NAME: Carol Terreri

EMAIL: CarolleeT@aol.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 26 Nov 1999

Time: 18:27:56


COMMENTS

Great job, Bob. It's so nice to finally have a web page. Anyone considering joining, should come out to a
rehearsal and look us over.

NAME: Mike Siglow

EMAIL: skyliner@ccia.com

FROM: Skyliners AND Archie

Date: 26 Nov 1999

Time: 19:09:38


COMMENTS

Really great to see us with a home on the web. Great job. I'm sure there will be some really great things coming
soon here.

NAME: Sonny McQuiston

EMAIL: WMcquis145@aol.com

FROM: Archie 1961-1994 (Forever)

Date: 28 Nov 1999

Time: 23:25:53


COMMENTS

Archie always was and will always be my Corps Lots of Beer and Lots of friends. I will always (Sing the Corps
Song)

NAME: Charlie Kammer

EMAIL: ckammer616@aol.com

FROM: Yankee Rebels Alumni

Date: 03 Dec 1999

Time: 17:27:34


COMMENTS

Welcome aboard the computor airways! Your photos are excellent. It's been being associated with you guys
and gals over the years. Keep it going as long as your able. We only come down this road of life one time.
Great Memories!!!!!!!!

NAME: Barry Cooney

EMAIL: barstep@swbell.net

FROM: Yankee Rebel Alumni/ Texas

Date: 03 Dec 1999

Time: 18:10:06


COMMENTS

Great pictures. Can get to them in a hurry. The Rebels take longer. Don't know why. How 'boutit Louie?

Keep up the great work.

NAME: John "Duke" Terreri

EMAIL: JMDUKET@AOL.COM

FROM: St.Lucy's, Sky, Cabs, Archie, BSGK, Reilly, Colonials, NJ Field Music, Newark Symphonic Band
and the John Duke Band.

Date: 04 Dec 1999

Time: 18:10:06


COMMENTS

It is a Pleasure to Teach, March and Play with all of you in the Drum Corps and Professional World. Great work
Bob! Thanks for the Memories.NAME: Fr. Stephen

EMAIL: otche@aol.com

FROM: oatesville, PA

Date: 04 Dec 1999

Time: 20:35:34


COMMENTS

Bob, Great job - absolutely fabulous!!!!

NAME: Chuck Smith

EMAIL: carolesmith@enter.net

FROM: "ARCHIE", Pittsburgh "Rockets", Duquesne "Dukes", Philadelphia PAL, Princeton Pro Musica,
Wind Symphony of So. N.J.,

Date: 05 Dec 1999

Time: 00:10:20


COMMENTS

Great job Bob, congratulations on putting up a beautiful site. I put it in my favorites file for future referance.

NAME: Wayne Ford

EMAIL: sdfjsf@earthlink.net

FROM: Fishtown, USA

Date: 05 Dec 1999

Time: 01:39:59


COMMENTS

Great job guys. Hope you have a super season and many more to follow. Anyone interested should drop in and
check out what you're doing. Phyllis, Mark, Duke, and Bill are top notch.

(I think you might have missed one of your neighbors in the "Links" section).

NAME: Phyllis Bistline

EMAIL: pbistline@harmelin.com

FROM: Archie!!!

Date: 06 Dec 1999

Time: 09:44:04


COMMENTS

I hit the button before I could comment..... Bob, the site is wonderful! We wouldn't be here today if it weren't for
great people like you taking the time to make this a special place. I've been here for 19 years and I feel
blessed to know all of you in the corps-and in the drum corps world. Thanks!

NAME: Terri Cylinder

EMAIL: tcylinder@boothby.com

FROM: Archie (1990 - now), Media Fawns (way back!)

Date: 06 Dec 1999

Time: 16:05:49


COMMENTS

Nice site! It's good to see Archie on the web.

NAME: Eileen&Mike Snow

EMAIL: esnow@voicenet.com

FROM: ARCHIE!!

Date: 06 Dec 1999

Time: 23:18:19


COMMENTS

Bob, What a terrific job you have done. Thanks so much! We really enjoyed looking at everything Mike & Eileen
Snow

NAME: Ron Renda

EMAIL: Renda@net1plus.com

FROM: Fitchburg, MA 01420

Date: 07 Dec 1999

Time: 08:53:10


COMMENTS

I receive your quarterly news and enjoy it very much. I was in the St. Joseph's Cadets and the Fitchburg
Kingsmen in the 50's.

Glad to see you finally have a website. Now, I'm going to view your photo gallery.

Hope to see your alumni corps if someday.

Regards

Ron Renda

NAME: Hook, Harry

EMAIL:

FROM: Reilly and Yankee Rebels

Date: 07 Dec 1999

Time: 15:15:00

NAME: Bob Lee

EMAIL: catyspop@cs.com

FROM: Baltimore, MD.

Date: 07 Dec 1999

Time: 23:50:06


COMMENTS

Great looking site. Looking foward to info about the corps. Hello to all members present & past, and to an old
friend and fellow member of the N.J.A. Burt Adamson, who i recently saw at a birthday party in Baltimore for
Pat Potter. Keep up the good work. All for one, and one for all. Bob Lee

NAME: John P. Gairo

EMAIL: jpgairo@webtv.net

FROM: West Chester Pa.

Date: 08 Dec 1999

Time: 12:20:14


COMMENTS

I was in Archie from 1948 To 1955. GREAT WEB SITE

NAME: Bob Castor

EMAIL: rcastor@bechdon.com

FROM: Archie, Reilly, Rebels & Sky Alumni

Date: 11 Dec 1999

Time: 11:50:19


COMMENTS

It's a Great Web site and you are all a Great bunch of people.

NAME: Glenn Hess

EMAIL: gharold@aol.com

FROM: Archie fan

Date: 14 Dec 1999

Time: 22:44:23


COMMENTS

I am currently selling a number of drum corps albums from the 60s on eBay. I have an album the Musketeers
recorded on the Somerset label in the early 60s, possibly 1962. Rather than putting it up for bid, I thought I
should offer it for sale to a member of the alumni corps. Price is just $5 plus $3.20 for priority shipping.

NAME: JIMMY MC CONKEY

EMAIL: MUKEETEER@webtv.net

FROM: Syracuse,N.Y.

Date: 18 Dec 1999

Time: 19:32:15


COMMENTS

Hi Everybody,What is new? Have E maied Carol T.No reply?? Would like to hear fom some of you. JIMMY

2000

NAME: JIMMY MC CONKEY

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@WEBT.NET

FROM: SYRACSE,NEW YORK

Date: 02 Jan 2000

Time: 12:58:25


COMMENTS

HI EVERYONE,LOOKING FOWARD TO MY 2ND GAS, MY FIRST ONE WAS LAST YEAR AND IT WAS
WONDERFUL. TO SEE FRIENDS I HAVEN'T SEEN IN YEARS WAS A "REAL CRY" AND ONE I WILL
NEVER FORGET. TO BE GIVEN THE HONOR TO ONCE MORE AFTER 30YRS. DOUBLE KNEE
REPLACEMENTS, METAL PLATE IN MY RT. ARM COMDUCT THE CORPS WHEN I DID SO MY
PHYSICAL CONDITION COMPLEATELY LEFT ME AND I WAS TAKEN BACK IN TIME HERE I WAS ONCE
AGAIN D.M.OF THE GREAT ARCHER EPLER. WHO SAYS DRUM CORPS MAGIC WAS NOT TRULY
MAGIC.WELL I AM HERE TO SAY IT IS IN ALL ITS POWER I EXPIERENCED IT THERE AT THE GAS.
WELL I AM ALL SET TO ATTEND THE GAS YEAR. LOOKING FOWARD TO ONCE AGAIN SEE OLD
FRIENDS AND MAKE NEW ONES. THIS YEAR SHOULD BE "SOMETHING ELSE" WITH ARCHIE &
AUDUBON RUNNING THE SHOW WILL BE BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER.MAY EVERYONE OUT
THERE HAVE A WONDERFUL "HAPPY NEW YEAR" AND A BLESSED ONE. LOVE YEA' ALL JIMMY MC
CONKEY
NAME: KEN NEWMAN

EMAIL: norman.newman@unisys.com

FROM: Where else???

Date: 04 Jan 2000

Time: 14:37:12


COMMENTS

Been checking for a website for quite a while. Glad it has arrived. Great work! Read the guestlog, lots of
familiar names there. Love and luck to all old friends. Hope to see you all one of these Friday evenings. Harry
Hook---Don't just sit there, SAY SOMETHING!!!

NAME: LOUIE

EMAIL: scirrott@epix

FROM: Pocono Pines Pa.

Date: 07 Jan 2000

Time: 18:04:09


COMMENTS

My family and I marched with Archer-Epler for two million years. Uncles John,Augie,Cliff..My brothers
Agony,Pat and Joe. I miss the corps and all my old friends. "For all my old friends".."YES" I'm still married to
karen for "34 years"...I still have my band the "Mark Lewis Trio" and I am still teaching College History At
Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pa. I'm still living in the Poconos,Lake Naomi, Pa.. I think that
Archie's web site is terrific,keep up the good work. P.S. I also teach a Civil War, web- based, three credit
course at the college, if anyone is interested!!!!. Take care and God Bless...LOUIE

NAME: Warren "cookie" Cooke

EMAIL: amiableoes@juno.com

FROM: Chesapeake, Va

Date: 11 Jan 2000

Time: 20:40:18


COMMENTS

29th Div.,Kenwood Cavaliers, Yankee-Rebels, USAF Drum Corps ,Wash. DC I "was there" during the 50's
heydays.What a good time! Still a member [long range ] of Y-R Alumni . In looking over your great site, the old
songs [and aftershow singing at the various Posts ] all came flooding back to me.I Last saw Whitey and Vince
& wives at Tru Crawford's retirement from the Marine D&B Corps in DC. Good Job!! Much success in the new
millennium.

NAME: JIMMY MC CONKEY

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@webtv.net

FROM: Syracuse

Date: 18 Jan 2000

Time: 15:09:10


COMMENTS

Hi Out There, How about getting the word out on this great Web Page. What a great opportunity for all of us to
get in touch. For so many of us have lost touch with each other andthe Corps. We ALL have shared so many
Wonderful times together in the past, why not share a little about our TODAY'S with each other. Thank you Bob
and Archie for this great location to continue "ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL" each in our own
way.JIMMY MC CONKEY E-MAIL MUSKEETEER@webtv.net or MUSKEETEER@juno.com

NAME: tom "murph" murphy

EMAIL: bugler@netsync.net

FROM: MTY ST JOES

Date: 19 Jan 2000

Time: 14:56:58


COMMENTS

hello from BUFFALO N.y.

NAME: Sunny Cohen

EMAIL: sunnyalcohen@gateway.net

FROM: BSGK

Date: 19 Jan 2000

Time: 15:05:16


COMMENTS

To everyone at Archer-Epler - great web site - glad to see it! Hope to see you all soon - please take care of
Cathy M. Love Sunny and Al Cohen

NAME: sunny & al cohen

EMAIL: sunnyalcohen@gateway.net

FROM: BSGK/PA

Date: 22 Jan 2000

Time: 17:54:23


COMMENTS

1/22/2000 Hello to all of you - hope all is well We have a new e-mail Hope to hear from all of you soon -
Looking forward to your show Duke - get your smile ready - will be using two cameras instead of one! Sunny &
Al

NAME: cathy magsamen

EMAIL: ronbon50@aol.com

FROM: bari1-second in line

Date: 23 Jan 2000

Time: 15:24:55


COMMENTS

GREAT JOB BRO'!!!! Ron and I are anxious to return HOME next week, I would like to thank all of my FAMILY
at AE for their kindness, support and understanding these last few weeks. I'll be on the HUNT for all the
volunteers for the Brass REUNION......she's BAAAAACK!!

NAME: Bob & Lisa Menear

EMAIL: rmenear@alltel.net

FROM: Dilliner, Pa.

Date: 26 Jan 2000

Time: 00:02:15


COMMENTS

I really enjoyed your corps history. A great job, the best historical site I have ever seen. Musketeers keep up the
good work and have fun.Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Brass Reunion. Bob & Lisa Menear Steel
City Alumni Senior D&B Corps.

NAME: Jimmy Mc Conkey

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@webtv.net

FROM: Syracuse, N.Y.

Date: 28 Jan 2000

Time: 20:34:21


COMMENTS

Hello again out there, Great Web Site Bob. Good to see a few more useing and participating on this site. I was
thinking, How many others are not aware of this link and ONLY link available to "GET IN TOUCH" with one
another after loseing touch with so many of those we once shared so much with.As time moves on and we all
get a little older our lives change. But I bet many in a quite moment find themselves drifting back to the days of
"WINE & ROSES" A time of Laughter, achievement, joy, excitement, friendships, song and togetherness not
expierienced by many others. A time we were "ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL" It was truly "SOMETHING
WONDERFUL" and in that thinking back ask ourselves "I wonder how so and so his? or where is this one and
that one now? Wouldn't it be great if only ??????????? Well here is a chance to answere some of those if
only's . So PASS ON THE WORD OF THIS WEB SITE WHEN AND IF YOU CAN TO OTHERS. Take care
ALL and keep in touch. JIMMY

NAME: Joe and Johnny G

EMAIL: barmont@bellatlantic.net

FROM: BSGK

Date: 30 Jan 2000

Time: 11:05:38


COMMENTS

We had alot of fun playing at your practice Friday night! Thanks Duke

NAME: Tom Bambrick

EMAIL: Tombam4@aol.com

FROM: Golden Knights-1949-1959 (The Glory Years)

Date: 01 Feb 2000

Time: 19:55:04

NAME: fred kniss

EMAIL: s1988@aol.com

FROM: little devils

Date: 02 Feb 2000

Time: 00:01:38

NAME: Sunny & Al Cohen

EMAIL: sunnyalcohen@gateway.net

FROM: BSGK/PA

Date: 08 Feb 2000

Time: 20:18:07


COMMENTS

Hello out there in Archieland. Looking forward to your show. Saw in your Guestbook that Fred Kniss was so
overwhelmed by your site that he actually had nothing to say. Wow. Cathy - keep up the good work. Sunny & Al
Cohen 2/8/2000

NAME: Alan Leson

EMAIL: alan@americaftp.com

FROM: Langhorne, PA

Date: 12 Feb 2000

Time: 12:26:02


COMMENTS

Hello All! I remember growing up in South Philadelphia and hearing my older brother always practicing on his
drum pad. I really thought that was the greatest sound I had ever heard. One day he asked if I would like to go
to rehearsal and hear the real thing, well that was it I was hooked. There is no sound like the sound of a Drum
and Bugle Corp especially when it's Archer Epler. I must say that when I came across this site tears started to
flow down my cheeks. It just brought back the best memories of my life. That was 40 years ago and to this day I
can still hear "Tonight" from West Side Story and picture the corp marching down Market Street in Philly. By
the way that older brother was Joel Leson. Does anyone remember him? Thanks for having this wonderful site,
Alan Leson alan@americaftp.com

NAME: Bill Semanek

EMAIL: BillSem@Erols.Com

FROM: Washington,DC

Date: 14 Feb 2000

Time: 19:19:15


COMMENTS

Great web site,brings back many memories, lots of familiar names.Me, Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights,
1950 to 1959, Air Force Drum And Bugle Corps 1959 To 1962,

NAME: marianne hood

EMAIL: mariannemt@aol.com

FROM: Connecticut

Date: 23 Feb 2000

Time: 21:41:30


COMMENTS

try this again, love the website, nice to see how things are going, and see some familiar names from " HOME"
Keep Up The good work! ONce a member, always a fan!

NAME: JIMMY MC Conkey

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@webtv.net

FROM: Syracuse

Date: 24 Feb 2000

Time: 15:18:15


COMMENTS

Hi! To everyone out there. Hope all is well with ALL. Does anyone know how I can get in touch with Dave Fite?
Would appreciate any help. ALSO I have been trying to get in touch with Mary ZIGINFUSS also any help would
be appreciated My Phone # 315-475-4305 and my E mail Address is MUSKEETEER@webtv.net Take Care
and God Bless. JIMMY

NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL: jleson@dodig.osd.mil

FROM: Fairfax Station, VA

Date: 24 Feb 2000

Time: 17:10:38


COMMENTS

It was great to see my "Little Brother" Al beat me to this terrific website.To Jimmy "The Best Damned Drum
Major In Drum Corps History" McConkey, Louie Scirrotta, Kenny Newman, and all of the Archie Gang of that
bygone, but wonderful Archie era, greetings and the very best to you!! To the current Archie stalwarts, thanks
for keeping up the outstanding red black and white traditions. Please drop me a line or call me at (703)
604-9700 (ofc) or (703) 690-7136(home.) Warm regards and God's Speed to all. Joel.

NAME:

EMAIL:

FROM:

Date: 25 Feb 2000

Time: 12:07:40


COMMENTS

For Jimmy McConkey,

Dave Fite is playing mellophone with the Steel City Alumni Corps and will participating with them at Archie's
"Brass Reunion" on April 8th at Prendergast High School in Lansdowne, Pa. Why not come down to the
show,...I'm should Steel City will be staying for the party at the post after the show is over.NAME: Tim Bourne

EMAIL: casey@qis.net

FROM: Balt Yankee Rebels

Date: 26 Feb 2000

Time: 16:59:11

NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL:

FROM: Vasella "Musketeers", Haddon Heights "Vagabonds", "Jersey Devils", Archer-Epler
"Musketeers."

Date: 27 Feb 2000

Time: 19:29:36


COMMENTS

It was good speaking with Jimmy McConkey this past weekend. Jimmy appears to have a photographic
memory and is a walking drum and bugle corps encyclopaedia. During our conversation there was one thing
on which we both agreed: these "brass bands" that call themselves drum and bugle corps and whose music is
so far out in "La La Land" that it makes you wonder what in the world they are playing, are not our idea of what
our hobby was, nor should be! Folks a three pistoned horn is a trumpet, not a bugle. We find these types of
instruments in college bands and in those musical groups who play in gazebos on the town square, on Sunday
afternoons. A bugle used to be a horn that challenged its owner to make great music without him or her having
to become a trumpet player. The American Flag, color guards that brought us real color presentations, and the
patriotism and spirit that came with them; that was, and should remain,what drum and bugle corps are about.
Give me an ol' fashioned night of corps with Archie, Reilly, Hawthorne, the Yankee Rebels, and the Skyliners
playing those great songs we all still remember, and that, sports fans, is drum and bugle corps!! I know much
has been said and written about this, and I'd be curious to know what anyone else out there thinks. As for me, I
can't sit through a DCI show on PBS and call that "stuff" drum corps. When I want to see a really good
marching band, I drive over to Harrisonburg, VA., and watch the James Madison University "Royal Dukes".
They play understandable and enjoyable music and don't pretend to be anything but what they are.Regards to
all. Joel.

NAME: Phyllis Bistline

EMAIL: pbistline@harmelin.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 28 Feb 2000

Time: 09:33:59


COMMENTS

I'm so glad to see so many people enjoying this site. Sometimes, keeping a corps going is very difficult. When
you see memories and friendship like I have here, it makes the struggle well worth it. I'll see you at the show!

NAME: Dick Cooper

EMAIL: rcooper@munipol.com

FROM: French Horn 1957 - 1967

Date: 09 Mar 2000

Time: 17:36:04


COMMENTS

NAME: mic mcquiston

EMAIL: WMcqui8001@aol.com

FROM: folcroft pa

Date: 09 Mar 2000

Time: 20:16:41


COMMENTS

great site i really miss playing with archie i hope to someday returnand play with the musketeers again .some
of my best memories are of the times spent with archie.i hope to see all my old friends at the brass reunion and
maybe get a chance to relive some of thos memories such as singing the corps song again .

NAME: cathy baritone

EMAIL: ronbon50@aol.com

FROM: 2nd left

Date: 11 Mar 2000

Time: 21:26:08


COMMENTS

so, how many of us really showed up at trenton for the parade that wasn't......come on coulda been another
SPOTTSWOOD......hope to see some of the alumni at the show on 4/8. Jim McKonkey, did you get in touch
with Mary Zig?

NAME: Bob Engelbrecht

EMAIL: bpsb4a@monmouth.com

FROM: never on the end !

Date: 11 Mar 2000

Time: 22:08:44


COMMENTS

Re: Who was there in Trenton

Pipers , Civil War Units and " Drumcorps" ready to march.

Whats a little water ? The horns needed cleaning anyway.

NAME: Dave Farren

EMAIL: farren@7cities.net

FROM: Grants, NM

Date: 13 Mar 2000

Time: 02:34:34


COMMENTS

Hello Archie from the Land of Enchantment from a "RETIRED SUPERSTAR"

NAME: Dave Farren

EMAIL: farren@7cities.net

FROM: Land of Enchantment! NM

Date: 13 Mar 2000

Time: 02:42:40


COMMENTS

Found the web site, Looks great, good to see the corps doing well. Hello eveybody. EM me anytime, DWF

NAME: Peter Mason

EMAIL: fifight@inforamp.net

FROM: Hamilton Firefighters Drum Corps

Date: 13 Mar 2000

Time: 16:09:59


COMMENTS

Great job on the website. I used to compete against Archie, with McConkey out in front, back in the '60's I
wonder ig anyone remembers the old "International Pageant" in Hamilton, Ontario. Archie won it just about
every year.

NAME: henry korzeniewski

EMAIL: hjkorz@yahoo

FROM: fredonia new york

Date: 15 Mar 2000

Time: 19:41:51 NAME: JIMMY MC CONKEY

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@webtv.net

FROM: Syracuse, New York

Date: 22 Mar 2000

Time: 16:13:06


COMMENTS

Hello Out There, Happy to hear from so many of you. Will continue to respond to all. Been a little slow due to
unusual amount of e mail recieved. This web site has been WONDERFUL in helping all to GET IN TOUCH.
FLASH!!!! IF ANYONE HAS A SPARE TICKET FOR THE GAS THEY MAY NOT BE USEING DUE TO (NOT
ABLE TO ATTEND, HAVE EXTRA, WHAT EVER) JUST ONE. PLEASE LET ME KNOW. WOULD
APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH. JIMMY MC CONKEY E-MAIL MUSKEETEER@webtv.net or PHONE
#315-475-4305 Thany You.

NAME: JIMMY MC CONKEY

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@WEBTV.NET

FROM: SYRACUSE, N.Y.

Date: 27 Mar 2000

Time: 17:42:10


COMMENTS

HI, GOT THE TICKET. THANKS FOR THE HELP, SEE YOU ALL AT THE GAS YEA!

JIMMY

NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL:

FROM: Fiarfax Station, VA

Date: 28 Mar 2000

Time: 12:52:43


COMMENTS

Mark, Thanks for contacting me. Check's in the mail. ((<:) See eveyone at the Archie show at the GAS. Really
looking forward to a great time. Best to all. Take care.

NAME: Lyvonne McQuiston

EMAIL: LyvonneMcQui@aol.com

FROM: Archer-Epler

Date: 30 Mar 2000

Time: 05:49:12


COMMENTS

Hi there archie family.Just lettin you know we are still alive.And yes,Mic and I are still married,9years and
counting.Great site.Great seeing all the familiar names.Will be awesome to see everyone at the Archie show,
"All for one,And one for all".

NAME: Kathie Smith

EMAIL: Kathie4@webtv.net

FROM: Audubon-(Now Archie)

Date: 05 Apr 2000

Time: 22:21:47


COMMENTS

Hello everyone, I've just joined Archie and am looking forward to getting to know everyone !!! I was in Bon-Bons
in the 70s.(mellophone) I'm starting in your Honor Guard. And its an HONOR to be there.See you all soon.
Kathie

NAME: Sunny Cohen

EMAIL: sunnyalcohen@gateway.net

FROM: BSGK/PA

Date: 11 Apr 2000

Time: 13:05:19


COMMENTS

To Cathy and all the AE people - great show and AE's performance was totally enjoyable - comments heard
were great - the rain can't stop you Sunny & Al Cohen

NAME: Dave Cook

EMAIL: kerrcook@home.com

FROM: DCAT - Toronto

Date: 17 Apr 2000

Time: 23:10:36


COMMENTS

Looking forward to GAS 2000.

NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL:

FROM: Fairfax Station, VA

Date: 18 Apr 2000

Time: 15:29:37


COMMENTS

Archie's "Brass Reunion" was something to see and hear! If I was judging the show for GE and overall
execution that night, I'd have to give it to the guys and gals in the gold, black and white----yep, The Blessed
Sacrament "Golden Knights" are back with that repertoire that always grabbed the fans right out of the stands.
But yo, this is alumni corps, and the Kelly Green of Reilly, Archie's famous red and black, the Yankee Rebels
new uniforms and their great "Songs of the South," were entertaining, in every sense of the word. Seeing Vince
Deegan, Kenny Newman, Whitey Roberts, Harry Welsh, Rip Bernert, Mark Fulcomer, and shaking Jack
Keely's hand, made the reunion everything I hoped it would be. (Jack and Joanne Keeley are two great and
courageous people!!) Meeting with Vic, Joe and Richie Marrella, the core of Vasella "Musketeers" Junior
Corps, was certainly another highlight of the night. The best to the Archie Family. Keep up the outstanding
work! See you at the GAS Reunion.

NAME: Jimmy Mc Conkey

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@webtv.net

FROM: Syracuse

Date: 18 Apr 2000

Time: 16:45:51


COMMENTS

REUNION! GOD I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JIMMY

NAME: Bob & Lisa Menear

EMAIL: rnenear@alltel.net

FROM: Steel City Alumni D&B Corps

Date: 25 Apr 2000

Time: 13:41:46


COMMENTS

Just wanted to say thank you for having us at your show in Drexel. This was our first alumni alumni show by the
corps. Everyone in the corps had a great time. I saw friends from other corps that i hadn't seen in 20 years. It
was a great reunion. Philadelphia gave us a great reception. Keep the alumni shows going folks. Its the best
thing that could ever happen for us folks that just don't have enough time to do field again. Thanks Musketeers
for a great concert and party afterward. We are hoping to have a show in the near future in Pittsburg and would
like to see all the corps join us for an exciting evening. By the way the corps rendition of "The Musketeer song"
brought a tear to my eye. Very moving guys.

