The Busy B’s Square Dance Club originated with Ed and Lois White who discovered square dancing while vacationing in Arizona on a retirement trip in 1990.  Ed was a retired RCA manager and he and his wife, former ballroom dancers, pursued square dance lessons when they returned home and graduated in 1992.  One of the places where they practiced their dance steps was at the Glassboro Senior Center under caller Ray Kauffman.  Ed soon  became such an enthusiastic advocate of square dancing that he decided to organize a square dance club for South Jersey singles of college age and older. The organization was essentially for Busy Bachelors and Bachelorettes, so the group became known as Busy B’s. 

Ed contacted the Trustees of United Church of Christ in Glassboro requesting permission use the church hall to use for classes and dances and was granted permission in February, 1994. Ed became the club’s first president and held the position for 2 years. Ray Kauffman became the club’s first caller and continued for several years.

On January 5, 1994, the Courier Post featured an article on Ed and square dancing in which the author Al Klimcke quoted Ed as saying that “one of the best ways to have fun and meet friendly people is to ‘do-si-do their partners, allemande left and promenade down the line’.  In square dancing by the end of the evening you’ve touched hands and socialized with everyone in the room. 
 

Over the years, dedicated work of our presidents and other officers has made Busy B’s the largest club in the Federation of Delaware Valley Square and Round Dancers. It is the only club in the Federation that dances Mainstream and Plus levels at each dance; and except for Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving Eve, Busy B’s has a dance every Wednesday throughout the year. We have an average of 22 different callers over the course of the 12 months, many of them National callers. The club continues to grow and expects to continue that trend for many years to come.

 

Square dancing is for fun, not competition.  All you have to do is walk to the beat of the music. If you can walk, you can square dance.  It’s a very wholesome activity.”