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JimF-LowBari

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    8 years Sr corps/8 years Exhibition (Alumni-type)
  • Your Favorite Corps
    Smaller Corps
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    too many to list
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1975
  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Harrisburg PA area
  • Interests
    Drum Corps History (heavy on the Sr side) before my time and old cars. Also skulking ebay and other places for DC buttons to add to the old collection.

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  1. Looking at it from DCIs POV. If rules back then didn’t tell the corps to notify DCI, and DCI was not notified…. Dumps it all on the corps laps….
  2. Yeah I’m looking at it as DCI is defending that they did what was legal at the time. Having said that they need to get the word out to all participants and supporters that things are a lot different in 2024. And wondering how much of this is costing DCI in legal fees and how that will affect operations
  3. Had to google code switching but think I understand now. My weird story from way back when was out of 600 or so employees they counted 2 Hispanic. We knew who one was but not the other. Finally found out one woman’s father was (100%???) Hispanic and her maiden name was Diaz. So she was counted as Hispanic so Mr Rivera didn’t look like a token. 🤦‍♂️
  4. Keep thinking of when I started programming at the Navy. Almost all male and Caucasian. Had the first female supervisor and some saying she was a “test case”. 🤷🏻 In college about 10-15% of CompSci majors were female. Good friend of mine was only female math major at Susquehanna U. When I retired way too many years later there had been two female heads of the whole agency. And my office had various ethnic groups plus a Muslim (didn’t realize until lot later). Then there was this 60 some year old guy (guess who) that the younger folks had to get used to. To try to relate to corps IMO part of the process is management to bother to look at the groups make up. Other is for everyone to have a diverse group and not really think about it (because not a big deal).
  5. Hope you and your friends spent a lot of time in the front yard. 😈 Well you know Kris and my mentality. 😈 Every time a house would go up for sale we’d hope for minority or a nice gay couple. It is a lot better than used to be since we bought 30+ (gag) years ago. Mostly because the hard heads have died off.
  6. No argument there, but didn’t think there were politicians in the Bluecoats.
  7. My dad was in the army shortly after it was integrated. His training group (Army Corps of Engineers) was formerly all Black so he was pretty “outnumbered”. 😆 They worked together so color meant squat. That was how I was raised. I moved to west shore of the river and some called it the “white shore” for sarcasm. After I moved found some of my neighbors were proud of that name. 🤮 Best part was being told “you know what kind of people live over there”. I said “yeah.. me.. my family.. my friends”. 🤬
  8. How the hades is diversity political? Does that mean I’m being political for thinking it’s nice when my street finally had a minority on it. (And a nice lady) Guess I’m wrong for seeing it as a human being issue.
  9. Yep, I’ve brought up before guy I knew whose store was caught in a sweep by the state. 8 owners charged but state only really interested in 2 main culprits. Those 2 kept appealing before trial and all 8 had to show up for every hearing with their lawyers (ka ching). Finally the 6 copped a plea bargain of probation so they wouldn’t go broke. Not having a chance to clear your name sucked but losing the house would have sucked more
  10. No idea if true but would mean: 1) bailing on Erie 2) found people in TN willing to trust the mess will work out. Reminder that Cadets spent a season working out of Erie before announcing they would move there
  11. Just googled the meaning of the term and could mean just about anything. But 6 times over 3 years? 🤷🏻
  12. My favorite band mom moment was sisters last show at regionals in Westminster, MD. Another bands (different group) volunteers come out to set up and I knew a few from corps. I yelled “way to go (names)” and band mom in front of me whips around. “You should cheer for YOUR band.” My response “I will but now cheering for my friends”. Few hours later the drum tech for another band walks up the aisle looking for a seat to watch his group. I know the guy (spoiler alert it was Jeff’s dad) and I had an empty seat next to me on the aisle. Sooooo…. my folks and I had a quick chat, he watched his band and left. And I got the 😳 look from band mom from hades. 😈
  13. Think some of it is human nature and people want to feel important. Worked a week long very large car show and flea market for decades. Never heard anyone compare how hard the jobs were. But heard plenty of bragging how important their job was. And talk about in fighting when tasks overlapped.
  14. Years back at a parade and talked to a volunteer driver for a Junior corps (that will remain nameless). That driver was also responsible for daily maintenance to make sure his vehicle stayed on the road.
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