Gary Carpenter

1974: Started Square Dancing 1975: Started Calling 1975: Attended my 1st National Convention (Melbourne) 1975: Attended 1st NSW State Convention, Calling in Junior Hall. 1976: Callers School with Brian Hotchkies 1977: Started Club Calling Sharing Spatiores with David Cox 1979: Started Carpenter & Co Square Dance Club at Tuggerah calling solo 1980: Married to Jenny 1980: Co-Convenor […]

Wendy Alexander

Let me first introduce myself, name is Wendy Alexander.  I have been dancing for over 40 years.  I started dancing with Gary Carpenter at Carpenter & Co, Tuggerah when I was 10 years of age, along with my older brother, then my youngest brother. I moved away from the area around 1993 and came back […]

James Brooks

I was first hooked and addicted to square dancing in Sydney as a teenager. That first contact was with a caller named Len Woodhead. He had a dance at Rockdale and shortly after I started, he opened a second dance at Collaroy Plateau (which eventually became Greenwich Swingers at Artarmon).   I danced enthusiastically over a […]