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THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 12 1967

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 11 1967

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 10 1967

CYMBALS

Robert Chavis

Arthur Hennessy

RUDIMENTAL BASS DRUM

Ossie Peters

Richard Calulcci

STRAIGHT BASS DRUM

Charles Bauland

Chriss Hill

Tenor Drums

Robert Carlucci

Thomas Costa

Dennis Messermer

Ronnie Mark

Jim Buccellata

SNARE DRUMS

Randy Bass

Toney Rendini

Whitey Ledwon

Fred Wasserman

Jerry Zajac

LATIN SECTION

Joe De Maria

Ralph Contanesa

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 9 1967

DRUM MAJORS

Doug Smith

&

Brain Farrell

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 8 1967

Color Guard

Pat Fagan

Robin Hoffman

Maryann Inman

Maureen Kelley

Irene Kelly

Claire Kubinack

Alba Loene

Carol Mardavich

Lou-Ann Nizzi

Dottie O'Toole

Cookie Pedualla

Terry Steiniger

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 7 1967

Captian , Marylin Vollo
Gloria Anderson
Alice
Mary Bell
Linda Cipalloni
Eileen Dueusback
Karen Durr

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 6

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 5 1967

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 4

The Corps Staff

Co-director.. Ralph Shur & Art Leffel

General Manager.. Harvey Berish

Business Manager...Joseph Richardson

Equipment corps... Tony Gulino..Frank De Maria.... Charles Annunziata.

Transportation... Henry Klinger....Union Liason.... Barney Lewis

MUSICAL SCORE

1. Entrance of the Bulls-Siboney

2. Spanish Rogue

3. Liza

4. Of Thee I Sing Baby

5. Malaguena (Concert)

6. La Violetra

7. Mexican Hat Dance

8. Up Cherry Street

9. A Mighty Foretress is our God

10. Star Spangled Banner

THE NEW YORK KINGSMENT PART 3

The Kingsmen made their debut 1966 Memorial Day weekend and took first places at Baltimore, Lancaster, Wilmington and Vestal. The plan 30 competitive appearances in 1966.

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN PART 2

The marching Senorita color guard is taught by Walter Bunce.

The Corps magnificent uniforms were designed by the Kingsmen staff, made by the Evans Company and are a gift from the corps sponsor Local 32E. Building Service Employees Union of New York.

The New York Kingsmen Part 1

Musical arrangement are by Air Force Ace Bob Bunce, percussion arrangements are by Danny Raymond and drill by Ralph Shur.

THE NEW YORK KINGSMEN, OCTOBER 1965

Senors and Senorita's... Introducing the New York Kingsmen...."Los Hombres Del Rey".

Completely reorganized in October of 1965, the corps features the magnificent music of Mexico, the natural pulsating percussion rhythms of our Latin neighbors, and the dazzling drill of thrilling precision unit.

BRONX KINGSMEN, MEMORIAL DAY 1963, GRAND CONCOURSE IN THE BRONX

Bronx Kingsmen Color Guard. Marches smartly on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. It was a beautiful day. Perfect day for marching.

Photography by Bob Lopez Sr. My father capture these photo's in 1963. Photo's haven't been seen in 45 yrs.

I'm so glad I found the slides and had them done into pictures. I formated them into these frames as you seen them on this page. All works are copywrited.

Also note if you should have anymore articles regarding the Kingsmen or pictures please feel free to email me at: knickerbocker69@aol.com

CARNEGIE HALL, MAY 16, 1964, BRONX KINGSMEN

BRONX KINGSMEN

photograph by Bob Lopez Sr.(c)rls 1963

Memorial Day on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.

The Kingsmen, another junior M&M corps which is appearing here tonight for the first time, are considered one of the chief contenders for the championship of the strong Greater New York Circuit. They are sponsored by the local American Legion Post. William J. Hickey is business manager.

THE LORIS MARCHING LIONS, "MUSIC IN MOTION''

CARNEGIE HALL, MAY 16,1964, Listing of Drum Corps performing that night.

LORIS MARCHING LIONS
Loris, South Carolina

Last year the Marching Lions made their debut at Carnegie Hall as a band, the first such unit to appear in this show. Since then they have converted to a combination drum corps-band and will appear in their dual capacity tonight, playing as a band and then exchanging their instruments for bugles. William W. Jacobus is director of the Lions.

Their 1964 Program

Band

* New York fanfare
* The Sound of Music-Color Guard Exhibition
* Our Day Will Come--Majorette Exhibition
* What kind of Fool Am I?
* Drum Section Solo

Drum Corps

* What kind of Fool Am I?
* Love is A Many Splendored Thing
* I Left My Heart In San Francisco
* American's We
* New York Fanfare

Director---W.W. Jacobus
Drum Instructor--Don Houghtaling
Color Guard Instructor--Ed Cagney, Jr.
President--W.F. Barnette
Chaplain--Robert Turner
Loris H.S. Principal--H.G. Gibson

NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR PERFORMANCES--MAY 14, 15, 1964

NEW YORK CARNEGIE HALL PERFORMANCES--MAY 18, 1963 & MAY 16, 1964

CARNEGI HALL/72ND Season/Saturday Evening, May 16, 1964,at 8:00 o' clock

DRUM CORPS NEWS
Presents
"AN EVENING WITH THE CORPS."

