1965
Music
Battle Cry of Freedom
Battle Hymn
The Virginian/Bonanza
What Kind of Fool am I
Ghost Riders
Wagon Wheels
Promised Land
Awards & Recognitions
AL National Color Guard Champions
VFW Color Guard Champions
VFW Individual Contest
Baritone - Ken Davis - Champion
Snare - Edward Bostwick -78.60 - 19th
Corps Members
Drum Major: Pete Emmons
Guard Captain: Mary Snyder
Cathy Anderson, Barbara Baker, Edie Booth, Virginia Rush, Michelle Charbonneau, Susan Cunningham, Janet Ferrell, Sharon Garrison, Laurel Jones, Vickie Jones, Florence Lau, Sandy Maxon, Rhonda Murray, Donna Knobel, Barbara Rinker, Bill Jo Santisteven, Mary Schneider, Mary Shea, Jo Ellen Williams, Eddie Bostwick, Dennis Dusel, Johnny Patterson, Ruth Anne Smith, Bill Bailey, Bob Kalkofen, Fred Sanford, Jim McDaniel, Gary Shockey, Dan Wilson, Lucy Gerdom. Norman Kindt, Eileen White, Paul Boyer, Terry Carr, Bill Fyock, Ron Kalkofen, John Larramendy, Rick Lemke, Barry Miller, David Ramsey, John Shea, Jim Wade, John Belz, Kandra Carr, Ken Graves, Allan Goodrich, Steve Kildow, Jim McIntyre, Vern White, Tom Anderson, Carolyn Bailey, Dick DePaemelaere, Bernice Hollandsworth, Pete Banta, Dick Hinerman, Marsha Robertson, Ken Davis, Ray Maxon, Walt Heath, Randy Murray, Greg Carr, Blaine Gillingham, Jim Herdt, Jake Johnson, Brett Carr, Mike Carr, Dean Jackman, Ted Booth, Nick Krause, Gary Priess
Cadet Corps Members
Marilyn Bailey, Donna Dalton, Donna Davis, Celia Ferrell, Dora Garner, Becky Haley, Chris Haley, Cindy Hoke, Glenna Howell, Marlene Johnson, Gail Jones, Janet McCann, Linda Mokler, Teresa O’Neal, Candy Quealy, Jolene Robinson, Linda Robinson, Karen Schrock, Jo Ann Stearns, Cindy Taylor, Evet Weeks, Pam Williams, Bruce Bandy, Ron Mokler, Jim Campbell, William Shutts, Lind White, Leona Voigt, Darrell Aanestad, John Robinett, Robert Sisco, Greg Weeks, Robert Verly, Paula Corbell, Susan Hergenrader, Renee McCarrell, Rick Anderson, Bob Claire, Sandy Grim, Bobby Handley, Rosanna Lau, Bob Lynch, Gail Dever, Melanie Jackman, Linda Lynch, Paula Matthews, Lloyd Goetz, John Aanestad, Mary Kennedy, Elizabeth Washenfelder, Greg Cunningham, Vicki DePaolo, Sonja Grim, Kevin Vaudrey, Donna Gray, Jim Gray, Rick Jones, Ken Kindt, Jim Lynch, Gary Meinzer, Mike Putnam, Mike Quealy, Bob Washenfelder, Tom Haass, Warren Schaeffer
A Personal Remembrance
by Walt Heath
Most memorable show I can think of from my era besides winning 1965 World Open was the VFW Nationals in the same year. The show was in McCormack Place in Chicago - an indoor venue. If I remember right it was supposed to be at Soldier Field but the weather was too crummy or something. Anyway it was all indoors but there wasn’t any seating because it was just a convention center and the crowd was standing all around the performance area. Surprisingly the echo wasn’t as big a problem as we thought it was going to be and it made us sound three times as big as normal. And the smooth marching surface made the drill super machine-like (you probably couldn’t perform today’s shows with the dancing, etc. without a lot of people falling down on the slickness). Anyway we came in fourth, our highest placement ever in a major competition up to that time. So who won? The Royal Airs from Chicago, a great corps that didn’t last too long after that. Longevity - not many corps have been around longer than the Troopers and we obviously have the tales to prove it!
The corps was also staying at the National Guard Armory on the south side of Chicago at the time. Next thing we knew after settling in, the Guard was being mobilized because of some rioting in Chicago (the days of Civil Rights unrest - history just kind of happening around us as it tends to do in the life of our Corps). We stayed put though, amazingly enough. Nobody made us leave and we just tried to stay out of the way of the soldiers and work through all the distractions to get ready for the big competition at hand. Trooper spirit!
