Blue Rock

Wilmington, DE United States
Founded: 1959

Inactive Junior

Year	Position	Score	Theme/Songs
1964	27	72.850	The Phantom Regiment * The Lonely Bull * The Longest Day * That's All * New Sun In the Sky * Theme from Lawrence of Arabia * On Green Dolphin Street * Where Or When (from Babes In Arms)
1965			Meadowland * Baby Elephant Walk * He's My Friend (from The Unsinkable Molly Brown) * The Phantom Regiment * Land Of Milk And Honey * Black Orpheus * Melancholy Serenade * Matador * Goldfinger * Where Or When (from Babes In Arms)
1966			Marche Conquistador * Tramp, Tramp, Tramp * Black Orpheus * Basin Street Blues * Miserlou
1967	7	77.800	Fanfare for the Common Man * I Ain't Down Yet (from The Unsinkable Molly Brown) * Tramp, Tramp, Tramp * Born Free * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Tuxedo Junction * Miserlou * Baby Elephant Walk * It Was a Very Good Year
1968	7	80.400	Fanfare 68 * I Ain't Down Yet (from The Unsinkable Molly Brown) * Tramp, Tramp, Tramp * Born Free * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Tuxedo Junction * Baby Elephant Walk * It Was a Very Good Year
1969	8	81.100	Lincoln Portrait * Jubilation T Cornpone (from Li'l Abner) * Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor * Spinning Wheel * Blues Part 2 * Ghost Riders in the Sky * Quiet Village * Baby Elephant Walk * Requiem for the Masses
1970	11	81.400	Also Spracht Zarathustra (from 2001: A Space Odyssey) * Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines * Air Force Hymn * Snoopy vs. the Red Baron * Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor * Lincoln Portrait * Spinning Wheel * Smiling Phases * Quiet Village * Baby Elephant Walk * Requiem for the Masses
1971	4	88.200	Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor * Lincoln Portrait * American Salute * Quiet Village * Rain Chant * Baby Elephant Walk * Midnight Cowboy * Everybody's Talkin' * Turkey in the Straw * Camptown Races * Requiem for the Masses
1972			American Salute * Quiet Village * Baby Elephant Walk * Midnight Cowboy * Buckaroo Cowboy * Turkey in the Straw * Camptown Races * Marche Slav
1973	22	68.050	Marche Slav * Overture From Tommy * Dos Malos * Greensleeves * When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1974	16	75.900	Rodeo * Appalachian Spring * Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie * And When I Die * Spinning Wheel * Lucretia McEvil * You've Made me So Very Happy * Sometimes in Winter * Birds of Fire * Watermelon Man * Baby Elephant Walk * Firebird Suite

Position 200+ indicates Division II, Position 300+ indicates Division III, Position 400+ indicates Mini Corps.

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1971 1 Photos

Blue Rock of Wilmington, Delaware, was formed in 1959. They were sponsored by the Blue Rock VFW Post 7598, and the Walker Dyer American Legion Post 181 of Penns Grove, New Jersey.

Among the corps' titles were the Delaware State VFW Champions 1959-61, Canadian Open Champion 1962, and New Jersey Elks Championship 1963. In their black and gold uniforms (with not a trace of blue), they also sponsored the Music Festival annually in July.

Coming into their entrance into DCI, Blue Rock had been a VFW finalist since 1967, placing as high as third in 1971, a placement that included the high drum trophy. They were also the first U.S. Open Champions in 1968 and won that title again in 1971; the CYO Nationals was also their the same year. The corps gave drum corps many great classics, perhaps the most popular being "Baby Elephant Walk" (with Chuck Quakenbush's contra scream at the end). They also showcased one of the best drum majors of all time in Vicki Drummond.

The corp had the distinction of boasting three feeder corps in 1968.

Blue Rock did not attend the first DCI in 1972, but did go in 1973 and 1974. After all three busses died on tour in 1974, leaving the corps stranded in Anaheim, California, the corps had to fly home and the expense bankrupted them. Thereafter the corps went senior and competed in DCA in 1975, finishing 18th.

[DCW, 4/03, p.3; DCW, 6/17/88, p. 2, inter alia]

Members (21)

Member Name	Section	Years Involved
Bart Bartholomew, Charles	Soprano	1966 to 1971
Batten, Michael	Soprano	1960 to 1969
Bonacquisti, Mary	Color Guard	1971 to 1975
Cable, Michael	Drum Line	1972 to 1973
Carr, Barbara BJ	Color guard	1971 to 1973
Cellucci, Thomas	Soprano	1971 to 1975
Cossetti, Jim	Staff	1969 to 1975
Cossetti, Jim	Staff/Brass	1969 to 1973
Cossetti, Jim	staff	1968 to 1972
Danner, Maggie	Color Guard	1965
Flynn, Joe (Gerry)	Bariton	1966 to 1974
Haas, Mike (Gip)	Mellophone	1971 to 1972
Jenkins, Ef	soprano	1973 to 1975
jenkins, nancy	Color guard	1964 to 1967
Kelly, Pat	mellophone	1971
Long, Bill	Soprano	1963 to 1968
Nelson, Fred	Soprano	1973
Patterson, Janet	Color Guard	1968 to 1972
Phifer, Dolores (Cobb)	color guard	1971 to 1974
Quackenbush, Chuck	Contra	1960 to 1971
Rasmussen, Bill	Mellpphone	1970 to 1972

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Members (21)