Short Takes

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Submissions from Bill Sapienza

Submissions from Sal Gambino

Submitted by Bill Sapienza

Mr. Martin standing in front of the horn line teaching the Intro to Bloody Mary.
A smoke in one hand with the other arm curled up with his hand tapping tempo
on his shoulder singing:
"dow dow dow dow dee dow dee dow dow (pause) doooooowwwwwwwwaaaa"

Horn practices in the Drum Room.

Mr. and Mrs. Desposito

Mr. DiCroce

Bill Bedell

Father Brenkert

Horn practices on the top steps by the glass doors.

Hockey games in the White Room after horn rehearsal.

John Concannon getting "hip checked" into one of the pillars in
the White Room during one of those hockey games.

Mr. Concannon's face when he came to the White Room to scrape
John off the floor after getting checked into the pillar during one
of those games.

The P.O.B. Mob (Prisoners Of Band).

My first Northeastern championship, Rutland, Mass.

Ginny Reaber playing the accordion at corps parties.

Playing Madison Square Garden for the Hugh Cary political fund raiser.

Any St. Patrick's Day Parade on 5th Ave.: Hurry up and wait!

The Whitestone parade that was a million miles long.

Blackie Langton spitting instructions as he taught drill.

Mr. Smith: "her left ...her left...her left right left".

Mr. Vilbig teaching us about peripheral vision.

John Muchiolo yelling at me for warming up all wrong. 

Frank Muchiolo teaching me how to play the solo in "So Happy Together"

The Glen Oaks Little League parade.

The medals all over Donna Stribulas uniform.

Awards nights.

The night the corps went to a Yankee game at the old Yankee Stadium.

Working the booths at the Snows Bazaar.

Firemen's parades.

July 4th Parades and beach parties in South Hampton.

Performing outside the rectory after winning big contests..

Our first trip to the World Opens in Lynn Mass. in 1972. 

The Christ Child Nursery where we stayed in Lynn Mass.

Kathy Haberkern: "Flash!"

Johnny on the Pony.

Corps trips to the Dream Contest at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City.

Playing an exhibition in NJ at the Hawthorne Caballeros color guard show.

Mrs. Besseta introducing me to a girl from St. Ignatious All Girl Corps...
the girl who years later became my wife.

Saturday morning practices.

Mr. Cluna

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Submitted by Sal Gambino

Glock's playing "The Bells of St. Mary's" all...night...long.

The "puck" we used for those hockey games was a crushed soda can
with jagged edges. Nobody wore any equipment, including the goalie.

Harry Hazelwood trying to teach us how to inhale through our nose
and exhale through our mouth at the same time so we could sustain
long tones. (yeah...try that on a baritone or contra).

Valve-rotary horns.

Using silver tape to keep our rotary slides in place after being tuned.

Tuning our horns once a month and thinking that was enough.

The "baby" contra that wouldn't stay in tune for more than five minutes
at a time.

The equipment truck with the Stormy Knights logo on the side.
Does anybody remember who painted that?

The dumpster we used for aluminum and paper recycling fund raising.

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