Terri Schehr

Like the 80/294/90/94 sluice isn’t a big enough cluster****. That would be a mistake.

That’s exactly how I found out about drum corps. My junior high band director played Fleetwoods of Cabs, Yankee Rebels, and Sky for us. We did an exhibition at the Illinois state fair show in 1968 and that’s where I saw my first show. And then in 1971, he had Norwood at our school for camp. I joined the next fall.

I didn’t know any of those answers.

2024 was their 60th anniversary. Maybe their 65th in 2029.

I’d have to look that up. I marched with people who later went up to UW-LaCrosse for school and marched with Blue Stars. The Midwest was so six degrees of separation back then.

Did anyone mention Blue Stars? I’d like to see an alumni corps from them. They have more than enough young ones to pull it off.

Okey dokey that’s enough internet for me today. 👋

I went to Lisle, IL, Nashville, Mason, Centerville, Canton, Indy. The only show that I saw a lot of millennials was Canton. The Bloo alumni of that generation are very supportive. I mostly see older people like me and lot of high school kids at the Ohio shows. Tons of high school kids at Mason and Centerville especially. I don’t think I’m being negative. I spend thousands of dollars supporting the activity that I’ve been in or as a spectator or in many other capacities. The time will come though, probably in about ten years if I’m still on this mortal coil, that we won’t be able to go to shows. I would like for someone to be there to take my place.

That is definitely the case for at least one alumnus I know.

By the time they hit forty, they’re so disengaged that I don’t think that they could tell you who won this year.

I don’t know who’s playing it. There were so many games on here Friday and Saturday, I lost track.

Who’s the one that kept playing “Phantom of the Opera” over and over and over again? At least USC isn’t playing. We don’t have to hear those three notes a thousand times in three and a half hours. Sorry @greg_orangecounty but it drives me nuts. They should have let all of these teams into the Big Ten after I was dead.

I still think there has to be a better way to do this.

@Paul Milano knows all about this. He is an excellent fundraiser.

I buy a lot of concert tickets and sometimes there are pre-sales for American Express cardholders. Tickets are available to them for 24 hours before the general public. DCI could open up ticket sales to Friends of DCI for a week. Then open up sales for anyone who wants the three-show package. And then on week three, it could be for single ticket sales. There has to be a better way than this “leap of faith”, take my money and then we wait to see where we are seated. Full disclosure: i am not a donor to Friends of DCI.

Congrats!

Exactly. Just be upfront about it. I’ve purchased tickets for three concerts this winter and spring. I knew exactly where we’ll be seated before I bought the tickets.

It’s definitely midwestern/ Chicago terminology.

As were you. Thanks! I hope you’re doing well!

I’m too #### old for that now.

I remember hearing talk in the 1990’s long before G7 of how there was a plan to have six or seven “supercorps”. I can’t believe I’m the only one who remembers. I recall being horrified.

How sad. There was something wonderfully organic about the Centerville show: the band moms selling food and having a bake sale. Mason is like that, too. I hope DCI doesn’t #### on them, too.

Poppy suggested a spending gap and bulk purchasing and the torches and pitchforks came out.

Ah well…. that’s what that whole “I Marched” thing was all about that I signed up for and never heard another word about. Jim did not because he said it was just data mining to ask for money.