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This is the place where you can share your remembrances of the performances, travels, and history of the Young Rebels Square Dance Club. 

Pull out your pictures and any other memorabilia you may have kept and share it with your friends. 

Get back in touch with Rebels with whom you've lost contact. 

Let them (gasp!) get back in contact with you. 




If you have scanning capabilities and access to the Internet you can send your contributions to my e-mail address lindy@amnesia-music.com, and I will be happy to post your memories.
 

If you want to maintain your anonimity on the Web, you can/should still contribute, but you will need to contact me through Amnesia Music if you want other Rebels to know where you are.


(Everything included on this page may be edited for size, format, content, or clarity.)



Here's a small contribution to get things rolling:

HISTORY OF THE YOUNG REBELS

(This is an excerpt of a history of the group which was prepared as a promotional flyer and is edited for this web page. It is not complete yet, but there will be more.)

This club for teenaged youth was founded in 1969 by their volunteer directors, Ron and Helen Lockie, to introduce American Square Dancing to their young son and his friends. In 1971 they became a sponsored club of the Oakland Parks and Recreation Department. In 1972 the club was accepted as a member of the Northern California Square Dance Association. They started traveling in 1973 with some members attending the National Square Dance Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, and again in 1974 members attended the Nationals, this time in San Antonio, Texas. In 1974 The Young Rebels began their travels with Friendship Ambassadors, when Ron and Helen and eight Rebels traveled to Poland with a performing tour featuring the Ghost Riders and the Stardettes. In 1975 thirty Rebels took a Square Dance/Clogging show to Romania as Friendship Ambassadors. In 1978 sixty-three Rebels took a similar show to the former U.S.S.R. and Poland, where they traveled and performed for one month as Friendship Ambassadors. 

The membership of The Young Rebels come from many different cities and schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The club is not part of any church, school, or other organization, but is sustained by the teenagers to preserve the tradition of American Square Dancing and Clogging. 

In addition to perpetuating the arts of Square Dancing and Clogging, The Young Rebels Teen Club provides a wholesome social environment for teenagers to meet and make friends of their own age, and with adults who share their enthusiasm for the dancing. The club has officers who plan social events and take a good portion of the responsibility for making their club successful. The officers plan a year-round calendar of non-dancing events. 

The Young Rebels motto is Friendship, Fairness, Fun, Responsibility, and Trust. Their name honors the southern part of the U.S.A., from which their dance figures come and also signifies that these teenagers are rebels against the apathy, lack of discipline, and lack of community involvement that is so often the image of teenagers. The Young Rebels insignia is a star with the peace symbol which to them means even more than a longing for peace without bombs. These teenagers have named the dividing lines of the peace symbol 'Life," the two small lines 'Truth' and 'Love,' and the circle the 'Oneness of Man.'


TRIPS:

STARDETTES: Poland, 1974 - Here's the oldest newspaper clipping I know of about members of the Young Rebels on an international tour.

Romania, 1975 -

Poland/U.S.S.R., 1978 -

  ***NEW***  VIDEO of The Young Rebels from the early- and mid-1970s  (It's labeled "1976," but I think the clips may be earlier than that.)

                                   Also - - It's a 23.65MB file, so expect it to take a minute or so (on a high-speed connection) to load.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I know that's not much, but

THERE WILL BE MORE

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