NAME: JIMMY MC CONKEY

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@WEBTV.NET

FROM: SYRACUSE

Date: 28 Apr 2000

Time: 15:14:29


COMMENTS

HELLO OUT THERE, I HAVE HEARD FROM THE WONDERFUL LADY MARY ZIGG. SOOOOOGOOD AM
GETTING SET FOR THE GAS AND LOOKING FOWARD TO SEEING OLD AND DEAR FRIENDS ONCE
AGAIN. THIS ONE SHOULD BE A REAL GASSSSSS. VERY SAD TO HEAR ABOUT BART, A TRULY
SWELL PERSON ONE WHOM WAS ALWAYS A TRUE GENT AND A WONDERFUL DRUM CORPS
LOVER. I HAVE SOME WONDERFUL MEMORY'S OF HIM. MANY, MANY TIMES WE WOULD TALK OVER
A FEW BEERS AT THE POST, HE WAS OUR BUSSINESS MGR. THEN (IN MY YEARS) I WILL ALWAYS
REMEMBER HIM FOR THE FINE PERSON HE WAS AND IN MY HEART WILL ALWAYS BE. MY PRAYERS
ARE WITH HIS FAM. IN THIS TIME OF GREAT SADNESS. I MIGHT ADD MY SYMPATHY AND PRAYERS
TO VINCE BRUNI AND FAM. OVER THEIR LOSS OF "MICKEY" HIS WONDERFUL WIFE. MAY GOD
BLESS THEM ALL AND GIVE ALL THE COMFORT HE ALONE CAN GIVE. SEE YOU ALL AT THE GAS A
TIME OF JOY AND HAPPINESS UNSURPASSED. (FORGIVE SOME SPELLING HATE TO GO BACK AND
CORRECT A WRONG KEY HIT) AS SONNY AND AL COHEN WELL KNOW. (TWO OLD AND DEAR
FRIENDS) TAKE ALL. JIMMY

NAME: art tribunella

EMAIL: atribunella@yahoo.com

FROM: rochester,n.y.

Date: 03 May 2000

Time: 23:08:36


COMMENTS

Well I was surfing and looking at the drum corp page and I ran accross yur website. Its always good to see
what you guys are doing.Im a St Joes Alumni and for 40 years you was always one of my favorites. Your theme
song was a song Myself and two other guys learned back in the middle 50's. there was three of us who grew up
with drum corp, one went to hawthorne, one went to the reb's( god bless his soul) and I stayed home in albion
ny with the grenadiers.We used to sing the song( We are the Musketeers)It brings tears to my eyes.Even
though Ive played with Joes and others doesnt mean that we arent your fans also. Its good to see you guys are
hanging in there. Good luck with your venture. Art Tribunella. Former St. Joes. Drum line

NAME: Sunny Cohen

EMAIL: sunnyalcohen@gateway.net

FROM: BSGK/PA

Date: 04 May 2000

Time: 14:03:09


COMMENTS

Hello out there in drum corps alumni land - always good to see that people appreciate all the hard work that
AE/Cathy M. did for the show this year - it was a great show, especially the BSGK part!!! Hey McConkey - nice
to know you still cannot spell - how do I know that you probably went to Catholic School in NJ!! Looking forward
to GAS also as we always have such a great time and this time I won't be outside taking pics of St. Joe's and a
former Reilly guys when you do your thing! Looking forward to seeing everyone starting tonight at AE Post
Love & Kisses - the Cohens

NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL:

FROM: Fairfax Station, Virginia

Date: 08 May 2000

Time: 14:56:38


COMMENTS

So that is what a GAS Reunion is all about! Or, as the Venerable Matador Conductor of the "Hot Tamales,"
Tommy Swann observed, "Pay attention, this is Serious S__t!!!" Seriously though, congratulations to everyone
in Archie and the Bon Bons for sponsoring such a fantastic reunion, and thanks to Jim Cossetti for coming up
with the GAS Reunion idea. When those 17 Corps members wearing their corps' uniforms marched up on the
stage at the banquet, you could see the pride and feeling of accomplishment that Jim had. Way to go Jim!
When the choruses sang the National Anthems of our two great countries I don't think any of us could be
prouder of what Drum Corps are all about. And finally, joining the "Vince Deegan Chorus," as in years of old, in
the hospitality suite, was as good as it gets! Thanks again for a truly great weekend! Joel.

NAME: bill ives

EMAIL: ivesbill

FROM: archie

Date: 08 May 2000

Time: 21:21:59

NAME: Robbie Ellis

EMAIL: RE6035@Pitcairn.com

FROM: Philadelphia, Pa.

Date: 09 May 2000

Time: 10:32:04


COMMENTS

I just wanted to let everyone at Archie know that this was a great GAS. The best I have attended. I know that
someone will top it but at least for a year, we know that we had the best yet.

Thank you for a great time.

Robbie Ellis

NAME: Elayne Korker

EMAIL: skyangel@ccia.com

FROM: NY Skyliners

Date: 10 May 2000

Time: 10:20:47

NAME: Terri Cylinder

EMAIL: tcylinder@boothby.com or scrapchik@aol.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 12 May 2000

Time: 10:16:34


COMMENTS

Great GAS reunion! After seeing all of the postings from Jimmy McConkey, I finally got to see him in person.
Did he always wear mirrors? What fun it was to play for all of those great conductors! Congrats to Eileen Snow
and Carol Terreri for pulling off a phenomenal event. I even have to give kudos to Bill Ives for his excellent
history display. It was a real highlight and worth all of the effort. (And nice to have all of that stuff out of the house
for a little while!)

NAME: Bill Adamson

EMAIL: badams6@home.com

FROM: "Archie"

Date: 12 May 2000

Time: 16:26:08


COMMENTS

Wow!! What a great job on the web Bob! This is the first I had a chance to visit it. It really looks terrific. Thanks
to everyone for a great job at GAS, and especially for such a terrific performance.

NAME: JIMMY MC CONKEY

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@WEBTV.NET

FROM: SYRACUSE

Date: 13 May 2000

Time: 23:57:11


COMMENTS

TERRI, NO THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER USED MIRR. ON MY UNIFORM. DO YOU THINK IT
WORKED? NOW FOR ALL OF YOU OUT THERE. MY HEART IS STILL SINGING, WHEN I HAVE A LITTLE
MORE TIME I HAVE MUCH TO WRITE (NO ROOM FOR A BOOK) BUT SURE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE
TO WRITE ONE ON THE GAS. WILL GET BACK TO THIS WONDERFULL WEB SITE, THAT KEEPS US
ALL IN TOUCH. AGAIN THANK YOU BOB FOR GIVING US THIS SITE IT IS WONDERFUL. I HOPE WE ALL
CONTINUE PUSHING THE WORD THAT IT IS HERE FOR ALL OF US.A SITE FOR ALL. TAKE CARE TALK
TO YOU ALL SOON.GOD BLESS YOU ALL ARCHER EPLER I LOVE YOU ALL. JIMMY

NAME: Kathleen Lawler

EMAIL: Klawler@wbsaunders.com

FROM: ARCHIE

Date: 14 May 2000

Time: 14:11:07


COMMENTS

Heard the GAS Reunion was spectacular. Congratulations to all who worked so hard for so long to pull it off.
Sorry I missed a great time but got all the details from Mom & Dad and assorted others!

Again, congratulations to all the folks who made it possible. Just think: now you can relax and look forward to a
great weekend in Wildwood. You all deserve the "vacation".

Kathleen

NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL:

FROM: Fairfax Station, VA

Date: 15 May 2000

Time: 11:12:23


COMMENTS

Greeting Fellow Drum and Bugles Corps Folks, As the crowd used to yell out as Archie performed that great
number, "April In Paris," I'd like to ask a favor of a group of my fellow corps members of years past who read
this website by asking for their attention, "ONE MORE TIME!" This is a personal appeal for the members of the
World Drum Corps Hall of Fame (WDCHOF) to consider voting for Jimmy McConkey for induction into the Hall
this year. As Carol Terreri pointed out during Archie's presentation at this year's GAS Reunion, Jimmy
McConkey has drum corps credentials as a drum major that are unmatched by anyone in our hobby who has
"fronted" a junior or senior drum corps. He has led seven different corps to national titles in the United States
and Canada. He marched with our legendary corps, and made them better outfits in every sense of the word.
He was the consummate showman, year in and year out. When I was a member of the Vasella "Musketeers,"
Jimmy came down from Blessed Sacrament to lead our "big brothers" of Archer-Epler. Never "full of himself,"
Jimmy would join us at the Vasella American Legion Post and coach, mentor and cajole us to improve our
show. He knew drum corps to a level that many of us never fathomed or ever attained. For all that he has
contributed to the world of drum and bugle corps I, as a journeyman corps member of many years ago,
respectfully ask the renowned men and woman of the WDCHOF who can vote in this year's balloting, to vote
for Jimmy to join their ranks. I, and many who believe as I do, would be very grateful for your making this
happen! JIMMY HAS PAID HIS DUES....IT IS TIME THOSE WHO REPRESENT ALL OF US JOURNEYMEN
CORPS MEMBERS IN THE WDCHOF ASSIST US IN PAYING OURS!!!! My sincere thanks for your
consideration, and hopefully your vote. Joel. NAME: Mike O'Neill

EMAIL: Fdcorps@aol.com

FROM: New Jersey

Date: 18 May 2000

Time: 10:40:21


COMMENTS

Great web page! Great people! Continued success!

NAME: Helen Heade Gielda

EMAIL: rebelinnj3@aol.com

FROM: Reilly, Yankee Rebels, Belles of St. Mary;s Alumni

Date: 27 May 2000

Time: 17:25:25

NAME: Robbie Ellis

EMAIL: RE6035@Pitcairn.com

FROM: Philadelphia, Pa.

Date: 05 Jun 2000

Time: 12:37:09


COMMENTS

To Archie: Thank you for the well wishes this weekend in Wildwood for Bob's illness. When I visited Bob
yesterday morning he was awake and holding a conversation. He will be in the hospital for another week and
then begin recovery. Chas, you're on your own for awhile unless Cathy is there. Tony, thank you for dedicating
the parade to Bob. I told him and he was pleased and wished he could have been there. Now, did we
win??????

Robbie

NAME: Kristin Wilke

EMAIL: mellochick69@hotmail.com

FROM: Bon Bons

Date: 05 Jun 2000

Time: 13:17:09


COMMENTS

I wanted to thank everyone for welcoming me into the corp. I had a fantastic time at GAS and Wildwood this
weekend. I am jazzzed about playing my mellophone again and cannot wait to be in the horn line. See you at
practice!

NAME: Phyllis

EMAIL: pbistline@harmelin.com

FROM:

Date: 06 Jun 2000

Time: 09:10:19


COMMENTS

Thanks to everyone who made this weekend so much fun. Robbie, we still weren't sure who won, although I did
read something on RAMD about 27th alumni taking 1st place. We ended up 5th out of 127 musical units...(Sac
was 4th and I don't know about Rebs and Reilly). So, no matter what the results, we did a terrific job. Who says
bigger is better (although I could name a few men.....) Anyway, thanks to everyone, especially our newcomers
Cathy and Kristin. See 'ya!

NAME: Brian Tye

EMAIL: bblt@worldnet.att.net

FROM: Millstone Elks

Date: 09 Jun 2000

Time: 16:15:19


COMMENTS

Many thanks for the excellent time marching in Wildwood 2000. We are all proud to march with such a great
band.

NAME: Rip Bernert

EMAIL: bbernert@snip.net

FROM: Blackwood, NJ

Date: 06 Jul 2000

Time: 12:25:15


COMMENTS

Good job

NAME: Rip Bernert

EMAIL: bbernert@snip.net

FROM: Blackwood, NJ

Date: 06 Jul 2000

Time: 12:25:37


COMMENTS

Good job

NAME: Ken Newman

EMAIL: norman.newman@unisys.com

FROM: Archie Always

Date: 06 Jul 2000

Time: 15:38:02


COMMENTS

Hey Bill ---- You're stuttering

NAME: Ken Newman

EMAIL: norman.newman@unisys.com

FROM: THE NOSTALGIC PAST

Date: 07 Jul 2000

Time: 10:07:57


COMMENTS

It's great to see an AE hall of fame that consists of so many good guys, even if they are all instructors, etc. My
personal hall of fame, and the real Archie, is all of the diverse characters (make that whackos) who made up
the heart and soul. To name a few------ FROGGY HERBIE MANN LOUIE SCIRROTTO BILLY RIEHL PUGGY
MC CONKEY BILL JOYCE RIP & JOE BART FAT BASEK CARMEN C. D. COOPER SULLY BIG JACK
JACK REILLY DAVE FITE DANNY BUNTING JERRY GUZZI BIG MOE WEEDIES JOE(THE
LEGEND)MULLEN AD INFINITUM

NAME: JOE CHIZEK

EMAIL: skylead@myway.com

FROM: Gloversville NY

Date: 08 Jul 2000

Time: 14:29:14


COMMENTS

GLAD YOU FINALLY GOT A SITE, AND YOU HAVE DONE A NICE JOB. NOW I WILL BE ABLE TO
RE-NEW SOME OLD AQUAINTANCES FROM THE 60's WHEN I MARCHED AND ALSO HAVE A FEW
MORE 'SAMBUCA's with DUKE.

HOPE TO SEE TOU ALL SOON.

NAME: Jimmy Mc Conkey

EMAIL: Muskeeteer@webtv.net

FROM: Syracuse, N.Y.

Date: 08 Jul 2000

Time: 20:16:11


COMMENTS

Kenny Neuman, WHAT CAN I SAY. GOD I WISH I COULD SEE YOU AGAIN. YOU SAID SOOOO MUCH IN
YOUR LAST COMMENTS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INCLUDING ME IN SUCH A WONDERFUL
GROUP. WE HAD A BALL BACK THEN DIDN'T WE? I STILL REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE ON
BANDSTAND!!!!! HOW ABOUT THAT? I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN YOU KEN, YOU ARE AND ALWAYS
WILL BE PART OF THE "BEST YEARS OF MY D.C.LIFE. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF OLD FRIEND. THE
FACT THAT WE ARE IN TOUCH AT HOME BASE IS WHAT ARCHER EPPLER IS AND REMAINS ALL
ABOUT "ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL" GOD WE WERE SO LUCKY THEN, BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW
IT BACK THEN, HEY, WERE THOUGHT WE WOULD LIVE FOREVER (WE WERE SO YOUNG) BUT WE
ARE STILL LUCKY WE CAN SAY HI TO EACH OTHER EVEN NOW AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. LOVE
YOU FRIEND. JIMMY MC CONKEY

NAME: Harry Sharp

EMAIL: atlastwedidit@aol.com

FROM: Archie Drum Line

Date: 11 Jul 2000

Time: 22:07:57


COMMENTS

... a real stroll down memory lane... I still remember the goose bumps the first night I practiced with the drum
line {l958} with Bill Reamer in the upstairs room at the Post... then coming downstairs to play "Queen of Sheba"
after Lee Wolf had gone through the arrangement with the horn line. We were the "Wilmington" crowd... Bill
Joyce, Paul Russell, Franny Maloney, Bob Dunn and the list goes on and on... just to see the names{Lou
Scirotto, Jimmy McConkey, Kenny Newman} brings back so many memories... GREAT MEMORIES of the
greatest drum corps that ever marched onto a field... ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NAME: Pat and Nancy McDonald

EMAIL: Tigger1960@yahoo.com

FROM: Camp Lejeune NC

Date: 15 Jul 2000

Time: 21:56:36


COMMENTS

Just a quick note ... we left DC last year ... back in NC ... few more years for USMC ... please update the
address list ...

5866 Delaware Ave Camp Lejeune NC 28547-1244

Watching from afar, Pat and Nancy

NAME: Phil Crouthamel

EMAIL: prcreality@home.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 23 Jul 2000

Time: 11:21:46


COMMENTS

I finally found the web site. Nice job Bob! Anyone out there interested in joining the Honor section, please let
me know. We Could use some new members.

NAME: John Grogan

EMAIL: jjgrogan@yahoo.com

FROM: St Simons Georgia

Date: 26 Jul 2000

Time: 15:41:33


COMMENTS

I marched with Blessed Sacrament in 1953 and 1954.I always admired your corp and aspired to become a
member after ny tour of duty in the Air Force. Alas, I never returned to the area thereby making it impossible to
try out for the drum line. I have tapes of some of the contests your corps competed in during the fifties and get a
kick out of listening to them frequently. I have one friend that I still keep in contact with from the old B.S.
days...He is Al Cohen. He's in the B.S. Alumni. Glad I found your page.

NAME: Charlie Hooper

EMAIL: chooper@us.oracle.com

FROM: Haddon Heights Vagabonds

Date: 30 Jul 2000

Time: 09:33:51


COMMENTS

Wow.. great site. Lots of familiar names and associates from the past. Found out I have been working right
around the corner from Joel Lesson for years and didn't know it. Joel, we have to get together. Seeing the web
sites for Archie, Reilly, Audubon, the Belles, Sac.. etc, were great. I'm pumped to get one going for the
Vagabonds as well. Special Hello to Louie. You and Pat were great mentors for many kids in our corps, and it
sounds like you still are. Hi Carol Pennisi Terreri!! Say Hello to Barbara for me. Ask her if she remembers the
57 ford with the hole in the floor and the hole in the muffler.. (made for interesting rides!!).

Take care.. going to nationals in DC this year (quarters, semi's and finals) would love to say hello if any of my
past associates will be there.. send me an email.

Charlie (Vagabonds 58-64)

NAME: bill bernert

EMAIL: bbernert@snip.net

FROM: Blackwood,NJ

Date: 30 Jul 2000

Time: 19:00:48


COMMENTS

NAME: bill seigfried

EMAIL: www.shadow993@juno.com

FROM: Aston Pa

Date: 06 Aug 2000

Time: 10:12:58


COMMENTS

Hey Guys: Realyylike the web site . This is a first class job. See you all on the 19th at Reilly's show

NAME: Walter Archer

EMAIL: Walar40@aol.com

FROM: Bensalem, Pa.

Date: 08 Aug 2000

Time: 21:35:02


COMMENTS

It was strange that I came across your website, since I was checking for sites with my Surname. It brought back
the days when I hung out with one of the Archie members back in the early '60s. His name was John, but for the
life of me I can't remember his last name. We worked for Sears at the time. They are fond memories. I had
some great times with the Corps in Roxbury, Mass., and in New York City, at the Bell Tone studios where the
Corps was making a recording. We had a great time afterwards doing the town singing. I wish you much
success, and you have a great site. God Bless.

NAME: KEN NEWMAN

EMAIL: NORMAN.NEWMAN@UNISYS.COM

FROM: NOSTALGIAVILLE

Date: 10 Aug 2000

Time: 11:00:41


COMMENTS

more flamers,, uh--famers AGONY,PERCY,DREXLER,JOMBA,WHITEY,DEEGAN,CARNEY,
KEELEY,HARRY STOUT,JACK L.,BEN KATZE,PHIL G., THE FLANSBERGS,RAY W.,KATHY L.,DANNY
FITZ, PIERCE BROS.,CHAS,TURNER ET CETERA, ET CETERA, ET CETERA

NAME: PERRIER,MARCEL

EMAIL:

FROM: QUEBEC,CANADA

Date: 10 Aug 2000

Time: 13:59:22


COMMENTS

NAME: Charlie Hooper

EMAIL: chooper445@aol.com

FROM: Haddon Heights Vagabonds

Date: 15 Aug 2000

Time: 20:43:30


COMMENTS

Hello again... as I stated earlier, I was psyched up when I saw this site and it pushed me into starting an alumi
site for the Haddon Heights corps.. Please spread the word if you know of anyone associated with the
Vagabonds from their inception to the last day of the corps life. The url for the site is
http://hometown.aol.com/chooper445/vagabonds.html Information is posted there on what we are looking for.....
If anyone has any contact with Don or Bob Adair can you ask them to give me some contact information.. we
need info about the beginnings of the corps and I am sure they would know TONS of info... thanks everyone!!!

Charlie...

PS.. Some of you may have known my father Charlie Sr. He marched with Archie as a guard member in the
late 50's.. He passed away about 3 years ago. He never stopped talking about his love of drum corps and in
particular Archer Epler (except for his bitching about what he referred to as the bands that are on the field
today ..... : )

NAME: KEN NEWMAN

EMAIL: norman.newman@unisys.com

FROM:

Date: 22 Aug 2000

Time: 11:11:11


COMMENTS

Went to the Reilly show last weekend. Corp did a nice job. Best of all, I didn't have to hear Lord and Master for
the 4,000,000th time.

NAME: Hugo Evarelli

EMAIL: Hugopop@aol.com

FROM: Las Vegas

Date: 01 Sep 2000

Time: 17:51:15


COMMENTS

I am sorry, I accidentally submitted my last form before I was finished filling it out. I was surfing the internet, and
found your web site. I was very pleased with it. To give you a little information about myself, I marched and
competed against you from 1952 to 1963. I was a soprano horn player with the Caballeros. My best friend was
one of your members, Jack Warner. He played baritone with the Musketeers. I was just wondering, does
anyone remember him? NAME: Harry Sharp

EMAIL: atlastweditit @ aol.com

FROM: Hollywood, FloridaI don'

Date: 02 Sep 2000

Time: 21:03:03


COMMENTS

Jack Warner....he will never be forgotten...I don't know why he's not in the Archie Hall of Fame! His was the
voice that I listened to when I first joined the corps in l958... following practice I really didn't know what to
expect...everybody seemed to gather aroung Jack at the bar and the strains of "If I Loved You" filled the
room...and there was Jack...his voice so beautiful leading the rest us. And that's the way it was week after
week, year after year. Later on, after becoming an on-air announcer at a classical music radio station in Miami,
I searched our archives and found many, many recordings of the Masterworks chorus in New York And, there
he was... Jack Warner!! Not remember Jack Warner... not a chance!

NAME: Ken Newman

EMAIL: norman.newman@unisys.com

FROM: Sentimental Slobsville

Date: 05 Sep 2000

Time: 08:33:18


COMMENTS

"Big Jack Werner" was and always wil be remembered as a very large part of Archie's heart and soul. Always
smiling and singing, but resolute and as strong as an ox when necessary. (Remember Miami). I'm sure most of
the guys from that era, like myself, remember you too,Hugo. "Big Jack" not in the Archie Hall of Fame???
Incredulous!!!!!!

NAME: Hugo Evarelli

EMAIL: Hugopop@aol.com

FROM: Las Vegas

Date: 05 Sep 2000

Time: 12:42:48


COMMENTS

I agree Jack Warner should be in the Archie hall of fame, great thought Harry Sharp and Ken Newman, I give
you fellows and the rest of the men of the Musketeers my VOTE for jack, I was his horn instructor when he play
with the Lynhurst N. J. corps as a baritone, he asked me one day if I would give him a release to go play with
ST. Joes junior corps in Newark N. J. and I did, he was to good for a parade corps, I do remember many times
singing with jack and you men of the Muuketeers, I always wanted to join you but had my commit with the Cabs,
just loved your music, and your were a great corps

NAME: Ed Lindenhofen

EMAIL: elinden11@home.com

FROM: Chadds Ford, PA

Date: 05 Sep 2000

Time: 22:13:51


COMMENTS

Just wanted to say hello, my grandfather Tom McElroy marched with Archie in the early 60's in the Guard, in the
days when Jimmy McC. was out in front. I think the Alumni Corps is fantastic, I caught you guys at the Dream,
way to go!

NAME: MARY(LAMB) ZIEGENFUSS

EMAIL: Mzigg12@aol.com

FROM: Newtown Square, PA

Date: 08 Sep 2000

Time: 23:26:49


COMMENTS

Cont'd - I was knocked off from previous message. As I started to say I think we had the GOLDEN YEARS with
Archie and didn't recognize them. It was great to hear from Jim McConkey and reminence about our Broadway
Productions at the Post Home. It was truly a time of "getting to know you. Thank you Jim for those memories. I
recently heard from Edna & Ray Kerber who live in Florida. They send their regards to all who remember them.
Went up to see Charlie & Joan Lobb who now live in Adamstown, Pa. Lancaster County. Charlie is holding his
own & is very proud of his Archie mobelia room. I also keep in touch with Tom & Lucy Sylvester who have been
faithful friends over the years (they never change). Do you remember Edna & Harry Walsh, Gloria & Whitey,
Jack & Joanne Keely, Eileen & John Cavello - well all are doing great & still look the same. I can go on and on
but I must say "Thank You Archie" for all the happy memories and friendships that were made possible by your
beautiful music. Keep up the good work and I will look forward to hearing from you on line.

NAME: ED Hatg

EMAIL:

FROM: Vagabonds,Archie,Reilly

Date: 09 Sep 2000

Time: 09:36:20


COMMENTS

Its so good to see so many of my old friends.Louie&Pat you were souch a great part to the Vagabonds you
were like big brothers to all of us,thanks soooooo!!!!!!!! much will contact you later Lou. Jimmy Mc Conkey you
were and are the greatest drum majore ever you set the standard for all who followed.Charlie Hooper from the
Vagabonds ran you a close second ,again it was your standard he was following , I hope that you are voted into
the hall of fame,no one deserves it more Jimmy,I will be contacting you for sure,to all of you at Archie what
memories,it dosen't get any better than this,best of luck in the future hope to catch up with the corps one of
these days,living in North Carolina its tough but I know it will happen,for now I wish you all well your friend and
fellow corps member forever.

NAME: Ed Haig

EMAIL: highcntry@skybest.com

FROM: Vagabonds,Archie,Reilly

Date: 09 Sep 2000

Time: 16:12:21


COMMENTS

Sorry earlier today I was on Archies web site and was so exicted I forgot my on E-Mail address,sorry.Gave me
time to reflect back ,and to me the greatest show ever by any drum corps aws The King and I with Vince
strutting across the field and the music what a sound.I hope those of you who rember me , please write ONE
FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE. Your fellow member ED HAIG 1963 -66

NAME: Tom Bambrick

EMAIL: TomBam4@aol.com

FROM: BSGK 1949 - 1959

Date: 19 Sep 2000

Time: 10:55:21


COMMENTS

How about cranking the old Musketeer Fanfare into the opening page of your Website ?? We all would love to
hear it again !!

