St. Vincent's Cadets

Bayonne, NJ United States

Inactive Junior

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Results from final championship competition of the year Position: 1 Score: 0.000
Repertoire for 1950
Conquest (from Captain From Castile) by Alfred Newman Captain from Castile - The Classic Film Scores of Alfred Newman - BMG Classics 0184-2-RG
El Capitan by John Philip Sousa The March King: John Phillip Sousa - Legacy ASIN: B00000I0GN
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean by Thomas A. Becket Ray Anthony In The Miller Mood
Bloody Mary (from South Pacific) by Richard Rodgers \| Oscar Hammerstein South Pacific - Soundtrack
Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Rimsky-Korsakov Greatest Hits - Israel Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta - CBS Records (MLK 45811)
Triumphal March (from Aida) by Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi - Aida - Conductor Franco Capuana - Gala (GL 100.507)
Alabama Jubilee by George L. Cobb \| Jack Yellen Good Deal! Doc Watson In Nasvhille - Vanguard; ASIN: B000000EK0

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St. Vincent's Cadets was a junior marching and maneuvering corps based in Bayonne, New Jersey. Originally founded as a Boy Scout corps before 1942, the corps' evolution into a marching entity corresponded with its sponsorship by the Jay-Herbert VFW Post.

The green and white-clad group captured the New Jersey State VFW Championships five times, the first in 1943. At one time the corps organization encompassed five different groups, three male and two girls (no coed groups during the war years), serving some 300 young people. In 1947 the Albert L. Quinn Post of Jersey City sponsored a boys' group and a girls' group, one of which took the state American Legion title.

St. Vincent's heyday came in the late 1940s and 1950s, when they captured an (almost) consecutive string of eight VFW Junior National Championships, the last in 1956, and two American Legion National Championships.

The acme of consistency in 1959, the corps' scores varied only from 85.20 to 89.60 in 22 contests all season long.

Robert Rohan was a bass drummer with St. Vincent's in the 1950s. Rohan was the first African American inducted into the New Jersey Drum Corps Hall of Fame, in 2004.

The corps was active through at least 1961.

[Bill Beckmann; DCW, 1/04, p.3; DCW, 6/11/04, p.26]