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THE
TIME DICTATES THE AGENDA
DEADLY LEGACY
A homicide victim is one of dozens whose deaths
the Alameda County coroner's
office investigates each year. San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Front Page Article, December 9, 2007
LIVING
LEGACY MOBILE MUSIC ON WHEELS TROJAN HORSE
Traversing Coast to Coast
DRUM
AND BUGLE CORPS
As a youth activity, the world of competitive Drum and Bugle Corps is an intense, choreographed Musical experience staged on football stadium fields by students achieving high levels
of excellence in performance.
Through the Drum and Bugle Corps experience, young people
develop life skills including self-discipline, teamwork
and leadership.
Organized
into three competitive classes, each Drum Corps is unique in how its management, educational staff and members approach the Drum Corps experience.
Holy Trinity Cadets Model
JMAC is going to use as its model in the layout
of its Drum and Bugle Corps Program, an organization that was formed in 1951 broke up in 1962 in the Boston area of Massachusetts.
The organization was the Holy Trinity Cadets of Boston Drum and Bugle Corps. The following is a article by Bill Duncliffe
written in the Boston Record American Newspaper dated 1961.
Holy
Trinity Cadets in Competition - 1955
After winning the CYO Championship in 1953, several members from drum corps in
Roxbury joined us, thereby forming a unique group - an integrated Drum & Bugle Corps. The following article,
printed in the Boston Record-American around 1961, shows the success of our efforts. This is who we
are!
Lesson
In Living
Holy Trinity Cadets Have Marched To Victory Over Prejudice
By Bill Duncliffe
If America is the melting pot of the world, then one of its mixing
bowls has been set for years in the crowded streets of Boston's South End.
It is there that, for the past
ten years, the Holy Trinity Cadets have been living and teaching the lesson that is perhaps their principal reason for existing.
The lesson, simply, is this: Bigotry is not an inborn thing; the young need not
learn it unless they are taught it by their elders. And, if bigotry can be taught, so, too, can its opposite, brotherhood.
The Cadets are champions, not because of what they have won, but because of what they are.
They are a
group of young people who have learned to live together, and work together for a common goal, in friendship and respect. This
perhaps more than anything else, has made them one of the area's most popular drum corps.
In their ranks, at one time
or another, have been boys and girls of French extraction, and of English, Irish, German, Polish, Negro, Chinese, American
Indian, Filipino, and Jewish blood. Their forbears came from Greece, Lebanon, Syria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, or Belgium.
And not once,
in their ten years of existence, have the Cadets ever had any difference on racial grounds.
JMAC wants
to expound further on this fact, that bigotry is not inborn, neither is violence; it is taught, it is learned. So today it
is accepted as a way of entering into a gang and being accepted, hence the peer-ship and relationship based on violence.
JMAC wants to Inoculate against this, and bring about its antithesis, Love, Respect, and Brotherhood;
and we will achieve this end.
| Holy Trinity Cadets of Boston Massachusetts |
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| Classic Era Boston Area Drum Corps |
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| Some of the 40 Competitive Boston Area Drum and Bugle Corps, circa 1960 -1970 |
| The Cambridge Caballeros |
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| Cambridge Caballeros on the Starting Line, circa 1962 |
| 27th Lancers' Championship Snare Drum Line_1968 |
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| From Left_Robert (Bob) Houtman; Jerome Williams; John Faretra; Stanley Maynard |
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