8th CALLERLAB Convention 
Milestone Award
A founding member of CALLERLAB, Frank started square dancing as a member of an exhibitions group at Central High School, St. Joseph, Missouri in 1939. Four years of journalism college and war-time stint as a pilot in Italy with the 15th Air Force interrupted the dancing but by 1948, having been impressed by the pleasure that mean and derived from square dancing, Frank decided that this was the direction for him, can calling eventually became his full-time occupation,
By 1952 Frank was calling and teaching classes six and seven nights a week. Weekend calling engagements expanded and soon Frank and his wife Barbara were crisscrossing North America doing one-nighters, weekends, weeklong vacation institutes and callers’ clinics, the Lane’s tours took them to over 60,000 miles each year running their own institutes at Asilomar in California and serving as staff members at Kirkwood Lodge and at other sessions around the country. In 1961 Frank and Barbara were a part of a square dance “think tank” in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and in 1972 Frank became a member of the Square Dance Hall of Fame.
His recordings have set standards of excellence on the several labels for which he has called, and articles written by Frank have appeared in a number of square dance publications.
Although their travels have then them to many key spots around the world their summer time is directed to their square dance “home”, a hall in Estes park, Colorado where hundreds of dancers from all parts of the country come to visit, to attend one of Frank’s callers’ courses and to just enjoy being a part of Lane’s World.