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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for rec.arts.marching.drumcorps
Part 6 of 6  Drum Corps Associates  (Senior Corps)  information

Administered by Michael Fath ([e-mail])

Section 7 written by Martin Cross ([e-mail])

7.0  DCA and the Senior corps.
     7.1  Drum Corps Associates (DCA)
          7.1.1  The DCA Story
          7.1.2  Corps listing
     7.2  Parade Corps
          7.2.1  Ballad of the Unsung Heros
          7.2.2  Corps listing
     7.3  Rehearsals
     7.4  Fallen Comrades
          7.4.1 Folded Corps
          7.4.2 MIA Corps
     7.5  DCA Champions
     7.6  1993 Schedule
     7.7  1993 Repertoires


      "When the first shovel of dirt hits my face...."

                                      - Robert "Pepe" Nataro


7.1  Drum Corps Associates (DCA)

     7.1.1  The DCA Story.

    In September of 1963, five men, Henry "Lefty" Mayer (NY Skyliners),
George Bull (Yankee-Rebels), Randy Roy (Reading Buccaneers), Pete Burns
(Conn. Hurricanes), and Carmen Cirlincione (Archer-Epler Musketeers), met
in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania to discuss the possibilities of creating an
organization dedicated to promoting senior drum and bugle corps.  This
was the start of the Drum Corps Associates a.k.a DCA and it continued the
legacy created by the V.F.W. which discontinued its senior championship after
1962.  The first corps to become charter members were the Buccaneers,
Hurricanes, Interstatesmen, Musketeers, Rockets, Skyliners, and Yankee-Rebels.
Two years later, the first DCA championship was help at Milford, Connecticut.
Six of the seven charter corps competed on September 11, 1965, the Reading
Buccaneers won.  Today, 30 years later, the DCA still thrives.  Many corps
have had the honor of being DCA Champions.

     7.1.2  Corps Listing

    Information compiled from '89, '90, '92 DCA Championship Programs.

     Corps (Alias):  Brigadiers
    Location:       Syracuse, New York
    Director:       Dennis Cappello
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:        1990 (reformed after 19 years in absentia)

    Corps (Alias):  Buccaneers  (Bucs)
    Location:       Reading, Pennsylvania
    Director:       Ron Gehris/Grant Hill
    Address:        P.O. Box 13032
    City/State:     Reading, PA 19612
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1957

     Corps (Alias):  Bushwackers  (Bush)
    Location:       Harrison, New Jersey
    Director:       Michael Olszewski/Jay Marlot
    Address:        39 Oakland Avenue-Apt. 304
    City/State:     Bloomfield, NJ  07003
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1981

     Corps (Alias):  Caballeros  (Cabs)
    Location:       Hawthorne, New Jersey
    Director:       James J. Costello, Jr.
    Address:        119 Webster Avenue
    City/State:     Paterson, NJ  07501
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1946

     Corps (Alias):  Capitol Brass Ensemble
    Location:       Latham, New York
    Director:       Thomas MacDonald
    Address:        36 Michaelangelo Street
    City/State:     Lathan, NY  12110
    Phone:          [phone]-8507
    Founded:

     Corps (Alias):  Chieftains
    Location:       Roseto, Pennsylvania
    Director:       Rodney Yetter
    Address:        P.O. Box 231
    City/State:     Sciota, PA  18354
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:

     Corps (Alias):  Crusaders
    Location:       Rochester, Ney York
    Director:       Tom Meek
    Address:        P.O. Box 15424
    City/State:     Rochester, NY  14615
    Phone:          [phone]-7117
    Founded:        1947

     Corps (Alias):  Empire Statesman  (Empire)
    Location:       Rochester, New York
    Director:       Vincent Bruni
    Address:        118 Payne Beach Road
    City/State:     Hilton, NY  14468
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1983

     Corps (Alias):  Excaliber
    Location:       Erie, Pennsylvania
    Director:       Peter Baideme
    Address:        P.O. Box 6607
    City/State:     Erie, PA  16512
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:

