Alvin Hammer and Lisa Reichenberger Wolf River Area
Alvin Hammer and Lisa Reichenberger Housing/Camping Chairman
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Marilyn Kittle and Stephanie Esser Southwest Area
Marilyn Kittle and Stephanie Esser Retail Sales
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Services
Eldon & Virginia Boehm Southwest Area
Eldon & Virginia Boehm Services
Eldon Boehm started square dancing when he was about 16 - Cross Trails Club in Madison with Vern Weisensel. Eldon belonged to a square dance club called Wings and Swing in Omaha, Nebraska in 1973, while he lived there. Later, he belonged to a singles club in Madison - Mad City Squares, after military service in 1974.
Virginia Boehm first started square dancing in 1977 when she took lessons at Mad City Squares.
We met at Mad City Squares. We married in 1979 and kept dancing for awhile. We joined Grand Squares because we didn't want to belong to a singles club any longer. When we started raising a family in 1987, we stopped dancing.
When Eldon retired in 2010 we took lessons again at Westport Squares for a refresher. We got back to Round Dancing also. We belong to Dancing Shadows Round Dance Club. We also have taken Plus lessons several times and refresher courses to get more practice. We have had a good time with Square Dancing.
Virginia is still working for a Financial Planner - Admin Assistant.
We have a son, Matt, 32 and a daughter, Kim, 36 and her husband Raf.
We belong to Westport Squares Sq Dance Club and Badger Rovers Sq Dance Club and Dancing Shadows Round Dance Club.
Eldon has gone to a National Convention in California in 1975. Both of us went to the National in Iowa in 2016. We were in charge of Services at the State of WI Sq & Round Dance Convention in Baraboo in 2016 and in Middleton in 2019.
I first started square dancing back when I was in the 7th grade. I loved to
dance, and line dancing was my favorite part. I danced until college and
then took time off to raise my family. In 2016, not having a partner for
square dancing, I took clogging lessons and danced on the local clogging
exhibition team. In 2017 I was able to talk my daughter into taking square
dance lessons and I finally returned to my favorite activity. In 2023, I married Myron Hollatz, a caller/cuer for square dancing from Minnesota. We met at an Iowa State Square Dance Convention the previous year.
My second favorite activity is web design. I have worked on a number of websites in the past but I am currently the web designer for the Swingin' Beavers square dance club, the Square Dance Association of WI (SDAW), SW-SDAW, Badger Rovers square dance camping group, and the Wisconsin State Convention website.
I served one year as Vice President for the Swingin' Beavers club, two years as Publicity Chairman for the WI State Convention, and three years as the Webmaster for the Convention. I hope to see you at convention and look forward to meeting you in a square!
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