NAME: Bill C. Seigfried

EMAIL: www.shadow993@juno.com

FROM: Reilly Raiders

Date: 25 Sep 2000

Time: 20:06:39


COMMENTS

Nice to see alot of the old gang down in wildwood this for the Irish Weekend. A good time was had by one and
all. Best of luck for the upcoming season.I hear that "Ray "While you're down there Ray" Fallon will be back
teaching the horn line, and Billy Kaufman will be on Drums. Keep up the good work . Remember the old days , I
do. I had a great time ( 1989-1993) and made of lot of friends and lost o lot of them also. Remember them as I
do : Jack Reilly, George Lee, Bob Booth, Ect... . Remeber the old corps. that have fallen by the wayside
including my favorite one. "The Linclon Invaders" ! Who knows I just might show up at a pratice & start playing
again for old time sake. NAME: Steve Calzone

EMAIL: excaptain13@hotmail.com

FROM: ARCHIE

Date: 03 Oct 2000

Time: 15:47:48


COMMENTS

Thanks for calling Phyllis, Looking forward to coming back. See you at the open house

NAME: Ella McElroy Lindenhofen

EMAIL: ellalin@home.com

FROM: Bon Bons

Date: 05 Oct 2000

Time: 12:59:15


COMMENTS

Great site. Jimmy, do you remember my father Tom? He so loved the corp. I don't know if you remember, but
you took me to the Bon Bons to join up in 1959. You were someone I looked up to. Again, great memories.

NAME: Mary Ziegenfuss

EMAIL: MZigg12@aol.com

FROM: Newtown Square, PA.

Date: 14 Oct 2000

Time: 09:55:15


COMMENTS

Some sad news to all who do not already know. Charlie Lobb passed away on Thursday, October 12th, 2000.
Charlie suffered from lung cancer for a little over a year. We are all so grateful that he did not suffer too long at
the end. To all who were so faithful throughout Joan and her family are ever so grateful. You have all truly been a
"MUSKETEER" and we are so pleased that we are part of the "Archie" Family. Take care and God Bless.
Mary Zig

NAME: KEN NEWMAN

EMAIL: NORMAN.NEWMAN@UNISYS.COM

FROM: SADVILLE

Date: 19 Oct 2000

Time: 11:49:01


COMMENTS

Too much sad news anymore. Charlie was always one of the good guys. I also just found out of the passing of
Jack Keeley. Jack was a long time friend and will be fondly remembered. I can just see him now, whereever he
is, jumping in the air, clicking his heels together and singing " A little gin, a little beer, what the hell I'm a
MUSKETEER!!! RIP JACKSON.

NAME: bill adamson sr.

EMAIL: drummer1648@yahoo.com

FROM:

Date: 20 Oct 2000

Time: 14:20:41


COMMENTS

To the Archer-Epler family:

Thank you so much for a great 4 years as the Percussion Instructor /Arranger. I truly enjoyed the opportunity.
Speaking for myself, and I think Bert will agree, we will really miss doing this for Archie. I am unable to attend
the Open House, due to the date change and my ROTC committments, but look forward to seeing all of you at
the next rehersal. I hope all are looking forward to the next season and another year of fun and friendship at
Archie. Best regards, Bill Adamson Sr.

NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL:

FROM: Fairfax Station, VA

Date: 23 Oct 2000

Time: 09:32:06


COMMENTS

Mark, It was an honor to be asked to say a few words about Jack during the presentation of the American Flag
to the Corps and the Post by Joanne Keeley and the Keeley Family. Jack was a mentor, a "big brother" and a
friend. His heart and soul were in drum corps and Archer-Epler. He was truly "THE BEST from among the best.

NAME: Bob Love

EMAIL: BLove23073@cs.com

FROM: Los Angeles, CA

Date: 23 Oct 2000

Time: 16:33:27


COMMENTS

I've just stumbled across all of these wonderful websites of the drum corps I grew up with so long ago and it's
like going back in time. I marched with the Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights back between '63 and '65 in
the snare line. I read Jim McConkey's note about drum corps today and agree totally. It's hard to watch it as it is
now! By the way, I still have that great studio LP you guys did with the vocal chorus. Great stuff!

I would love to contact a former Archy drummer from the early to mid 60's. His name is Joe O'Conner and I
haven't spoken with him for almost 40 years. Anyone know of his whereabouts and, hopefully, e-mail address?

This is a really nice site, as are so many of the others like the one the Golden Knights have. My thanks to those
who put the time in to develop and maintain them for the enjoyment of folks like me.

Regards,

Bob Love

NAME: Joe Chizek

EMAIL: skylead#myway.com

FROM: Empire State Grenidiers,Archie,Briggs,Sky, & now Sky Alumni

Date: 29 Oct 2000

Time: 11:54:50


COMMENTS

Web Site is going great, enjoy reading all the comments from old friends. Would like to see you get a Forum
going as on "Delphi" like other Alumni have. It would be great to respond with dail messages back & forth and
be more updated to whats going on.

Siglo, why dont you host it.

NAME: bob molloy

EMAIL: bobpatmol@aol.com

FROM: lt norman prince

Date: 03 Nov 2000

Time: 03:34:01


COMMENTS

Hi all, enjoyed this site very much brought back a lot a great great memories from 59 and 60. I was with St
Kevins Emerald Knights for 5 years than 2 years in the Army than what else but Norman Prince (Princemen).
Remember much travel, much fun, a lot of beer, and great compititions. always have the memory of the
Musketeers and the dipsy doodle but special memory of the renditon of 'MARGIE' it was great. Also remember
the sound of the Bass drum it was tuned so that it made a sound like no other bass drum I have ever heard-
fantastic. I played tenor drum with Prince and can still remember one compitition (don't know where) where
Archie was on the field, Hawthorne on the Ready line, the Princemen, on the Inspection Line, and Reilly forming
up to come right behind us. What a feeling of emotion to be part of these great drum corps. I went to a contest
in Boston about 6 years ago and although I enjoyed the music I can honestly say that I didn't really appreciate
the new style of non military lines, etc. It just doesn't seem the same to me. When the Corps of the 50's and
60's hit the field they were more military than the military, they put on great shows,great music, drum lines that
were fantasic, and they did this with one valve horns and only snare, tenor, bass drums, and cymbols. Would
love to see this type of Drum Corps come back but I don't think it will happen. NAME: Geoffrey Whiting

EMAIL: gw85dhw@aol.com

FROM: Corning, New York

Date: 04 Nov 2000

Time: 12:29:59


COMMENTS

I am a former Geneva Appleknocker (junior corps 1965-1973). I just wanted to let you know that one of my
all-time favorite drum corps recordings is Archie at the 1964 World Open (as recorded by Fleetwood). Who
were those magnificent triple tonguing soprano soloists? Were they ringers (pros) in for the show or long term
members? Their brass technique is out of this world. They certainly set a high standard of excellence which I
strove to emulate during my years in drum corps. I also have a picture of Archie (1959 Preview of Champions
at Roosevelt Stadium I believe) from the personal collection of an old Sr.Appleknocker which I would like to
send along to you.NAME: Ken Newman

EMAIL: norman.newman@unisys.com

FROM: I forget

Date: 09 Nov 2000

Time: 14:10:00


COMMENTS

Hey! If memory serves me, those three "pros" would have been Ray Eyler, Dave Fite and Jack ? (name
escapes me, anybody remember?) So you are almost right, They were pros but not ringers, Ray and Dave
were longtime Archie guys. All three not only marched with Archie all year, but were also members of the U S
Air Force D&B Corp stationed at Bolling Air Base in DC at that time

NAME: Paul D. Bateman

EMAIL: callpaul@lemoorenet.com

FROM: Lemoore, Ca. (cuurently)

Date: 10 Nov 2000

Time: 17:21:45


COMMENTS

Corps member in 61-63. Last visit to Post in 99.Keep on truckin'.

NAME: Danny Fallon

EMAIL: Dannybd00@aol.com

FROM: Huricanes, Archer-Epler Jr., Arher Epler,Bushwackers, Jersey Surf, Boston Crusaders
1992-1997, The Concord Blue Devils 1998-2000....

Date: 11 Nov 2000

Time: 12:27:08


COMMENTS

Hey guys... I heard my Dad was down there a few weeks ago. That's great! Some of my fondest Drum Corp
memories happened right there at that VFW POST. Playing next to Jack Riley(over a 50 yr. age
difference)hahaha, Listening to Jim Cossetti play the heck outa that Cherry Pink SOLO(Still My Favorite... I can
do it to now, but with a nastier trill...HAHAHA. Danny Fitzpatrick, I played a video tape of your West Side story
SOLO from the GAS REUNION a few years back and the kids in Devils told me to tell you that you are a
GOD!!!. You guys keep playin and havin fun... Just remember you helped me fall in love with Drum Corps!!! I
miss you, Danny

NAME: MARY ZIEGENFUSS

EMAIL: MZIGG12@AOL.COM

FROM: Newtown Square, Pa.

Date: 19 Nov 2000

Time: 23:49:47


COMMENTS

There are no friends like the old friends. They leave us with so many happy memories. It is with sadness that I
inform you that another long time member of Archer Epler Junior Corp and Alumini Committee member Ann
(Hansel) Newton passed away November 13th at her daughter Carol's home in New Jersey. Ann was the
daughter of Lou Hansel, wife of Bert Newton and sister of Cass Deegan and Jimmy Hansel. She was a drum
major in Upper Darby #214 and transferred to Archie where she performed as a drum major and helped to
bring back many awards and honors to our own Junior Corps. Both Ann and Bert contributed many memories
to the History of Archie as they took an active part in the Alumni Association. Their many pictures and tapes
brought back the great flavor of the old drum corp days. Ann will be sadly missed by her family and friends
which I am pleased to be part of that list.

NAME: Greg Frech

EMAIL: gfpstudios@juno.com

FROM: originally from N.J. now AZ

Date: 20 Nov 2000

Time: 22:40:37


COMMENTS

It was good to visit your site and remember the old days. I marched in the Lakeland Goldenaires in the Garden
State Circuit in the 50s and 60s. Joined the Cabs but had to drop out right away for family reasons. Today I
play in the Copper Star Senior Drum and Bugle Corps in Chandler AZ. I play soprano next to an Archer-Epler
Alumni named Arthur Hood. We have a great time remembering the good old days. Keep playing.

NAME: Phyllis

EMAIL: pbistline@harmelin.com

FROM:

Date: 04 Dec 2000

Time: 09:01:22


COMMENTS

I just wanted to thank everyone for a great 2000. We had our banquet over the weekend and everyone had a
great time. This corps couldn't make it without it's current members and for that, I am grateful for everyone's
support. We do this for the love of music and for the love of corps. Along the way, we've had wonderful
experiences and met terrific people. I thank all of the people I've met along the way...you're all more special
than you know. Thanks again for your support.

NAME: Camille

EMAIL: bonezbaby@highschoolclub.com

FROM: NJ

Date: 10 Dec 2000

Time: 08:26:40


COMMENTS

I've recently started marching with the Honor Guard, and it's an experience to remember! I love it!~Cammie

NAME: Ken Newman

EMAIL: norman,newman@unisys.com

FROM: hunger

Date: 22 Dec 2000

Time: 11:14:35


COMMENTS

Happy Holidays to all. Get well Gene.

NAME: Jamie Walton aka "Squirt"

EMAIL: corpstrumpet@yahoo.com

FROM: Archie, US Marine Band

Date: 22 Dec 2000

Time: 17:43:03


COMMENTS

Hey guys. I really do miss marching with you guys. I am enjoying my time in the Marines though and I am taking
all that I can from it. I hope I can get home and make at least one rehearsal with you guys again. I'll never forget
the fun we used to have (to say the least!) Take care everyone and God bless. Feel free to e-mail me anytime.
When I do get a chance to with you guys again, we're hitting South Rampart Street Parade! That's still my
favorite piece! Semper Fidelis from Parris Island.

Cpl. Jamie R. Walton "Squirt"

NAME: Siglow

EMAIL: skyliner@ccia.com

FROM: Beaver, Pa.

Date: 31 Dec 2000

Time: 10:49:35


COMMENTS

On behave of Elayne and myself I would like to take this opportunity to offer our Best Wishes to all in our
"extended" family at "Archie". I expect to be able to attend our next Saturday rehearsal on January 13th.
Hopefully I'll be travelling with a couple of others who anticipate playing with us this coming season, namely, Bill
Murray, a snare drum, Bill Thissen, Brinhrn and his son Bill Thissen, Jr., who'll play snare as well. :-) Who
knows, I might even be able to talk Dave Fite into trapsing along with us,....but NO gaurantees. :-)

2001

NAME: Jim Cossetti

 COMMENTS

OK! I guess it's a new millenium, so here we go. First, whoever Bob is...you've done a magnificent job with the

2002

NAME: Sean McRactagan

EMAIL: seanog1916@hotmail.com

FROM: minnesota

Date: 02 Jan 2002

Time: 02:32:02


COMMENTS

I just want to wish a Happy and prosperous New Year to all of the Musketeer Family. May this year of 2002 see
the re-emergence of "Archie" into the Drum Corp hierarchy. Thanks, Sean (Colour Guard 1961-2)




NAME: Phyllis Bistline

EMAIL: jpbistline@mindspring.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 03 Jan 2002

Time: 16:29:12


COMMENTS

I just wanted to wish everyone a peaceful and happy New Year. We are blessed with many things, including this
wonderful drum corps and its heritage.....but most of all, the past and present members and many friends
whom we call family. Let us not take a single day for granted and make the most of everything we do!




NAME: Mike Batten

EMAIL: michael-batten@home.com

FROM: Blue Rocks 1960-1969

Date: 03 Jan 2002

Time: 22:01:02


COMMENTS

Happy New Year to Jimmy COSSETTI and the rest of Archie, may you play on for ever. MDB




NAME: David H. McGuinness

EMAIL: davidmcguinness@webtv.net

FROM: Waterbury,Ct.06708

Date: 06 Jan 2002

Time: 11:55:44


COMMENTS

I love that song I Have Dreamed on the Who Are We. Also, would love to get a recording on I believe the Sun
Records if possible. Many of the old corps I miss very much and especially you and the Princemen, Reilly and
the Caballeros. Best of Luck in the Future.



NAME: dave

EMAIL:

FROM: westport,conneticut

Date: 16 Jan 2002

Time: 02:29:05


COMMENTS

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NAME: Bob wagner

EMAIL: rwagner21@aol.com

FROM: Newark, DE

Date: 18 Jan 2002

Time: 11:55:17


COMMENTS

Good luck this year Archie, have a great and fun filled year

Check out the Yankee Rebels site for information on the DIXIE STINGER.




NAME: Jim Cossetti

EMAIL: xarchieman@aol.com

FROM: everywhere

Date: 22 Jan 2002

Time: 16:06:21


COMMENTS

Mike Batten.....soooooo good to hear from you. Your ears must have been ringing, since Larry Kerchner and I
were talking about you, Kenny Dennis, Mickey Denny, Tom McAnally, et. ux, et al just last Sunday. Heard from
Jeff Dennis just a couple of weeks ago (something about the Dennis/ Denny connection????). Hope you and
the family are well. Do you still live in So. Jersey? Last time I saw you was at the parade with the Pitman Hobo
Band....bring back memories??? I'll be in touch by e-mail. Thanks for remembering. My memories of Blue
Rock and you kids remain right up there with all of the good drum corps memories.




NAME: Ken Newman

EMAIL: norman.newman@unisys.com

FROM: sadville again

Date: 30 Jan 2002

Time: 08:41:05


COMMENTS

Just got a note informing me of the passing of Jack Lundell, yesterday morning (1/29/02). Jack, always a true
friend and good guy, will be remembered by all as an Archie/Reilly icon and fixture. A real drum corp nutcase.
Condolences to Johnny and the rest of the family.RIP Jack, I will miss you.




NAME: Marvin Stevenson

EMAIL: marvindinero@aol.com

FROM: Guelph, Ontario

Date: 01 Feb 2002

Time: 00:16:19


COMMENTS

It's a real treat to hear those old familiar phrases of Archie. After about six years of drum corps activity, I left in
1965 and went into Dance band for about 15 years. Now, after about another 15 years without playing, I find
myself back with music; but this time with a bunch of people who barely know what the term M&M refers to but
they sure know how to have fun. We're playing next weekend at Mardis Gras in New Orleans. We're the Top
Hats Marching Orchestra from Burlington, Ontario. (www.tophats.org) Really nice again to hear you people.




NAME: John F Lundell

EMAIL: dtpd51@netscape.net

FROM: Glenolden,Pa

Date: 03 Feb 2002

Time: 16:02:56


COMMENTS

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Archer-Epler Musketeers Drum and Bugle
Corps for their kindness during this time of sorrow. Your thoughts and prayers were greatly appreciated. Thank
You, Mrs. John Lundell,Johnny Lundell and Michael Lundell.




NAME: James Pontz

EMAIL: ponds@infi.net

FROM: Lancaster, Pa.

Date: 09 Feb 2002

Time: 16:33:25


COMMENTS

I would like to know whether or not your corp would have an interest in participating in the sixth annual,
Millersville (Pa.) Community Parade which is scheduled for Sat., Oct. 26, 2002 and, if you are interested, how
much you would charge for your appearance. Please get back to me and, if you have any questions, I can be
reached thru my office at 717-285-3510 or e-mail me. For more info. regarding the parade, check out our web
site at www.millersville.edu/~alumni/parade.html. Thank you. James Pontz, M-ville Parade Comm.


NAME: Scott Yaniga

EMAIL: alumnidirector@skyliners.org

FROM: Bayonne

Date: 12 Feb 2002

Time: 14:00:21


COMMENTS

I just wanted to thank all the great folks in the Musketeers for their appearance at the tribute show for the Harrell
brothers.

It was heartening to see that the brotherhood of the drum corps alumni movement is as strong as ever, as is the
sense of patriotism, duty and honor in each and every member who made it a point to attend this most-worthy
event.

Thanks also to Ron Bonadonna for doing triple-duty, drum corps-wise, as well as for being such a polished and
professional MC for the event.

Have a great 2002, and we'll see you soon.

Scott Yaniga Director New York Skyliners Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps




NAME: Al DiCarlo

EMAIL: jessie86@the-spa.com

FROM: Easthampton,Massachsuetts

Date: 12 Feb 2002

Time: 17:12:06


COMMENTS

Glad to see you still exist. Any chance of a shirt or jacket for sale. GREAT LOGO !!!!!




NAME: Gil Davidson

EMAIL: cgd36422AOL.COM

FROM: Archie

Date: 15 Feb 2002

Time: 19:23:35


COMMENTS

I would like to extend a great "THANK YOU" TO all the Musketeers For giving me the Thrill of a lifetime last
Saturday. It has been 30 years since I performed at a show. I am honored to be a part of this great
organization.

Gil Davidson

I am




NAME: Jim Cossetti

EMAIL: AGI145@aol.com

FROM:

Date: 22 Feb 2002

Time: 09:59:09


COMMENTS

Hi to all my old corps family. I have a request for some assistance with information. Can anyone help with
information about Ted Sciarra? Need specifics about his involvement with Grand Street Boys, Garbarina,
Archie and, if any of the old gang from Wilmington remembers....Blue Rock.

Thanks for any help.

Looking forward to the Brass Reunion

Jim




NAME: M/Sgt Robert Lee Epler, Sr. Ret.

EMAIL: b.hochstetler@att.net

FROM: Mich. orign. Now in Colorado

Date: 22 Feb 2002

Time: 10:31:30


COMMENTS

Evidentally I missed something....where does Epler fit into this Corps? And something about him. I was U.S.
Army band master for 14 yrs., played basically the trumpet, however, versed in all brass.




NAME: Dave Mayer

EMAIL: dm53512@navix.net

FROM: Plattsmouth Nebraska

Date: 23 Feb 2002

Time: 15:02:28


COMMENTS

!953-1958 - St Kevin Emerald Knights 1959-1971 - USAF Academy Drum and Bugle Corps




NAME: Jay Correia

EMAIL: jcorrei@neca.org

FROM: I asked my mom, but she wouldn't tell me

Date: 28 Feb 2002

Time: 10:05:19


COMMENTS

I was just checking out the schedule - you guys were in Staten Island a few weeks ago?? Geez, I wish I'd
known. Logan says Hi! He's enjoying retirement.




NAME: Michael Batten

EMAIL: MichaelBatten@comcast.net

FROM: Blue Rocks 1960-1969

Date: 08 Mar 2002

Time: 20:43:27


COMMENTS

Just thought I would drop by again and leave my new Email address....MichaelBatten@comcast.net.....Hello to
everyone and drop me a line.




NAME: Diana Cottrell

EMAIL: Shebari3@aol

FROM: Archie

Date: 13 Mar 2002

Time: 20:29:06


COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Great Web site!




NAME: Tony Brown

EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 13 Mar 2002

Time: 20:34:45


COMMENTS

Nice web site!!




NAME: Donald L. Gibson Jr.

EMAIL: dongib@becnet.com

FROM: Lansdale, Pa.

Date: 20 Mar 2002

Time: 15:13:09


COMMENTS

Former member of Archer-Epler Drum and Bugle Corp.,Percussion Line (Bass Drum) with Billy Kauffman and
Bob Hamilton (deceased). Personal friend of John Housekeeper, Flags. Years: 1966/1967. Remember Friday
nite practices at VFW post in Upper Darby and merger with Reilly-Raiders from Sellersville, Pa.

NAME: Dave Shank

EMAIL: dshank12@comcast.net

FROM: Drexel Hill, PA

Date: 23 Mar 2002

Time: 12:28:23


COMMENTS

Haven't been able to play with the group for some time now. 4 kids will do that I guess. My highest compliments
to those involved in the website...it's fantastic!

Good luck this year and in the future. I hope quite often to return and play soon.




NAME: Mary (Lamb) Ziegenfuss

EMAIL: MZigg12@aol.com

FROM: Newtown Square, Pa.

Date: 26 Mar 2002

Time: 11:43:09


COMMENTS

Once again death has entered the ranks of the Archer Epler Muskateers. Marty Tyska, a member of the
original Senior Corp in 1945, passed away on March 23rd, 2002. He was a drummer and played along with
Bill Reamer, George Whitton and John Taylor. Marty brought honor to Archer Epler by winning several awards
with the drum quartette at several National Conventions. Marty was the husband of the late Beatrice V. French
and resided in Lansdowne, Pa. He is survived by five children, eight grandchildren, and six
great-grandchildren. Funeral Mass is Wednesday 10AM at St. Philomena Church, Baltimore & Highland Ave.
Viewing Wednesday morning 8:30AM to 9:30AM Doyle-Stonelake Funeral Home - Baltimore Pk, Lansdowne,
Pa.




NAME: Jim Cossetti

EMAIL: AGI145@aol.com

FROM:

Date: 26 Mar 2002

Time: 17:01:26


COMMENTS

It is with a heavy heart that I inform all that Carmen Cirlincione, former french horn player and corps officer with
Archie, one of DCA's founding fathers, Past President of the Garden State Circuit, and director of 3 time
Garden State Circuit Champions, the Cranford Patriots, passed away 3/25/02 @ 8:02 P.M.. His wife Terry
said the he passed peacefully. Funeral arrangements are pending at this time, but Carmen will be laid out at
Parrow's Funeral Home in North Arlington, NJ. Information will be in the Newark Star Ledger in upcoming days.
Please pray for Terry, Chrissy, & Suzie to help them in this most difficult time..




NAME: Ken Newman

EMAIL:

FROM: Sadville again

Date: 27 Mar 2002

Time: 09:11:45


COMMENTS

My heart might be the heaviest. Carmen Cirlincione was one hell of a great guy. He came to Archie from that
great horn line at St Joe's of Newark and he and I marched in the same french horn rank from '58 to '68. He
was 'mi compare' for many, many years, and we had many great times together. I will miss him dearly.




NAME: James Pontz

EMAIL: ponds@infi.net

FROM: Lancaster, Pa.

Date: 02 Apr 2002

Time: 19:24:12


COMMENTS

I would like to know your corps mailing address A.S.A.P. as I have some parade info. to send you. Please get
back to me as soon as you can. Thank you and best wishes to the corps.




NAME: william david

EMAIL: wmdavid2000@yahoo.com

FROM: brooklyn ,ny

Date: 09 Apr 2002

Time: 06:50:29


COMMENTS

Does anyone know if youguys ever played the song...One Day My Prince Will Come...?? Is there copies of the
vinyl recordings of the 60- 70's recordings any where??? Thank you for the memories.......




NAME: Phyllis Bistline

EMAIL: phyllis_bistline@qvc.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 16 Apr 2002

Time: 09:31:24


COMMENTS

It is with deep sadness that I post this information....we have lost another friend. Ed 'Mukie' Mukalian, director
of the Reilly Raiders and long time drum corps member, passed away this past Saturday night (4/13). The
viewing will be Wednesday, 4/17 at St. Gregory's The Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church, 8701 Ridge Ave,
Roxborough, PA 19128. The funeral will be at 11am on Thursday, 4/18, at Forrest Hills Cemetery, 101 Byberry
Rd. in Somerton, PA.

If you would like to send condolences to his family, you can address them to Mrs. Jean Mukalian, 2301 Country
Club Dr., Doylestown, PA 18901. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.




NAME: Sue Hitchcock

EMAIL: suezqh@bellatlantic,net

FROM: Palmyra, NJ

Date: 18 Apr 2002

Time: 14:59:08


COMMENTS

I read your schedule, and wanted to know more details about your May 27th Cliften Heights venue. Can you
send me more details on this? I was a long-ago bugler with a small corps in South Jersey and heard your corps
in its hey-day. Let me know if there's any more performance news I should know. Thanks, Sue Hitchcock




NAME: Gary Dickelman

EMAIL: gdickelman@housenet.org

FROM: BSGK

Date: 21 Apr 2002

Time: 21:27:38


COMMENTS

Thanks for another great Brass Reunion!




NAME: Sunny Cohen

EMAIL: sunnycohen1961@aol.com

FROM: BSGK/PA

Date: 22 Apr 2002

Time: 12:19:18


COMMENTS

Just wanted to congratulate all of you on a wonderful show (AGAIN) - it was good to see all of you All for One
LOL Sunny




NAME: Phyllis

EMAIL:

FROM: Archie

Date: 22 Apr 2002

Time: 12:34:05


COMMENTS

I just wanted to thank everyone for an outstanding job on Saturday. The Brass Reunion was a success and it
could not have happened if it weren't for all of you. Members, alumni,friends and family were all an integral part
of the day. I want to thank Mike Snow for his outstanding job..the show was the tightest I've seen in a long time.
Also, thanks to Bill Ives for his bang up job on the book. Personally, it's been an amazing 21 years that I"ve
spent with the corps. I was incredibly proud to have been there for the 70th anniversary, as well as having my
boys there to be in something so special. Thanks again! All for one and one for all!




NAME: John(Hesty)Hesterfer

EMAIL: snip43@comcast.net

FROM: Woodbury, NJ

Date: 24 Apr 2002

Time: 20:42:48


COMMENTS

A beautiful web page...i am about to do some browsing...so...here we go...and thank you. I am alumni
too....Hawthorne Caballeros....right now inactive.

