Blue Star Cadets

LaCrosse, WI United States

Inactive Junior

Year	Position	Score	Theme/Songs
1983			American Salute * Suicide Is Painless (from MASH) Come in from the Rain
1984			Come Follow the Band (from Barnum) * Moorside March (from A Moorside Suite) * Root Beer Rag * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Come in from the Rain
1985			My Favorite Things (from The Sound Of Music) * Scenes From An Italian Restaurant * Jeannine * Strike Up the Band (from Strike Up the Band) * In Your Eyes * Soulero

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

CORPS Photos

The Blue Star Cadets was a junior field competition corps based in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. In late1982, after the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps had ceased operations with no sponsor and staggering debt, some alumni organized the new group, incorporating as LBS Cadets, Inc. For three years, the new corps competed only regionally as a member of Drum Corps Midwest and worked at repaying the old corps' debt.

In 1986, the new group had repaid sufficient of the old units' debt to reclaim the Blue Stars name and legacy. Blue Star Cadets then became the feeder corps for the resurrected Blue Stars that won the DCI Class A60/Division III World Championships in 1991, 1993, 2001, and 2003 before moving up to Division II in 2004 and Division I (now World Class) in 2006.

As a feeder corps, the Cadets were a parade corps. They added woodwinds in 2004, becoming a marching band rather than a drum and bugle corps. The unit went inactive during the "Great Recession" of 2007-09 and has not returned.

[DCW, 11/03, p.3; DCW, 10/2004, p.1; Wikipedia]

Members (5)

Member Name	Section	Years Involved
Conniff, Richard	Contra	1988 to 1990
Deal, Jennie	Color Guard	1990 to 1993
Deal, Jennie	Drum Major	1994
Deal, Jennie	Soprano	1995
Fredrickson, Alana	hornline	1995 to 1996

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Blue Star Cadets

BlueStarsCadets,Lacrosse,WIPin1(BJA)J_U_S from the Richard Elmquist Collection

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