Katydids Square Dance Club
Our club caller is Jim Osborne
Dance Times and Location
Fridays 7:00 to 9:30
SANTA CLARA SALVATION ARMY
3090 Homestead Road
Santa Clara, CA 95051
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All Plus level Dancers are invited to come and dance with us on
Fridays.
About our club
We are a Friendly club and everyone is welcome to come and Square dance with us on friday nights. We make sure that everyone gets to dance. Guests are always welcome.
Normal dress code is square dance attire, however it is not required. Club attire (Wear Green) is encouraged on club party nights (normally on the third Friday of the month).
Katydids is a membership run club. The club is administered by a board of directors on behalf of the membership. The board is elected annually by the membership.
A Copy of the Katydids Membership Application and Bylaws are available as a PDF download file here or they are available on club nights from any board member. You will need Adobe Reader to open the PDF files.
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can Download Adobe Reader from here.
You can download the Katydids
Bylaws PDF file here.
You can download the Katydids
Membership Application PDF file here.
You can download the Club Inventory
PDF file here.
You can download the November 2021
Chirper PDF file here.
You can download the December 2021
Chirper PDF file here.
You can download the January 2022
Chirper PDF file here.
You can download the February 2022
Chirper PDF file here.
You can download the March 2022
Chirper PDF file here.
You can download the April 2022
Chirper PDF file here.
You can download the May 2022
Chirper PDF file here.
You can download the June 2022
Chirper PDF file here.
The 2022 dance will be held on Saturday,
February 12, 2022 from 7:30
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at ________________,
____________________________________, CA. The
caller is ___________, with Pre-Rounds and Rounds
by ________________
, Pre-Rounds are from 7:30 to 8:00 and Rounds
between square dance tips.
Come back to 1961 and a square dance club
called the Twirling Sands.
Named after the club caller Ed Sanders, the
club met on Thursday nights.
Several members were having difficulty attending on a
regular basis, so they
decided to form a Friday night club.
The group looked around for a place to
dance. The clubhouse at Bowers Park in
Santa Clara was available on Friday nights. One of the
Twirling Sands' founders
and members, Kenny Steen, had recently
graduated from callers' school and
had started calling at area dances. Soon he was
recruited to call. They elected
a slate of officers, held their first class of seven
squares and were on their
way to official clubdom. After the class graduated and
another slate of officers
was elected, the members decided to make it "legal"
with a club name and logo.
How does Moonlighter, Crazy Crickets
or Cute Cats sound?
Picture this: a warm summer night, sitting
in the park, folks discussing
possible club names and suddenly a shrill scream! Lorraine
Willes with the
"never-out-of-place" hairdo jumped up and was
frantically pulling at her hair. A
huge insect had fallen from the tree into her hair. "Katydid"
was the
scream and a club name was born.
1961 is when the group started dancing. 1962
is the official date of the
club's formation when the bylaws was adopted, a club
name and logo were selected
and the club was registered with "official" square
dancing organizations.
Annual Hoedown will be on February 12,2022 next Year
Our Annual hoedown is the Sweethearts Special
held around February 14, Valentine's Day, each year.
Past callers were Ed Sanders
(1961-1962), Kenny
Steen (1962-1978), Bill Davis (1978-1995) and
Harold Fleeman (1995-2005).
For more information
Jim Osborne
(Club Caller)
Jim@Katydids.org Stephanie Stevens
(President)
408 871-9525
Stephanie@katydids.org Janna Standridge
(Vice-President)
408 371-4069
Janna@Katydids.org
This site maintained by Lloyd Darknell
Lloyd@Katydids.org