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Biographical Notes
W. Dean Edwards was born in La Junta, Colorado, in 1927. He was first introduced to square dancing in 1939 through Acacia Park community dances in Colorado Springs, Colorado. From 1946 to 1947, Edwards was a member of the Pikes Peak Square Dancers, an exhibition dance group organized by Bob Cook. He began calling his first square dances in the late 1940s and went on to win the Colorado State Champion Square Dance caller contest each year from 1951-1955. In the late 1940s, he began organizing and directing the activities of the traditional square dance group, the Fun Finders, which he and his wife Peggy headed for more than forty years.