Here are The Boomerangs callers.
Bob Bash Pete Kasper Butch Adams	Jim Wass Bill Harrison Skip Cleland

Bob Bash
PiemanReb@aol.com

Bob Bash has been calling since 1983 and teaches mainstream and plus and likes calling DBD. Bob started dancing at 8 years old and was a teenage caller before taking a break. He's a member of Callerlab and is a member of the local caller's association, NCASDLA, where he served as Vice President, President, and a term on the Board of Directors each for 1 year respectively. He has taught mainstream and plus classes at the Boomerangs since 1999 and has called for many clubs in the area. He lived in Japan for 3 years and during that time he taught classes and called for a club.

Bob met his wife, Eve, in 1992 at the “Dreams Come True in '92” WASCA Festival and they have continued to attend subsequent festivals. They served on the Youth Committee for the Baltimore 2000 National Square Dance Convention.

Bob has worked at Starbucks Coffee since 1999, first as a barista and now as a shift manager. He especially enjoys his work because it enables him to meet and interact with many different kinds of people.

In his spare time he has a wood burning business wherein he takes pictures of people, animals or objects, and using a special tool, burns them into such objects as jewelry boxes, clocks, trays, and other decorative pieces. He has created special theme-related objects for the WASCA festival directors. He also enjoys participating in reenactments of the Civil War.

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Jim Wass
www.jimwass.com

Jim Wass is a Business Process Analyst available for government and private sector consulting.  Jim is also a Square Dance Caller and Teacher calling in the DC Metro area and traveling to wherever you and your dance might be.

Jim is a professional square dance caller and CALLERLAB-Certified Square Dance Teacher.  Jim has been involved with square dancing since 1961 and Ann joined him in the activity in 1978.  Jim finally committed himself to becoming a caller in 1989.  Jim & Ann operate a weekly square dance club, the Good Luck Squares of New Carrollton, Maryland; Jim teaches square dance classes for the Square Roots and Boomerangs programs in the Washington D.C. area; and, Jim and Ann regularly do parties for people that don't ordinarily square dance.  Jim guests for other square dance clubs in the D.C. Metro area and travels a bit, mostly in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.  Jim has called at 10 National Square Dance Conventions and Jim and Ann have both presented in panels, clinics, and seminars at Nationals and at CALLERLAB conventions.  Jim's calling averages 120 to 150 dances and class sessions annually.

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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

Bill was born and raised in the Baltimore, Maryland area. His interest in Square and Round dancing began at the age of 7. After dancing for a number of years, Bill's interest became more apparent that he would some day like a try at calling. In 1970 he started calling and then attended a summer caller's school conducted by Mac Parker, this beginning a career in calling. He attended many seminars and colleges; Earl Johnston and Al Brundage's in New Hampshire, Mac Parker's caller school, and Cal Golden's in Arkansas. Bill received a scholarship to attend Cal Golden's school.

A dream came true in 1985. This was the year he decided to make calling his full time profession.

Bill maintains a full program at home that includes clubs in the Southern, Maryland, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia areas. These clubs range from Plus to Challenge 2. He has a total of 5 clubs and reserves one night a week for lessons. Besides the home program, Bill travels just about every weekend. His travels have taken him to 44 states, 3 provinces of Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Japan. He has been featured on many festivals throughout the country. Bill has appeared on NBC's Today Show with Willard Scott. This special appearance was a promotional for Square Dancing.

A member of CALLERLAB since 1977, and NCASDLA his area caller association since 1972. Bill is currently on the Board of Governors of CALLERLAB. He has been Chairman of the Career Callers Committee, Chairman of the Advanced Quarterly Selection Committee and is currently Vice Chairman of the Advanced Committee. He currently records for ESP records.

The greatest enjoyment in his chosen profession is the friends he meets in his travels, along with the entertainment and perpetually learning of the choreography involved with the business. Friends set to music, what more could one ask for!

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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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