Here are The Boomerangs callers.
Pete Kasper Butch Adams	Bill Harrison Skip Cleland

Peter K. Kasper
pkasper@erols.com

Pete is an applied physicist working in a variety of fields including theater ballistic missile test & evaluation, acoustics, virtual reality and computer simulation. His academic background includes an M.S. in Physics from Arizona State University, B.S. in Physics from Benedictine U. and a stint as adjunct professor at Old Dominion University. Pete is currently a technical fellow with Northrop Grumman in Arlington, Virginia. He enjoys spending time with his lovely, talented wife Jane, dynamic duo son and daughter-in-law Scott and Cheryl and art major, college soccer playing daughter Dawn. His extracurricular activities include being an active square dance caller and rapping with friends on the IRC #50+ channels.

Outside interests include being an active modern western square dance caller in the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Calling repertoire ranges from one night stand "fun" dances up to the plus level. Credentials include membership in Callerlab (international society of square dance callers) and serving two years as president of the National Capital Area Square Dance Leaders Association.

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Bill Harrison
www.callerbill.com

Since 1972 he has been a member of NCASDLA his area caller association and CALLERLAB since 1977. Bill is currently on the Board of Governors of CALLERLAB and will be serving on the Executive Committee for his first time in 2008. Has been past Chairman of the Career Callers Committee, Advanced Quarterly Selection Committee, Vice Chairman of the Advanced Committee and is currently Chairman of the Advanced Committee. Currently serving on the Mainstream, Challenge, Application Review Committee and Program Policy Committee. Over the past 20 plus years recording for square dance labels such as Red Boot, Pioneer, Kalox, Lou Mac, JoPat/ESP and special guest on Global Records and Desert Gold Records. Bill currently records for ESP records.

 

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Butch Adams
join16_24@yahoo.com

Butch started dancing and calling in 1960 while he was on active duty in the U.S. Navy. He has called throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Western Pacific.

Upon retirement from the Navy in 1978, he moved to the Shenandoah Valley where he now makes his home in Winchester, Virginia. He presently calls in the mid-Atlantic area and has his home program in Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. Butch calls for corporate events, private parties, and various clubs at the mainstream through advanced levels, and specializes in Plus-DBD dancing.

Butch is also the choreographer and caller for the national capitol area exhibition team known as the "Capitol Squares" who perform at various festivals, special dances and national events.

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Skip Cleland
skipcleland@yahoo.com

In 1982, Skip attended Square Dance lessons with his parents as a spectator. He just liked visiting with the people and the mechanics of the moves fascinated him. One night when the last tip came up, one of the couples had left leaving the squares one couple short. Just for fun, the caller put on a record with square dance vocals and asked Skip to dance as his partner. To everyone's surprise, he was actually able to execute the moves as if he had been taking lessons. A few years later, Skip decided it was time to put to good use his ability to analyze the moves and his enjoyment of singing so he participated in an amateur night and his calling career was on.

Skip joined the Florida Callers Association in 1987 and CALLERLAB in 1990. Since 1987, Skip has called every year at the Florida State Square and Round Dancers Convention and has called at many of the National Conventions. He has served on the Florida Callers Association Board of Officers and is a past president of that association. He currently serves as the Association Information Officer and Webmaster. Skip is a producer and recording artist for Ramblin Rose Records and Talon Records. He has also recorded on the Stampede and Rockin-M-Records labels.

In his travels, Skip has called in many of the southeastern states for regional associations, clubs and weekend festivals. In 2003, when he moved from Florida to Virginia, he resigned from the Canaveral Squares as their club caller where Skip had called for 16 of the 43 club years. When he moved to Virginia, he did not know how long he would be here, so he did not pursue calling as a club caller and focused on his traveling calling at conventions, festivals and as the occasional guest caller at clubs. Now that it appears he will be here for awhile, he is actively booking calling engagements at area Mainstream and Plus clubs and teaching through the Advanced level.

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