Golden Eagles Win Michigan Legion Show
Drum Corps News - July 11, 1962 issue
Iron River, Michigan, June 16, - The Upper Penninsular Association of American Legion Posts held their Convention Contest this evening. The L'Anse Golden Eagles finally toppled the Northernaires from Menominee to win the Junior Corps Contest . . Bessember, the defending Senior Corps, was un-opposed to win again.
In the Junior Color Guards they finished in the following order
L'Anse ............... 95.1
Ishpeming ......... 90.8
Menominee ....... 89.45
Actual scoring of the Junior Corps is as follows: with the three Juniors in 1, 2, and 3 being very close.
L'Anse Golden Eagles ......................... 77.25
Ishpeming Blue Notes ........................ 76.25
Menoninee Northernaires .................. 75.55
Ontonagon Mountaineers .................. 62.95
This was the initial contest for the Mountaineers. Around the state the disbanding for 1962 of the Edison Lamplighters Senior Corps of Detroit is now official. June 23, 1962 will find the Upper Peninsular Junior Corps and the Lower Peninsular Junior Corps vie for honors. The Sarnia Lionettes are defending champions.
posted by NanciD @ 3/16/2006 10:20:00 PM
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Here's some behind the scenes that would not be known. The Northernaires were the defending champions having won the previous couple of years. In '62 I was the soloist but, I was also a teenager who did stupid teenage things. I had taken my grandfather's car out for a joy ride and gotten into an accident. Against pleas from my mother, grandfather (it was his car), and corps director Bill King, my father grounded me for the summer. I'm not saying that the season turned on my stupidity, but the corps just wasn't in it that year even though we felt good about where we were going when the season started. Now you know the rest of the story.
Although the Northernaires were always good and a rival we chased for a number of years the L'Anse Golden Eagles beat you a number of times in '62. The highlight was the Legion Michigan State contest later that summer in Lansing where the Golden Eagles were crowned Michigan State Champs!
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