Later, Hesty




NAME: John(Hesty)Hesterfere

EMAIL: snip43@comcast.net

FROM: Woodbury, NJ

Date: 24 Apr 2002

Time: 21:21:01


COMMENTS

Well, we browsed and its an awesome website! Beautifully done, Archie:)!!

Id love to come visit your post one of these days, though I will need some good directions..from the Woodbury,
NJ area. Thanks..

Later, Hesty




NAME: Mickey McQuiston

EMAIL: none

FROM: Folcroft,pa

Date: 27 Apr 2002

Time: 16:08:08


COMMENTS

I'd rather listen to Archie than Ja-rule or anyone like that anyday.(and someday I hope I can acually play).




NAME: DAVID BREITWIESER

EMAIL: DAVID2294@MSN.COM

FROM: HOUSTON TEXAS...

Date: 27 Apr 2002

Time: 19:41:42


COMMENTS

I AM FROM THE NORTHEAST. MARCHED WINTER GUARD WITH SEAHORSE LANCERS, THE
PHILADELPHIA RIDGMEN AND THE HUSSARS...DID THE 2000 SEASON WITH BAYOU CITY BLUES
FROM HOUSTON AND THIS SEASON WITH CORPS VETS FROM ATLANTA GA...TRYING TO TRACK
DOWN JOHN TULLY...TELL HIM TO GET IN TOUCH. THANKS

NAME: Robert Mann

EMAIL: rcmannjr@msn.com

FROM: Philadelphia, PA

Date: 28 Apr 2002

Time: 21:57:51


COMMENTS

I drove by your place today on the way to and from my Mom's home in East Lansdowne. I came across your
site looking for information on a funeral home which happened to have been used by the family of one of your
past members. I think of your organization fondly when I remember all the 4th of July concerts in front of
St.Cyril's church in East Lansdowne when I was a kid. I hope I can get out to Lansdowne for the 4th this year.
Thanks for the memories.




NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL: jleson@hotmail.com

FROM: Fairfax Station, VA

Date: 30 Apr 2002

Time: 18:44:31


COMMENTS

To The Entire Archer-Epler "Musketeers" Drum and Bugle Corps Membership: This year's "Brass Reunion,"
was a top rate production! Thanks for including The Yankee Rebels of Baltimore, MD. Our Corps appreciated
the use of the Post for practice and a good meal, and thanks the Archie Family for the warm hospitality and
such a fine venue for a truly outstanding drum corps show. Keep up the great work, and the Archie tradition of
being "The Grand Daddy of the Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps Movement."




NAME: LOUIE

EMAIL: csirrott@epix.net

FROM: The POCONOS

Date: 07 May 2002

Time: 19:46:05


COMMENTS

ARCHIE,you were great at GAS 2002. The corps gets better and better...keep up the good work. LOUIE




NAME: ROBERT HINSDALE

EMAIL: ROBBOYMSN.NET

FROM: SYRACUSE

Date: 11 May 2002

Time: 14:36:29


COMMENTS

CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY JIMMY MC CONKEY IS NOT IN THE HALL OF FAME????? AFTER TALKING
TO SO MANY HALL OF FAME MEMBERS WHOM ALL SAID THEY VOTED FOR HIM LAST YEAR AND
THEN NOTHING. SOMETHING IS WRONG. DO YOU AGREE? bob




NAME: Ralph (Beaver) McFarland

EMAIL: mcme@ix.netcom.com

FROM: Cherry Hill, NJ

Date: 15 May 2002

Time: 15:18:51


COMMENTS

Just wondering if anyone has any information about Bob O'Connor from Norristown who played bari and
marched with Archie in the late 50's and early 60's. Bob was a few years older than me but we marched
together in the Norristown Invaders before he went to Archie.




NAME: john[goose] bistline

EMAIL: p o box 1741

FROM: cedar city, ut 84721

Date: 15 May 2002

Time: 23:21:21


COMMENTS

stumbled here- 9/11 tribute looks great---like the site




NAME: Phil and Trudy Crouthamel

EMAIL: prcrout@aol.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 23 May 2002

Time: 16:31:18


COMMENTS

Hello to everyone. Just a note to let the Corps know, that two of its younger members will be visiting us from
active duty in the military. Brian, USMC, will be coming from Hawaii and Christopher, U.S. Army coming from
Ft. Hood, Tx. Christopher will be bring home a friend with him. His name is Everett Diaz, and I know everyone
will make him feel at home. And yes, they will be marching in Wildwood, NJ Elks Parade. Archie Family
forever!!!




NAME: Drew Kellas

EMAIL: imdrewsome@yahoo.com

FROM: Toronto - DCAT

Date: 24 May 2002

Time: 17:45:55


COMMENTS

Well Organized Site! What is the address of the rehearsal facility? Wouldn't mind dropping in while on vacation
sometime & couldn't find that here.

GAS once a year is just not often enough to get together.

See you all soon!




NAME: Gil Davidson

EMAIL: cgd3642@aol.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 29 May 2002

Time: 12:38:16


COMMENTS

Hello to all my fellow Mustketeers. I would like to take this time to thank all of you for the cards, phonecalls, and
well wishes during my recent saty in the Hospital. I wiil be seeing you all soon and back playing asap.

Thanks Again Gil AFO and OFA




NAME: MIKE CHARETTE

EMAIL: PETERBUILT48@AOL.COM

FROM: RHODE ISLAND

Date: 30 May 2002

Time: 09:09:26


COMMENTS

I USED TO HAVE A RECORD (33.5 ) OF THE MUSKETEERS . I THINK I BOUGHT IT IN THE LATE 60'S .I
LIKED THE QUEEN OF SHEBA MARCH. I ALSO PLAYED WITH SOME DRUM CORPS. MOST RECENTLY
WAS THE 1980 R.I.MATADORS. HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING SINCE.I HAVE NO TIME, GOT TO WORK YA
KNOW. IF I HAD THE RESOURCES I WOULD ATTEMPT TO GIVE IT A GO AGAIN.




NAME: Joe & Ursula Chizek

EMAIL: skylead@superior.net

FROM: Upstate NY

Date: 03 Jun 2002

Time: 23:00:22


COMMENTS

Ursula & I are deeply sadened to hear of the death of Gloria Roberts. We will always remember her warm
smile and cheerful laughter. Even though so far away, she will always be in our thoughts.




NAME: Frank Ferraro

EMAIL: FJFLEF@webtv.net

FROM: Wyomissing, Pennsylvania

Date: 05 Jun 2002

Time: 18:55:58


COMMENTS

Michael Vilardo passed away on June 4th,2002. He was 72 years old. He retired last October from Penn
Optical, where he had worked for 48 years. Mike was a member of the Reading Buccaneers and served as
vice-president and was a member of the Buccaneer Hall of Fame. Mike's work with the Buccaneer's was
managerial. There may be members of Arch Epler who remember Mike. He will be missed.




NAME: JIMMY MC CONKEY

EMAIL: MUSKEETEER@WEBTV.NET

FROM: SYRCUSE

Date: 08 Jun 2002

Time: 17:48:52


COMMENTS

I AM SHOCKED TO HEAR ABOUT GLORIA ROBERTS. SHE WAS ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE
PERSONS I HAVE EVER KNOWN. I WANTED SO MUCH TO SEE HER AGAIN. I WILL NEVER FORGET
YOU GLORIA, WHITEY AND CHILDREN, EDNA AND JULIE MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU.MY HEART IS
SO HEAVY WITH SADNESS DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY, GLORIA WAS AND IS THE BEST. SO
MANY WILL MISS HER, I WILL MISS HER. MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND HELP YOU OVER THIS
LOSS.ALWAYS JIMMY MC CONKEY




NAME: Mike Williams

EMAIL: mwilliams@keatingnet.com

FROM: Dover

Date: 13 Jun 2002

Time: 16:00:50


COMMENTS

Congratulations to Jim Cossetti for being elected into the Drum Corps Hall of Fame.




NAME: Al DiCarlo

EMAIL: jessie86@the-spa.com

FROM: Massachusetts

Date: 23 Jun 2002

Time: 21:39:18


COMMENTS




NAME: Jack T. Smith

EMAIL: cobbsmil@qwest.net

FROM: Chandler Arizona

Date: 28 Jun 2002

Time: 13:45:23


COMMENTS

Former member of the Vasella Musketeers from South Phila. and the Blue Lancers from Newtown Square and
fan of Archy. Spent a couple of years with the Connecticut Alumni in the early 90's




NAME: dr victor brown

EMAIL: drvicbrown@hkem.com

FROM: NIGERIA

Date: 12 Jul 2002

Time: 18:08:14


COMMENTS

I LOVE YOUR SITE PLEASE KEEP IT UP I SHALL TELL IN THE NIGERIAN NATONAL PETROLEUM
CORPORATION (NNPC) TO DO LIKE WISE MY REGARDS AND GOD BLESS VICTOR BROWN




NAME: Sue Hitchcock

EMAIL: suezqh@bellatlantic.net

FROM: Palmyra, NJ

Date: 17 Jul 2002

Time: 19:45:53


COMMENTS

Hi, I'm trying to get some quick info. I'd contacted Bill Ives via e-mail recently re: your schedule, and at that time
he invited me to come to the Post to hear the Corps practice. I invited a friend from U.Darby to come this
Friday (7/19), and she called to get details. The party who answered didn't sound like we could come, unless
we were sponsored by a VFW member. What's the deal? I e-mailed Bill the other day, but haven't heard back
yet. Can someone fill me in, so my friend and I can know if it's okay? Would love to hear the "raw" material of a
great, old corps that I haven't heard in many a moon. Thanks, whoever, for getting back to me. Sue Hitchcock
(suezqh@bellatlantic.net) (7/17)




NAME: SKEE DERR

EMAIL: buccaneers@att.net

FROM: Camp Hill PA

Date: 20 Jul 2002

Time: 22:28:20


COMMENTS

Subject: Madison Tickets > I have the following tickets available for Madison. First come first serve. 4
Quarter-Finals 4 Semi-Finals 2 Finals CALL: 717-730-2112 or e-mail




NAME: Tom Rimer

EMAIL: twr2244@aol.com

FROM: Verona PA

Date: 26 Jul 2002

Time: 15:51:40


COMMENTS

Archie was always one of my favorites. I spent 15 years with the Vern Acklin Cavaliers (The Verona Cavaliers
in later years) and always looked forward to the American Legion State contest so that I could see my favorite
class A corps - Acrher Epler. Nice website - keep up the good work.




NAME: Marlene (Miller) Brown

EMAIL: kmbrown1@msn.com

FROM: Bellmawr, NJ

Date: 29 Jul 2002

Time: 13:07:25


COMMENTS

What a pleasant surprise! I was on a search for Drum Corps pictures and found your site. Wouldn't it be nice if
we could do some of it over again!!! I enjoyed myself very much! Good luck!

NAME: Terrance Patrick Mc Aviney

EMAIL: tmcavine@countrywide.com

FROM: Chicago

Date: 31 Jul 2002

Time: 16:40:28


COMMENTS

I marched with the Seahorse Lancers of Brigantine in the early and mid 60s. These were some of the best
times of my life. I would like to hear from anyone who marched with the Lancers as well






NAME: Mary Lamb Ziegenfuss

EMAIL: Mzigg12@aol.com

FROM: Newtown Square, Pa

Date: 31 Jul 2002

Time: 17:35:32


COMMENTS

It is with sadness that I inform you that Bette Rae(Samuels) Carrea passed away on Monday, July 29, 2002.
Bette Rae was a former member of Archie's Junior corp and was active in the color guard and as a drum
major. She is the sister of Joan(Samuels) Lobb, wife of deceased Charlie Lobb. After a 9 mos. seige of illness
Bette Rae's strength could not hold out. She is survived by her husband "Teck", son Bradley, 2 daughters
Kendall and Raedine, 2 grandchildren, 2 greatgrandchildren, brother Jack Samuels and 2 sisters Ruth and
Joan. CONTRIBUTIONS: May be made to the Church of the Breathern, 3601 Garrett Rd., Drexel Hill, Pa.
She will be sadly missed by her family and friends.




NAME: Mike Williams

EMAIL: mwill1129@aol.com

FROM: Ambler,PA/Dover,DE,Upper Darby

Date: 08 Aug 2002

Time: 15:12:59


COMMENTS

Congratulations to Joe Schmids & Mike Snow for their pending induction as Associate Members of the HOF.

Way to go guys.......




NAME: Jim Henry

EMAIL: hspromise@comcast.net

FROM: Punta Gorda, Fl

Date: 23 Aug 2002

Time: 21:18:53


COMMENTS

I live now in Florida but was raised in Milwaukee, Wi. I marched as a kid with the Starlights and then with USAF
Acadamy Drum Corp. Some friends and I are attempting to organize a AF Acadamy Drum corp reunion. If you
or know of anyone interested please email or look us up at the DCA in Scranton Pa next weekend. Hope to
hear from as many buddies as we can.




NAME: Lynn Ogden

EMAIL: logden@prodigy.net

FROM: Seattle, WA

Date: 01 Sep 2002

Time: 18:31:29


COMMENTS

I marched with you guys from 1962 through 1966. It's good to see we are still alive and well. I say "we" because
once a Musketeer always a Musketeer. Greetings to Mark F. and Billy K. who may remember me.




NAME: Dick Foltz

EMAIL: Rfoltz1919@aol.com

FROM: Baltimore-Reilly Alumni

Date: 04 Sep 2002

Time: 15:00:33


COMMENTS

I am trying to locate Dick Turner, played with him in Liberty Bell and Archie




NAME: James Renry Sr.

EMAIL: hispromis@Comcast.net

FROM: Punta Gorda, Fl

Date: 06 Sep 2002

Time: 18:16:39


COMMENTS

Gteetings live now in Florida, but grew up in Wis. I started playing in a drum corp when at age 9. The Last corp
I played in was the USAF Acadamy Corp. Some of that corp and myself are attempting to orgiize a corp
reunion. If you Know of anyone that marched with the USAF Acadamy Corp, please have them contact me at
hispromise@comcast.net. We need a list of as many guys as we can get. Your help will be greatly
appreciated.




NAME: Robin Karpinski

EMAIL: rkarpi5562

FROM: Verona

Date: 10 Sep 2002

Time: 10:58:57


COMMENTS

Hello,

I am Walter(Mousie)Karpinski dauther in law.

I am sorry to annouce the passing of his wife Arlean Karpinski on Sunday September 8, 2002.

She was a very special lady, and my father in law asked me to let the good people at Archie know.

Please remember her and Walter in your prayers.

Robin Karpinski




NAME: Karpinski

EMAIL: rkarpi5562@aol.com

FROM: Verona

Date: 11 Sep 2002

Time: 13:29:36


COMMENTS

Arlean Karpinski:

Services will be from 2-4 & 7-9 on Tuesday 9/11 @ Gleason Funeral Home - 1360 Hamilton Street Somerset
NJ, 08837 / Tel: 732-545-0700

Funeral: Thursday 9/12 - Mass @ 10:30 St. Mathais JFK BLVD Somerset, NJ




NAME: Bill Ives

EMAIL: Ivesbill@aol.com

FROM: Archie Corps Historian

Date: 26 Sep 2002

Time: 23:12:01


COMMENTS

Here is an update to the Mini Reunion on Oct 27th. By now most of you have received a postcard from me. If
not it means I do not have a good address for you or the post Office lost it. However I am trying to call as many
people as I can to say Hi and see how you are doing. So far I have over 50 people that have said yes. See if
any of your friends are on the list as follows: Arnst Jenny Bacher Jim Boone Jim Brennan Tom Brennan Karen
Carney Bob Carney Jeanie Carter George Cavallo John Conway John Curley George Dennis Jeff Deprinzio
Lonna Fitzpatrick Dan Flowers John ? Gairo John Garrett Denny Growcutt Carm Growcutt George Hess Grady
Hildebrand George Hines John Kealy Tom Kealy Mary Konowal Bill Lanutti Linda Lawler Bill Lawler Kathleen
Leson Joel ? McQuiston Tom ? McQuiston Cathy ? Mellon Betty Owens Bob Patton Betty Russo Tony
Schmids Bill Simmons Steve Smith Joe Spangler Lloyd Sproles Jim Kiki Bird Templin Rich Weidman Bill
Welsh Harry Woflinger Laura Wolfinger Scott ? Ziegenfuss Mary

and there are many more that said they will try to make it. However since I have a number of bad addresses
and phone numbers, please email me if know someone and would like to see if I do have correct info. At this
time it looks like I will have about 70 to 80 people. We will have plenty of food and drink all at no cost to you.

Please come out and see friends and remember some good ole'days

There will be a big screen tv so we really enjoy the videos without having to squint through our bifocals (
meaning me ).

I hope to see you on the 27th.

Yours truly Bill Ives Corps Historian




NAME: John Duly

EMAIL: duly1@bellsouth.net

FROM: Atlanta Georgia (Archie 56-64)

Date: 02 Oct 2002

Time: 16:12:12


COMMENTS

Just found the web page, and have enjoyed reading the various posts in the questbook




NAME: ED THOMAS

EMAIL: EDDRUMS@EARTHLINK.NET

FROM: DARBY, PA.

Date: 02 Oct 2002

Time: 20:16:55


COMMENTS

THANKS FOR A GREAT WEB PAGE. I WAS LOOKING UP THE CABS AND WONDERING IF THERE
WERE STILL SR CORPS PLAYING GREAT MUSIC. I LEARNED THAT THE CABS AND ARCHIE ARE
BACK IN BUSINESS AGAIN PLAYING THE OLD GREAT MUSIC OF THE PAST AND NOT TRYING TO
PLAY VIOLIN MUSIC ON A TRUMPET. THE LAST SHOW I SAW WITH ARCHIE WAS IN MILTON, CONN.
THEY DID NOT WIN BUT THEY PUT ON A GREAT SHOW WITH GREAT MUSIC. SPEAK LOW, STARS & S,
AND OTHER GREAT TUNES. I STILL HAVE A RECORD OF THE CORPS PLAYING GREAT MUSIC. I WILL
ALWAYS REMEMBER THE SHOW IN CONN WHERE WHEN THE SHOW OF OVER AND THE CORPS
PASSED IN REVIEW, ARCHIE WAS THE LAST TO PUSH OFF. THE SOUND, THE VOLUME, THE LIFE
AND SPIRIT WILL ALWAYS REMAIN WITH ME. I PLAYED WITH MC CALL POST FROM 38 TO 42 WITH
BUD JOHNSON, HERBIE AND OTHERS. I DID NOT PLAY AFTER THE WAR BUT ATTENDED MANY
GREAT SHOWS IN THE NORTH JERSEY AREA WHERE MY CHILDREN WERE MEMBER OF THE
MUCHACHOES. I AM THRILLED THAT THE CIRCLE HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE OLD GUYS ARE
BACH ENJOYING THEMSELVES. THANKS AGAIN FOR BRINGING BACK GREAT MEMORIES.

NAME: Chuck Moran

EMAIL: weirdmo2@yahoo.com

FROM: Cockeysville,Md.

Date: 03 Oct 2002

Time: 02:52:22


COMMENTS

Chuck Moran here. Just could never find the right words to thank you all for the kindness you showed when my
son died and later when Jackie died. My perimeter is secure, but is still not part of the world. Let Weedies
know that I still remember the French Horn part to Fairest Of the Fair.




NAME: Dave Mayer

EMAIL: dm53512@navix.net

FROM: Plattsmouth, Nebraska

Date: 03 Oct 2002

Time: 10:42:48


COMMENTS

St Kevin Emerald Knights 1953 - 1958 USAF Academy Drum And Bugle Corps 1959 - 1971




NAME: ales sawello

EMAIL: asawello@aol.com

FROM:

Date: 04 Oct 2002

Time: 01:20:54


COMMENTS




NAME: Phyllis Bistline

EMAIL: phyllis_bistline@qvc.com

FROM:

Date: 04 Oct 2002

Time: 12:34:03


COMMENTS

It's hard to believe October is here already! Well, our October is very full with exciting events like the Haverford
Day parade, East Lansdowne Fire Truck housing and Unionville. We're going to cap off the month with a really
cool reunion that Bill Ives has been working tirelessly on. If you're around, please stop by....it will be an
afternoon that you won't soon forget. And maybe, just maybe, you'll get the itch to play again. We could really
use YOU. YOU will make a difference to this corps. As time goes on, it's harder to keep things going...but we're
all giving it our best. Won't you reconsider coming out again? We don't do too many parades, but the ones we
do are a blast. Think about it, would you? See you in October.




NAME: John Duly

EMAIL: duly@aol.com

FROM: cyberspace

Date: 05 Oct 2002

Time: 06:59:39


COMMENTS

This to the keeper of the site. Would it be possible to put the most current post at the top as you do on the
Personal note page. This would make it easier to get to the new posts without having to scroll through
hundreds of previous posts.




NAME: LOIS TIERNO

EMAIL: LOISWT@AOL.COM

FROM:

Date: 10 Oct 2002

Time: 08:38:56


COMMENTS

Hope to see you all at the reunion.




NAME: John Hines

EMAIL: snapon4u@aol.com

FROM:

Date: 10 Oct 2002

Time: 23:49:38


COMMENTS




NAME: Jack Philp

EMAIL: hjphilp@comcast.net

FROM: Egg Harbor Township, N.J.

Date: 13 Oct 2002

Time: 19:50:08


COMMENTS

Just finished going thru many many comments listed here about Archie of old I marched with Archie from 60 or
61 tipp 65 and have never spent a more happier time marching with any other group than the Musketeers. Will
never forget the great times we had together. Also agree that corps today don't thrill me like the corps of old,
but still think they are great and go to Harrisburg every year and also D.C.A when i can. Remember few years
ago when i attended the Harrisburg show and saw Archie and another time when i heard Mighty St. Joes.Still
I'm a Musketeer before now and always will be. My congradulations to the people that keep the memories of
Archie alive, and i also agree Jimmy was one of the best but most of all always remember looking for Rip to let
us know after a contest if we won or not.Talked to Bud Bonello the other day and we are going up to the minny
reunion in Oct. Hope to see some of you there God bless Archie




NAME: John Duly

EMAIL: duly1@bellsouth.net

FROM: Atlanta ,GA

Date: 21 Oct 2002

Time: 19:28:04


COMMENTS

Who remembers the thrill of performing anexhibition at the American Legion convention in Atlantic city after
being disqualified 1n 1957, performing on stage at Carnegie Hall, doing a studio recording in New York,
playing at the Winter Carnival in Quebec Canada, Flying Dick Filkins up from Florida on weekends to play in
the drum line. If you remember, then you must be an old fart.




NAME: RayFallon

EMAIL: rayvfallon@hotmail.com

FROM: Boston

Date: 22 Oct 2002

Time: 06:46:37


COMMENTS

Hi guys...the Reunion sounds great...wish I could make it, but I have to work. Hope things are going well, and
hope to see you soon. -Ray




NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL: jleson@hotmail.com

FROM: Fairfax Station, VA

Date: 23 Oct 2002

Time: 19:26:15


COMMENTS

To John Duly; I remember the Winter Carnival in Quebec City, in Feb 63. Big Jack Werner and the Pierce
brothers singing in the back of the bus. We were put up at the new Holy Cross Hospital and slept on
mattresses that were still in their paper wrappers. The Purdue University Marching Band,Hawthorne and the
Yankee Rebels were there with us, with "Wild Bill" Hooton as the 'Rebels' drum major, with his white beret, dark
glassess, knitted carnival sash, and the speech that he gave in French.The wooden boards that covered the
ice hockey rink that we marched on. I recall recording that record in NYC,singing "Musketeers" on the last
groove. Names like Froberg, Newman, Goettel, Reilly, Bernert, Ferreira, DeMarco, Flansberg, Roberts, Welch,
Bartolemei, Sharpe, Mathias, Hildebrand, Wolf, Castor, Kaufman, Keeley, Deegan and so it goes. What a
bunch...They don't come any better than that...See you at the reunion on Sunday. Joel.




NAME: Phyllis

EMAIL:

FROM:

Date: 28 Oct 2002

Time: 10:27:59


COMMENTS

Bill, You did an outstanding job at the reunion yesterday. It was well attended and everyone seemed to be
having a really good time catching up. This is all due to your efforts and as a close friend and fellow corps
member, I wanted to thank you. Your tireless efforts and 'gift of gab' made this possible and I think everyone
who has ever marched in this fine organization thanks you in the same manner. You're the best rifle spinning,
bass drum banging, corps historian I know!!!!!




NAME: Jack Philp

EMAIL: hjphilp@comcast.netEgg Harbor Township, N.J.

FROM: Egg Harbor Township, N.J.

Date: 28 Oct 2002

Time: 14:04:04


COMMENTS

Just wanted to say to everyone that worked on the reunion yesterday that I for one had one of the greatest
times meeting all the old guys that played in the corp in the 60's. Also I still get tears in the eyes when the
present corp played our music. Even saw george playing and crying at the same time. What a great bunch of
people. It's a day i'll never forget. Thanks to you all. Bill and Mark you guys did a helluva job. Long live Archie!!!




NAME: Chuck Smith

EMAIL: carolesmith@enter.net

FROM: Pittsburgh Rockets - Archer Epler

Date: 28 Oct 2002

Time: 20:15:14


COMMENTS

It was a Great Reunion!!!

Thanks Bill Ives and everyone who helped, I can only imagine how much work it was to organize all that
memorabilia, uniforms, vidio tapes etc. etc.

I enjoyed singing the old songs. We don¹t sing much around the A.E. Post any more. (All the good tenors are
gone!)

Here, for Kenny Newman, are the words for the Winter Song. Big Jack Werner wrote them up for the
³Musketeer Monthly² back in the Œ60¹s. So memorise these for the next reunion!

All for One, and One for All! Chuck Smith ------------------- WINTER SONG:

Ho, a song by the fire, with a chum by your side alt.ver. Ho, a song by the fire, with a chum by your side Ho, a
song by the fire, with a chum by your side

Ho, a song by the fire , pass the pipes, pass the bowl. Ho, a song by the fire, with a skoal, with a skoal, Ho, a
song by the fire, pass the pipes, pass the bowl with a skoal!

For the wolf-wind is wailing at the doorways; And the snow drifts deep along the road; And the ice -gnomes are
marching for their Norways; And the great white cold walks abroad__. Zum, zum, zum, zum, zum, zum, zum; But
here by the fire we defy frost and storm; Ha-ha, we are warm, and we have our hearts¹ desire. For here we¹re
good fellows, And the beechwood and the bellows, And the cup is at the lip, In the pledge of fellowship..... of
fellowship.




