1983
Music
Battle Hymn Chorale
Pops Hoedown
It Was a Very Good Year
Through the Years
How the West Was Won
Awards & Recognitions
Corps celebrates 25th anniversary
Perform at USFL Professional Football game
DCI Individual and Ensemble Contest:
Rob Billings - DCI French Horn Champion
Snare: Richard Seckinger - 73.75 - 19th
Snare: Chris George - 71.05 - 20th
Multi-tenor: Steve Baben - 88.75 - 4th
Corps Members
Drum Major: Tom Walsh
Guard Captains: Sue Barella & Lisa Broz
Letha Bollschweiler, Patti Cuthill, Christy Coen, Lisa Kessler, Bev McDonovan, Karen Naper, Carrie Oneyear, Jill Pesceone, Ronda Renick, Suzanne Rimmer, Angie Trautman, Julie Wilson, Gina Woodward, Amanda Anderson, Cyndi Brubaker, Deborah Butcher, Sandy Dietz, Jacque Edgett, Iona Gardner, Lisa Gauntt, Elizabeth Graham, Kristi Isberg, Liann Jackson, Joanne Mainvil, Suzanne McGary, Cynthia Owens, Sheila Provence, Barbara Seckinger, Al Sanderson, Mike Bailey, Steve Bakker, Randy Dobbs, Chris George, Paul Hildebrandt, Dave Ogran, Cindy Peterson Rick Seckinger, Joe Winslow, Keith Hocksteadler, Karrie Kolcany, Steve Ramirez, Jeff Thomas, Bobby Dietz, Nick Phillips, Joe Rimmer, Marty Stroh, Gary Waits, Todd White, Clinton Fleenor, Kim Hall, Bret Marston, Rob Abrew, Shannon Cortez, Brenda Hollandsworth, Rob Muller, Lance Waldorf, Roy Wheeler, Theresa Andrew, Chris Eble, Kurt Filbert, Chris Hahn, Craig Heddon, Keith Miller, Mike Romero, Mark Schultheis, Steve Takata, Jon Beerman, Jenny Gordon, Jim Ingrahm, Tedd Maxfield, Marla Nelson, Ann Zimmerman, Alex Clegg, Lisa Jones, Tony Monterastelli, Brent Muscutt, Jeff Troftgruben, Angie Wiley, Dan Burden, Kurt Gilbert, Glen Hemberger, Benji Woolf, Corey Allred, Jeff Lawson, Rob Billings, Cheryl Galeotos, Betsy Gordon, Anne Kanard, Rhonda Schmidt, Jesse Schwartz, Debbie Tatman, Joel Williams, Kirk Bertagnole, Teresa Hassell, Al Nichols, Mary Purser, Becky Stone, Todd Whisler, Bryon Decker, Ross Hocksteadler, Kathi Thomas, Phillip Votaw, Karen Wolcott, Mike Bauerdemper, Mark Baumgart, Hans Fischer, Diane Stark, Eric Wenberg, Scot Drake, AJ Christoff, Karl Gilbert, Bill Mills, High Milstein, Lyle Spain, Derek Spitzer, Gary Wilson
From the DCI Yearbook:
Their season in many ways fell short of its mark, no corps to perform Championship night was given a heartier reception than the Troopers, from Casper, Wyoming, under the stalwart guiding hand of Director Jim Jones. Performing a pre-show exhibition, the Troopers evoked an earlier epoch in drum corps with a sparkling special silver anniversary show. Racing through a repertoire that read like a history lesson, they glowed on the haunting Ghost Riders, and glittered on the rousing Battle Hymn of the Republic, their standard now for so many years. Even critics of the legendary corps were brought to their feet by the solemn elegance of the sentimental tour de force when they executed Sunburst.
Jim Jones, auteur, mentor, director and founder, a handsome older man who himself looks like someone from American history books, reflected on his glorious corps’ career.”I started in a Sons of the Legion drum corps when I was 13 years old in Casper, where I was born. At 15, I was corps director, teaching all three captions. We had a fair, if rudimentary drum line for those days, with four and four, two bass, two cymbals, 12 bugles and four color guard. I played with the University of Nebraska band for four years where I was in charge of the drum section and taught senior corps in Lincoln. Then I went into service as a navigation cadet and marched in a drum corps in secondary fly school in California. After the war when I came back to Casper, they reactivated the senior corps and after a couple three years I felt that we should start a drum corps and give the kids a chance to do the same thing that I did and liked so much.”
It wasn’t until the late fifties that Jones formed the modem version of the Troopers, putting together uniforms from Boy Scout gear, and making scarves from J. C. Penney cloth bought by the yard. He’s seen corps change 360 degrees several times over and he’s supported the innovations right down the line, but he still wonders at times why traditionalist-minded corps such as his can’t compete as effectively anymore.
“The glorious thing about music is its infinite variety, the rhythm and pitch, the dynamics and everything else about it. The same thing is true about entertainment. I don’t think that drum corps should be cloned so that we are all alike. This is what we felt about our show. We are going to be true to ourselves. We’re the only one left with boots, and that’s too bad, because they’ll probably bury us with our boots on.”
Contest Guild - January/February - 1983
“The Trooper bearing, The Trooper style, the Trooper pride contributed so much to drum corps. There is no way to adequately express our appreciation. All we can do is say thanks Troopers. Without you, drum corps would have been so much poorer. You have enriched us, entertained us and excited us. You have shown us how things ought to be done, and you have set standards for us to meet. May the next 25 years be as good to you, as you have been to us.”
