St Raphaels Buccaneers will use "Novillero" as their new opener, and a Fred Cartwright arrangement of "Experiment In Terror" for concert. An all male color guard is recruited to replace the displaced females (none of whom, interestingly enough migrate to the new St Raphaels girls corps, but several find their way into the ranks of a couple of their former Bridgeport rivals and "Father George" replaces "Father Louie" as the Parish Moderator. New uniforms are also in the works for "Opening Night" at Carnagie Hall.


The World Open
Championships
Jersey City NJ
14 September 1963

Junior Preliminaries

1. 88.15 Blessed Sacrament
2. 85.76 Chicago Royal Airs
3. 85.28 St Kevins
4. 85.18 Garfield Cadets
5. 84.71 Boston Crusaders
6. 80.18 Bridgeport PAL Cadets
7. 79.21 St Raphaels
8. 78.20 Irwin Kingsmen
9. 76.56 Pittsfield Cavaliers
10.75.76 Conn Royal Lancers
11.75.66 St Roccos Cadets
12.75.33 OLPH Ridgemen
13.75.26 New Britian Grenidiers
14.70.36 Little Falls Cadets
15.69.10 Staten Island Lawmen
16.65.83 St Josephs Patron
17.62.50 Poughkeepsie Pacers
18.60.08 Troy Skyliners
19.51.58 New Britian Highlndrs

World Open Juniors Finals

1. 86.06 Blessed Sacrament
2. 81.43 Garfield Cadets
3. 80.83 St Kevins
4. 80.33 Chicago Royal Airs
5. 80.26 Boston Crusaders
6. 74.85 Bridgeport PAL Cadets
7. 71.55 St Raphaels
8. 71.26 Pittsfield Cavaliers
9. 71.03 Irwin Kingsmen
10.69.61 Conn Royal Lancers











COMMANDER ................................... WARREN McDONALD
BUGLE INSTRUCTOR ........................ FRED CARTWRIGHT
ASSISTANT BUGLE INSTRUCTOR...... GUS JAROSKO
DRUM INSTRUCTOR .......................... JOSEPH GAUDETT
DRILL INSTRUCTOR .......................... JACK SULLIVAN
COLOR GUARD INSTRUCTOR ............ ROBERT McQUILLAN
CORPS NURSE .................................. MRS. ALICE LEE
QUARTERMASTERS ............. YVON GALLANT, ANTHONY MONTANARO
HERMAN LEE







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St Raphaels and the PAL Cadets enter several bugle quartet shows, while individual horn players from four of the area juniors do well in "individual" shows with sopranos and baritones from PAL, the Lancers and St Raphaels "medaling" in several New York & New Jersey contests.

The Bridgeport Post newspaper begins to run a column featuring the goings on of the local corps in their Sunday Post edition.

St Raphaels outpoints the Pittsfield Boys Club "Cavaliers" at a standstill contest held in New Britian (81.00 to 79.00), and becomes the first (and only) Connectiuct junior corps to perform at the Drum Corps News concert program  titled "An Evening With the Corps at Carnagie Hall".



DRUM CORPSNEWS
4 September 1963
St Raphaels Edges Kingsmen
By Jack Deacy

"New Britian Conn Aug 17: The streaking St Raphaels Buccaneers continued their domination of the Greater New York Circuit here tonight with a slim victory over the New York Kingsmen. The Bridgeport corps was high in all captions but one posting an 82.20 to extend their unbeaten skein in loop competation. St Anne's Loyalaires, another Bridgeport unit finished in fourth place with a score of 77.07".







Speaking for all of us"
"At the top of the stairs, we were hurriedly but silently directed to our formation behind a tall beige curtain.  
Someone was speaking to the house, but it seemed far away and unconnected.  Oddly,
 hushed commands came in rapid succession"  "Ten-hut"!  "Dress center, Dress"!  "Ready Front"!"
"Suddenly, the curtain opened and spots and footlights nearly blinded us.  Squinting, I could make
 out the edge of the stage, boom stands holding Dick Blake's microphones and finally, the people
 in the balconies that seemed stacked one upon the other to the sky".
"It was May 18, 1963:  I was 16 years old and standing on the stage at Carnagie Hall".
Frank Dorritte 1963-1973    From "A History of Drum Corps Vol #2" Long Island Sunrisers
Used with permission