     Corps (Alias):  Hurricanes  (Hurcs)
    Location:       Shelton, Connecticut
    Director:       Bob Bradley
    Address:        P.O. Box 471
    City/State:     Derby, CT  06418
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1932 (Fife & Drum)/1955 (Drum & Bugle)

     Corps (Alias):  Keystoners
    Location:       Milton, Pennsylvania
    Director:       Dale Criswell
    Address:        P.O. Box 96
    City/State:     Milton, PA 17847
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:

     Corps (Alias):  Kingsmen  (Pepe's Corps)
    Location:       Bridgport, Connecticut
    Director:       Carol Jacobs and Rita Hudson
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:

     Corps (Alias):  Les Metropolitains Du Quebec
    Location:       Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Director:       Rene Rockbrune
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:        1991

     Corps (Alias):  Minnesota Brass, Inc.
    Location:       St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Director:       Scotty Wild
    Address:        Box 7341
    City/State:     St. Paul, MN  55107
    Phone:          [phone]  (Sherry Dugan)
    Founded:        1947

     Corps (Alias):  Royalaires
    Location:       Guelph, Ontario, Canada
    Director:       Al Strassburg
    Address:        8 Tupper Court
    City/State:     Kitchener, Ontario - Canada, N2B 2Y3
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1948

     Corps (Alias):  Skyliners  (Sky)
    Location:       New York, New York
    Director:       Robert Holton
    Address:        100 Drake Place
    City/State:     Colonia, NJ  07067
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1946

     Corps (Alias):  Steel City Ambassadors  (Steel)
    Location:       Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Director:       Rob Hoenshel
    Address:        P.O. Box 2631
    City/State:     Pittsburgh, PA  15230
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1981

     Corps (Alias):  Sunrisers  (Sun)
    Location:       Edison, New Jersey  (formely Long Island, New York)
    Director:       Gary Williams
    Address:        93 Halsey St., Apt. C4
    City/State:     Brooklyn, NY  11216
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1954

      Corps (Alias):  Vanguard
    Location:       Chicago, Illinois
    Director:       Ron Brandt
    Address:        22 W. 320 Balsam Drive
    City/State:     Glen Ellyn, IL  60137
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Westshoremen
    Location:       Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    Director:       Daniel Bowman
    Address:        RD 8, Box 360A
    City/State:     Carlisle, PA  17013
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1946


7.2  Parade Corps

     7.2.1  Ballad of the Unsung Heros

    Parade corps are almost always senior by nature.  As the class name
implies, these corps march in parades or perform at "standstills."  Although
many drum corps nuts do not consider these units as part of the continuum,
they do provide an alternative for people who want to be part of drum corps,
but cannot afford the time the field (DCA) units demand.  Parade corps
generally practice 3 hours a week.  The atmosphere is not stressful and of all
the types of corps, it is the most family oriented.  Most parade corps will
not travel more than 2 hours from their HQ so it is easy to pack up the family
and drag them to the various parades.  Many of the DCA corps started as
parade corps, it is a great way to start a corps' economy.


     7.2.2  Corps Listing

    Corps (Alias):  Jersey Coast Sound
    Location:       V.F.W Post 8865 - Bricktown, New Jersey
    Director:       Roger Exposito
    Address:        RD 2 Box 26
    City/State:     Jackson, NJ  08527
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:        1990

    Corps (Alias):  Melrose Black Hawks
    Location:       South Amboy, New Jersey
    Director:
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Connecticut Alumni Sr. Drum & Bugle Corps
    Location:       David S. Miles Post - Oxford, Connecticut
    Director:       James Nestor
    Address:        Rt. 67
    City/State:     Oxford, CT
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Generations Alumni Corps
    Location:       Bristol, Rhode Island
    Director:
    Address:        P.O. Box 71
    City/State:     Bristol, RI  02809
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Westchester Brassmen
    Location:       Harrison, New York
    Director:       Joe Mazzullo
    Address:        80 Batavia Place
    City/State:     Harrison, NY  10528
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  American Spirit
    Location:       Tampa, Florida
    Director:
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:          [phone]-1346
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Marksmen Alumni Corps
    Location:       Springfield, Massechusetts
    Director:       Doug White
    Address:        68 Westbanks Ct.
    City/State:     Springfield, MA  01118
    Phone:          [phone]
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Blessed Sacrament (Alumni)
    Location:       Union, New Jersey
    Director:
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:        1990

