Rock ‘n’ Rollers

Club Information

If you’ve heard about the Rock ‘n’ Rollers, or you have attended one of our great events, you may want to find out about joining!  If you can
relate to rock & roll years of the 1950’s and 1960’s, join the Rock ‘n’ Rollers Club.  Note:  Membership is open to Laguna Woods residents
only.

Who are the Rock n Rollers?

In
early 2002, an upbeat new retiree moved into the community.  Trying
to find people her own age to hang out with, she visited a few of the
established clubs.  Not what she was looking for.  So she invited people
in her age bracket to meet and talk about starting their own club.
She made 35 printed questionnaires and was amazed when almost 150 people
showed up!  A steering committee was quickly put together, a
mixer held, members enrolled, and WOW, the next thing she knew, she was
the founder of a brand new club! And that was just the beginning!

It
wasn’t easy at the beginning…  as a matter of fact, there was a
dilemma.  To actually register as an official club, a club name was
necessary, along with at least 20 people who would agree to be
members, a list of people who would agree to run things, and  a
“statement of purpose” describing in a nutshell what the members had in
common.  Although most of us are in our fifties and sixties, our
description saying so was rejected as a “duplication of another club’s
mission.”  We were back to square one!

After hours of brain busting…it hit us.  It was the MUSIC
of the 50s and 60s that we shared… the rock & roll era, American
Bandstand, Elvis, etc.  That was the common thread!  We grew up
listening and dancing to rock & roll, and it was part of our
lives, our memories, our friends and our fun.  We sure loved it as
teenagers, and most of us still love it now, and probably will forever,
whether we were fifty or ninety.  We reasoned that club members who had
never met before would at least have THAT in common, and we could build
from there!  We could relate to the groups and the songs, and probably
know most of the words to those wonderful rock & roll classics.  The
influence of that music was HUGE on our generation, and we definitely
know who we are.  The “Magic Moments” of “Blue Moon,” “Chantilly
Lace,” and “The Great Pretender” belong to us.  We chose a name that
described a generation.

We became what we had always been anyway…. the ROCK ‘N’ ROLLERS.

Here is the photo link to Winter Wonderland December 2022

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