Scout House Alumni - developments in the Cadet program!

[Grandpa]

The Scout House Cadets drumline has just wrapped up a very successful first year with appearances in local parades and exhibitions in the Scout House Spring Show and Tattoo, the St. John's Alumni 60th reunion, and at Kitchener's Centre in the Square. Now we are looking forward to 2014.

First thing is a slight change of name. With the first practice of the new season under out belts, we are very excited to announce the addition of a hornline. We are now the Scout House Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps!

The hornline is under the direction of Bill Graham. Bill has a long career in drum corps, marching in several corps including the Guelph Royalaires and Niagara Regionnaires and has taught in many more, including the Hamilton Conqueror II corps, which under Bill's guidance rose from a brand new corps in 1983 to be Canadian Champions in 1984. Bill is assisted by Sally Ascroft, who was taught by Mr. Bill in Conqueror II and also marched in Royalaires. Sally is currently a marching member of the Scout House Alumni Corps.

We have added a Visual Caption Head. Gaelen Swartz has joined us after marching in Blue Saints, Pioneer, Empire Statesmen and the Chesapeake indoor drumline. Gaelen brings both field drum corps and indoor drumline experience to the table, and for the upcoming season, we will need both!

The percussion staff includes Jim Pratt as Caption Head and snare tech, Tim Chartrand, quad tech, Ralph Ullman, bass tech and Diane McHutchison, cymbal tech

The Cadet management team is headed up by Chantalle Joyce, Cindy Rossignoli and Eleanor Cherry.

Our plans for this year include local parades, participation in the Drumline Ontario indoor circuit as well as exhibitions in local shows such as the prestigious Scout House annual Tattoo. looking forward to 2015, we plan to go from a standstill to full indoor drumline show, and move into the new DCI SoundSport division, which is a great way for young, smaller drum corps like ours to enter the competitive arena.

Lots of great stuff is happening in Cambridge as we continue on our steady, measured growth as a fully fledged drum and bugle corps. Stay tuned!