Terri Schehr

I hope they did their due diligence.

I had to check the calendar.

I don’t want to offend anyone but I had to look at the calendar to see if time had gotten away from me and it’s April 1st.

It’s honorable how they are serving the community.

Yeah well… sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction 😬

Oh my. I’m not often rendered speechless but this is one of those rare occasions.

Well one of the contra players marched with Jim in Kilties so he was already in his forties by then 😂

If they’re going to go that way, do it right. Like Bluecoats did two years ago. Best alumni corps I’ve ever seen. JMHO.

We don’t know what it is or I’d spill it 😂

You’ll find out Tonight, tonight. It won’t just be any night.

Incoming 💣

That’s the scuttlebutt this fine morning.

You have a great memory. I was there in 87 and I can remember hardly anything besides being there. I wasn’t there in 1985. I had a baby that week.

Back to Bluecoats. I’m always looking forward to where they’re going next. The only time I’ve guessed correctly is the first Beatles show.

Yeah but I was thinking of the 23 things. Getting old sucks. But it beats the alternative.

No you’re right.

He was. He got lost in the excitement about the spinny thingies.

Jim’s Dad did, too. I think I’ve told the story of a big time staff guy who came to Pride of Cincinnati drum corps, started flirting with the young women and he caught wind of it. He told the guy he was done and took him to the airport. But he didn’t tell anyone else, as in the other drum corps as far as I know, so the guy probably did the same thing at the next stop. Didn’t even last a weekend. Sicko. This guy is dead but I’m still not going to say his name. His wife is still around.

I would love for them to get to where they were in 2019 and move up even further. I loved their show.

This happens all the time with NCAA sports team. The current team is penalized for past offenses. Coaches that are long gone and the team is still paying for those sins.

Alumni corps is going the way of the Dodo. One offs like Bluecoats but nothing that requires a localized base. The one-offs are pretty great though. Bluecoats, Scouts, and Cavaliers were actual alumni corps, too. I marched in a reunion corps with people who were too young to ever have been in the corps that was being memorialized.

It seems to happen a lot with the Scouts, too. Don’t get mad at the messenger. It’s been going on for decades.

My friend over in North Port was in the Plebes before she moved up to Cadets. She’s shown me a picture of herself with a rifle. She was such a tiny little girl that the rifle was almost bigger than her. She was actually from Garfield and was in the corps for the three-peat. I’m older than her but she’s my hero.

I understand. The longtime alumni are protective of legacy.

I think it was Light Brigade and some 27 alumni were NOT happy. It was kind of like that with Kilties. A few were on board with an alumni corps but many were vehemently opposed. When they started competing… ooh boy, then it hit the fan.