    Corps (Alias):  Lambertville Volunteers
    Location:       Lambertville, New Jersey
    Director:
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Archer-Epler Musketeers
    Location:       Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
    Director:
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Yankee-Rebels  (Alumni)
    Location:       Baltimore, Maryland
    Director:
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Princemen
    Location:       Lt. Norman Prince Post - Melrose, MA
    Director:
    Address:        428 Main Street
    City/State:     Melrose, MA
    Phone:
    Founded:

    Corps (Alias):  Lancers
    Location:       Detroit/Wyandotte, Michigan
    Director:
    Address:
    City/State:
    Phone:
    Founded:


7.3  Rehearsals

     It should be pointed out that senior corps are comprised of people who
are, for the most part, not young anymore.  They are people who have careers
under way, families in the making, houses needing painting, and all the
other wonderous (more like ponderous) things that happen on the threshold of
"mid-life."  This reduces the amount of time that senior corps have to
operate.  Serior corps members are the epitome of the weekend warrior and
the weekend starts 8:00 pm Friday and ends somewhere near 8:00 pm the following
Sunday.  There are a few breaks so the members can abuse BEER!!!  Norm
Peterson ("Cheers") is a feather weight compared to any one of the Hawthorne
Caballero's Contra players.
     The senior season runs from mid April (first of the senior versions of
camps) to Labor Day weekend (the ever lovin' Championship weekend).


7.4  Fallen Comrades

     7.4.1  Folded Corps

        1) Rielly Raiders - Philadelphia, PA
        2) Matadors - Providence, RI
        3) Interstatesman
        4) Rockets - Pittsburgh, PA
        5) Phoenix
        6) Boys of '76


     7.4.2  MIA corps (What has happened to these guys?)

        1) Metropolitans
        2) Ambassadors
        4) Les Diplomats
        5) Commanders
        6) Thunderbirds - Erie, PA
        8) Sentinels
        10) Les Ambassaduers
        11) Allouettes
        12) Regionaires
        13) L'Odyssey
        14) Les Cascaduers


7.5  DCA Champions

    1965    Bucanneers  (first DCA Chamionship)
    1966    Skyliners
    1967    Hurricanes
    1968    Buccaneers
    1969    Hurricanes
    1970    Caballeros
    1971    Skyliners
    1972-74    Caballeros  (1973 - only sweep of major captions - Cabs)
    1975    Skyliners
    1976    Caballeros
    1977-78    Sunrisers
    1979-80    Buccaneers
    1981    Hurricanes
    1982-83    Sunrisers
    1984-85    Caballeros
    1986    Bushwackers
    1987    Sunrisers  (Finals rained-out, Prelims stood - Sun in first)
    1988     Sunrisers-Bushwackers (first tie in DCA history)
    1989-90 Bushwackers
    1991    Empire Statesmen
    1992    Bushwackers


7.6  1993 Schedule


7.7  1993 Repertoires

    1) Empire Statesman -
        Old Man River
        New Orlean's Medley
           - Bill Bailey
           - Rampart Street Parade
           - Drum Solo (untitled)
        Dixie

    2) Steel City Ambassadors -
        Blood, Sweat, and Tears

    3) NY Skyliners-
        Excerpts from "Guys and Dolls"

    4) Rochester Crusaders -
        Brazil - ala Maynard Ferguson
        God Bless a Child - Blood, Sweat, and Tears
        Summertime - from the "High Class Brass" album by
                     by Jeff Tyzik and Allen Vizutti
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