2011 Caller Couple Scroll of Honour

Dan and Anita Adams

Photo Courtesy Bea Kivits-Maudsley Dan & Anita Adams started dancing in 1984 at Seaside Swingers with Ken Mellech.  They also started learning rounds with Marg & Reg Beatty.  It wasn't long before Dan tried calling on a goofers' night at Seaside Swingers and also Royal Swingers and soon was going to a callers' school put on by the Vancouver & District Callers Association. In the meantime Anita often cued at Seaside Swingers and by the next season was cueing at the Penticton Jamboree as well as Seaside Swingers and Royal Swingers. Their accomplishments are many, including the following: 1.    Teaching a mentally challenged group in Surrey. 2.    Calling & cueing for Kensington Square & Round Dance Club. 3.    Cueing rounds for Chuckwagon Eights and teaching Chuckwagon Eights Sunday Rounds for a couple of years. 4.    Calling and cueing for Ocean Waves. 5.    Teaching round dancing at Rainbow Squares for a couple of years. 6.    Taking lessons from Jerry & Val Huffman to learn Phase 3 and 4 and taking over their classes when Huffmans retired. 7.    Cueing and teaching at two U.S. Nationals and four Washington State Festivals, as well as three Canadian Nationals and different local festivals. 8.    Cueing rounds for the February Frolics in Mount Vernon for several years. 9.    Calling and cueing at the Penticton Jamboree for many years. 10.  Helping teen clubs as coaches and teachers to teenage dancers: cueing for a preteen club in White Rock called the Banditos; and teaching and cueing for Wesburn Wranglers.  As well they were Chief Judges for the Pacific Northwest Teen Festival in 2002; and finally, 11.  Starting a round dance club called the Spinners which covered a span of close to twenty years. The Spinners round dance club functioned in Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond and Delta and moved to Kennedy Hall in Surrey in 2002 where they eventually had three classes with very good attendances.  Over the years they taught classes from beginners to phase five. Early-on when they started dancing so did their three sons.  The boys danced with Wesburn Wranglers and Delta Sundancers and also learned to call.  They won many awards as the years went by.  Their son, Dan Jr., is currently calling and some of their grandchildren are now dancing too.

Write-up provided by Bea Maudsley, Scroll of Honour Award Committee Chair