In the beginning, we started dancing under the name CASUAL COUNTRY DANCING. Line dancing was still in its hey day, so I taught solo dancing as well as square dancing. I just came back from a caller’s school in up state New York and I really wanted to call squares, but the majority of the folks that came to dance to me, back then at the Lakemont Fire Hall, demanded line dancing. And they were quite picky and said my line dances weren’t hard enough, so they went back to the bars to dance. Some returned because they didn't like the smoke and booze.

I soon began to offer the dancers a variety of dance styles and filled the evening with some mixers thatthe dancers really enjoyed. I cued some easy rounds, lines, contras, trios, sicialian circles and some quadrilles to emphasize the history of square dancing. We soon moved across the street to my church hall at St. John the Evangelist and became CORBEN’S COOL BUNCH. Hoping to increase with more dancers by being at my church, I had several successful dances at this new location. For instance,THE 3 AMIGOS FIESTA with help from my calling buddies Tom Miller and Carter Ackerman was a huge hit. I then started having lots of themed dances. One of the trade offs to get the hall was I would come into St. John’s grade school and teach square dancing to the students. We had lots of fun.

We moved down the road about a ½ mile to Garvey Manor’s Personal Care Home due to the fact that our church hall was starting to be used for lots of sports and recreational activities. I was calling lots of wheelchair dances at Garvey and they let me use their great little hall with a stage. We were very happy there for a few years until they decided they were going to get a new building. So, friends at the Ramada Inn let us use one of their banquet rooms for about a year or so while they were constructing the new Garvey Manor.

When the new Garvey was finished, a great new dance hall came with it along with the 3rd and present name change of the club; TUESDAYS WITH CORY ( named after the popular book by Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie and because dancers would often ask, “what night? And who’s calling? ) We’ve held many specialty dances over the years as well as performing lots of demos to the non dancing public. We’ve been on TV, announced on the radio and have been in the newspaper. With the new hall, I also joined the Laurel Mountain Square and Round Dance Federation.