People

Pat & Wanda McBride

A native of Steamboat, CO, Pat started square dancing in the fall of 1972 at Colorado State University with the Aggie Haylofters club. To save money, the club encouraged interested members to learn how to call just enough to do a tip at their dances. Pat took the bait and has been calling ever since. Pat enjoyed a long career as a medical technologist.

As a 50-year member of CALLERLAB and ROUNDALAB, Pat currently calls and cues for the Chatfield Country Kickers, the Greenridge Mountaineers and various other clubs and events around the state. He’s served for many years at local Council and State Association offices and is active with the History Alive Chautauqua every September.

Wanda started dancing in 1977 in Craig, CO and continued to dance through high school and college. She moved to Grand Junction in 1983, met and married Pat, and has served square dancing at the local and state level ever since. She is a Master Gardner and helps organize the Western Slope Cowboy Gathering every November. She is also an avid quilter and loves to sew.

On their farm in Grand Junction, Pat and Wanda famously raise purebred Fainting Goats along with horses and chickens.

Elaine O’Neill

Elaine O’Neill, a Colorado native who came to Montrose, CO in 2002. She started Square Dancing in 2018. Naaman Morehouse taught her to dance and became her mentor to kick off a new adventure in Calling in 2022. She attended Caller School with Jerry Junck in the summer of 2023. She is currently part of the calling team for the Black Canyon Twirlers and the Delta HubWheelers.  

Mike & Stacey Lee

Mike is a third generation square dancer. He has been enjoying square dancing since the age of eight and is grateful to share his love of dancing with others.

Mike started calling in 2023 on the Western Slope of Colorado including regular Saturday dances with the Black Canyon Twirlers and Delta Hub Wheelers.

Mike also teaches square dancing within Delta and Montrose. Where he lives with his lovely wife Stacey.