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Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine (Note: We cannot locate the original Gene Anthony portrait of Greggerson; it is not at the Lloyd Shaw Foundation Dance Center.) Herb GreggersonThe thermometer in Studio A at Capitol Records showed that the temperature was normal in the large room but beads […]

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Frank and Carolyn HamiltonFew people have been a part of the contemporary square dance scene longer than have our spotlight couple Frank and Carolyn Hamilton (See Square Dancing, June, 1971). For their dedicated years of traveling, for their pioneering of square and

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Lee HelselImagine if you can being caller for a club whose members included such people as Danny Kaye, Alan Reed (the voice of [Fred] Flintstone), Ronald Colman, Preston Foster, Ralph Edwards, Milburn Stone and Dinah Shore. This, among many vivid recollections was

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Jerry HeltJerry Helt of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the first square dance callers to go into the activity on a full-time basis, has compiled an outstanding record of achievements in the world of square dancing. An extremely competent caller, able to handle

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Bruce JohnsonIt was just 20 years ago this July, on a balmy summer evening, that a young caller recently out of the Navy hesitantly climbed five wooden steps, squeezed his way between fiddler and bass player and stood nervously beside the dignified,

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Earl JohnstonThe day of the square dance “specialist” may well be at hand, but still there are those who have reached the peaks in square dance calling who feel that a caller’s versatility is one of his strongest assets. Our Cover Caller

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Fenton ?Jonesy? JonesTo us there is one man who seems to personify completely the American square dance caller of today; that individual is California born, easy talking, good natured and comfortable, Fenton Jones. Probably no man ever born with the last name

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Arnie KronenbergerAfter calling a square dance for more than 15,000 people in California in the early 1950s and touring Alberta Province of Canada from one end to the other, our Cover Caller must have felt that there was nothing ?unusual? left in

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Frank LaneBut for one of those quirks in life that directs our destinies, our Cover Caller might be sitting behind the desk as city editor or publisher of some large daily newspaper. Frank graduated from the University of Kansas where he majored

Bob Osgood’s text as it appeared inSets in Order / Square Dancing magazine Johnny LeClairIt was 19 years ago this month when a young square dancer (dancing only since November of the previous year and sidelined temporarily as the result of an emergency operation) started his square dance calling, thus marking the beginning of a