Richard Leger (April 18, 1925 – August 17, 1999) was an accomplished Square Dance Caller known as the 'Man with the Guitar' The youngest of 5 children, Dick lost his mother at a very early age and was raised by his stepmothers and older sister Vivian.
In 1944 he married Susan Durfee from East Providence, RI and they bought a house in Warren, Rhode Island, in a community called Laurel Park.
While raising 6 children, Dick began calling at the Park casino on weekends and became the first and only caller of the Rhode Island Merry Makers.
[3] In 1996, he and his wife Sue received the New England Square and Round Dance Cooperation Committee's Yankee Clipper Award.
[4] He is fondly remembered in SQUARE & ROUND DANCE FEDERATION OF NOVA SCOTIA's[5] Between tips article.