NAME: Richard O.Greaves

EMAIL: Rogconstab@aol.com

FROM: Princeman Chrous,Bsn

Date: 28 Oct 2002

Time: 23:28:25


COMMENTS




NAME: Kathleen Lawler

EMAIL: kthlawler@aol.com

FROM: Archie

Date: 29 Oct 2002

Time: 17:55:58


COMMENTS

Congrats and thanks to Bill Ives and all those who worked so very hard to make the reunion happen. It was a
great time...and great to see so many old (OK, maybe old is the wrong word!) faces. As we all know, once you
step into that backroom all of the memories come flooding back. And, then with all of Bill's memorabilia, it was
like walking through history. And all of the lies that were being told around the bar. If only we were all as great
as we have become.


NAME: Joel Leson

EMAIL: jleson@hotmail.com

FROM: Fairfax Station, VA

Date: 30 Oct 2002

Time: 20:08:21


COMMENTS

Archie's Reunion was everything you would want in such an event, and then some. We sang the old songs, led
by none other than Rip Bernert and Louie Scirrotto. To see Kenny Newman, Bob Castor, Chuck Smith, George
Hildebrand, Joe Ledwith, Bill Lawler, and so many others from when I was a very young "Musketeer," was a
special thrill. Bill Ives deserves all of the accolades that we can send his way. Congratulations to all of the
current corps members for going out of your way to welcome all of us back. I know John Bartolimei, Tony
Ferreira, Harry Matthias, Jack Werner, Jack Reilly, Jack Keeley, and Vince Deegan were smiling down on this
event from "That Big Drum Corps in The Sky," and telling each other, "They're doing it up just right down there!"
Thanks to all who came out. It was a get together I'll never forget. Joel




NAME: Ken Newman

EMAIL:

FROM: Memory Lane

Date: 31 Oct 2002

Time: 08:32:05


COMMENTS

What a great day!! Kudos to all responsible. Meeting old (and new) friends,singing the old songs, drinking
many toasts to the past, and (hic) future is what drum corps life is, and always was, about. Thanks for all of the
memories. AFO and OFA. ...................... PS. Thanks Chuck, it's always good to have your unwavering
guidance.




NAME: Dan Goettel

EMAIL: dgoettel@aol.com

FROM: Philadelphia: Nephew of Dan Goettel

Date: 31 Oct 2002

Time: 17:58:40


COMMENTS

Excellent website. It was great to see my uncle mentioned as one of the key members. My Dad, Richard
Goettel played in the Corps also.

Thanks for keeping it alive.




NAME: Mary (Lamb) Ziegenfuss

EMAIL: MZigg12@aol.com

FROM: Newtown Square, Pa

Date: 03 Nov 2002

Time: 19:17:34


COMMENTS

CONGRATULATIONS TO Bill Ives,Mark, the girls who set up the delicious food and all the Alumnie Committee
for all their time and effort put into the great Archie Reunion. It was a delightful day spent with so many old time
friends. Some of you were not aware but we had some members who went back as far as 1934, 1936 and
1938 the original Junior Corp. Nice to see Tom Tempelton, Bill Knowlton, Jimmy Logue and Lloyd Spangler.
Not to forget some members of the early Senior Corp. Tom Sylvester, John Covallo, Norm Albright, Tom
Cassidy, John Garro and Rip to name a few. There is no friends like the old friends. Keep the memories
coming. Keep up the good work and THANKS AGAIN for all your hard work and lasting memories. Hope we
are all around for the next one. God Bless.




NAME: Steve Fagiano

EMAIL: sfagiano@hotmail.com

FROM: Chicago Illinois

Date: 10 Nov 2002

Time: 22:35:39


COMMENTS

Hello Musketeers Great to see your web page on line. surfed in from DCW. Boy the memories your Corps
brings back. Went to a Corps show this summer here in the midwest & met someone who marched w/ Archie
& St. Vincents Cadets. Boy what a guy he was. Please come to my web page @
http://www.FagianoDrums.com & sign in & hook up w/ the Chicago Royal-Airs web page. Dipsy Doodle what a
Corps. Take Care

Steve Fagiano Royal-Airs Snare 65-02 USMC 68-69




NAME: Jim Lutz

EMAIL: papalutz@attbi.com

FROM: Lt. Norman Prince D& B Corps

Date: 12 Nov 2002

Time: 11:35:31


COMMENTS

Nice site........good luck all!




NAME: Bill IVES

EMAIL: IVESBILL@AOL.COM

FROM: Archie / Historian

Date: 17 Nov 2002

Time: 19:07:12


COMMENTS

Bob Carney's mother passed away on Tuesday Nov 12th. The service will be held on Monday the 18th from 11
til 1 at the James J Terry Funeral Home 736 E. Lancaster Ave in Downingtown Pa




NAME: Catherine Brownholtz

EMAIL: cbrownholt@aol.com

FROM: Germantown, Philadelphia

Date: 06 Dec 2002

Time: 21:07:28


COMMENTS

Hope to march in the Yardley Christmas Parade on Saturday, December 14, 2002. I'm heading to the post to
get my uniform tonight!

Caterina




NAME: Carsten Achilles

EMAIL: carsten.achilles@starriders.de

FROM: germany

Date: 22 Dec 2002

Time: 02:51:55


COMMENTS

Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

Carsten Achilles

www.starriders.de

2003- In the House of Jazz

2003

NAME: Richard Baxter
EMAIL: richardbaxterdrums@yahoo.com
FROM: VANIER,ONTARIO,CANADA(613)742-7681
Date: 09 Jan 2003
Time: 03:55:42
COMMENTS

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NAME: Ken Newman
EMAIL:
FROM: hunger
Date: 09 Jan 2003
Time: 08:36:51
COMMENTS

Got this note yesterday,wanted to pass it along

Fran Burke is in Bayshore Medical Center....has suffered several mini strokes...further testing awaits course of action.....

Bayshore Medical Center 727 N. Beer Street Holmdel, NJ 07733

Room # 431A bedside phone....732-739-5854

NAME: Phil and Trudy Crouthamel
EMAIL: prcrout@aol.com
FROM: Archie
Date: 17 Jan 2003
Time: 19:58:41
COMMENTS

We would like to ask everyone to keep in your thoughts our sons, Christopher and Brian. They are both serving in the military, Chris is in the Army and Brian is in the Marines. On Tuesday, Jan, 14th, Chris was deployed to the Persian Gulf region, and Brian cntinues on deployment in Okinawa, Japan. In 1990-91, Phil was sent to the Persian Gulf in the first Iraq war. Let's hope that this time, our children will not have to send THEIR children to this area. If you wish to write to them, their addresses are at the end of this message. They would appreciate any contact with the Corps members and friends. Thank you one and all.

SP4 Christopher Crouthamel ATTN: Alpha Company/62nd Engineer Battalion AO-AE 09366

CPL Brian Crouthamel S&H COMPANY-SUPPLY 2ND BN/3RD MARINES UNIT 44413 FPO-AP 96607-413

NAME: billy rieker
EMAIL: ltrieker@comcast.net
FROM: Gloucester
Date: 18 Jan 2003
Time: 01:04:05
COMMENTS

I'm in archie i play bass drum

NAME: Bill DeSales
EMAIL: crbill2000@yahoo.com
FROM: Jersey City, NJ
Date: 21 Jan 2003
Time: 15:43:21
COMMENTS

Greetings to Archie - wonderful site to find not long ago. Great to see you keeping the activity alive in the 'purist' sense. DC as we know it seems to be fading with the convergence of band/dc styles and equipment - will be a shame to see the G bugles fade into history. G horns make the sound we all love - love bands as well , but not the convergence a la DCI and soon to be DCA.

Archie always put on some of the top musical shows of the era - no one matched Wolf for marches. My all time favorite is a Stet Richmond tape of Archie at Hershey in July 1979 - it defines what DC is all about ( power - majesty - pure enjoyment ). Thanks for the many memories.

NAME: Harry Sharp
EMAIL: atlastwedidit@aol.com
FROM: Hollywood, Fl.
Date: 31 Jan 2003
Time: 08:35:26
COMMENTS

I'd bet the farm that Bill DeSales is referring to the show at Hershey in 1959 not 1979. I was there, in the drumline andI too remember the power and majesty of those marches. Being on the field with Archer Epler was one of the greatest thrills you could ever imagine!!!!!!!!!

NAME: Siglow
EMAIL: newyorkskyliner@attbi.com
FROM: Beaver, Pa.
Date: 01 Feb 2003
Time: 22:48:35
COMMENTS

Just want to say "hi" to everyone. Am looking forward to seeing everyone at the Brass Reunion. And I'm tickled pink that you'll be coming out her to my new home and performing at Steel City's show on April 26th. I hope to be able to perform with you at both your show and ours, and Elayne and I are discussing the Elks Convention in Wildwood this year. She'll be finished with Nursing school by then and the mini-vaction will do us both some good.

In Drum Corps, Siglow

NAME: TOM BAMBRICK
EMAIL: TOMBAM4@AOL.COM
FROM: BSGK 1949-1959
Date: 24 Feb 2003
Time: 18:33:13
COMMENTS

PASSING OF JOE PORTA - THOUGHT ALL THE GROUP IN PHILLY/SOUTH JERSEY WOULD WANT TO KNOW THAT JOE PORTA BSGK PASSED AWAY 2/16/03

SPANISH JOE NEVER DID ANYTHING UNIQUE OTHER THAN TO DRUM WITH SOME OF THE BEST !! LOW PROFILE NEVER AN INDIVIDUAL BUT AALWAYS A GOOD TEAM PLAYER !!

KENNY NEWMAN-IF YOU COULD INFORM DICK FILKINS AM SURE HE WOULD WANT TO KNOW

JOE WAS MY FRIEND !!

NAME: Al McFadden
EMAIL: hooligan6@msn.com
FROM: Albuquerque, NM
Date: 03 Mar 2003
Time: 15:59:19
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NAME: Carol Ann Fallon
EMAIL:
FROM: 22 South Street, Exeter, N.H. 03833
Date: 03 Mar 2003
Time: 18:30:31
COMMENTS

Just wanted to say HELLO to everyone.... I seem to be in a different world at present, but Please know that I think of you all often and wish you all the happiness in the world. It was hard reading this site and finding out so much sad news .... It was like finding out that members of my family have been sick, and some even died. Please enjoy each moment of your lives .... I have been doing good... working for the State Police in New Hampshire, and trying to keep up with my busy children who are spread across the USA. I have been enjoying life and doing a bit of traveling... I will have to keep closer tabs on this site and the updates... I miss you all!

NAME: Tom Jecelin
EMAIL: t.jecelin@worldnet.att.net
FROM: Baltimore, Md.
Date: 07 Mar 2003
Time: 21:21:02
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NAME: Lloyd Spangler
EMAIL: lwsrms53@aol.com
FROM: Media , PA
Date: 13 Mar 2003
Time: 20:05:42
COMMENTS

I became amember of the corps in 1937 at the age of 12 and was in the horn section that won the first national championship in 1938. George Ritchie and Walt Fuller are my mentors. I hope noone ever forgets their contribution. I am now 77 , still playing, Will never forget the corps. Lloyd Spangler

NAME: Susan Palmer Bannon
EMAIL: Mssusyq@aol.com
FROM: Philly
Date: 13 Mar 2003
Time: 21:01:39
COMMENTS

My father, Joe Palmer was a member back in the 50's and 80's. My brother is Greg Palmer, also a current member. I have always been a fan of drum corps. Go get em Archie!!!

NAME: Susan Palmer Bannon
EMAIL: Mssusyq@aol.com
FROM: Philly
Date: 13 Mar 2003
Time: 21:06:32
COMMENTS

My nephew Jason Palmer is also with Archie. Couldn't forget him.

NAME: Carsten Achilles
EMAIL: carsten.achilles@starriders.de
FROM: Bad Muender / Germany
Date: 18 Mar 2003
Time: 04:09:23
COMMENTS

Greetings from Starriders Drum & Bugle Corps (Bad Muender/Germany)

Carsten www.starriders.de

NAME: John Bartch
EMAIL: jrbatch2@hotmail.com
FROM: Philadelphia
Date: 18 Mar 2003
Time: 08:27:59
COMMENTS

I was an avid Archie fan in the 60's but somehow lost touch. Played with Norristown Invaders in the 50's and US Air Force Drum Corps @ Lackland AFB, Texas in 1964. Not playing anymore but still enjoying the activity.

NAME: Ken Newman
EMAIL:
FROM: Hunger
Date: 18 Mar 2003
Time: 11:27:50
COMMENTS

Just a note to say that Tommy Kealey is doing much better. Surgery was not necessary, and he will probably be releasrd from the hospital later in the week. He will probably take a while to recover so any cards would , I'm sure, be appreciated Thanks Ken Newman

NAME: andrew jameson
EMAIL: andrewjameson_54@mail.com
FROM: nigeria
Date: 18 Mar 2003
Time: 21:42:35
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NAME: Phil and Trudy Crouthamel
EMAIL: prcreality@comcast.net
FROM: Archie
Date: 18 Mar 2003
Time: 21:45:53
COMMENTS

An Update: Our son, Brian, has returned to his home station in Hawaii. He will hopefully be joining us in Wildwood this year. He is looking forward to marching with us again this year. Our son, Christopher is currently in Kuwait waiting for the word. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. His address is posted earlier on the site. Thanks. Phil and Trudy

NAME: Shari (Buruschkin) Kuzel
EMAIL: slkuzel@optonline.net
FROM: Mine Hill NJ
Date: 20 Mar 2003
Time: 20:10:24
COMMENTS

Marched in Archie from 1992-1998. Even marched when I was pregnant with my 1st child. (thanks Phil for having the ambulance at the ready). Great site, I miss you all hope to see you all soon. Love Shari

NAME: Carole Peidl
EMAIL: Macarole57@aol.com
FROM: Satsuma, FL
Date: 24 Mar 2003
Time: 18:12:54
COMMENTS

My brother William (Bill) Wiedman was a member for years. His daughter, Phyllis is still an active member. I find the site interesting.

NAME: Phil Voelker
EMAIL: philv@mfe.bz
FROM: Baltimore
Date: 26 Mar 2003
Time: 11:14:32
COMMENTS

Thank you for your "personal" notes. I was shocked to learn of so many departed friends. One which affected me most was the passing of Gloria Roberts. Whitey and Gloria always shared a special spot in my loving memories of Drum & Bugle Corps. I was especially fond of them and wish to convey my condolances to Whitey and their family. If you would respond with an email and give me Whitey's address, I would like to send a Mass Card, yes, even one year later. Thank You!

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol
FROM: Gloucester,NJ
Date: 09 Apr 2003
Time: 21:03:20
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Thanks Bob for a top-shelf website for a TOP-SHELF CORPS! Diana and I have enjoyed playing and marching with a fantastic group of people over the past ten years.I hope that Archie stays around for another 30 or 40 years so that I may see the 100th anniversary of the drum corps. Thanks to Jim Cossetti, Ray Fallon, Marc Fulcomer, Mike Snow, Gene Bunting, Bob and Robbie Ellis, Bill Ives, Ed Byrne, and Vince D'Augustino for many Friday evenings at the post that I will never forget! Fun times had by all. Would never have met Diana if I had said to Mike Williams, "No, I'm not interested in playing a damn bugle!" way back in 1993. Ten years has flown buy so fast. Thanks once again! Tony

NAME: Terry prosba
EMAIL: tprosba@sgi.net
FROM: Pittsburgh Rockets 1959 thru 1972
Date: 14 Apr 2003
Time: 09:59:46
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NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester, NJ
Date: 14 Apr 2003
Time: 22:54:55
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Hello everyone! Just wanted to say great job to the entire drum corps for the Brass Reunion show this past Saturday. Thanks to Greg Palmer for being a royal pain in the a**!! Nice job rookie! Our drumline sounded like the drumlines of the past. LOUD, but well drummed by Dennis and company, as usual. Thanks to Duke for getting the hornline to play very well. Hope the crowd liked the show because this bugler did. Welcome aboard to my students from GHS Band, Billy, Drew, and Dave.See what playing in a real drum corps is like! Also want to let the corps know that another Gloucester bandsman is joining us in the drumline. Welcome aboard Bill Wames on quads. I'm sure he is going to learn from Jim Capra and John Bistline real fast! I'll check in again after our trip to Pittsburgh on 04/26. Thanks again. Tony

NAME: meshriver
EMAIL: meshriver@msn.com
FROM: schnecksville, PA
Date: 15 Apr 2003
Time: 10:09:49
COMMENTS

Can you tell me if there are any homemade cleaners for cleaning cymbols and the heads of drums?

NAME: Greg Palmer
EMAIL: gmusketeer@aol.com
FROM: Willow Grove, Pa.
Date: 15 Apr 2003
Time: 15:31:16
COMMENTS

I like to thank all the people who made the 2003 Brass Reunion a big success. To all the helpers we counldn't have run the show without you. I like to especially thank Mike Snow for his guidance, Bill Ives for a wonderful book and help during the show. Ken and Jason who at the last moment ran lights and sound. Special thanks to Tony Brown for his work running outside ops its was great knowing everything was being taken care of without me having to even ask him to do anything the whole day. And thank you to Bob Herre for running inside ops and taking care of everything that was asked of him. Thank you all for making my "rookie" year as Chairman a fun time. AFO & OFA

NAME: FIREBELL
EMAIL: FIREBELL199@AOL
FROM: ARCHIE
Date: 23 Apr 2003
Time: 09:08:27
COMMENTS

JUST A NOTE TO TONY BROWN.GOOD JOB AT THE SHOW. I HEARD YOU OUTSIDE TALKING TO YOURSELF, SAYING AM I AM MUMMER (WHO PLAYS DRUMS) OR AM I IN THE BUGLE CORPS. DID I UNDERSTAND YOU WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE LOUD DRUMS. I COULDN'T HERE THE BANJOS OVER THE LOUD DRUM LINE. ONLY KIDDING TONY, YOU ARE THE GREATEST. THE GREATEST WHAT I DON'T KNOW. HAVE A GOOD TIME IN PITTSBURG. YOUR FRIEND BOB

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester, NJ
Date: 27 Apr 2003
Time: 16:34:36
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just checking in after our nearly 24 hour adventure to Steel City's first indoor show. Had a great time getting up close and personal with my fellow corps members on the bus! Ha,Ha! The show went well for all the organizations participating. The food served at the school and at the FD was excellent for drum corps fare. Nice job Steel City Alumni! See you all at GAS next weekend. Regards, Tony

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester,NJ
Date: 06 May 2003
Time: 19:59:31
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just want to drop a line to let you hear about the GAS Reunion this past weekend. Archie was well represented the entire weekend. The corps performed FIRST at the quasi show on Saturday MORNING. Some cobwebs to shake out from the previous evening's BEER BASH. Thanks to the Skyliners Alumni for hosting once again! Thanks Carol T. for summing up a great new catch phrase for going on FIRST! Thanks Diana C. for keeping the minutes up to date. Thanks to Robbie E. for keeping all of us entertained on Friday nite. Thanks LM for not showing up. If you missed this one, you missed some great food at the banquet on Saturday nite. We had to wait a LONG time for our desert, but it was worth the wait, wink, wink! Thanks to Marc Fulcomer for being a good sport. Do you still need a towel? Hope to see all of you at rehearsal on Friday nite. Tony

NAME: Phil and Trudy Crouthamel
EMAIL: prcreality@comcast.net
FROM: Archie
Date: 13 May 2003
Time: 00:06:01
COMMENTS

Just a note to thank all who donated items to be sent to our son Chris, who is currently serving in Southern Iraq. A special thanks to the Bon-Bon Ladies who donated 67 lbs of items to be shipped. Again, thank you all.

Phil and Trudy

NAME: Kim Costello
EMAIL: kcoste4914@aol.com
FROM: Conshohocken
Date: 19 May 2003
Time: 13:34:15
COMMENTS

I am looking for information on how to hire your organization to participate in a competition marching parade with my fire company. Please send me contact information as soon as possible.

Very nice web site, informative. Enjoyed the pictures and background.

Thank you

NAME: Marcello
EMAIL: inventario@deconinformatica.com.br
FROM: Brasil
Date: 19 May 2003
Time: 15:16:45
COMMENTS

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EMAIL:
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Date: 19 May 2003
Time: 15:18:46
COMMENTS

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NAME: John Whitelam
EMAIL: nhojw@comcast.net
FROM: Gibbstown,N.J.
Date: 26 May 2003
Time: 19:01:55
COMMENTS

I played a horn in the corps in 57,58,59,&60.Big Jack Werner,Buddy Binello(Mr.Clean)& I made up a 700# rank of baritone horns & we were clean.My time in the corps Big Jack & I were always together.Joe Bernert was in our rank some of the time.Other times it would be Vince Deegan.Power!!!!

NAME: william wickert
EMAIL: bill.w@plasticlumberyard.com
FROM: george clay fire company
Date: 29 May 2003
Time: 09:12:21
COMMENTS

we have your band booked for july 21st i am very anxious to here your band do you know how many you will be lining up with? our practice is june 5th can you let me know by then so i caN TELL MY TROOPS? BILL

NAME: Marcello
EMAIL: inventario@deconinformatica.com.br
FROM: Brasil
Date: 29 May 2003
Time: 15:45:28
COMMENTS

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NAME: Marcello
EMAIL: inventario@deconinformatica.com.br
FROM: Brasil
Date: 30 May 2003
Time: 16:26:02
COMMENTS

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NAME: Diana Cottrell
EMAIL: Shebari3@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester, NJ
Date: 31 May 2003
Time: 16:25:56
COMMENTS

Nice website! Great job Big Horn Bob! See you all at Elks weekend. Diana

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester,NJ
Date: 01 Jun 2003
Time: 17:53:10
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Our annual ELKS weekend is fast approaching. We hope that the weather will co-operate with us this year as it did last year. Just a reminder to pack your corps jacket and or a sweat shirt because you know how it can be at Wildwood this early in June! We anticipate a great turnout for the entire weekend. We will have our traditional "Around the Pool" rehearsal on Friday nite. Hey people from the other corps, stop by and bring your horn or drum. Hope to see you all there. Saturday will be parade day with our BBQ following. Food and drink (BEER) available upon request. Let's have a great weekend and have some fun! Tony

NAME: marcello
EMAIL: inventario@deconinformatica.com.br
FROM: Brasil
Date: 03 Jun 2003
Time: 15:23:21
COMMENTS

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NAME: Chuck Moran
EMAIL: weirdmo2@yahoo.com
FROM: Cockeysville,Md.
Date: 04 Jun 2003
Time: 00:25:22
COMMENTS

Who is this Marcello guy? Hi to everyone, think about you guys often. Still trying to work things out.

NAME: bill / boomer
EMAIL: bill.w@plasticlumberyard.com
FROM: geo clay fire company
Date: 04 Jun 2003
Time: 12:16:17
COMMENTS

mark while reviewing an old state convention parade in norristown we seen you and are very excited to have you march with us in bryn mawr on "june 21st" we will have our first practice on thursday and i plan on having everyone come back to the fire company to view the tape we did not get to see very much but what we saw we liked i will keep you posted i also was going over your web page and am pleased to tell you that it is very imformative and well planned the pic's are very nice and the other links are great io will keep you posted Bill

NAME: Siglow
EMAIL: newyorkskyliner@attbi.com
FROM: Beaver, Pa.
Date: 04 Jun 2003
Time: 16:33:50
COMMENTS

Looking forward to this coming weekend in Wildwood. Elayne and I should be arriving sometime Friday afternoon. REALLY looking forward to the "gathering at the pool" Friday night.

NAME: nate harrell
EMAIL: harrellnate@verizon.net
FROM: rachie contra section
Date: 09 Jun 2003
Time: 18:02:54
COMMENTS

to my family in archie ,you mean so much to me because you have aways been there for me when I needed so to be close to, when I,m with everyone I,m in another world that I love so much . I don,t want to use no name because I love you the same, I,ll will never leave archie , unless the lord see different. nate

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester,NJ
Date: 09 Jun 2003
Time: 23:25:30
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just want to fill everbody in on our yearly trip to NJ Elks. Rain,alot of it. But we didn't let it wash us away. Our "around the pool" rehearsal went very well. I have a few new ideas about that event for the future, but I'll talk about this past weekend first. It was nice to see some of the "old crowd" Friday nite. Thanks for stopping bye and sitting in with us. Saturday started off bad and just got worse as the day went by. The parade started off at noon as usual in a light rain. As Blessed Sacrament passed 25th St., it really opened up! Hey BS, you guys must have been drowning, but you sounded great! I was hoping to hear Baltimore and Reilly as they went past, but I guess their lodges backed out of the parade. We stepped off with Scotty and our lodge and before we knew it, we were at Kelly's! A few blocks later we went past the reviewing stand playing "Stars and Stripes" and made that left and it was over. Skyliners field corps followed us the whole route and played one for us at the end. Back to the Erin Shores for our BBQ and it was party time! Food and drink was consumed by all. Thanks Chas for cooking everything in sight! Those little hairs on your arms might grow back. My friends from Gloucester HS had a great time marching with us, hope you guys had fun! Wildwood has always been a great memory for me since marching with CDHS back in 1979. I hope I'm there at the ELKS in 2029 when I finally get to sit on the sidewalk and just watch Archie go by.... Tony

NAME: Christopher P. Crouthamel
EMAIL: krout67@yahoo.com
FROM: Philadelphia
Date: 19 Jun 2003
Time: 10:56:41
COMMENTS

Archie, i would like to thank you for your support for the troops over seas. Thank you! Sincerely, Spc. Christopher P. Crouthamel USA

NAME: boomer
EMAIL: bill.w@plasticlumberyard.com
FROM: geo.clay fire company
Date: 19 Jun 2003
Time: 12:42:08
COMMENTS

mark the big day is upon us at last! have you assembled an honor guard for us as of yet? i hear it might rain soooooo don't forget your rubbers Boomer

NAME: George F Schaefer
EMAIL: KatDragon007@aol.com
FROM: Ravenna, OH
Date: 21 Jun 2003
Time: 21:01:56
COMMENTS

My dad Ted Schaefer competed against the corps when he was a member of Kearney Kardinals of New Jersey back in the late fifties and early sixties. My sister, Rita, was with Hawthorne Caballeros until 1993, and her husband,(and my brother in law) Paul Bongiovi, is Hawthorne's drum major this year. I'm glad to see Archer-Epler is still alive and kickin'.

