by Mike Ferlazzo
mferlazzo@yahoo.com
This article was originally published in the November 2010 edition of Drum Corps World.
If Dan Potter’s life is following the path of Phantom Regiment’s “Into the Light” program about the life cycle, he would probably find himself somewhere in the ballad’s contemplative mid-life segment. And Potter, host of Drum Corps International’s popular “Field Pass” podcast and celebrated public address announcer at top performance arts events, is...
by Bob Fields, Drum Corps World staff
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by Jim Hager
This article was originally published in the February 2011 issue of Drum Corps World.
Publisher’s note: Jim and I met back in 1974, but hadn’t stayed in touch. When Paul Jasionowski passed away on January 4, Jim contacted me about contributing this piece on his good friend. Paul and I never met, but we did correspond as I prepared to put together the DCI history book, “Drum Corps International: The First Decade, 1972-1981.” Paul work with author Nic Waerzeggars who wrote the book’s text. Some of Paul’s quotes...
This article originally appeared in the December 2010 edition of Drum Corps World.
Reprinted from the Waubonsee Community College Web site
Margie Kiley of Oswego, IL, has been named Waubonsee Community College’s Distinguished Contributor for 2010, along with the memorial scholarship fund established in her daughter Susan’s name, the Optimist Club of Oswegoland and the annual “Festival of Brass” drum and bugle corps show.
During their lives, Susan Kiley and her father, Jerry, impacted countless lives just by being...
by Dr. Fred Olin, Drum Corps World staff
Fred Olin
This article was originally published in the November 2010 edition of Drum Corps World.
“A curmudgeon’s reputation for malevolence is undeserved. They’re neither warped nor evil at heart. They don’t hate mankind, just mankind’s absurdities.”
As I watched the Southwest Regional in San Antonio, then semis and finals this year in Indianapolis, I started to get a bit grumpy. In past years I have written this column and grumbled...
