From: dowzycki@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ken Dowzycki)
Newsgroups: alt.colorguard
Subject: Re: Someone to chat with!
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:01:52 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

dugan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Robert Francis Dugan) writes:

>Hi Ken from the Royal Guardsmen.  I used to love watching your shows.
>Thoses were the glory days of Metro weren't they?  You guys, Skylarks,
>Conquest.  Even Emerald Marquis used to come down to the Skylark's


Yeah, your right!  NYRG, Skylarks, Victorian Vanguard, