SW Washington Corps
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Longview-Kelso Drum & Bugle Corps 14, 26
Established: 1953. All-boy corps.
AKA: “L-K Corps” and “Longview-Kelso Boy Scout Drum & Bugle Corps“
Director/Founder: Roy R. “Bobby” Briggs.
(See 1951 Everett VFW Corps on the “Pre-1960 Corps” page)
Co-Founder: Leonard Price
1961: Went co-ed. Added color guard.
1965: Went to Washington DC to participate in President Johnson’s inauguration parade.
1966: Changed name to the “Mustangs”
DCX show scores for 1965 listed as “Mustangs” should be “L-K Corps”.
(See Footnote-26 for URL of parade footage of the LK Corps)
Photo: 1962
Mustangs – Longview-Kelso, WA
Established: 1966 (formerly the “L-K Corps”)
Director/Founder: Roy R. “Bobby” Briggs
Last Documentation: 1973 NWDCA Championship show program (non-competing member)
Disbanded: End of 1975. End of the Bobby Briggs era.
DCX show scores for 1965 listed as “Mustangs” should be “L-K Corps”.
Photo: 1966
The Who? – Longview-Kelso, WA
Established : April 1976 (formerly the “Mustangs“)
Director: William Perkins (See Mariners, Sunsetters, and Marauders)
Disbanded: End of 1977, Morphed into the Marauders.
Marauders – Longview-Kelso, WA 5
Established: 1978 (formerly “The Who?“)
Manager: Fred Lopez (See Hurricanes Sr, 1970 Thunderbirds)
Director: William Perkins (see The Who?, Mariners, and Sunsetters)
Home Show: Music in Motion ( See Shamrocks)
Disbanded: 1994 5
Highest DCI ranking: 1992 Division-1 Semi-Finals, 17th
Need photo.
Spartans – Vancouver, WA
Established: 1968 5
Director: Bill Steiner (1970 – 1984)
Manager: Wally Unrein (1971)
1976: 14 Oregon Crusaders joined the Spartans.
The O.C. did not field a corps that year 44
Last Documentation: February 1994 Winter Guard
Highest DCI Ranking: 1987 Open Class Semi-Finals, 23rd
Disbanded: Early 1994
Photo: 1970s at Salem Optirama