NAME: ROBERT C. HERRE JR
EMAIL: FIREBELL199@AOL.COM
FROM: ARCHER EPLER
Date: 22 Jun 2003
Time: 07:50:26
COMMENTS

I JUST WANTED YOU YO ALL KNOW, WE WON IST PLACE FOR BEST-APPEARING DRUM CORPS. I HAVE THW TROPHY, AND THAY SAY THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL. THE GEORGE CLAY FIRE CO LADIES AUX. CAME IN 2ND PLACE. SORRY YOU ALL WERE NOT THERE. I RELUCTENTLY RECEIVED ALL THE HUGS AND KISSES FOR YOU. ANYONE WHO WANTS THEM I WILL GIVE THEM TO YOU. ALSO THE FIRE COMPANY WON FIRST PLACE FOR BEST APPEARING FIRE CO. MARCHING WITH MUSIC. THEY WERE ALSO VERY HAPPY WITH OUR PRESENTATION.SINCE THEY WON THEY SAID THE CONTRACT IS IN THE MAIL FOR THE FIREMAN'S STATE CONVENTION IN MARCUS HOOK IN SEPTEMBER. THEY ALSO GAVE ME HUGS AND KISSES WHICH I WILL PASS ON. YOUR, DON'T CROSS OVER THE BRIDGE, FRIEND FIREBELL, ALIAS BOB AND MARYLOU

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester,NJ
Date: 22 Jun 2003
Time: 23:24:52
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just want to drop a line and let you hear about our parade with the Henry Clay Firefighters in Bryn Mawr. Three miles. Uphill. Two hundred fire trucks. YEAH! That was for all the fans of "Crank Yankers" on Comedy Central! First place Fire Company with Music! I'm in shock still! Thanks to everyone who made the job, the corps sounded great as usual. Thanks to Big Horn Bob for humping the harnesses for the bass drums. You went above and beyond the call for us and I don't blame you for not marching. WE owe you a big one! The drumline agrees, I'm sure. I thought the snare were going to fall out on the big hill but to my suprise the impressed the entire corps. My legs and back are killing me, so I know you guys are hurting too. Remember when we were alot younger we could do those hills in our sleep. TWICE! Nice job drumline! Horns, we were a little light in some sections but we kicked ass! Our firefighters want us to march with them again at the convention in Marcus Hook. They looked great marching along the entire parade route also. Let's not dissappoint them next time. Try and make it, maybe the rain will stay away and the sun will shine strong for Archie.... for a change!Tony

NAME: guess who?
EMAIL: Everywhere
FROM: heaven
Date: 29 Jun 2003
Time: 10:21:32
COMMENTS

life is short. live it to the fullest.

NAME: Ralph (Beaver) McFarland
EMAIL: mcme@ix.netcom.com
FROM: Cherry Hill, NJ
Date: 30 Jun 2003
Time: 08:51:56
COMMENTS

Just listened to a recording of Archie from 1963. As a member of Ridley Park Rangers that year, I had the good fortune of seeing Archie perform that show at several junior/senior contests. Forty years have come and gone since then and I forgot how great that show and the 1963 Musketeers really were. What a corps!

Don't know if any of my old pals from Ridley Park Rangers or Norristown Invaders are still active in the alumni corps. If so, please pass along my best regards.

NAME: Phil And Trudy Crouthamel
EMAIL: prcreality@comcast.net
FROM: ARCHIE
Date: 03 Jul 2003
Time: 00:18:10
COMMENTS

Good News!!!! Our son Christopher is returning home from Iraq/kuwait on Sunday, July 6th to Fort Hood, Texas. We will be flying out on the 5th to meet him when he gets off the bus. Many thanks to all who supported him during this time. A SPECIAL THANK YOU goes out to the Audubon Bon-Bons for their tremendous donations. Phil and Trudy

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester,NJ
Date: 05 Jul 2003
Time: 09:48:00
COMMENTS

Hello there everyone! I hope you had a great 4th of July wherever you are. We survived our two parades yesterday rather well. Thanks to Marsha for handling the water wagon. Marsha, Marsha,Marsha! Don't you just love marching in that heat and humidity, UPHILL, in uniform! Nice to see Joe Schmids back from sabaddical. Great job by the entire corps. Hey Lloyd, how is that ankle? Hope you gave it a good soak when you got home! We have another parade today in Harve de Grace, Maryland. I'll check in after. By the way, thanks to Bob Herre and Nate Harrell for hosting the after parade BBQs. Thanks to everyone for inquiring how Diana is doing. She is returning to work on Monday. See Ya! Tony

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester,NJ
Date: 06 Jul 2003
Time: 14:24:23
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Well we survived the weekend with no fatalities. Hazy,hot,humid is not the best kind of a day for a parade. This bugler had a little problem with the chops drying out not to mention the back stiffening up at the end. I guess I'm not 20 years old anymore. The corps sounded great with everyone giving it their all. Nice to see Gene Bunting marching with us one more time. I was waiting to hear "Stardust" once again! Hope to see you with us more often Gene! My students from Gloucester did a great job with us. Nice job Billy,Drew, and Dave! Enjoying a Sunday off. Tony

NAME: Don Brill
EMAIL: ernabuck39@aol.com
FROM: Dover, NJ 07801
Date: 06 Jul 2003
Time: 17:14:18
COMMENTS

I played bassdrum for the big red band 1961-62 and enjoyed every minute of it. Dick Filkins was the drum instructor/played in the line along with Billy Kaufman. Jimmy McConkey was the drum major. My favorite song was "Lord&Master". Long may they live!!!!

NAME: mugu
EMAIL: mugu at yahoo.com
FROM: usa
Date: 12 Jul 2003
Time: 07:58:22
COMMENTS

love the site for the mugus

NAME: Jimmy Boone
EMAIL:
FROM: Secane, PA
Date: 18 Jul 2003
Time: 15:20:07
COMMENTS

I used to be a musketeer. I loved every minute of it.

NAME: Timmy Turner
EMAIL:
FROM: Collingdale, PA
Date: 18 Jul 2003
Time: 15:29:29
COMMENTS

I heard you guys at the Clifton Hts. Memorial Day parade. I'd love to join. I'm sure I can particiapate in some way - whether it be as a member of the color guard or a beginning drummer.

NAME: Timmy Turner
EMAIL:
FROM: Collingdale, PA
Date: 18 Jul 2003
Time: 15:33:32
COMMENTS

I tried to e-mail you earlier, I saw you guys at the Clifton Hts. Memorial Day Parade. I'm sure I can participate in some way - whether as a member of the color guard or a drummer. My phone #is (484)576-9221



NAME: Edward Michalski
EMAIL: Bugler27@aol.com
FROM: I.C. Reveries
Date: 22 Jul 2003
Time: 20:23:26
COMMENTS

thanks for the great web site. I always wanted to march with your corps. Being from Revere, I have all the "Fleetwood" recordings of your corps. The Musketters have always shown what "real drum corps is all about"!. I very much dislike modern drum corps and wish you all the best in the future. I wish I lived in your area so I could join. I played first baritone in my corps. I now perform with the Melrose Symphony as 2nd trombone for the last 16 years. Also, I march with the B oston Firemans band; but I wish there was a drum corps like yours up here. Yes, we do have some corps that are alumni but dont have the spirit like yours. THe Princemen are like your corps but they dont march in any parades or exhibitions because of there problems with their legs.-Sorry, but I really do like senior corps. God bless all of you down there and dont ever give up. I just went to my local record store which buys and sells old records and cds. -Guess what I bought. A 1962 "Evening with the Corps at Carnegie Hall with the Archer Ephler Musketters!- 5 bucks. Best always! Espirit de Corps! Eddie Michalski.

NAME: PennsylvaniaDCHOF
EMAIL: Pennsylvania DCHOF@attbi.com
FROM:
Date: 24 Jul 2003
Time: 22:53:25
COMMENTS

For Immediate Release:

The Pennsylvania Drum Corps Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization formed to honor individuals who have contributed to the drum and bugle activity through dedicated efforts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whether as a performer, instructor, administrator, judge, or promoter. Originally conceived by a small dedicated organizing committee and now in its infancy, this organization will eventually be led by a Board of Governors. The governing body will include designated representatives from drum corps and alumni organizations that are currently active as well as other elected "at-large" members.

The Pennsylvania Drum Corps Hall of Fame will have specific criteria to determine eligibility for membership. A series of levels of membership have been established to honor members of the Pennsylvania Drum Corp community at every level of participation whether it is Junior, Senior, Alumni Corps or Alumni Organization.

A website has been established that can answer some of your questions and concerns. Much of the website is still “under construction” however there is a list of all Drum Corps competitions taking place this 2003 season within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. There is a guestbook set up where you can communicate with members of the organizing committee. There is a list of the active Drum Corps within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. There is a massive list of practically every Drum Corps that ever existed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The website URL is http://www.padchof.org/ .

A charter membership campaign will kick off in the fall of 2003 and it is hoped that many eligible members will choose to participate. The next meeting of the organizing committee will take place on September 6th, 2003, after which details about how to apply for membership and the date of the first induction ceremonies will be posted on the website.

At this time the members of the Pennsylvania Drum Corps Hall of Fame organizing committee wish all competitors best wishes for this Drum Corps season, but especially those who represent the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

NAME: Chuck Moran
EMAIL: weirdmo2@yahoo.com
FROM: Cockeysville,Md.
Date: 25 Jul 2003
Time: 23:29:35
COMMENTS

Hi to all,I check out your site all the time. Can anyone tell me how Denny Garrett is doing? The Rebels site has nothing since he went in the hospital. Thanks Tony for the updates on your turnouts,I look forward to reading them. Nothing much going on here, but my perimeter is secure.

NAME: Jim Capra
EMAIL: JJC_48@hotmail.com
FROM: Gloucester City N.J.08030
Date: 27 Jul 2003
Time: 13:52:23
COMMENTS

Hello felow Muekeeters just thought I give you my E-mail address & to let you know I'm still going strong as ever,& that I would like to hear from all who were ever part of our family of drum corp nut's so again I just whanted say hello & tell all 4 one & one 4 all. Jim Capra Loving music

NAME: Bob Port
EMAIL: skskr@aol.com
FROM: Presently Riverside, NJ
Date: 06 Aug 2003
Time: 11:41:43
COMMENTS

NAME: Bob Port
EMAIL: skekr@aol.com
FROM: Presently Riverside, NJ
Date: 06 Aug 2003
Time: 11:42:53
COMMENTS

Sorry about the E-mail address. Correction is skekr@aol.com

NAME: dominique
EMAIL: princesdom@comcast.net
FROM: Gloucester City N.J.
Date: 19 Aug 2003
Time: 10:00:27
COMMENTS

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NAME: tony de marco
EMAIL: tonyd118@aol.com
FROM: philadelphia
Date: 20 Aug 2003
Time: 22:27:20
COMMENTS

just to say hello and its a great website tony de marco

NAME: Carol Herre Brister
EMAIL: cpb1940@hotmail.com
FROM: Columbus, GA
Date: 01 Sep 2003
Time: 09:54:39
COMMENTS

Was searching the website for any family name and found one. Thought this was interesting and wanted to say "hello" to the person that has the same surname as mine. Have a wonderful & safe Labor Day to you all. Carol Herre Brister

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@ aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City,NJ
Date: 02 Sep 2003
Time: 19:43:41
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! I hope that we have all had a few weeks of vacation away from drum corps. I know I needed a break to get some things together around here and in my life. Diana has used her time to her advantage also. I hope to see a few new people out this Friday evening, and maybe a few Archie members that I haven't seen for quite some time out at the post. It seems that we always drift back to Archie after a little time off and it is nice to get back into playing again. We all have that same illness for playing a horn or beating that drum till the wee hours of the morning. A little liquid refreshment along the way doesn't hurt either! I miss the hot dogs after rehearsal. Ain't noythin like a drum corps tube steak! I hope Duke will have some new charts for us this coming season. Heard "St. Louis Blues March" the other day by Glenn Miller. That would be a fun one to play. I still would like to reserect "God Bless the Child" from '81-'82. Still can hear Archie playing that at Upper Darby show back in the day. "Coranation March" still gives me goose bumps too! Well I have to go, so I hope to see ya at Archie on Friday nite. Take care! Tony AFO+OFA

NAME: Jack Cassidy Jr
EMAIL: jcassidy@successti.com
FROM: drums pa
Date: 05 Sep 2003
Time: 01:28:08
COMMENTS

Looking for Rusty Kwoka from the belles and Black Watch if I remember correctly....and a big HI to my uncle Bert Adamson, e-mail me unc.....

NAME: Nathan Pierce
EMAIL: N_Pierce1@hotmail.com
FROM: Philadelphia
Date: 06 Sep 2003
Time: 11:50:05
COMMENTS

I was once a RI Matadoors member, marched in the drumline-1981, and am interested in an Alum corp. For 22 years, it has been out of my mind, but recently, and after a DCA Championship show, I want to be involved somewhat again.

NAME: Ralf
EMAIL: sag@nicht.de
FROM: De
Date: 25 Sep 2003
Time: 09:32:50
COMMENTS

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NAME: Walter P. D'Agostino
EMAIL: walt7395@tampabay.rr.com
FROM: Lt. Norman Prince
Date: 25 Sep 2003
Time: 16:04:15
COMMENTS

Was in Philly at the VFW Natl's in 1954 with the Most Precious Blood Crusaders. Went into Prince after that contest. Archie did a hell'ava job that night. I take my hat off to Archie.......

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City,NJ
Date: 29 Sep 2003
Time: 21:10:14
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! I would like to start with expressing my condolences to the family of Mickey Petrone on his passing. Archer-Epler and DCA will miss him greatly in the future. With that said I'll start my report to Chuck Moran on our parade this past weekend. It was the Pennsylvania State Firemen's Convention in Marcus Hook, PA. We marched with the William Clay Fire Co. from Conshohocken,PA. The day started with fabulous directions provided by our Corps Director. I followed them to the letter and wound up in a housing development! Don't you just LOVE drum corps? They left out a left turn so Diana and I had to just go for it, but we found the school parking lot anyhow! The Ellis and Magsamen parties beat us there by a few minutes and the rest of the corps arrived soon after. Ran into a friend of mine from Cardinal Dougherty Band who now plays in Uptown String Band. He couldn't get over how great we sounded just warming up! What does HE know about Drum Corps? We stepped off and our two mile adventure began. Oh, I forgot to mention, it poured right before the parade was about to start. We went through our parade routine quite nicely. The crowd was very receptive to "Stripes". We stopped at one point and played "Boardwalk" for the family of Fr. Steve Hutnick, one of our second sopranos. The bill is on it's way as of this posting. The corps did a great job as usual. Our drumline was tight and the hornline sounded great! The parade proceeded to the Delaware River at a quick pace and was over before we knew it. Thanks to everyone who made the job. It seems that no matter who is there or how many are there, Archie will always look and sound their best. Yeah, don't you just love drum corps? Tony CDHSMU'82

NAME: Chuck Moran
EMAIL: weirdm02@yahoo.com
FROM: Cockeysville,Md.
Date: 02 Oct 2003
Time: 00:35:03
COMMENTS

Tony, thanks for another fine report.Always look forward to reading about the Corp. Even though I don't miss Drum Corps, I miss it,if that makes any sense. Hope to make the Stinger next year and visit with my old friends from Archie.

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester,NJ
Date: 08 Oct 2003
Time: 14:41:16
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just want to drop a line and give a report on our job this past weekend. We marched once again in the "Haverford Day" parade out on Route 3. The corps met at the Manoa Shopping Center parking lot at 9:00 am. In typical drum corps fashion, we stood around till 11:00 am. when the parade did get moving, a motorcycle cop decided to lay himself down along with his bike! CRASH! Hope he is ok,but geez! Once he was sent to the hospital the parade continued on without incident. After the parade we went back to the post for a little lunch and then practice! Marc is trying to kill us. We worked on Ray Fallon's arrangement of "Satin Doll". This is one tune that I believe Archie has never played before. I think it will fit well into our show for next year. I hope to see all of you down in Wildwood on November 1st. It will be a great show. Oh, almost forgot to send best wishes to Terie Crouthamel and John Bistline on their upcoming nuptuals this weekend. Congrats! See Ya! Tony AFO+OFA

NAME: Larry Spencer
EMAIL: lsspencer@sbcglobal.net
FROM: Pittsburgh Rockets
Date: 13 Oct 2003
Time: 19:38:43
COMMENTS

Although I have been away from D&B for sometime, it has never left my blood. Competing against "Archy" and Jimmy McKonkey was always something we looked forward to, and it was fun. Living now in Dallas, TX and somewhat away from what I think of as the heart of the best in drum & bugle corp (the northeast) I wish all those currently involved only the best and hope ya'll have as much fun as I did back in the 60's.

NAME: Little Moe O'Connor
EMAIL: joemar6100@hotmail.com
FROM: New Jersey/Florida
Date: 15 Oct 2003
Time: 14:48:10
COMMENTS

I am writing all of you regarding the status of Big Moe O'Connor's health. Moe was a member of Archie during the 1961 - 1968 seasons.

Moe was admitted to Martin Memorial South Hospital, Salerno Road, Stuart, FL, on Monday, September 2003 in a semi-conscious state. He had to be placed on kidney dialysys treatments which he has every other day. These treatments have taken 40 lbs of fluid from his body. He has received the Sacrament "The Anointing of the Sick" and had his sins forgiven. Believe it or not, the dialysis treatments are keeping him alive.

Moe was also a member of St. Vincent Cadets from 1954 to 1959. Msgr. Wojtycha (The "Chief of St. Vinnie's") visited Moe several times, as did Dick Filkins, and it made him feel good to see them both.

I know he would get a kick out of getting some e-mails or get well cards from you guys, and I ask that you keep him in your prayers. His address is as follows: Big Moe O'Connor 1900 S. Kanner Highway Bldg. 6, Apt. l02 Stuart, FL 34994 E-mail: moe1643@msn.com

NAME: Kenneth Warner
EMAIL: Tapsbugler15@aol.com
FROM: Hamilton, NJ
Date: 16 Oct 2003
Time: 02:08:55
COMMENTS

Great website. Good to see the corps doing well.

Conta bass - 1996

NAME: maga dey
EMAIL: mugu2bob.com
FROM: i don bob here
Date: 27 Oct 2003
Time: 07:03:52
COMMENTS

NAME: Al McFadden
EMAIL: hooligan6@msn.com
FROM: Lakeland, FL
Date: 27 Oct 2003
Time: 12:14:32
COMMENTS

Hi: Bill Just moved to Lakeland, FL Do you know of any Drum Corps in the Tampa or Orlanda Area. hope you and yours r in good health. Best Al

NAME: John Connelly
EMAIL: connelly@dandy.net
FROM: Atlantic City N.J.
Date: 27 Oct 2003
Time: 13:37:07
COMMENTS

While growing up in Atlantic City I joined the Seahorse Lancers of Brigantine and had the honor of being instructed by Jack Phillip later I marched with the Victorians of Egg Harbor and was instructed by Don Laurelli. Both of these men were Archie greats. I`ve allways had a warm spot in my heart for Archie and I love my DILLIGAF T shirt.Good luck keeping Archie alive.

NAME: John Connelly
EMAIL: connelly@dandy.net
FROM: Moon
Date: 27 Oct 2003
Time: 13:53:24
COMMENTS

Everyone knows thet Archie and Skyliners are the only drumcorps to play music.

NAME: Bill Ertle
EMAIL: wjertle2@aol.com
FROM: Now in Lower Delaware
Date: 28 Oct 2003
Time: 15:52:59
COMMENTS

The site is Great!! Brought back many fond memories

Good luck for one, and All...Bill

NAME: John Duly
EMAIL: duly1@bellsouth.net
FROM: Atlanta, GA
Date: 03 Nov 2003
Time: 17:07:48
COMMENTS

Does anyone know how to contact Dick Filkins?

NAME: Mike Williams
EMAIL: mwill1129@aol.com
FROM: PAL/ARCHIE/St. Lucy's
Date: 04 Nov 2003
Time: 04:39:52
COMMENTS

To all my friends:

I’ve tried to put into words, during the past couple of days, the sense of pride I have for all my friends in Drum Corps with their show of support and concern as to my welfare as well as my co-workers. Seeing you on Saturday, besides being a needed break for me personally, made me feel “marvelous” with the outpouring of members of the various Corps whom I have had the pleasure of performing. You noticed that some of my thoughts that day were for the workers and members of the team on the jobsite who were still working through the past days events. Your support and camaraderie gave me the chance to put my mind into a different space for the hours I was in Wildwood.

We have a good thing. We all should enjoy what we do and with whom we do it. Performing for ourselves, for our own group and for the entire Alumni is where we collectively get the enjoyment. The friendship and acquaintances we make is what, in the long run, defines each one of us individually. We should strive to be an organization that continues to support each other – with support we not only continue as we are but also can grow with new members and continue the tradition.

Archie has a saying that is not only for one group, it is for us all ------ AFO & OFA.

Mike (Mellophone) Williams

NAME: Maik
EMAIL: nichtdoch@web.de
FROM: Berlin/Germany
Date: 05 Nov 2003
Time: 04:55:48
COMMENTS

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NAME: Susi
EMAIL: vondereck@mailto.se
FROM: Sweden
Date: 05 Nov 2003
Time: 04:59:11
COMMENTS

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NAME: ABRI Apartment Berlin
EMAIL: ad.2003@apartment-berlin.com
FROM: Berlin / Germany
Date: 05 Nov 2003
Time: 11:02:11
COMMENTS

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NAME: Marc
EMAIL: weissnet@web.de
FROM: Hamburg
Date: 05 Nov 2003
Time: 20:38:13
COMMENTS

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NAME: Phil Crouthamel
EMAIL: prcrouthamel@comcast.net
FROM: Where else?--ARCHIE
Date: 05 Nov 2003
Time: 23:56:07
COMMENTS

AHHHH!! Finally sobered up. All I can say is, what a fantastic weekend in Wildwood!! All I know is, Archie knows how to throw a party! The Halloween party was the most. All I know is that our beloved Drum Major took top honors for her "double" costume. I know that it was "uplifting" and really "swelled" me up. Now the parade was runned very well. Maybe the Elks can take a hint or two. The concert sounded excellent. Standing out front with the guard, it sent goose bumps up my aching back. Congratulations to our new guard member, Tina. It was her first time out with the Corps and she did great.

So, until next year, "Corps at the Shore" will be, hopefully, a new tradition.

Phil And Trudy AFO/OFA

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City,NJ
Date: 06 Nov 2003
Time: 23:56:35
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Well, once again drum corps has done it once again. Archie, Reilly, Skyliners, Rebs, Cabs, Brigs, Volunteers, Blackhawks. You thought it was 1960 something! Drum corps has returned to Wildwood as the Gods had intended! No field drill, but what a parade and show. The weather could not have been better also. I'm a little younger than some participants, but I remember seeing these corps perform there a few years ago. If you were there you know what I'm talking about. Thanks to the City of Wildwood and their mayor for letting us go down memory way. I hope this becomes a yearly thing at the shore. Two long weekends at the shore, with all my drum corps friends, sounds great to me. Don't you just love drum corps? I know I still do! Thanks again. Tony CDHSMU'82 AFO+OFA

NAME: sebastian beyer
EMAIL: gibsnicht@web.de
FROM: Sweden
Date: 07 Nov 2003
Time: 17:01:24
COMMENTS

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NAME: Jim O'Connor
EMAIL: DoctorLove816@hotmail.com
FROM: Kissimmee, Florida
Date: 10 Nov 2003
Time: 19:46:02
COMMENTS

It is with GREAT sadness that I have to inform you ALL that a former member of the greatest drum corp ever, The Archer Epler Musketeers, has passed on and joined many others like him. "BIG MOE" O'Connor a member and horn player from 1960-1967 passed away at 1:30 pm on this 10th day of November after a long battle with diabetes. My father wanted me to thank ALL of YOU for the warm wishes and the love you showed him especially Dick Filkins and Billy Kaufman. Seeing you two always brightened his day and helped him remember the GOOD times and prepare himself to go "home" to GOD and to join that "Drum Corps in the Sky." Big Moe is now along side his friend and mentor Mickey Petrone and is no longer suffering. My family wishes to thank you all once again for the support and any cards or letters/flowers can be sent to......Terry O'Connor 1900 South Kanner Hwy. Bldg. 6 Apt. 102 Stuart, Florida 34994. Thank You again and GOD BLESS.

NAME: Sean McRactagan
EMAIL: seanmcractagan@hotmail.com
FROM: now, Minnesota
Date: 10 Nov 2003
Time: 21:31:21
COMMENTS

Just to say hello to all the alums from 60-62. And if anyone sees Chuck White, please have him contact me. AFO&OFA HLD Sean

NAME: Jim Cossetti
EMAIL: AGI145
FROM:
Date: 11 Nov 2003
Time: 08:37:27
COMMENTS

I am saddened to report that an old friend, 'Big Moe' O'Connor passed away yesterday at about 2 PM. My sincere condolences to his wife Terry and the kids, as well as the rest of the O'Connor family.....please keep him and them in your prayers.

