Information Drum Corps THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE ONTARIO DRUM CORPS ASSOCIATION OAKLAND CRUSADERS ­ AMBASSADORS ­ VENTURES ­ CARDINALS ­ LES JOUVENCELLES ­ CADET LANCERS ­ BELLES OF ST JOHN ­ BEST CORPS IN CANADA VENTURES CARDINALS LES JOUVENCELLES - CADET LANCERS CRUSADERS BELLES I "INFORMA nON DRUM CORPS" No. 76-3 Oct. 7976 ******************************************** COVER COMMENTS: Information Best in their Class, The Oakland Crusaders at Retreat, The Ambassadors receive the 1st place trophy from CDCA President, AI Tierney ... Drum Corps The Ventures Drum Majors receive their trophy from The Official Newsletter of Mr. Andrew Lipchak of the Ministry of Culture & Rec­ The Ontario Drum Corps Association,1 nco reational Affairs of Ontario. Mr, Lipchak and Mr. Tierney congratulate the Cardinals and Les Jouvencelles. Mr . Jack Editorial Offices: Turner, President of The 'e' Circuit congratulates the Suite 302, 205 Keele St.,Toronto, Ont., 'e' Champions, the Cadet-Lancers and Mayor Herb Epp M6P 2K1. of Waterloo makes the presentation to the Crusaders. The EDITOR: Don Daber. Belles of St.John with their 'E' Championship trophy. ART: Paul McCusker & Don Daber. (Photos by Don Daber and Eric McConnachie.) PHOTOS: Doug Smith, Pete McCusker, *********************************************** Eric IVlcConachie & Don Daber. CI RCU LATION: 4,500 printed copies. IN THIS ISSUE: This publication is available to each Review of Nationals '76.......................................... 3 marching member of the ODCA Member Staff Report. Corps, and their management, staff, Letters To The Editor ............................................ 5 free of charge as part of the corps member­ ship fee. 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Doug Smith, Suite 7770, 7007 Main St. w., Hamilton,L8S 7A9 Don Dober, Suite 302, 205 Keele St" Toronto, Ont.M6P 2K7 Doug' Smith Don Daber 2 "/NFORMA nON DRUM CORPS " No. 76-3 Part of the overflow crowd at Seagram Stadium for the night finals. (D.Daber, Photo) and was too busy breaking up and trying to GOOD CROWD ... GREAT CORPS PERFORMANCES... take pictures at the same time to record the EXCELLANT ORGANIZATION various hilarious remarks. MAKES NATIONALS '76 A SUCCESS .... The Dinner was follo~Jed at 9: 30 P ~1 by a meeting of all the Directors of the corps, Nationals '76 was an imrned.iate success competing the next day, with the Board of this year. Perfect weather during the day Directors of the COCA, the Board of the K-W an extensive advertising campaign during Association and the Chief Judge of CJA. the week previous, paid off with an over­ RIles of the day '-lere xevie\.,ed and all flow crowd at the night finals. questions pertaining to the Nationals \-lere Headquarters for the Judges, Directors anS\'le red at this time. Fortunately , this year CDCA Executive and the Nationals '76 comm­ there were no release problems or questions i ttee was the Waterloo Hotor Inn, '-lhere of overage members, so the meeting went the weekend events got underway Friday very smoothly. evening with a dinner hosted by the K-W Following this meeting, and with Association Executive for the Directors of everyone in a good frame of mind, those the Association and the Caption Chiefs of present moved to another room dO\m the the Judge's Chapter headed by Chief Judge hall and a cocktail party hosted by Vince Macciocchi. Bill Renaud, President the COCA. Question of the evening••• of the K-W Association was the Chairman for where did the President and his wife the informal dinner, which concluded when disappear to? he asked each of the Judges present to At 9:00AM the following day the first stand up, identify themselves and explain corps in competition took the field, just why they wanted to become a Judge. The Dutch Boy Cadets. They were followed Unfortunately, this reporter didn't have by The Cardinals of Precious Blood a tape recorder ,.,i th him to record the event (continued next page) ,WOW!!! THE RIFLE LINE OF ST. JOHNS ADD ON THE G.E. AT NA TIONALS .76 I!!! (D. Daber Photo) 3 NATIONALS '76 (continued) and The London Midlanders. The final prelim scores in this division: Dutch Boys:50.95, Cardinals:6l.2 and Midlanders 