George Dixon

I used a question mark only because we do not know.

yes, that was strange, and I agree - I was like "what?"

I had a blow by blow "I didn't say that" response, but this pretty much says it all: All I know is at least DB got the framework together which allowed the members to "do better"

100%

Which was THE POINT I WAS MAKING = we will NOT HEAR the details, because given her corporate background SHE KNOWS BETTER than to open the .org to a lawsuit. Duh. Never said it made her Mother Teressa

lol and YOU constantly call for the current guard team to be FIRED even though they took a team of drum corps rooks and did pretty darn well - how superior is it to have this "they are not worthy of Cadets" attitude which you continually post over and over.

maybe contact them if you wish / doubt you'll discover anything useful here

that's about right.

Wow the jumping to conclusions and assumptions going on in this thread 🤪 Dennise was a VP for Metlife for decades, pretty sure she knows how HR works > knowing that it is nearly impossible to imagine a tiny bit of this termination (?) tale will be told by her or Cadets.org. Thom was the most senior staff member, does anyone honestly think he was let go because of a member complaint about being woken up too early? Clearly there is much more to the situation than we know - frankly NOTHING has been announced, but when they announce a new percussion team (or more) then we'll know the what, but still not the why... And some of those commenting (2 in particular) - geez, it's just beyond...

do YOU?

very good point

sponsorship - and mentoring

Man we got to get these sickos OUT of all aspects of this activity - a national DB for the marching arts is a MUST - glad they took action.

it really is amazing isn't it - it is NOT about the director, OR the volunteer, OR the staff member, OR the designer, OR even the audience member - IT'S ABOUT THE KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not going to get into a public debate with you on this topic - but things were NOT good under SL. Not even a little bit.

My read on Cadets situation is >> losing TA sucks, but I think his wife being named "artistic director", his one son marching snare with crazy mouth open facial expressions all summer, his other son being the snare tech, Neil's son being a pit member - was all a bit much. Frankly it sadly reminded me of when GH named his GF guard caption head. And I think in the long run the corps would be better off without Darcie. JMO.

I wouldn't pay attention to ANYTHING Scott or George says, even if it was "the sky is blue"

yeah me and you agree - "cast" just sounds sooooo replaceable and temporary vs. member JMO

I don't know him. Never claimed to. But I know enough to know she >> him

"casting" > hate it

that's not how he's behaving.

anonymous member says so 🤣

not at all - my comment was absolutely NOT directed at TA - and it was not directed at anyone here in particular - it was directed at the general misogyny that seems prevalent in this activity - and in particular the agenda demonstrated here directed towards Denise. There's also a whole lot of personal agendas mixing in with the ongoing Cadets "Civil War" - change can be difficult. I get that.

given your own track record this is hilarious

Traits typical of the misogynist: He will zero in on a woman and choose her as his target. If a woman does better than him professionally, he feels terrible. He will unknowingly treat women differently from men in workplace, allowing men various liberties for which he will criticize female colleagues or friends. He will be prepared (unconsciously) to use anything within his power to make women feel miserable