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1960: Majestic Knights of Charlestown - "Washington Post March" 1965: Geneva Apple Knockers - "Invercargill March" 1965: Lt Norman Prince "Princemen" - "Allies On The March" 1966: St Kevin's Emerald Knights - "Billboard March" (Slightly better than the version played in 1969 by St Rita's Brassmen) 1968: 27th Lancers - "March of the Grenadiers" 1977: Racine Kilties -"McDuffy's March" 1994: 27th Lancers Alumni - "Crown Imperial"

<li class="ecxuiListItem ecxuiListLight ecxuiListVerticalItemBorder"> 27th Lancer Alumni Association 45th Legacy Reunion - A Reunion of Legacy and Love! October 19-21 2012 Danvers, Mass. - CoCo Key Hotel and Water Resort, soon to be Double Tree Hotel. A Celebration of our Lives together, the Mountains we climbed, Lessons learned, Laughter, Connection and "Tribute to All who cannot attend!" Lancer Video's thru the years, Trivia, Awards, and all those Stories! Awards for the Best George B stories! Hat, Trivia and Video Party starting on Friday nigh Banquet Saturday evening Sunday Morning with an optional Memorial Service and Brunch! The Water Park is Incredible and we have Special Rates for our Guests as well! Come and Join us in this Celebration of Laughter, and the Love we have for each other and this Great Organization! The reunion committee is:Patte Bonfiglio Blake, George Bonfiglio, Christa Ferguson-Cooke, Laura Daddario Flynn, Jeanne Gelineau-Tracey, Joanne Knowles-Dustin,Pamela Owen MacPherson, Stephanie Louden, and Roger Louden. Please follow these instructions for booking online: Step#1 go... to www.cpbostonns.com and select ”reservations” . Step#2 Or click on this link https://www.myfidelio.net/webui/AvailabilitySearch.aspx?chain=IQ&property=USCKH Step #3 Enter in booking code “LCR” under Group code and enter October 19, 2012 through October 21, 2012 for arrival and departure. All reservations need to be made by September 27, 2012. Check in time is at 4 p.m. Cancellations may be done by 6 p.m. October 12, 2012. No Deposit Required. Instructions for BOOKING VIA TELEPHONE: 978-777-2500 *Make sure to reference 27th Lancers The tickets for the banquet will be $60, information on ordering tickets will be coming soon with paypal instructions! go to www.27thlancers.net for more information or click here. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php? id=100000286441211&ref=ts#!/events/402982949727250/https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000286441211&ref=ts#!/events/402982949727250/

(To 27th Lancers, decked-out in the old khaki uni's) "How do you like our country?" "How long have you allowed colored kids to belong?" "Can you fix us up with some of your girls?" "How much are you paid?" "Can my kid blow your tuba?"

Thanks for having the courage to disagree with the DCP politically-correct line of thought. -Bill-

You were always a buncha rascals...

Colonel Truman W. Crawford was commander of the United States Marine Corps Drum & Bugle Corps from 1973-98. "Tru" died in 2003 at a hospital in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Charismatic and exacting, Colonel Crawford was credited with transforming "The Commandant's Own," based at the historic Marine barracks at Eighth and I Streets SE, into a professional organization and a spectacular recruiting tool that blasted audiences the world over with a rousing wall of sound. "We were pretty much a bunch of hack musicians before he came around," said the bugle corps' current commander, Major Brent Harrison. Colonel Crawford's influence extended well beyond the Marines. At points in the 1960s and 1970s, virtually every championship drum and bugle corps in the country was playing one of the hundreds of arrangements he made. Colonel Crawford became enamored of the form as a high school student in his native Endicott NY, where he heard a performance of the U.S. Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps. Shortly after graduation in 1953, he auditioned for the group and was accepted as a baritone bugler. In short order, he became the corps' musical director and senior noncommissioned officer. But the unit was disbanded in 1963, and he moved to Chicago and directed the Chicago Royal Airs, a nationally-ranked junior drum corps, and to run a music store. He continued to arrange and consult with civilian drum and bugle corps. Based on his reputation, he was asked to join the Marines in 1967 as a chief music arranger. During his tenure there, he jazzed up the playlist with show tunes and other popular music, and instituted a "slide-and-glide" style of marching that was a cool display of military efficiency. He also was influential in persuading manufacturers to produce bugles with two valves instead of one, allowing a greater range of notes. Rangy and bespectacled, Colonel Crawford was a picture of ease when he was directing, seeming to will the music out of his scarlet-clad troops as he rolled back and forth on his heels. He performed before nine presidents, many of whom he knew on a first-name basis. In 1979, he was given a scant two weeks to prepare a performance at Camp David, where Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin would have a diplomatic breakthrough. Recalling the experience in a 1997 interview with the Baltimore Sun, he said that the first words out of Begin's mouth after the performance were, "What a marvelous art form." When he retired, he was the oldest Marine on active duty. He became the musical director of the Baltimore-based Yankee Rebels Senior Drum & Bugle Corps, known nationally for its showmanship and musical innovative style. He also was inducted in 1979 into the Drum Corps Hall of Fame and had received the top honors of Drum Corps International and Kappa Kappa Psi, the national honorary band fraternity. He was a volunteer in the music programs of the Washington Metropolitan Boys Club, a coach of the Capital Boys Hockey Club and an official with the American Amateur Hockey Association. Until ALS made it impossible, also played in a senior hockey league.

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There's federal transportation money left from the Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere."