37.65; placing the Dutch Boys and the Cardinals into the night finals ••• (the top 10 corps of the day placed in the night finals in reverse order of finish) Next on were the "A Girls Class" two corps from Quebec, Les Marionettes and Les Chatel­ aines vs. two from Ontario••• The Ventures and St. Johns. Following the intermission after Judges for the Night Finals. (D. Daber photo) these 4 corps competed the scores were announ­ ced•••Marionettes--58.25, Chatelaines--58.45, The countdown now began with the Night Ventures--61.90 and St.Johns 52.15 placing all Finals starting about 7:30PM with the 4 girls corps into the night finals. introduction of the Judges, who looked a The "A Class" competed next starting with lot better in their uniformed appearance the Seneca Optimists, followed by The Krescendos than how they were decked out for the The Crusaders and The Flying Dutchmen. Following afternoon prelims. The listing--­ this division there '-las an hjlur's lunch break. M&M l---Johnson. G.E. M&M---Blundell. The A Division prelim scores: Seneca-80.S, M&M 2---Reifer. G.E. Drums-Cardwell. Krescendos-49.7, Crusaders-8l.85, Dutchmen­ Drums l-Darch. G.E. Bugles-Phillips. 61.60. All 4 corps in this class competed in Drums 2-Barbaro. Timing & the night finals. Bugles I-Brown. Penalty-----Francis. The Les Jouvencelles opened the after­ Bugles 2-Higgins. Tabulating--Rider. noon events competing in the 'Trumpet Chief-Macciocchi. Class'. They were the only corps entered The order of appearance for the corps: and won that division with a score of 39.05. tIC" Class: Golden LionS/Cadet Lancers. The Class "E" came next with one corps "Open Class"--Krescendos/Dutch Boys/St.Johns entered, the Belles of St. Johns, although Marionettes/Chatelaines/Cardinals/Dutchmen/ two were listed in the program. They came Ventures/Seneca Optimists/Crusaders. through with a score of 63.0 to win their About 3 1/2 hours later the reshuffle class. of positions and the results of Nationals Two corps entered in the tiD" Class••• '76••• East Scarborough Kinsmen and The Aurora JR. "C" •••Lions:77.8. Lancers:78.8 Open: Ambassadors. This was the Finals in this division and the Ambassadors came through 10---Krescendos•••••••• 50.1 9----Dutch Boys •••••••• 55.65 with a score of 74.7. The Kinsmen totaled 63.I. 8----St. Johns •• -.- •••••• 56.20 The "C" Class, the largest division of 7----Marionettes ••••••• 59.40 the day concluded the daytime events with 6----Chatellaines •••••• 61.70 nine corps in competition. The top t'-lO 5----Dutchmen••••••••••62.00 corps from these prelims would compete 4----Cardinals ••••••••• 64.10 against each other at the opening of the 3----Ventures •••••••••• 64.45 night finals to decide the Champion in 2----Seneca Optimists•• 83.65 that class. The order of competition,start­ l----Oakland Crusaders.B6.10 ing at about 2:00PM was The Kiwanis Kaval­ -------------------------------------------- iers, Durham Girls, Rose City GUBrdsmen, Sudbury Blue Saints, The Coachmen, The Simcoe Lions, The Cadet-Lancers, The Leamington Townsmen and St. Andrews. The Prelim results: PAUL MCCUSKER Kavaliers---69.4 Golden Lions-----72.4 Durham------54.6 Cadet-Lancers----73.0 drum corps" Guardsmen---68.3 Townsmen---------39.0 " p..rtWorl<. tor Blue Saints-35.6 St. Andrews------35.6 Coachmen----37.2 Posters, logos, cartoons. The Golden Lions and The 6 Goldie Avenue, Guelph, Ont took the top two scores to Telephone (519) 822-5560 finals. .-~..~~--.. ~-.~ ~ 20 issues for a$5 bill DCW..•• Here is my $5 for 1 year of Drum Corps World! Name Ik,. Address City _____________________-1 Clt>1i>t...J State Corps ----.-.--------­ ..,.NJ DRUM CORPS WORLD August 15,1975 Check here if you've Volume 4 - Number never seen DCW. We'll P.O. BOX 130 ..._----' send a free sample copy! GOLDEN, Colorado 80401. 4 THE HARD DRIVING BUGLE LINE OF THE OAKLAND CRUSADERS GIVE THEIR ALL A T THE CLOSING OF THEIR SHOW AT NA TlONALS 76.. (D. Daber Photo) effort!! !" From all of us, associated with corps, letters we express a sincere "thank you." June 4,1976. Just received my June "Information Drum Sincerely yours, Corps" and frankly could hardly put it down K-W DRll1 CORPS ASSOCIATION, until I got through the ,,,hole issue.