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See, at this point I would have made up some $#!t like "in 1957, the corps' director was reading 'Casino Royale,' noticed that James Bond was drinking an Americano and thought it would be a ###### name for his corps."

Yeah, that could have happened. :)

I guess this is the point where the obvious must be stated. It's no coincidence that all the corps from Roman Catholic Parishes were named "Saint" something or other.

All the moderators got together in the early fifties and over a couple of thousand gallons of red wine came to the conclusion that all their corps' names would begin with the name of their respective church.

All but one who dodged the ruling in a very creative way. They used initials instead.

No, really. :music:

All the above really happened ... :satisfied: I'm told.

Puppet

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Personally, I would love to know the origin of my jr. corps' name. Were the Golden Knights of Southgate, Kentucky named in imitation of Bledssed Sac? I suppose if I ever catch up with one of the Achesons I can ask. We were so ignorant of the history of our activity back then that I didn't even have the background to ask the question.

Robert Kirby

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Chicago Boy Scout Troop 111 became the Chicago Cavaliers named after the image on the package of Cavalier cigarettes. Warren Alm provides a great version of the history of the early years of the corps including the name choice, uniform selection etc. on the Cavalier website.

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quite the opposite for the Cadets,............the got rid of the city name to make the ultimate claim to the name,..............They are THE Cadets,........as in,......there can be no others

Hmmm....interesting interpretation, I thought they dropped the city name because they were tired of having to change the corps name every time they had a different sponsorship agreement.

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Dutch Boy was originally named after the grocery store chain, which is why their logo was an apple for a long time.

I'm pretty sure Dutch Boy actually comes from the Flying Dutchmen. They were the junior/ feeder corps for the Dutchmen- hence Dutch Boy. I don't think they had anything to do with the Grocery chain.

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I'm pretty sure Dutch Boy actually comes from the Flying Dutchmen. They were the junior/ feeder corps for the Dutchmen- hence Dutch Boy. I don't think they had anything to do with the Grocery chain.

The Kitchener-Waterloo (K-W) Flying Dutchmen were founded about 1961 as a Senior Corps (not to be confused with another Senior Corps called Dunkirk Flying Dutchmen). In 1967 the K-W Flying Dutchmen Senior Corps founded a Junior Corps of the same name. In the early 70's the K-W Flying Dutchmen Junior Corps continued until September 1976 when they combined resources with the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutch Boy Cadets Junior Corps whom were founded in 1969 and originally sponsored by a food market called Dutch Boy and were not affiliated with the K-W Flying Dutchmen (not to be confused with other Junior Corps called Flying Dutchmen from Quincy Illinois and New York New York). In 1977, the combined corps was named Northstar and then named Dutch Boy a few years later. I was a guard tech and marching instructor for Dutch Boy Cadets September 75 - September 76. Here's a photo of some memorabilia, including my Dutch Boy Food Market flag which was used by the Dutch Boy Cadets guard for parades.

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I also taught Ventures and Guelph Opti-Knights. I loved living in Kitchener-Waterloo those 2 years. Your signature says Kiwanis Kavaliers. I saw them when they started in 1972 and they were great in 1976, a young corps with lots and lots of members and a huge pure sound :smile:

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Appleknockers used to be a Sr corps and name originally was an slam at the rural folk who lived in the area. Geneva must have a lot of orchards and someone supposedly said "Ya bunch of Appleknockers ya" when refering to the corps members. From History of Drum Corps Vol II if I remembered it correctly...

That is the general drift of it. Lore has it that more specifically the appellation was applied by the NY Skyliners when one of their members wondered at just where Winnek Post American Legion was located as the corps was starting to attract attention with the quality of their musicianship. "Oh, they are from somewhere in 'appleknocker land' ", referring to rural upstate NY. :wink:

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St. Mary's Cardinals of Beverly, Mass. From the corps' inception in 1948 up to the end of the '53 season, the corps was simply known as St. Mary's Senior Drum and Bugle Corps (as opposed to our feeder corps who were the "junior" corps).

At the beginning of the '54 season we got new uniforms - a deep red satin blouse with white sash. We were in the school hall putting on these new uniforms for their first outing when the spiritual director, Fr. McNamara, said, "Look at them; they look like a bunch of cardinals." He was, of course, referencing the church job he wanted, but never got. From that point on, it was Cardinals.

To this day, many of us thank our stars that the red wasn't a slightly different color, resulting in his saying, "Look at them; they look like a bunch of monsignors." (He never got that job either.)

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St. Mary's Cardinals of Beverly, Mass. From the corps' inception in 1948 up to the end of the '53 season, the corps was simply known as St. Mary's Senior Drum and Bugle Corps (as opposed to our feeder corps who were the "junior" corps).

At the beginning of the '54 season we got new uniforms - a deep red satin blouse with white sash. We were in the school hall putting on these new uniforms for their first outing when the spiritual director, Fr. McNamara, said, "Look at them; they look like a bunch of cardinals." He was, of course, referencing the church job he wanted, but never got. From that point on, it was Cardinals.

To this day, many of us thank our stars that the red wasn't a slightly different color, resulting in his saying, "Look at them; they look like a bunch of monsignors." (He never got that job either.)

Andy! It's good to see you're still vertical these days. Seeing you standing up there in print reminded me of a story involving you, (tangentially) about an important item in drum corps history. Back in 1958, or there abouts, when the Holy Name Church in Garfield sold off everything they had that was connected with the Holy Name Cadets, the buyer was ... St Mary's Cardinals. I remember a story from our mutual friend, and colleague, Jack Mulligan, that one of the things that came off the truck in Beverly was a filing cabinet, at least one, that contained all the score sheets from every contest that Holy Name was ever in. Back to Day One!!

I have no knowledge as to the factual validity of this tale. But Jack said it happened. He also said that, due to storage issues at St Mary's, this essential Magna Carta of Drum Corps history wound up in the cellar of your folks' house. At least that was the last he ever saw of it.

I've often wondered what ever happened to it.

Gil

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