Dedication

Since its inception in 1962, the Drum Corps News' "Evening with the Corps at Carnegie Hall" has grown in stature to become one of the highlights of the drum corps season.

As in the past years, tonight's show spotlights many of the top junior and senior drum and bugle corps in the country in what for many of them will be their initial appearance of the season.

In addition to presenting many of the recognized championship corps on the same stage where many of the acknowledged greats of music have appeared. "An Evening with the Corps" has also pioneered in introducing many promising new corps to the public. Appearing for the first time at Carnegie Hall this year are the Ballantine Brewers, Geneva Appleknockers, O.L.P.H. Ridgemen, St. Rocco's Cadets, and the Bronx Kingsmen.

Just as this show signals the opening of the drum corps season for many, the World Open Championship, inaugurated by Drum Corps News last fall, provides a fitting climax. The 1963 champions, Blessed Sacraments Golden Knights of Newark, N.J. and the Skyliners of Yonkers, N.Y. will appear on the program tonight and will be presented with flags emblematic of their titles by Raymond G. Samora, Publisher of Drum Corps News.

Pride is the key word Part 4

We toured the building looking in on the various activities. In a small room, a student teacher, Mitzi Beach, was supervising an after school study group for younger children. Reading , math and languages are the subject in which most help is needed.

In the gym, young Cadet Corps officers were putting their uniformed squads through their paces, and the air rang with commands: "Attenshun! Salute!" There was no fooling around. Every boy in the lower ranks apparently is determined to show he is officer material.

In a medium-seized room , choir director Darold Hunt was conducting a practice session. The boys whose voices were raised in song were wearing spotless white surplices over their black cassocks. Here, too, apparently, neatness counts. Hunt, a bearded, intense, articulate young man, is studying conducting at Juilliard. He will be conducting at Harlem chorale, a semi-professional group, this coming season.

Admitting that he is a firm disciplinarian, Hunt said, "These boys put you through hell, but they're beautiful. You get to love them very quickly. Why am I doing this? I hope that by exposing them to music I'm bringing them something they don't ordinary get in their lives. That they're black is superfluous-I refuse t accept black paranoia-but it is important for them to have a black leader. If they accept that, there is a feedback to themselves of their black image in the person of a leader."

Pride is the key word Part 3

"Most of our youngster-we have two age groups, 8-13 and 14-21- come from impoverished homes, but we also have middle-class children. Sixty percent come from broken homes. We have Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and four Jewish boys in the Cadet Corps. There are girls groups in our program, too... Ebony Dolls, Njema Girls and Mod Squad, we call them , and they of course, don't wear uniforms or take part in our military program.
"Some of our non-military activities are: a drum and bugle corp that has filled a wall with prizes they've won this year; a choir; fencing; karate; a steel band, and basketball. The girls attend classes in ballet, guitar, modeling and charm, sewing, cooking, secretarial work and heritage. There are both boys and girls in the after-school tutoring sessions and the Pen and Scroll Fraternity."

Pride is the key word Part 2

"Five of the nine boys I stared with, "he recalled, "were ward lords-ghetto gang leaders. The military framework, the uniforms, was a come-on. It established the premise: keep your shoes shined and your shirt washed.

"The program is a means to and end, to make better oriented citizens who are able to over come the adversities of their environment. Our children come here spiritually deprived as well as economically deprived. Leadership training permeates the program, and we stress the fact that every child has worth and value, has leadership potential , no matter what his circumstances. But the building is not a community center-after the cadets get their training, they go back to the dozen or so churches the come from all over the city and they become leaders of youth groups there. The Cadet Corps is one of the 36 projects of the Madison Society, which is a church-oriented organization.

"Pride is the key word" New York Sunday News June 15, 1969

Harlem's Cadet Corps trains young men for leadership in their own communities.

Article written by : May Okon, New York Sunday News, June 15, 1969

In THEIR SPANKING CLEAN tan uniforms...... white web belting at the waist and crisscrossing the chest, spit-and-polished shoes, shakos with white visors and chin straps.... a line of the New York City Mission Society Cadet Corps saluted smartly with downpointed sabers, their young black faces aglow with pride.

Pride is the key word of the Cadets Corps, a Harlem-based, character-building, leadership-training program for ghetto youngsters that has been remarkably successful since its inception in 1947.

Started by Wilbert E. Burgie, a City Mission staff member, in a local church with nine boys, the Cadet Corps now has 2,300 enrolled members whose military activities jam-pack the four major rooms of their inadequate headquarters, a former church at 531 W. 155th St., from early-morning till after dark.

"We have trouble getting the children to go home at night, "smile Burgie, the low key yet nonetheless dynamic director and commanding officer of the oldest para-military (uniforms, yes-weapons, no) group in the Harlem area. Burgie sees himself more as a teacher and counselor than a military leader.