Meet our wonderful Round Dance Cuers
Bob and Sally Nolen
direct from Los Alamos NM
Bob and Sally began dancing in 1972 and teaching in 1975. They cue and teach all phases, conduct a round dance club and cue for a square dance club. They both cue and teach and had a Carousel Club in Austin TX when they lived there.
Bob has a Ph.D. in chemistry and has been a technical manager for 30 years with the last 20 years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory working in national security. During this time he has also been president of the Little League for seven years as well as the state president of the USA Hockey affiliate in New Mexico for five years and vice president for two years before that. During this time he was president of the Rocky Mountain District Council of Presidents over 9 states. He is also the web master for Rocky Mountain District web site of the USA Hockey.
Sally has a BS degree in Business and Elementary Education. For 16 years Sally has owned and operated Trans-Med, a medical transcription and billing company. She is a certified medical coder at Los Alamos National Laboratory in addition to running Trans-Med. To add to this resume she now is part time loan officer with Metropolitan Mortgage. Additionally she has served as a volunteer in many areas involved in church, preschool education, and Los Alamos Public Schools, Los Alamos Youth Soccer League, and others.
Members of:
ROUNDALAB - Members 31 years, Education Chaircouple 2005 ROUNDALAB Convention
Michigan Round Dance Teacher's Association - Chaircouple of Bylaws Revision Committee
Texas Round Dance Teachers Association
New Mexico Round Dance Teachers Association - President and Vice President
New Mexico Round and Square Dance Association - Second Vice President of Rounds four years
Elected to the RAL Board of Directors in June 2006 for 3 years – Chaircouple of Phase V Standards and Procedures. In addition, Bob is the Chairman of the RAL Technology Committee.
Bob and Sally have been the featured instructors at square and round dance festivals in Canada, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Illinois, Texas and New Mexico for 32 years. They conducted a school for Cuers in San Antonio with another round dance couple. They promoted and were the local staff for Round-A-Rama weekends in San Antonio, TX and Los Alamos, NM for five years. They attended the first URDC convention when it was held in Kansas City and taught at the URDC Convention in Grand Rapids, MI in the early 80's. They also have written a number of dances – It Sure Looks Good on You, Perfidia Bolero (ROQ 1st Runner Up), and Just As Much.
"We have been teaching round dancing for 30 years and would like to serve on the ROUNDALAB Board of Directors to continue promoting round dancing all over the world and in venues other than square dancing. We have begun this task by using Social Dancing lessons as a way to get a larger audience of dancers interested in round dancing. Thanks to Carter and Ruby Ackerman and Irv and Betty Easterday and their shared materials on how to do this. We have tripled our round dance club in one year! We hope to introduce the new dancers to square dancing. These dancers are learning that cueing helps learn more easily than having to concentrate on their feet and leading in the beginning.
We want to continue sharing this information with all in ROUNDALAB to help promote round dancing without depending solely on square dancing to feed our hobby and profession. We also want to promote the friendship and fitness that comes through dancing.
Since education is so important to both of us our first desire is to support and see that the education program at the convention continues and flourishes over the next few years. They were the 2005 ROUNDALAB Convention Education Chaircouple in Kah-Nee-Ta, Oregon. We want everyone to know that this convention was 99% education with so little business you won't believe it! This will hopefully be the model for future conventions and is on track for 2006."
