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

April 26, 2008	Benefit dance for Father Joe's Villages - various members calling
May 24, 2008	Jimmy Akin & George Crissman
June 28, 2008	Ron Nelson & George Crissman
July 26, 2008	tba
August 23, 2008	tba
September 27, 2008	tba
October 25, 2008	tba
November 22, 2008	NO DANCE TONIGHT
December 27, 2008	NO DANCE TONIGHT

ANNIVERSARY DANCE AT BALBOA PARK CLUB ON NOVEMBER 22, 2008

AFTERNOON SESSION - INTRO. TO SQUARE DANCING

Bring your neighbors, friends, co-workers for an exciting "taste of square dancing". This session is open to all and is free of charge; each tip will be a fun, introduction to square dancing. 3:30-5:30 PM at Balboa Park Club.

EVENING SESSION - PLUS DANCING with ADVANCED TIPS

Spend a wonderful Saturday night dancing at the Balboa Park Club. Dance time is 7:00-9:30 PM

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.

This would be the sixty-second (62^nd) anniversary of the San Diego Square Dance Association, our shared founding organization.

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