers better.
years. From San Antonio, he continued around the
world teaching square dancing and folk dancing to
the people of 68 countries.
Friday, March 6, Holden, who lives in Brussels,
Belgium, returned to the place his career began when
he conducted a workshop on Greek and Yugoslavian
folk dances at the downtown YWCA.
Holden presently teaches folk dancing and square
dancing in teacher training colleges of most Western
European countries. “In some countries where I teach,
we give another name to folk dancing,’’ Holden conti-
nued. “We call it ‘singing games’ or ’rhythmic activi-
ties” because the people are opposed to dancing for
religious reasons.
■ This is especially true in Norway. If a Norwegian
boy goes home and tells his father he did folk dancing
in school, his dad is likely to have the boy’s teacher
fired. But if he tells his father he participated in
rhythmic activities, his dad will nod his head and
continue reading the paper.
HOLDEN STUDIES folk dances of the countries
in which he travels, insofar as how the dances would
translate. To translate, a dance must have something
about it which would interest a person of a completely
different culture. Then Holden records the words,
movements, music and dance instructions.
The right music makes all the difference in the
world, Holden says. “You can see a dancer have new
life and vitality when the proper music supplies the
rhythm for the dance he is doing.”
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at the time was reputed to have defeated Cristero
revolutionists roaming the country in armed bands.
Luckily, the young travelers had no encounter with
the outlaws.
Sgt. bridges
language gap
By Margaret Thomas
Most men when assigned to Vietnam go there to
fight. Sgt. Norman Steir was assigned to Vietnam to
teach. As part of his temporary duty he and 40 other
enlisted men taught English to members of Vietnamese
Army. The U.S. Army has five schools in the Saigon
area and Sgt. Steir was assigned to the school in Cha
Lon.
Every day except Saturday the Vietnamese would
come to class and thd instructors would drill them in
the practice of speaking. Sgt. Steir added, “the course
we taught was conversational English. We also tried
to get them to think in English instead of translating
everything they hear in English to Vietnamese.”
EIGHT BOOKS were covered in the course which
runs five months. Each book is taught by a different
instructor in order that the Vietnamese could get ac-
quainted with the different American accents. The
class started at 7:15 a.m. and ended at 12:15 p.m. and
after lunch at 1 p.m. there was remedial training for
those who needed it.
St. Patrick’s
legends vary
By Diana Bryant
St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is honored
and the anniversary of his death, March 17, 493, has
been celebrated in America since early times.
Celebrations of the day began in Boston with
the Charitable Irish Society and the Friendly Sons of
St Patrick. They observed the day in 1780 and four
years later in New York the Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick of that city took note of the anniversary.
ONE TRADITION regarded as authentic is that
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Steir observed that the officers learned English
better than the Vietnamese enlisted men. “It was
impossible to generalize but at the end of five months
all the men could understand English fairly well and
were fairly fluent in speaking it.”
The project started in January of 1969 and Steir
and his group were the first ones to teach there. Now
the program has broadened with each branch of the
Armed Forces conducting schools all over Vietnam.
The program was originally started with enlisted men
but now only college graduates have a tour of duty.
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Car makes first
trip to Mexico
By Elizabeth Ortiz
It was an interesting trip considering that J
Melvin Cohen decided to follow the spirit of adven-
ture and be the first man to drive a car to Mexico.
He started towards Monterrey, Mexico, and was
accompanied by two other young men in a 1926
Chevrolet roadster.
It was an interesting trip, considering that Mexico
From soup cans to wine glasses
Mexico car trip, 41 years ago
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There was no main highway going to Mexico so
they followed the railroad tracks. They followed the
tracks starting at Carneros Pass, Saltillo, in order
to get to the Mexican plateau.
Cohen recalls the hacienda families were hosp’t- *
able and friendly and furnished over-night lodging.
One hacinda was of interest. It was popular for the
production of good tequila.
This spring semester, Cohen is attending San
Antonio College evening division classes on Tuesday
nights. He is taking creative writing courses under
the instruction of John Igo.
Cohen is a retired colonel from the United States
Air Force and served during World War II receiving
several battle stars. He is married to the former
Betty Brown of San Antonio and has two sons who
also attend college.
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BEFORE GOING to Vietnam, Steir and the other
teachers underwent a two-week training course of
basics in teaching English at the Lackland Language
School.
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SAC folk dancers rehearse for SA program presented
at Trinity University. Leading the procession are
Magdalena Garces and Robert Guerra.
Photo by Bill Jones
Square dance expert
travels to 68 countries
By Betty Gavara
It all began with a do-si-do! Twenty-two years
ago a Texas mathematician-physicist dropped into the
downtown San Antonio YWCA for an
square dancing that changed his life.
That evening Rickey Holden was offered a sum-
mer job teaching square dancing for the San Antonio
Recreation Department, where he worked the next six
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Melvin Cohen poses with a friend outside Presa Dam
in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In 1929 Cohen drove to
Monterrey, Mexico, in a 1926 Chevrolet Roadster.
Cohen claims he was the first person to drive a car
to Mexico.
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of the Trinity. He plucked a shamrock and said the
three leaves represented the three persons of the
Trinity. The stem on which they grew represented
the godhead and was typical of the unity of three
in one.
The legend of the snakes is as follows. He had
banished them all except one old serpent, which
refused to leave.
ST. PATRICK made a box and invited the ser-
pent to enter it. The serpent objected on the ground
that it was not big enough to hold him, but St. Patrick
insisted it was large enough to be comfortable.
After a long discussion the serpent finally agreed
to enter the box to prove that it was too small. As
soon as the serpent was safely inside, the saint shut
the lid, fastened it and threw it into the sea.
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