About Dick Bull

I married my wife in 1964. She square danced as a teen, and when we were in Morocco with the Navy she got me started dancing — that was 1965. When our caller was ordered out I thought I would take up calling. When we left six months later I threw away all the paperwork and said "never again."

Continuing to dance, we arrived in Naples in 1972. They had no caller and were dancing to a limited number of now-memorized records. Our collection of Sets in Order 33s was a bright light. I agreed to "teach" in order to keep enough squares going — and so calling in earnest started. I was a member of the European Callers and Teachers Association from 1973 to 1979.

Returning to the states in 1979 as a Navy Recruiter, I could not make a weekly commitment to a club. An Eastern mountain caller got me started doing non-dancer one-night stands, and I continue to do them to a limited (bad knees) extent.

When retiring after 22 years in the Navy, I was living 40 miles north of Concord. I wrote Jim Hilton asking if he had a job for a caller with 28 years of electronics experience. I was hired, and Dick Henschel promoted me to Head Technician after taking over the company from Jim.

I have worked on the designs of all new Hilton Audio products since the AC-201 in 1989. With the downsizing of the square dance activity and the resulting downsizing of Hilton, I have personally done all of the estimating and repair work for many years.