by JAG | Feb 19, 2022 | USARD News, Memorials - Foundations
Founding member, Eric Landis, died on December 15, 2021. We will miss Eric’s super performances with the US Air Force Drum Corps Alumni Ensemble at our future USARD conventions. Watch Eric’s last USARD performance with the AF Ensemble: Read Eric’s...
by JAG | Feb 19, 2022 | USARD News, Memorials - Foundations
My wife, Phyllis, was a founding member and former treasurer of the USARD. Although not a drummer, her drum corps experience goes back to The Hat Makers Drum and Bugle Corps in 1958. I wrote the following while she was in her last moments. I wanted it known how much...
by JAG | Feb 19, 2022 | USARD News, Memorials - Foundations
Our friend and USARD founding and life time member died on July 13, 2021. Skee, a US Marine Corps Drum and Bugle Corps veteran and Reading Buccaneer, was outstanding and enthusiastic rudimental drummer. Click on the following link to read Skee’s official...
by JAG | Mar 29, 2021 | Memorials - Foundations
We have recently received word of Joe’s passing. Joe Fontana has been a major supporter and contributor from the very beginning of the existing of the United States Association of Rudimental Drummers. Following is an in memoriam from Joe Fontana’s long...
by Chet Doboe | Jan 16, 2021 | USARD News, Through the 20th Century Drummers, Memorials - Foundations
January 14, 2021 at age 94, Mr. Don Friesing passed away. Â Mr. Friesing was a loving family man and was so loved by family and many dear friends. Â Mr. Friesing was most deservedly inducted into the Drumming For Our Veterans Hall of Fame in 2018, as well as, the...
by JAG | Jan 14, 2021 | USARD News, Memorials - Foundations
Received word that good friend and honored USARD member, Gerd Sommer has died on January 13, 2021. Gerd Sommer born in 1928 founder of the Hanaford’s Fife & Drum Corps and was one of only two living students of J. Burns Moore. He attended Hamilton...
