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1964 & Don Beck begins calling square dances (November or
December).\\

1965 &   Veronica McClure starts square dancing.\\

1967 & Bill Mann, Don Beck, and Judith Kotok start square
dancing at MIT as part of the MIT Outing Club.  Don recalls,
``When Bill [Mann] asked me to come to a square dance
session he wanted to start, I said only on one condition: that I got to
be the caller.''\\

1967 & Veronica McClure moves from Baltimore to Boston December~1,
after visiting in October.\\

1968--1969 & Don Beck returns to school in upstate New York
(Sept 1968).  Veronica McClure and Charles Hatvany (an MIT
undergraduate) organize the existing square dance group into a separate
club of MIT\@.  At the time they asked the outing club if they wanted to
have Modern Western Square Dancing as part of their student activity.
When they declined, Veronica and Charles formed a new student
activity, Tech Squares, and asked Tex Wilson to be its caller, since
Don Beck was finding it difficult to continue calling now that he was
in school.  Don continued to dance with the group.  At the time Tex
was calling the Outing Club ``One Night
Stand'' (an introductory session for non-dancers,
without the expectation that they will continue) but he was also a
Modern Western Square Dance caller.\\
1970 &  Dennis Marsh becomes club caller \\

1971 &  Dennis teaches the first ``Krash
Kourse'': an intensive course designed to produce club
level dancers in 8 weeks\\

1971 &   Veronica begins cueing rounds at Tech Squares\\

1974 &   Karen Murphy becomes club cuer\\

1976 &   Gene Finlayson becomes club cuer\\

1979 &   Hope Kaltenthaler becomes club cuer\\

1985 &   Veronica McClure returns as club cuer\\

1986 &   Don Beck returns to become club caller\\

1992 &   25th anniversary dance, October 24\\

1993 &  Bill Kim Dance-a-thon (November 7).  Through the
last 80s and early 90s the club was run primarily by a single,
dedicated person: Bill Kim.  When he was diagnosed with cancer, people
from both Tech Squares and the contra dancing community pulled together
to run a dance-a-thon to raise money.  He passed away a few years
later, but his badge was given to the club and (as of 2006) pinned to
the club banner in memory of his spirit and dedication to the club.\\

1994 &  Veronica retires as full-time club cuer (October 25),
Doris T-Bow fills in.  Veronica cues during the winter, Doris during
the summer.\\

1995 &  Linda Resnick and Clark Baker host the first Tech
Squares Weekend at Lake Shore Farm, NH\@.  This becomes an annual event
for the club.\\

1997 &   30th anniversary dance, October 18\\

1998 &  Don Beck retires.  Ted Lizotte becomes club caller
(Spring 1998), dancing moves from Tuesday to Thursday nights.\\

2000 &  In the spring term, the Crash course is first offered as
an MIT PhysEd class.  One year later, PE credit is officially offered
for the class.  This brings extra income for the club.\\

2000--2001 &  Veronica scales back to cueing about once a
month, year round.  Hope (Kaltenthaler) Belanger returns to cue the
other winter dances; Doris continues during the summer.\\

2001--2002 &  ``Year of the amateur
cuers.''  Doris cues in the summer, and Veronica
continues once-a-month; the other dances are cued by club members.\\

2002 &   Tech Squares moves back from Thursday to Tuesday
nights, July 2.\\

2002 &  Phil Gatchell returns to cue for the club, Sept 17;
Veronica continues cuing once a month. (Phil had previously cued for
Tech Squares Winter 1997.)  In May 2003 Phil is officially named club
cuer.\\

2002 &   35th anniversary dance, November 16\\

2003 &   Dance ending time moved from 11pm to 10:30pm (July).\\

2005 &  Clark Baker hosts the first Tech Squares Challenge
Weekend at Lake Shore Farm, NH, targeted at solid C1 and C2 dancers.\\

2006 &  Veronica McClure retires as part-time club cuer.
 Jessica Wong and Stephen Gildea fill in for her once-a-month
spot, with Jessica cuing during dances, and Stephen teaching special
rounds classes emphasizing technique.\\
2008 & Having outgrown Lake Shore Farm, the annual Tech Squares
Weekend is moved to East Hill Farm in Troy, NH.

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\footnotesize
This timeline is drawn in part from the Tech Squares 25th anniversary
dance program, 10/24/1992, written by Veronica McClure and Stephen
Gildea.  Other information was obtained from Don Beck and Veronica
McClure in personal interviews by Clark Baker, and from the
``Tech Squares Officer's
Handbook'' started in 1990 and contemporaneously updated.

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