Eau Claire Boys

Eau Claire, WI United States
Founded: 1953

Inactive Junior

Year	Position	Score	Theme/Songs
1960			Giant * Kiss Them for Me * Powerhouse * Funiculi, Funicula * Little Drummer Boy * Saints * Round and Round * New World Symphony
1961			Conquest (from Captain From Castile) * Under the Sun * The Minstrel Boy * America * Blue Skies (from Alexander's Ragtime Band) * Patricia * Basin Street Blues * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) * Diana * September in the Rain * Land of the Pharaohs
1962			Conquest (from Captain From Castile) * The Minstrel Boy * The President * This is My Country * Bathsheba * Mack The Knife * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) * Manhattan Spiritual * 500 Miles
1963			King Of Kings * God of Our Fathers * The Minstrel Boy * Maria (from West Side Story) * Gee, Officer Krupke (from West Side Story) * I Feel Pretty (from West Side Story) * I Could Have Danced All Night (from My Fair Lady) * En er Mundo * 500 Miles
1964			Quo Vadis * Harlem Nocturne * God of Our Fathers * Maria (from West Side Story) * I Feel Pretty (from West Side Story) * America (from West Side Story) * Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) * I Could Have Danced All Night (from My Fair Lady) * 500 Miles
1965			Rule Britannia * I Could Have Danced All Night (from My Fair Lady) * The Lord's Prayer * Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (from On Your Toes) * Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport * Meadowland * Joshua * Annie Laurie
1966			March of the Olympians * Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah * Sugar Blues * Basin Street Blues * A Powdered Wig * Drunken Sailor * No Man is an Island * Annie Laurie
1967			Hava Nagila * Ladies * Mame * No Man is an Island * Born Free * The Minstrel Boy
1968			I'm Gonna Live Till I Die * Blowin' In The Wind * Harlem Nocturne * Manhattan Beach March * Goin' Out Of My Head
1969			Manhattan Beach March * Don't Sleep in the Subway * If I Loved You (from Carousel) * Casino Royale * Columbia the Gem of the Ocean * In the Still of the Night

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

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The Eau Claire Boys was a junior marching and maneuvering and parade corps based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Walter E. Brown founded a Boy Scout Band in 1952, which became the Eau Claire Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps about 1957 and eventually the all-male Eau Claire Boys. The group was self sponsored and affiliated with the VFW and American Legion.

The Boys required that all of its membership come from Eau Claire, a condition that ultimately limited recruiting opportunities.

The corps’ colors were black and white. The uniform and marching style, featuring short shorts, short-sleeve shirts, knee socks, and high arm swing, were influenced by the very popular Canadian Scout House.

The Boys sponsored a contest annually in September, the Drums on the Chippewa.

The corps became coed with a huge guard in 1970, and eventually become the coed Sundowners.

[Encyclopedia of Drum and Bugle Corps, 1966; http://www.geocities.com/ecdrumcorps/index_nn4.html; rec.arts.marching.drumcorps 1/1/98; Wayne Deusterbeck]

Members (13)

Member Name	Section	Years Involved
Ausman, Mike	Color Guard	1966 to 1969
Brimmer, Steve	Drum Line (Rudimental Bass)	1965 to 1967
Duesterbeck, Wayne	drum	1959 to 1965
Fenske, Bob (Fearless)	Soparanos	1966 to 1970
LIndberg, Michael	soprano	1960 to 1967
Lindberg, Mike	Percussion	1959 to 1960
Lindberg, Mike	Soprano	1961 to 1966
Lindberg, Mike	French Horn	1967
Marx, David	Percussion	1967 to 1968
Peeso, Patrick	color guard	1969
Volkman, Dave	Single Tenor	1970
Weber, Glenn	Soprano	1960 to 1963
Werlein, Mark	Brass/Percussion	1966 to 1969