12:10 Standish Guards (Percussion Ensemble)12:20 Everett High School (Percussion Exhibition) 12:30 St Kevins (Percussion Ensemble) 12:40 Tom Farr - Belvederes/Defenders Alumni (Mid-Range Individual) 12:50 Rick Simard - Mass Brass (Mid-Range Individual) 1:00 Jerry Roderick - Mass Brass (Mid-Range Individual) 1:10 Tom Michalski - Bracken (Baritone Individual) 1:20 Paul Beachamp - Mass Brass (Baritone Individual) 1:30 Dan Skinner - Defenders (Baritone Individual) 1:40 Tom Michalski - Bracken (Contra Individual) 1:50 John Philbrook - Defenders (Contra Individual) 2:00 Paul Peregrim - Sky Alumni (Contra Individual) 2:10 Bob Needs - Imperials (Contra Individual) 2:20 Manchester Muchachos Alumni (Exhibition) 2:30 INTERMISSION 2:45 Basement Brass (Brass Ensemble) 3:00 Pembroke Imperials (Mini Corps) 3:15 Marksmen (Mini Corps) 3:30 Mass Brass (Mini Corps) 3:45 Boston Crusaders Alumni (Exhibition) 4:00 Defenders Alumni (Exhibition) 4:15 Legends of Mass Alumni (Exhibition)

So, since it is no longer drum & bugle corps, why does it purport to be so? And, since it is no longer drum & bugle corps, why should my loss of interest and failure to support the modern industry be met with sneers and accusations of disloyalty by it's contemporary supporters?

Note: prior to the 1980 season, Two-Seven ended their show (OTF) with "Danny Boy" for seven (not ten) previous seasons: 1970, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, and 79.

And Sugarbush and Stowe ski areas reported a foot of new powder snow every Thursday morning ...

SAw it. Thanks

You are both welcome, Grak and Oldfart. I'm trying to honor the memory of George and Patsy and all they did for us. It was nice to see Janice Burke and Jerry Foley at the "Legends" rehearsal at the Lt. Norman Prince VFW Hall in Melrose. (The place hasn't changed a bit in 40+ years.)

News to me, Andy but I'll check it out when I get home tonight. I know Arbella of Salem (80's) is making an alumni push. Defenders Alumni have recently picked up a few folks who marched up on the "Noath Shoah."

I'm sticking with 1980 Two-Seven rifle line as my first choice. (below is 1979 during "Danny Boy")... but I'll give "runner-up" award to the 1972 Anaheim Kingsmen rifle line: athleticism, precision, discipline, class. BTW, when George Bonfiglio first witnessed the Lancer rifles practicing the "lying-on the back" bit in the Fall of 1980 and ordered the rifle uniforms to include trousers ... nobody will be looking up their skirts! 1974 Anaheim KIngsmen

You rock, bruthah.

Sent out to Gail and Matt B in CT, Rob D in Pennsylvania, Tim L in Bradford MA, and James H in Michigan. Two Seven!

The 27th Lancer Alumni Association's 45th Legacy Reunion to be held 19-21 OCTOBER 2012 in Danvers, Mass. It will be held at the CoCo Key Hotel and Water Resort, soon to be a Double Tree Hotel. Instructions for booking rroom eservations ON-LINE: Step #1) go to www.cpbostonns.com and select RESERVATIONS . Step #2) Enter in booking code LCR under GROUP CODE. Step #3) For ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE, Enter October 19, 2012 through October 21, 2012. Instructions for booking room reservation by TELEPHONE: (978) 777-2500 - Make sure to to reference 27th Lancers _____________________________________ * All reservations need to be made by 27 SEP 2012. * Check in time is at 4:00 PM * Cancellations may be done NO LATER THAN 6:00 PM on 12 OCT 2012. * No deposit required. BANQUET TICKETS: $60 per person, information on ordering banquet tickets will be coming soon with PayPal instructions.

George Bonfiglio told us our (ahem) "vintage" buses were equipped with "10/50 air conditioning" - open all ten windows and try to get the bus to go 50 MPH. Jolly joker ...... On a serious note, my brother Robert and I were traveling with the 27th Lancers to Canada for the 1972 Shriners International when I caught a radio news snippet at a NY Thruway rest area about the Hotel Vendome fire, the worst firefighting tragedy in Boston history. The news story listed the 16 fire engine companies, 5 ladder companies (including my father's), 2 aerial towers and 1 heavy rescue. The story indicated that eight firefighters were injured, and nine firefighters were killed when the building collapsed without warning. I did not know if my mom would be one of the eight women widowed, or if we were one of the 25 children who lost their fathers that day. I had to wait several hours until we reached our destination in Hamilton, Ontario to collect sufficient Canadian coinage and find a payphone to find out if my Dad was okay. (He was.)

Started marching in a Boston area CYO band in 1967, joined 27th Lancers in SEPT 1969, aged-out in spring 1973. Still "march" (amble, actually) with (Holy Family/Plymouth County) Defenders Alumni Corps.

It's been twenty years since George Zingali passed away. He was a fascinating man, and brought a new dimension to the activity. Rest in Peace, Brother George. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bongoherbert/424396235/

Sent out to Bob & Janice in Everett, MA.

It was nice to chat with Michael Doherty yesterday who was visiting us at Defenders Alumni Corps rehearsal. He and Judy have their stickers and love them. I was proud to see so many displayed on the cars in the parking lot at rehearsal.