Ricardo Espinosa served as Director of Bands at Missouri Southern State University. He was the principal conductor of the Wind Ensemble and Concert Band and directed the Lion Pride Marching Band and Lion Pride Pep Band. Additionally, he instructed both beginning...
Cheryle, began her career in marching arts as a member of the Sunnyvale Sparklers majorette corp from 1961-1966. She later joined the color guard and became a rifle with the Sparks Drum and Bugle Corps from 1965-1966. When members of the Booster Club decided to...
In March of 1967, Gail Royer, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based elementary school music teacher, was named director of a new drum corps that spun off from the Sparks, another local drum corps. One week later that corps, named the Vanguard, would win its first parade, and...
Fred (Frederick Val Sanford) began his drum corps with the Casper Troopers in 1959, and in 1968 moved to Santa Clara to instruct the Santa Clara Vanguard, working with fellow Casper Trooper Pete Emmons, and SCV Director Gail Royer to create some of the most...
Sheri McGinnis came to the Santa Clara Vanguard from the Pacific Northwest in 1975 to try out for the rifle line in the fall of that year. She and her best friend loaded up their cars and drove to California in the heat of July, not knowing what to expect, and she...
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