NAME: mugu
EMAIL: mugu@yagoo.ie
FROM: west
Date: 13 Nov 2003
Time: 09:52:11
COMMENTS

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NAME: Ken Newman
EMAIL:
FROM: Sadville
Date: 14 Nov 2003
Time: 13:46:09
COMMENTS

Here we are again, way too often. Jimmy "Big Moe" O'Connor will always be one of my all-timers. A fun lovng, two fisted, beer guzzling SOB if there ever was one. I got a chance to see him this past year and managed to have a few last laughs with him. I will miss him dearly. AFO/OFA Ken Newman

NAME: Bill Rip Bernert
EMAIL: bbernert@snip.net
FROM: Blackwood, NJ
Date: 26 Nov 2003
Time: 01:55:51
COMMENTS

I was a member of the corps from 1950 to 1967 I was the drill arranger and instructor from 1952 to 1967 accept fof two years (1961/62) and the horn instructor for many of those years. I was the first member of Archer-Epler to be inducted into tha World Drum And Bugle Corps Hall of Fame , 1979

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 29 Nov 2003
Time: 19:19:55
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just want to check in and say that I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It is time for our annual banquet at the post this coming weekend. I hope that you will all attend. We always have a great time. Also we have our last parade of the year coming up on December 13th in Yardley, PA. I believe that we have a earlier start time this year at 3PM. I hope you will make this job. After the parade we will have a gathering at Marc and Marsha's home in West Trenton to celebrate another successful year for Archie. Should be a lot of fun. See you all on Saturday at the banquet. Take care! Tony CDHSMU'82 AFO+OFA

NAME: allee
EMAIL: percussion@tds.net
FROM: The Corps Vets front ensemble http://www.corpsvets.org
Date: 03 Dec 2003
Time: 18:01:43
COMMENTS

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NAME: Ken Newman
EMAIL:
FROM: Sadville
Date: 10 Dec 2003
Time: 08:47:28
COMMENTS

Sadness again.. Kiki Bird is another of the alltimers.. A funnier guy you could never meet. When you were in his presence he would make you laugh all day. Love ya man RIP AFO/OFA

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City,NJ
Date: 16 Dec 2003
Time: 11:04:41
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just want to let you know how the corps did this past weekend at the Yardley Christmas parade. I thought we did a fantastic job as we will always do. I know that I will sound biased to some of you reading this report, but just shoot me, ok! We just play our hearts out when given the chance. The balance we get always blows me away. That is a tribute to the talent of each individual in the corps and I hope we are all proud of each other. I'm still under the weather here in the living room this Tuesday, but I'll survive. Hey, the Eagles won on MNF so it ain't all bad. Before I go I just want to touch on the passing of another of our alumni. Jimmy "KIKI Bird" Sproules was a great guy and he will be missed by all Musketeers who knew him. Semper Fi Marine and God speed! Tony CDHSMU'82

NAME: Carsten
EMAIL: carsten.achilles@starriders.de
FROM: Bad Muender / Germany
Date: 19 Dec 2003
Time: 03:18:09
COMMENTS

The Starriders Drum & Bugle Corps wish all Members of your great Corps a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Starriders DBC www.starriders.de

NAME: John Melaragni
EMAIL: jmelarag@bbn.com
FROM: Norman Prince
Date: 22 Dec 2003
Time: 20:47:45
COMMENTS

Played baritone horn and marched with Prince from 1952--1960. Met Archie many times and was always impressed. Great Drum Corps!!!

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 24 Dec 2003
Time: 21:40:46
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Diana and I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah,and a very Happy New Year! Hope you all enjoy this holiday season to the utmost. I know a lot of you don't know this, but Jim Capra and myself are members of the Durning String Band out of Oaklyn,NJ. Yeah, drum corps guys in the Mummers! We will be performing our show,"SINATRA....our way!" on New Years Day 2004 in Philly. Please pray for us. We"ll need all the help we can get! HA,HA! Shades of Archie's '94 Sinatra show in there. By the way, Chuck Quackenbush has been helping us with the drill. Thanks Quack,for all of your input. Maybe we'll see some Archie guys on Broad Street cheering us on as in the past. Once again, enjoy the holidays and I'll see ya all at our next rehearsal at the post. AFO+OFA Tony CDHSMU'82

2004

NAME: Terry Tobias
EMAIL: terrance_s@sbcglobal.net
FROM: Austin, Texas
Date: 06 Jan 2004
Time: 14:49:11
COMMENTS

I was going through an picture album the other day and came across a picture of Archer Epler from I believe the 1961 Dream Contest. I would be glad to email it to you if you like.

NAME:
EMAIL:
FROM:
Date: 01 Jan 2004
COMMENTS

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!

NAME: Terry Tobias
EMAIL: terrance_s@sbcglobal.net
FROM: Austin, Texas
Date: 06 Jan 2004
Time: 14:49:11
COMMENTS

I was going through an picture album the other day and came across a picture of Archer Epler from I believe the 1961 Dream Contest. I would be glad to email it to you if you like.

NAME: Lynn Ogden
EMAIL: lynnogden@comcast.net
FROM: Seattle, WA
Date: 30 Jan 2004
Time: 21:34:56
COMMENTS

Last Post 1 Sept 2002:

Please note my new e-mail address.

NAME: bobbie sheridan
EMAIL: toni534@comcast.net
FROM: audubon
Date: 20 Feb 2004
Time: 13:43:24
COMMENTS

I am a former bon bon girl from audubon nj I was a member in 1960.

NAME: Ela McElroy Lindenhofen
EMAIL: ellalin@comcast.net
FROM: Mount Laurel, NJ
Date: 22 Feb 2004
Time: 13:05:10
COMMENTS

I was also a Bon Bon girl during the 60's. My father was in Archie during the early 60's.

NAME: Bob Cunningham
EMAIL: blcunninghamca@yahoo.com
FROM: Toronto Canada
Date: 01 Mar 2004
Time: 16:44:03
COMMENTS

I am an old drum corps nut from the 50-60's. I was with the Jolly Jesters from Toronto.I remember the King and I show very well. I have it on an old 78 by Stetson D. Richmond. Are you going to be at the Alumni Show in Hamilton Ont. First week in May. Bob

NAME: Timo
EMAIL: zumglueckausosnabrueck@gmx.de
FROM: GERMANY
Date: 20 Mar 2004
Time: 12:53:34
COMMENTS

HELLO MUSKETEERS! GREETINGS FROM THE MUSIK & SHOW CORPS DRK BIRSTEIN; HESSEN;GERMANY

NAME: Johan
EMAIL: drumfanfare@hotmail.com
FROM: Holland
Date: 25 Mar 2004
Time: 05:46:39
COMMENTS

Dear fellow musicians, With great pleasure we present the fully renewed homepage of Marchingband "Het Wapen van Maassluis” from Maassluis, Holland. Not only do we have new photos, but it is now also possible to listen to fragments of our music, = Onze muziek = beluister, which can also be heard on our CD. If we are not yet in your links list, we would be grateful if you could do this. Also if your band is not in our list, just let us know, and we will add you to it. Please tell us what you think of the site, by signing our guestbook = Gastenboek = teken ons gastenboek. With friendly regards, Johan de Lavoir, Webmaster. http://www.wapenvanmaassluis.nl or http://www.delavoir.nl Please send your mail to wapenvanmaassluis29@zonnet.nl

NAME: DOMINIC MIGNOGNA
EMAIL: NONE
FROM: STEEL CITY
Date: 26 Mar 2004
Time: 13:59:03
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I'M THE DRUM MAJOR FOR THE STEEL CITY AMBASSADORS..I'D LIKE TO WISH THE MUSKETEERS GOOD LUCK FOR THE 2004 SEASON...SEE YOU ALL SOON...

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 28 Mar 2004
Time: 10:56:02
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! I'm just checking in after our first indoor show of this season. Thanks to BS for a great show. Not bad for their first outing I must say. Archie, Reilly, Skyliners, Rebels, Light Brigade, and our hosts, BS Golden Knights. A fantastic lineup indeed! Drum corps as it used to be. Not all smoke and mirrors, Bb horns, and judges. OLD STYLE DRUM CORPS. Thanks to Danny Murphy for setting up the after-show party at the Elks. Albert our bartender was a St. Vinnies guy if you can believe that. Archie was first on stage with 25 horns,10 drums, and one of our largest honor guards in a long time. I think the crowd really liked our performance from their response, and I hope the crowd liked all of the corps participating as much as myself. Thanks to Nutley HS Band for putting up with all of us invading their school. Another one for the books. Don't forget about our show in a few weeks at Haverford. Polish your horn, tighten your head, iron that uniform and I'll see you all at the Brass Reunion. Take care. Tony AFO+OFA

NAME: Phil Crouthamel
EMAIL: prcrouthamel@comcast.net
FROM: Archie
Date: 28 Mar 2004
Time: 16:49:05
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Well, to let you guys know, you sounded GREAT at Nutley High School.

NAME: Marvin Stevenson
EMAIL:
FROM:
Date: 30 Mar 2004
Time: 14:36:12
COMMENTS

NAME: Marvin Stevenson
EMAIL: marvindinero@aol.com
FROM: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Date: 30 Mar 2004
Time: 14:53:46
COMMENTS

Marched with the Guelph Royalaires 1958-65 and remember seeing Archie perform on many occasions...and yes, I remember seeing unbelievable performances by Jimmy McKonkie. And yeah, listening to Dipsy-Doodle performed with such spirit and of course your 'signature' song. After I left the Royalaires in '65 I played in a few different dance groups for about 15 years. Then after about another 15 years joined the Top Hats Marching Orchestra from Burlington, Ont and that's where it's at today. Those few short years around drum corps will never be forgotten.. they were very precious..you lived and breathed it 24/7...it was everything...totally engrossing. Although Top Hats Marching Orchestra have the name 'marching' in their name....they do everything "but march". Start at point A and finish at point B that's about the total sum of it. The only thing serious about the group is the music. Played at Mardis Gras in New Orleans in 2002 and Buchannon, West Va. last summer..not sure when we head south next. Visit Top Hats website: www.tophats.org It's fascinating that after all these many years away from drum corps....I can almost get a buzz just reading your members accounts of various shows...I guess I've been infected forever. Great website...best wishes for continued success in all of your endeavours. Marvin Stevenson

NAME: adam
EMAIL: maga@mugu.com
FROM: lome togo
Date: 01 Apr 2004
Time: 03:12:56
COMMENTS

thanks for ur information

NAME: Bob Shreffler
EMAIL: shreff@aol.com
FROM: Orlando, FL
Date: 02 Apr 2004
Time: 10:57:33
COMMENTS

I was listening to the 1957 corps on diceman719.com (a GREAT show, by the way), and when I looked up scores from that year, I saw that the corps was disqualified between Legion National prelims (which you won) and finals. If it isn't opening a sore wound, I'd be curious to know what happened? I am a bit of a drum corps historian and marched for 11 years with the Norwood Park Imperials, Cavaliers, and Spirit of Atlanta and my Dad currently marches with the Kilties Senior Corps.

Thanks for the help!

NAME: Jack Philp
EMAIL: hjphilp@comcast.net
FROM: Egg Harbor Township NJ
Date: 08 Apr 2004
Time: 19:18:15
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NAME: Ken Newman
EMAIL:
FROM:
Date: 13 Apr 2004
Time: 09:04:53
COMMENTS

Again ..Sadness.Way too often... Joey O'Connor, so soon after brother "Jimmy" Great friends and terrific guys. I will miss them RIP..........AFO/OFA Ken Newman

NAME: Gloria Hoffner
EMAIL: Gloriah@phillynews.com
FROM: Philadelphia Inquirer
Date: 14 Apr 2004
Time: 15:16:49
COMMENTS

I am planning to cover the April 17 event at Havertown High School. Could you please tell me what time you go on the field and who I can interview about the corps? I can be reached at: 610-313-8006. Thank you for your help. I am looking foward to seeing your performance!

NAME: Arris Van Dyk
EMAIL: avandyk@sympatico.ca
FROM: Nanticoke, Ontario
Date: 16 Apr 2004
Time: 09:11:27
COMMENTS

Just discovered your web site! Nice to see to old corps are still alive. I'm a member of the Toronto Optimists Alumni Corps. We'll be performing at Mighty St. Joe's Concert on April 24th and Hamilton May 1st. See you in Hamilton!

Regards,

Arris

NAME: dominic
EMAIL:
FROM:
Date: 16 Apr 2004
Time: 13:36:45
COMMENTS

see all of you tomorrow at the show..

dominic {steel city drum major}

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 17 Apr 2004
Time: 22:17:23
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just checking in after today's Brass Reunion indoor show. Wow, this bugler had a fun time today. I never thought that I would ever enjoy playing with more than one corps at one show. Archie,St.Lucy's,Vagabonds Alumni, and the percussion tribute! I'm beat! All of the corps participating played their hearts out and I hope the crowd appreciated our efforts. Drum and bugle corps as it used to be. Once again Archer-Epler has outdone itself as an Alumni Corps. This was my eleventh Brass Reunion since joining the corps back in '92-'93 and I really think Archie has stepped it up over these past few years. Personal thanks goes to my many friends in Archie and in the other corps. WE, really are a family, and we enjoy playing our horns and drums for the people who watched you all perform long before I was even born! This is a strange activity that we engage in, isn't it? I had alot of fun today and I hope you did too! Tony B. Archer-Epler Musketeers AFO+OFA

NAME: Cory Labbree
EMAIL: oacory@yahoo.com
FROM: Brooklawn, NJ
Date: 20 Apr 2004
Time: 15:27:55
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NAME: RUSS KING
EMAIL: WRCING2@AOL.COM
FROM: Myrtle Beach, SC
Date: 28 Apr 2004
Time: 18:43:43
COMMENTS

hello from an old fan. I played in Scout House back in '58 & '59, then the Guelph Royalaires for about 20 years. I was always an "Archie" fan..

NAME: Jim Cossetti
EMAIL: AGI145@aol.com
FROM:
Date: 30 Apr 2004
Time: 09:07:04
COMMENTS

I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of my old friend Joe 'Little Moe' O'Connor. I guess the St. Vinnie's heavenly host needed a rudimental bass. God bless you 'Little Moe' and 'Big Moe' and the O'Connor family.

I had intended this to be a much happier note inasmuch as our own Howard 'Whitey' Roberts has been selected for induction into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame. Congrats Whitey.....an honor long overdue.

Before you see it in Drm Corps World I would like to extend on behalf of the Hall of Fame a special thank you to the men & women of Archie for moving their 'Brass Reunion' to a matinee performance. The unfortunate scheduling conflict was a bittersweet situation........we reinstituted the 'Brass Reunion' in 1990 and it has gone strong since. Yes, we were the first Alumni corps to host an indoor show. However, since then the proliferation of 'alumni' corps and their continued efforts at hosting their own shows makes proper scheduling difficult.

We of the Long Range Planning Committee of the Hall of Fame will attempt to insure that a conflict such as the one between the 'Brass Reunion' and the 'Classic' will not happen again.

Jim Cossetti

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Hamilton, ONT
Date: 30 Apr 2004
Time: 11:48:32
COMMENTS

Hello everbody! Greetings from Canada. Go Flyers! Rake the Leafs! I'm signing on from the hotel lobby at this years GAS Reunion. Thanks goes out to our hosts The Hamilton Firefighters Drum and Bugle Corps. Nice job by all. I've attended all of he previous GAS reunions since 1993 and we are having a great time here. The weather couldn't be better and the Stanley Cup Playoffs are heating up quite nicely. Some of us Archie guys sat in with Hamilton at their rehearsal last nite at the hall. Nice sound and balance by our friends from north of the border. I'm looking forward to the remainder of the reunion. If you have ever attended one of these you know what I'm talking about. Well, I've gotta go and exchange some currency at the bank down the street. I'll check in again real soon. Tony B. CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: Michael Babyak
EMAIL: mgbabyak@mindspring.com
FROM: Marietta, GA
Date: 01 May 2004
Time: 10:26:36
COMMENTS

I still play the famous Archie "drum roll" in my head... My drum corp years spanned the '50's & '60's. I'll always have a warm spot in my heart for the Musketeers.

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 07 May 2004
Time: 19:31:37
COMMENTS

Hello Musketeers! Hope to see everyone tomorrow at the Pittsburgh show. We expect a good turnout for Steel City. Let's not let them down. Tony B. CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: DON SIRIANNI s
EMAIL: SIR 412 @COMCAST.NET 2
FROM: MUSKETEERS
Date: 10 May 2004
Time: 22:30:47
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THE BEST.

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 11 May 2004
Time: 22:58:59
COMMENTS

Good evening everyone! Just checking in after our second trip to Steel City's indoor show. Nice job Archie! We went out and kicked it again! Horn line sounded fantastic and our drum line was killer! Nice job by our alternate DM, Joe Schmids. Carol should watch out, Hall of Fame DM or not! I want to thank our bus driver Tony for putting up with us for the second week in a row. Canada,Pittsburgh, and this weekend coming, Baltimore for the Dixie Stinger. Ah, bus trips! Gotta love drum corps. We've got practice at the post this Friday nite. Hope to see y'all there! Like the Yankee Rebel reference? Later. Tom CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: Tony Brown (Tom)
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 16 May 2004
Time: 17:39:55
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Dixie Stinger 2004. If you didn't attend you missed a great show hosted by our friends from Baltimore, the Yankee Rebels. Nice to see the guys in green at the show also. Alot of former Musketeers at Reilly these days. I miss playing music with you guys personally, and speaking as a former Reilly soprano horn, I still like the "Irish Sound." Good luck in D.C. Archie went down south and we played our show once again to a very appreciative audience at Parkville HS this past evening. Thanks once again Joel and we'll see y'all in Wildwood for Elks. Nice to see Chuck Moran once again and I hope that we "Blew your face off!" The highlight of this years show was the performance by the USMC Drum and Bugle Corps. Perfect. Truman is smiling every time they hit that first count. "Caravan" was outstanding. i had the pleasure of sitting and speaking with a few of those Marines and I was impressed by their appreciation of what Alumni corps is all about. Where we ever that young? They kept asking me about my "DILLIGAF" shirt. A few older Marines knew what it meant, so nothing else needed to be said to those younger fellas. The after show party at the VFW was great also. Louie Scirotto from Reilly as Sinatra was a riot! He's always been a great guy and has many friends in drum corps. WE are a family, even if we all don't wear the same uniform. Isn't that what drum corps is all about? Archie,Reilly,Rebels,Sac,USMC,all the others..."ALL FOR ONE,AND ONE FOR ALL" Tony B. CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: tom stellling
EMAIL: mas@tube.com
FROM: ontarion Canada
Date: 17 May 2004
Time: 22:14:40
COMMENTS

I am an old drum corps guy, marched in the 50 to 70 and then lost contacted with corps, i was invited to the gas show in hamilton a few weeks ago. i cant tell you how much i enjoy your mini corps , it was unbeliveable, i could have listened to them for the next year, i can still hearm my self yelling for more encores. it was the BEST,

NAME: rehtj
EMAIL: sdvb@gngn.com
FROM: dgvgnm
Date: 18 May 2004
Time: 15:06:27
COMMENTS

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NAME: Louie Scirrotto
EMAIL: scirrott@epix.net
FROM: Poconos
Date: 19 May 2004
Time: 11:45:46
COMMENTS

Archie looked and sounded great last saturday night in Baltimore. I am very proud of the corps. An X-old Archie guy, Louie Scirrotto

NAME: Richard O.Greaves
EMAIL: Rogconstab @aol.com
FROM: Salem, Ma
Date: 20 May 2004
Time: 23:17:40
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NAME: Chuck Moran
EMAIL: weirdm02@yahoo.com
FROM: baltimore
Date: 21 May 2004
Time: 00:47:30
COMMENTS

Just wanted to let everyone know how good it was to see all my Drum Corps buddies at the Dixie Stinger,and how sad it was to see so many ex Archie people playing with other Corps. The Corps sounded great.I think I counted 23 horns and the balance was perfect, but then I remember when I first came up to Archie,doing parades with 13 to 18 horns and sounding great. Bill,I'll check over at my Mothers for those Shakos and get them to you. Thanks for a great night.

NAME: chuck moran
EMAIL: weirdmo2@yahoo.com
FROM:
Date: 22 May 2004
Time: 00:50:26
COMMENTS

Bill Ives, wanted to correct my email address from prior msg. Correct address is weirdmo2@yahoo.com Once again,great job at the Stinger

NAME: Chuck Moran
EMAIL: weirdmo2@yahoo.com
FROM:
Date: 22 May 2004
Time: 00:57:56
COMMENTS

Bill Ives, just wanted to correct my E Mail address. It should be weirdmo2@yahoo.com Once again I want to say how good the Corps sounded at the Stinger.

NAME: Wayne Hartford
EMAIL: waylee@comcast.net
FROM: Some planet that have not named yet
Date: 30 May 2004
Time: 11:10:30
COMMENTS

Hello A-F-O-&O-F-A, Just a line to let you know my e-mail has changed again. I miss all those wonderful Friday nights at the Post and the hot dog sales after practice. I miss POP c. and Jimmy C., Howard, Beatty Creco,THAT great drumline we had from 1983-1985. Please e-mail me. I miss you guys. I am glad I am still in drum corps so i can get out of N.H. and see you all when we can. I am still in the Light Brigade and will be until I am ready to go and see all our daer friends up ''there'' some day.DRUM CORPS RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love you all, Wayne Hartford

NAME: Tony Brown (Tom)
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester, NJ
Date: 31 May 2004
Time: 19:26:58
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Memorial Day 2004 is now in the books. Our post home shined even though the sun did not. We started the ceremonies around the corner at Bill Keller's old firehouse's war memorial by playing the hymn. Then to the post for the Legion and VFW ceremonies. Archie played a few tunes in a light rain to a large assembly of post members and their families. Where are all these people the rest of the year when we're at the post. The corps alone can't keep the post going financialy too much longer. We'd like to see all of you a little more often! Help our veterans out, they're why we come out to rehearsals,B+B's,etc. Well, I've preached from my pulpit enough this evening so I'll get to the information about Elks weekend. We're at the Erin Shores at 24th and Atlantic Aves. once again. Friday nite is "Pool" rehearsal, as is tradition. Saturday is "Parade" day, along with our famous BBQ right afterward. Sunday is "Recovery" and checkout time untill next year's shin dig.Hope you can all make it down to Wildwood. Have some fun, drink some beer, tell drum corps lies, but celebrate our activity, our freedom, our traditions. See you there. Tony B. CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: Jim Price
EMAIL: jprice3@verizon,net
FROM: Brigantine
Date: 01 Jun 2004
Time: 16:00:08
COMMENTS

NAME: jennifer hooker
EMAIL: gnomkecrusher28@aol.com
FROM: gloucester city
Date: 01 Jun 2004
Time: 19:42:46
COMMENTS

Hi I know Billy and Slappy, their my best buds! I want to see all of you play some time.

NAME: jennifer hooker
EMAIL: gnomkecrusher28@aol.com
FROM: gloucester city
Date: 01 Jun 2004
Time: 19:43:48
COMMENTS

Hi I know Billy and Slappy, their my best buds! I want to see all of you play some time.

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 09 Jun 2004
Time: 20:37:50
COMMENTS

Hello everybody! Well,the Elks weekend went pretty well even though the weather was not the best the entire time. Our "pool" rehearsal on Friday nite was a lot of fun. Many former Musketeers attended and I hope they had a good time like I did. It was nice standing next to Gene Bunting playing Archie's music once again. Gene, we miss you! Carol T. was a riot again leading the corps in her "illuminating" get up. Pink flamingos were sighted about the Erin Shores the entire weekend. Archie stepped off early in the first division of Saturday's parade, and we were back at the hotel in about one hour! Some members had to change and do the parade a second time with another corps, if you can believe that! That is dedication to the beast. I think everyone survived. Chas and Nate started the post parade BBQ and didn't stop untill the food was gone. Omar our DJ set up his gear and we partied untill I personally put the corps to bed at 3:15 am Sunday morning. If you missed it, your loss. See you in a few weeks at the post. Tony B. CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: Jarrod Pierce
EMAIL: Phatboyindahouse@msn.com
FROM: Lemoore CA
Date: 10 Jun 2004
Time: 02:27:46
COMMENTS

I am sorry Danielle Ashley Hays: I am just sorry we did not give each other a chance to have relationship and if it went all way GIVE OUR SELF'S TO EACH OTHER!Name:Jarrod Dean Pierce/Mishoe should of been class of 2001 you were class of 2003 I should of been there to see you Graduate.

NAME: Connie Feeney
EMAIL: feeney@alltel.net
FROM: Worthington, Pa. 16262
Date: 15 Jun 2004
Time: 15:28:11
COMMENTS

Great site, I am a director of the Worthington Lionettes marching corp!!!

NAME: hank
EMAIL: rock468160@aol.com
FROM: ma.
Date: 21 Jun 2004
Time: 13:03:20
COMMENTS

NAME: Richard Baxter
EMAIL: http://www.richardbaxterdrums.com
FROM: Ottawa,Canada
Date: 25 Jun 2004
Time: 06:38:15
COMMENTS

Hey there......Drummer from Ottawa..checking out this website.....Rock On,Rock Out..... Best wishes..... Richard Baxter http://www.richardbaxterdrums.com

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NAME: norm corrieri
EMAIL: ncorrieri@blazenet.nret
FROM: littlestown pa.(balto.)
Date: 27 Jun 2004
Time: 22:05:16
COMMENTS

how is the corps doing.now that i am retired from drum corps i don't hear from any one, or see any one.send me an e-mail an let me know what is happening


NAME: Stacy Schott-Ratajski
EMAIL: lillyrose762004@yahoo.com
FROM: UpperDarby/Havertown
Date: 03 Jul 2004
Time: 19:45:47
COMMENTS

I wish you still had a jr. corps. I miss it there.

NAME: Tony Brown (Tom)
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 05 Jul 2004
Time: 14:38:44
COMMENTS

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Hello everyone! I want to thank all of the corps members who marched in this weekends Fourth of July parades. As we all get older these hot and humid days really reak havoc on our bodies. Why do I sound like a cardiologist? Three parades in just two days is alot for any marching organization, but once again Archie survived! The crowds loved "Boardwalk" and "Stripes" by their responses. We always should play to the crowd whether large or small. We might be the only drum and bugle corps that they will see. I don't want them thinking that we're a BAND! No flutes, saxes, amplifiers, singers. Old style drum corps! Horns, drums, the "Stars and Stripes" leading the corps down the street. A few spectators told me that we were the first unit playing a tune that they recognized! Old style drumcorps! After the parade we went back to the post on the water and split a keg with the Yankee Rebels folks. The local Vietnam Veterans Chapter had their remembrance ceremony and they asked me if I would mind playing "Taps" for them. Of course the answer was "No problem!", and with the echo from Joe Schmids, the Musketeers were heard from once again. Old style drum corps! Remember? We still do! Take care. Tony B. CDHSMU'82 AE AFO+OFA

NAME: mike mc ginn
EMAIL: popmicky@aol.com
FROM:
Date: 11 Jul 2004
Time: 22:00:26
COMMENTS

Marched with Archie 1957-1961

NAME: Phil Crouthamel
EMAIL: prcrouthamel@comcast.net
FROM: ARCHIE
Date: 21 Jul 2004
Time: 23:52:14
COMMENTS

One of our own, Vince D'Agostino, is severely ill. If anyone would like to send him encouragement, please send them courtesy of the Post. Archer Epler Musketeers, C/O Vince D'Agostino, 6736 Marshall Road, Upper Darby, Pa 19082

NAME: Phil Crouthamel
EMAIL: prcrouthamel@comcast.net
FROM: ARCHIE
Date: 22 Jul 2004
Time: 00:01:26
COMMENTS

I was just informed that long time Musketeer, Louie Tierno passed away on Monday, July 19th. His funeral is on Thursday, July 22nd, Monti Funeral Home, 2533 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa from 7-9 pm.

