SAN DIEGO COUNTY SQUARE DANCE CALLERS ASSOCIATION

Welcome to the San Diego Caller's site. An affiliate member of the Square Dance Association of San Diego and CALLERLAB, the international association of square dance callers; membership in our association is open to experienced and novice callers alike, throughout southern California.

Meetings are held on the third Saturday of each month at the Grossmont Work Training Center, 230 Jamacha Road in El Cajon; meeting time is 8:00 AM and educational presentations are made following every meeting.

BASIC level dances, designed for beginner dancers or dancers no longer dancing Plus, are sponsored by the San Diego Caller's Association; held on the 4th Saturday night of every month at Grossmont Work Training Center, 230 Jamacha Road in El Cajon, dance time is 7:00-9:30 PM. (except for November 22, 2008 - see below)

BASIC FUN DANCES on the 4th Saturday night at Grossmont Work Training Center, 230 Jamacha Rd, El Cajon

7:00-9:30 All Squares

July 26, 2008	John Marus and Steve van Keuren
August 23, 2008	Dick Neumann and Jimmy Akin
September 27, 2008	Jimmy Akin and Su Eyegabroad
October 25, 2008	Steve Woodard, Dick Neumann, and Robert Woodard
November 22, 2008	NO DANCE TONIGHT
December 27, 2008	NO DANCE TONIGHT

ANNIVERSARY DANCE AT BALBOA PARK CLUB ON NOVEMBER 22, 2008

AFTERNOON SESSION - A-1 and A-2 Squares (C-1 tips)

3:30-5:30 PM at Balboa Park Club. Scheduled callers include Steve Woodard, David Heffron, Carl McCullough, Andy Allemao

EVENING SESSION - PLUS DANCING

Round Dancing before squares: 7:00-7:30 then Plus Squares (no rounds): 7:30-9:30 PM

Scheduled callers include Buddy Weaver, John Marus, Steve Woodard, Dick Neumann, Andy Allemao, Jimmy Akin, David Heffron, Carl McCullough

Square dancing in San Diego had it's basic start in January 1946, when under the sponsorship of the San Diego Park and Recreation Department, caller Jimmy Clossin (Hall of Famer & Milestone Recipient), was brought in from Texas to instruct a group in the art of square dancing. Maria Fielding, a recreation supervisor, was given the task of getting people to this first class. She did such a fine job that the turnout was overwhelming, 900 attendees had to be divided into two shifts of classes.

In the fall of 1946, at Central School, Mrs. Fielding organized and taught a caller's class from which came many of California's pioneer callers. By 1947, the movement had grown so the dancers and callers together began having meetings to better organize the movement; the San Diego Square Dance Association, formed and began sponsoring dances, including the first two Fiestas in San Diego.

June 1953 saw the making of two separate groups, the San Diego Callers Association and the Square Dance Association of San Diego County. The first president of the callers association was Van Van Der Walker.

In 1969, Heartland Federation Callers Association, also in San Diego, merged with San Diego Callers Association. The newly formed San Diego County Square Dance Callers Association elected, as it's first co-presidents, Lee McCormack and Pat Canet.

Today, the San Diego County Square Dance Callers Association has a membership representative of active, professional callers throughout San Diego.

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