Frank Grana sent me a photo of the Mothers Club recently ... circa 1960 - 62. (We are working on getting the date settled).

The photo was sent to the alumni e-mail list for comments .. we need to clarify the names. We hope to add this photo to the corps website photo area too.

Gosh, how much we owe to these hard working ladies! They worked very hard to bring funds to the corps ... Cherry Tree socials, spaghetti dinners, paper rolling parties, you name it! They were there!

See other tributes to them in the thread... UNSUNG HEROES

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What did you do in the Corps? drummer; later- quartermaster 1964-66; asst. drum instr. 1964-70

What years were you a Corps member? 1958-63

Here are some names of leaders

Here are the Presidents of the NPI Mother's Club, 1951-1972

1951-54 Mrs. Louis Struck
1954-56 Mrs. Caroline Grana
1956-57 Mrs. Grace Saiger
1957-59 Mrs. Walter Prieve
1959-61 Mrs. Anthony Fruhauf
1961-63 Mrs. Phyllis Borck
1963-64 Mrs. James Wigman
1964-65 Mrs. Rita Minor
1965-66 Mrs. Fred Spiece
1966-68 Mrs. Jack Hausheer
1968-69 Mrs. Gregory Grana
1969-70 Mrs. Michael Prato
1970-71 Mrs. Nicholas Dohrn
1971-72 Mrs. Norman Friebus
1972-73 Carol Bach?

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What did you do in the Corps? drummer; later- quartermaster 1964-66; asst. drum instr. 1964-70

What years were you a Corps member? 1958-63

I think that last name should be Carol Burck. They had two or three kids in the Cadets, although I don't think any of them ever entered the 'A' corps (although Jeannie did march in Guardsmen for a while). I actually took her to my homecoming sophomore year of high school, and we spent a good bit of time at their house during the summers.

What did you do in the Corps? Snare; Drum Major; Drum Instructor/Arranger

What years were you a Corps member? 1970-73; 78-79

I am getting a lot of replies from alums about this photo. Getting mothers names. Getting a LOT of nice comments about their work.

Note: seems like the photo might be from 1960 .... still working on that.

When done, I will send again to alums with names. Hopefully, we will even get this onto the PHOTO section of the website.

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What did you do in the Corps? drummer; later- quartermaster 1964-66; asst. drum instr. 1964-70

What years were you a Corps member? 1958-63

The photo is in the PEOPLE folder of the Photo Album.
Leave a comment with the name and position of anyone you recognize, or send an e-mail with the info to npi.web@comcast.net

What did you do in the Corps? Drumline

What years were you a Corps member? 1960-1965