NAME: Lois Tierno
EMAIL: loiswt@comcast.net
FROM:
Date: 23 Jul 2004
Time: 17:10:13
COMMENTS

From the Tierno Family,

We would like to thank all of you for you thoughts and prayers. All of you are very special to us.

The Tierno Family

NAME: pat/lou polichetti
EMAIL: polichettio@com.net
FROM: Hatboro,Pa.
Date: 24 Jul 2004
Time: 00:10:35
COMMENTS

It was just great to see the old gang again, although so many of our brothers and sisters have passed on.But this site has brought back many old memories and many happy occasions, one being if wasn't for the corps I would not be married today. God bless the Musketeers and God bless America lou,pat polichetti

NAME: Lonna Picozzi
EMAIL: lpicozzi@rohmhaas.com
FROM: Laurel Springs, NJ
Date: 30 Jul 2004
Time: 15:51:14
COMMENTS

There is a former member of the corps who does not receive the news letter. Here is his information: Jim Ross, 518 Rohach Road, Aston, PA 19104. Not sure of the years associated with the corps but I know it was right after WWII. Please add him to the mailing list.

NAME: PAUL ZITO
EMAIL: FPAULZ@YAHOO.COM
FROM: SADDLE BROOK, NJ
Date: 16 Aug 2004
Time: 20:09:22
COMMENTS

I WILL NEVER FORGET THE GREAT TIMES SPENT AT THE POST HOME DURING THE MID '50'S. I REMEMBER SINGING ALL NIGHT LONG WITH BUD JOHNSON,TOMMY MARTIN,JOE GENERO, CARMAN CLUNA, JIMMY DAMICO,PAUL MCGANN AND BEST OF ALL, BIG JACK WARNER....I SURE HOPE THAT WE CAN DO IT AGAING WHEN WE GET TO THAT BIG GIG IN THE SKY...PAUL ZITO

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@ aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 25 Aug 2004
Time: 20:12:11
COMMENTS

Hello everybody! How has the summer been going for you? We should enjoy the time off from Archie and catch up with our "other lives". You remember vacations, family problems, health problems, work problems, etc. Yeah, that life outside the fantasy life that is drum corps. You can see how my summer has been going. And by the way, this has nothing to do with me turning 40 on Aug. 7th! Thanks for the cards and the Rolex! HA, HA! Minor surgery on the 9th was fun due to my reaction to the anesthesia. I didn't feel right for a week afterward. I'm looking forward to rehearsal this Friday nite. Hope to see you there. Tony CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: Lloyd Spangler
EMAIL: lwsrms53@aol.com
FROM: very old alumni
Date: 29 Aug 2004
Time: 19:43:13
COMMENTS

NAME: Jean Perreault
EMAIL: JeanPerreault2@aol.com
FROM: St. Kevins & Light Brigade
Date: 04 Sep 2004
Time: 12:15:42
COMMENTS

NAME: Lois Tierno
EMAIL: loiswt@comcast.net
FROM:
Date: 08 Sep 2004
Time: 15:23:49
COMMENTS

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to get in touch with Bill Ives, can anyone help me out?

Thanks, Lois

NAME: Carol Ann Fallon
EMAIL: Shipmates38@aol.com
FROM: 57 Hall Road, Barrington, New Hampshire 03825
Date: 20 Sep 2004
Time: 10:07:20
COMMENTS

Just stopping in to say hello to all of you. I get kind of home sick up here. I think of all the great times had and special people who I shared times with from Archie. I'd love to hear from any of you if you find yourselves with a few extra minutes to write. Thinking about all of you, Carol Ann (Schaffer) Fallon

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester, NJ
Date: 22 Sep 2004
Time: 15:21:46
COMMENTS

Hello everyone! Just checking in and seeing what's been going on on the site. I see that Carol Fallon checked in from NH. Saw her daughter, Tammy at DCI East this past August in Allentown. Has she grown since I last saw her! I'm glad to see Ray and Carol's children are still involved in the activity. That is keeping the tradition of Drum Corps alive. i want to congratulate Empire Statesmen for winning the 2004 DCA Title, a few weeks ago in Scranton, PA. We missed the show, but I heard from alot of my fellow Archie corps members, that it was a great Finals. I'm a closet Cabs fan, sorry Marty! Maybe next year Bill Doty! I've been sitting here at home practicing with my bugle, and I wonder why I don't seem to get any better at it. My range is there, but my tone quality!?! SUCKS! How do guys like Centerino, Screech, Maratta, and Ponzo do that stuff? Help! Maybe I need to switch to mello or bari? These horns don't play like regular brass instruments, do they? That's what makes drum and bugle corps unique and more challenging for me personally. I liked the movie "Drumline" alot. Why don't they make a film about horn players too. A movie about a drum corps would blow people's minds with some of the antics and happenings that go on within a corps. All of the passions and emotions that you'll never get without marching, from that PS2 or X-Box. Hope to see Ya at rehearsal this Friday nite. Take care! Tony CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: Ronnie SIGLOW
EMAIL: rsiglow@hotmail.com
FROM: Union City Tenn.
Date: 01 Oct 2004
Time: 06:38:05
COMMENTS

WHO IS THE SIGLOW MENTIONED IN THIS GROUP....I THOUGHT MY FAMILY IN TENN WAS THE ONLY ONES LEFT....THANKS RONNIE SIGLOW USAF

NAME: kay armstrong keays
EMAIL: kaykeays@msn.com
FROM: st vinnies-star of indiana
Date: 03 Oct 2004
Time: 21:06:14
COMMENTS

would like information on the 2005 GAS

NAME: Ronisha
EMAIL: queennish2004@yahoo.com
FROM: New Haven Ct.
Date: 19 Oct 2004
Time: 08:28:04
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NAME: Ronisha
EMAIL: queennish2004@yahoo.com
FROM: New Haven Ct.
Date: 19 Oct 2004
Time: 08:29:12
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I want to know what do u do r u in charge of drill teams or competions if not just right me and tell me who u r thank u

NAME: Tony Brown (Tom)
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 25 Oct 2004
Time: 23:44:34
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Hello everyone! Just want to remind you all of the Halloween Party this coming Friday evening at the Starlux Hotel in Wildwood, NJ! This year's party is going to be a BLAST! If you are coming down for Saturday's parade and show only, that's cool too. I've spoken to other people in the other corps participating and they just keep asking about OUR party. I just tell them lots of food and beer like it used to be! It should be a interesting weekend for all. I hope you can get your butts down and have a great time. See you at the shore! Tony

NAME: William (Bill) Ertle
EMAIL: wjertle2@aol.com
FROM: Now.. Delaware
Date: 26 Oct 2004
Time: 15:17:09
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Hi All, Back on the East coast, now in Delaware. Oregon was a great place to live but I belong on this side of the world.

good luck, and hope to stop by after I am settled in... Bill Ertle Snare

NAME: O DAVE
EMAIL: 22MUGU@YAHOO.COM
FROM: LOME TOGO W/A
Date: 30 Oct 2004
Time: 09:22:13
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GREAT SITE.

NAME: O DAVE
EMAIL: 22MUGU@YAHOO.COM
FROM: LOME TOGO W/A
Date: 30 Oct 2004
Time: 09:31:54
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GREAT SITE.

NAME: Tony Brown (Tom)
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester, NJ
Date: 01 Nov 2004
Time: 19:16:38
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Hello everyone! Well, the weekend at Wildwood was really cool. Archie, Rebels, Reilly, SAC, Cabs, Blackhawks, Skyliners, Golden Eagles. Wow! If you missed this one, oh well! Archer-Epler hosted the Halloween party at the Starlux Hotel once again. It was nice to see so many of you there though many didn't recognize me in my costume. I was the evil Darth Vader if you couldn't make it. Many people wore some great costumes. My personal favorites were the "Shit" family. Tough, hot, bull, and chicken as I recall. We had alot of fun like last year. Saturday's parade went off pretty well. I didn't hear of any fatalities! If you go to the Photos page on the site, click on Wildwood 2004 and you'll see some great shots taken by Bob Englebrecht from Archie's bari section. I had to leave the show a little early to help set up the Starlux again, but I did catch the Sayerville Golden Eagles from Long Island, NY. They sounded fantastic! The balance and quality of their sound really impressed this bugler. You can sound that well even without 100 horns. Nice job! Hope to see you guys again in the future, like our Brass Reunion Show next year. Well, I gotta go and practice..... right! I'm still looking for my lip inside my mouthpiece. See Ya! Tony B. CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: VINNY MAGRINO
EMAIL: BIGV106@AOL.COM
FROM: SKYLINERS ALUMNI
Date: 02 Nov 2004
Time: 04:51:24
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GREAT SHOW @ WILDWOOD. TELL YOUR CONTRA PLAYER THAT 2 HEADS ARE BETTER THAN 1, BUT 3 THATS AWSOME

NAME: marie Foley
EMAIL: marie1027@earthlink.net
FROM: St. Vincent's Cadets, Rochester Phoenix, Rochester Phoenix, Florida Brass Alumni, Tampa Bay
Date: 02 Nov 2004
Time: 09:57:44
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Good luck to you guys. Looking good. I hope this will be a good alumni year. marie

NAME: John P Connelly
EMAIL: skyguy@dandy.net
FROM: Wildwood
Date: 02 Nov 2004
Time: 10:00:54
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Fantastic party Friday Great show Saturday Don`t stop now

NAME: Jay McGuffin
EMAIL: j.mcguffin@att.net
FROM: Chicago, Illinois
Date: 02 Nov 2004
Time: 12:04:51
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Really enjoyed this site - as a member of another great coprs (albeit junior) from the 50s (Des Plaines Vanguard) and now a member of a Reunion Corps (Chicago Royal Airs Senior Exhibition Corps) it so great see Archie again! Please do stop by my Vanguard historcial website at www.desplainesvanguard.com if you get a chance for some more nostalgia - even a few vintage photos of the Skokie Indians who were (more or less) our big brothers when we were located in Skokie. Thanks Again!

NAME: Nancy Ritchie
EMAIL: Busaide63@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City
Date: 02 Nov 2004
Time: 17:25:37
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NAME: Al Mclaughlin
EMAIL: albert.mclaughlin@snet.net
FROM: Mystic, Connecticut
Date: 03 Nov 2004
Time: 19:17:59
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I have been a fan of the Musketeers for years. I became aware of the group while with the U.S. Air Force Drum Corps from 1958- 1962

NAME: Billy Rieker
EMAIL: LtRieker@comcast.net
FROM:
Date: 04 Nov 2004
Time: 10:06:33
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well i know everone is asking for me but i have a lot of things going on with school and tech school that i might be going to well i talk to Uncle Tony most of the time when i can but with school,band,and thing that i'm geting for the sound system.. Well i hope to be there on friday but i got to go to UTI a Tech school that i'm looking at well i think i sed a lot b/c now i got to go to work i hope to see u friday night and dave should come to but idk well later everone at Archie

NAME: Dolores Gentile
EMAIL: gentile32@netzero.com
FROM: Yankee Rebels
Date: 04 Nov 2004
Time: 11:56:26
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Hi Guys,

Loved your pictures from the Wildwood Show this weekend. Just wanted to let you know that I got chills, as I'm sure you did, when Patrick Taylor came from the audience while you were playing God Bless America. All I can say is God Bless Patrick and his family.

Dolores Gentile

NAME: Michael Zarecky
EMAIL: zarecky@jlab.org
FROM: Former St. Lucy's Drummer
Date: 08 Nov 2004
Time: 12:55:25
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Hi, Just wanted to try to get keep in contact with some of the friends I had met while maching with the Cadets in 1968. Itraveled in from Pennsylvania every week to practices and competitions.

Mike (eggbert)

NAME: LILIAN PRISCILA
EMAIL: LILI_THEBEST_6@MSN.COM
FROM: BRASIL
Date: 08 Nov 2004
Time: 19:38:41
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NAME: alex sawello
EMAIL: asawello@aol.com
FROM: audubon
Date: 09 Nov 2004
Time: 12:02:06
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NAME: alex sawello
EMAIL: asawello@aol.com
FROM: st, lucy,s cadets
Date: 09 Nov 2004
Time: 12:11:36
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NAME: Tom Breen
EMAIL: papaTB@webtv.net
FROM: Brooklyn N.Y.
Date: 15 Nov 2004
Time: 15:11:05
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Great site & love the Corps. I am planning a reunion of the first Drum & Bugle Corps I marched with The Blue Angels From Brooklyn N.Y. www.BLUEANGELSREUNION.COM I am seeking any idea's for loaner equipment from April-October 2005.We are not looking for anything fancy. When we disbanded in 1975 we where playing the one valve /rotary horn.Any help or direction you can offer would be greatfully appreciated. Tommy Martin was our Brass instructor & will be offering his services. All I need now is the equipment. Thanks for your time & any help you can offer. Tom Breen

NAME: Jim Cossetti
EMAIL: AGI145@aol.com
FROM:
Date: 20 Nov 2004
Time: 09:36:20
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Just received email that greatly saddens both Dot & I. It told of the tragedy that struck Steve Crouthamel & his family on the morning on 11/17. Our prayers are with Steve, his family, 'JJ' and Phil and Trudy.

I implore anyone who reads of this loss to please contribute whatever you can in material items, money, prayers.....whatever you can.....to help one of our own, not only as an alumnus, but as a member of the drum corps community.

Material things can be replaced, but nothing can ever replace a child lost. We can all come together to help these kids recover materially as well as spiritually.

Phil & Trudy, our brother and sister, you will be in our prayers daily. Your family has faithfully been part of Archie for many years. Please know that we love you and your family.

The information I received stated that the donations and contributions are being handled by Carol and Chas Coffman. Please make and effort to act on this as soon as possible.

Thank you all.......fellow Musketeer and all other drum corps brothers and sisters.

NAME: Dorothy McMahon (nee Cornthwaite)
EMAIL: worldlymom@optonline.net
FROM: Morris Plains, NJ
Date: 20 Nov 2004
Time: 15:09:17
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Am I overly optimistic in hoping there may be a few of my peers out there seeking to reestablish connections? My graduate year was '41 - a memorable year to be on campus!

NAME: JIm Capra
EMAIL: jjc_48@msn.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 24 Nov 2004
Time: 11:25:06
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Hello Musketeers! I'm still here after 30 years service! Still a pain to some. Just sitting here with our fabulous lead soprano, Tony Brown, trying to get the bugs out of my PC! Quack! Wher are you? HELP! We think we just struck oil. We got to this web site somehow! MSN makes it hard for us civilians. THIS HAS BEEN A TEST OF THE CAPRA BROADCASTING SYSTEM! AFO+OFA Jimmy

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City.NJ
Date: 03 Dec 2004
Time: 15:12:05
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Hello everybody! I was just siitting here at the computer looking at some of the MSN group web sites and I saw a few really good ones concerning drum corps/senior/junior corps. My friend Marlene Brown from here in South Jersey has a site on corps of the 50's,60's,70's. It is really awsome. There are alot of members who marched with numerous corps from those eras. Sadly alot of those corps are no-more. But it is nice to see that the memories are being kept alive by the former members, and or their surviving family members. Here is a question. What happened to our activity over these past 50 or so years? All of the local communities in the inner cities and surrounding rural areas abandoned drum corps as a youth activity for our kids. I see more stories on the evening news about violence and crime being committed by kids! Getting killed for not giving up a jacket. Shot outside thier school. Raped by a classmate or even worse a teacher! It seems to me that the morals of this country have been thrown out the window! We have troops in Iraq dying for people who seem to not even care about thier own country's laws. Look around your own community a little closer. See anything in common with those bastards in Iraq? We had the luxury of growing up in the old days when being a American, a free American, meant alot more to most people. These people today take it for granted. They seem not to care about other people's freedom, rights, and even lives! They see what they see and turn thier head and look away. It is a sad period in America. Hell, a sad period for this world! Tony

NAME: edward
EMAIL: esromero@pldt.com.ph
FROM: MANILA, Philippines
Date: 05 Dec 2004
Time: 04:14:36
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Long live Archie. It was sometime in 1968 when I came accross about "The Archer-Epler Musketeers' thru a Fleetwood recording of the Cavalcade of Champ in 1962 with Reilly Raiders on the flip side. It was brought by one of our ex-member of our high school corps who was then enlisted in the US Navy. Together with this was also an LP from Somerset which contins the exclusive recordings of your great corps. I remember some of these pieces were We are the musketeer Vocal & full corps, Nat'l Emblem, Stars & stripes Forever, Younger Than Springtime, Rampart Street Parade, Speak Low, My Lord & Master, Fahree, Queen of Sheba, I could no longer recall the other titles but I still now by heart the melody. We began to play those pieces and soon beacme the favorite of some of the local corps. The Medley from Camelot (from your 62 album) was one of pride during concerts. Thank you Archie because of this pieces we were able to upgrade our quality of music.

God bless you all & regards to everyone

Edward S. Romero

NAME: joe galligan
EMAIL: galliganx@hotmail.com
FROM: spotsylvania va
Date: 05 Dec 2004
Time: 12:11:18
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i started in the tri community cadet the howard c mccall. played snare and tenor w/jack corey and was taught by bill reimer. spent a career in the marine corps retired in 1975. im still very interested in playing although a lot of rust has taken over these worn joints.

NAME: joe galligan
EMAIL: galliganx@hotmail.com
FROM: spotsylvania va
Date: 05 Dec 2004
Time: 12:12:10
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i started in the tri community cadet the howard c mccall. played snare and tenor w/jack corey and was taught by bill reimer. spent a career in the marine corps retired in 1975. im still very interested in playing although a lot of rust has taken over these worn joints.

NAME: RAY MALLEN
EMAIL: mallen9@cox.net
FROM: ST. LUCY'S CADETS 65-69'
Date: 10 Dec 2004
Time: 18:41:51
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JUST WANTED TO REGISTER MY E-MAIL TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE FRIENDS I MADE WHEN WE WERE KIDS AND INVINCEABLE. ST. PAT'S AND ST. LUCY'S WERE MY LIFE FOR 11 YEARS AND I WOULDN'T HAVE CHANGED A SECOND OF IT. I HAVE NEVER FELT IN MY LIFE THE WAY I FELT IN 1968 IN BRIDGEPORT, CONN. WHEN AN UNBEATEN ST. LUCY'S BEAT AN UNBEATEN AND DEFENDING NATIONAL CHAMPION BOSTON CRUSADERS.IT WAS MAGICAL AND ANY GUY FROM LUCY'S WOULD PROBABLY SAY THE SAME THING. WE WERE 30 AND 2 THAT YEAR BUT THAT WAS THE SWEETEST WIN FOR ME. EVEN THOUGH WE BEAT BOSTON IN THE DREAM CONTEST THAT YEAR, WE'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT NIGHT IN CONN. I'LL NEVER FORGET MICKEY PETRONE STOPPING US AFTER WE FINISHED THE OFF THE LINE IN PRACTICE, BECAUSE WE WERE SO HOT HE DIDN'T WANT US TO DO "THE" SHOW IN PRACTICE. I NEVER FELT A GROUP SO READY TO DO ANYTHING AS THAT NIGHT. GOD BLESS ALL WHO READ THIS. RAY MALLEN MELLPHONE ST. LUCY'S CADETS 65-THE END

NAME: Tony Brown
EMAIL: T1SOP@ aol.com
FROM: Gloucester City, NJ
Date: 12 Dec 2004
Time: 21:00:22
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Hello everyone! Well Archie is in the middle of the holiday season once again. We participated in the Yardley Christmas parade yesterday. The corps had a great turnout for this one. All sections were well represented. I think both the drumline and hornline outdid themselves. The balance was near perfect and our honor guard looked sharp to boot. The parade started a little earlier than usual,3pm instead of 5. The crowd really liked us from what I could see. We played "Jingle Bells". "We Wish You a Merry Christmas","Joy to the World", "Auld Lang Syne", and that Christmas classic, "Under the Boardwalk"! Seems the baritones always get their favorite in somewhere. We even had a guest drum major on the street. The Phillie Phanatic showed up Carol Terreri a little bit with his belly roll and flashed the corps. Nice to see that Larry Bowa still has a job with the team. When the parade was over we went back to the Legion for food and drink and a well deserved rest. We've got our Christmas party this coming Friday nite after a short practice. Hope to see you there. Take care! Tony B. CDHSMU'82 AE

NAME: John Bistline,Jr
EMAIL: j.bistline@fhpaint.com
FROM:
Date: 13 Dec 2004
Time: 12:46:02
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Hey everyone.I want to take this oppurtunity to thank Tony,Bubba,Robbie,Duke,Dave,& the other sopranos,for helping my Johnny with his first official horn carrying,uniform wearing parade in Yardley.He was so excited,he wore his uniform as soon as he got up on Saturday.My only regret is that my parents are not alive to see this happen.My father especially,would have gotten a kick out of seeing his grandson,a "third generation",marching down the street.The amount of pride swelling in me is immeasurable-I have a tear in my eye.Thank-You all again so very much.And of course I am also very proud of my William for always doing a great job with the banner.He wants to play the drums now."UH OH"...

NAME: Starriders DBC
EMAIL: info@starriders.de
FROM: bad muender/germany
Date: 15 Dec 2004
Time: 05:41:30
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Season`s Greetings from the Starriders Drum & Bugle Corps www.starriders.de

NAME: Marching Band Flying Drums
EMAIL: Flying-Drums@lycos. de
FROM: www.Flying-Drums.com
Date: 15 Dec 2004
Time: 19:48:12
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Die Marching Band Flying Drums wünscht euch allen frohe Weinachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2005

NAME: Walter Karpinski
EMAIL: walterkar@verizon.net
FROM: Somerset, N.J.
Date: 16 Dec 2004
Time: 15:28:42
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One of our dear members John Whitelam passed away on Tuesday 12/14/04. John played contra bass in the great corps of the 50ths and early 6oths. He was a good friend and a gentleman and will be missed by many.

NAME:
EMAIL:
FROM:
Date: 16 Dec 2004
Time: 15:29:37
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NAME: SPC Patrick W. Taylor
EMAIL: patrick.wade.taylor@us.army.mil
FROM: Iraq at the present time
Date: 17 Dec 2004
Time: 08:22:21
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hey y'all i am here in Iraq and boy is it cold it is 25-30 degrees at nite and 50-65 degrees by day they say in January it will be in the single digits by nite it sucks here but i think it will be fine love you all and talk soon

NAME: ali
EMAIL: princealiayuba@yahoo.com
FROM: india
Date: 17 Dec 2004
Time: 10:44:31
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contact for business international deal

NAME: Rick Dixon
EMAIL: dixonr@kwic.com
FROM: Canadian Ensemble
Date: 19 Dec 2004
Time: 09:02:33
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It is with great pride and admiration that I congratulate our friends in Archie for their performance in Hamilton....great job and looking forward to 2005.....Rick

NAME: Don Beach
EMAIL: parkcitypride@comcast.net
FROM: http://www.theparkcitypride.org
Date: 21 Dec 2004
Time: 14:11:54
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I'd like to wish all of our Musketeer friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, and properous New Year Don Beach Director Park City Pride

NAME: joe nicholson
EMAIL: joseph.nicholson@tycohealthcare.com
FROM: PARK CITY PRIDE
Date: 22 Dec 2004
Time: 10:33:31
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AS A BOARD MEMBER AND A PLAYING MEMBER I WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL THE MUSKETEERS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE PARK CITY PRIDE. I HOPE BOTH CORPS WILL MEET UP SOME TIME. JOE.

NAME: Stan Lecatsas
EMAIL: stantmagin@verizon.net
FROM: Archie 1959-60-61-62-63
Date: 28 Dec 2004
Time: 18:09:47
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I was from Reading, Pa and was in the Great West Reading Police Cadets (french horn) until 1955 joind the US Navy and came back May of 1959 and Joined the Great Archie (french horn) along with my reading buddies, Paulie Roland, George "Dork" Sponagle, John Flowers, Ronnie Fisher, Billy Donifreo, Dewey Smith, and Cant remember who the other guy was. I alway loved my Archie and will never loose my pride. I joined the Reading Bucs because i was the only one from reading still traveling to Archie so i spent 1964 and the 1965 season with the Bucs (french horn) and after winning the first DCA contest i then went on the road as a musician and after a few years i went into the U.S. Air Force for 24 more military years. My offce phone # is 800-482-9110 and my cel# 570-204-4849 // My fax # 877-330-4566. Have not run into any of my old friends since returning home and if you still have an alumni corp I would be very interested in Joining. What a great corp we had and what a fantastic group of guys that will probably never be matched in any corp from those days on into the present. We were second to none besides being all for one and one for all and that was really true about us. We were all very powerful horn players and we knew it along with a fine drum line. Hope to hear from someone in the near future. Today is 28 December 2004 "Archie Forever" Stan L

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Hello Musketeer's and friends. We're wishing everybody a happy and healthy year 2005.

Chuck and Carole Smith

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We al mourn the loss of drum corps icon Joe Genero. Joe taught and arranged brass for corps like Connecticut Hurricanes, Hawthorne Caballers, Skyliners, most recently Park City Pride and countless junior corps. His long battle with his health issues and passing has left his wife Sara with a huge finacial burdon. The Joseph P. Genero Fund has been established to help defray some of the expenses Joe left behind. You can donate either online or by mail. By mail make checks to The Joseph P. Genero Fund Donald Beach Trustee and mail to Park City Pride 10 Pleasant Valley Rd Clinton, Ct 06413. Online visit our web site http://www.theparkcitypride.org and click on the paypal button under the announcement concerning Joe's passing on out home page. By doing this you can donate in any amount securley using a credit card and paypal. I urge all of you to donate as generously as you possibly can. All of your donation goes directly to Joe's widow Sara Thank You Don Beach Director Park City Pride

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Hello everyone! Just want to thank all of you for your concern with my upcoming heart cath this Friday. Wow, I'm gonna miss a rehearsal for a legitamate reason! Just keep those cards and CASH coming. I hope that you have a great rehearsal Saturday while I'm recovering on some tropical island. I should be back in a week or so. Hope to see ya'all real soon. Tony CDHSMU'82 AE DSB

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Archie's famous drum roll. need I say more... Archie forever... A Pittsburgh Rocket alumni.

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Heool! My name is Stephanie . I marched and competed with the Royaleers all girls marching drum and bugle corp. That was in 1962-1964 out of Haddonfield, NJ. Gale Hansen was the drum major and her dad was one of the leaders. We were sponsored by Christ the King Church. The Bunker twins played second horn at that time. I had the best times of my life, marching down 5th AVenue in New YOrk. Competing against other bugle corps.Like the Shamrocks, the Vagabonds and so many others. What a great time ! Stephanie (maiden name) Del Campo

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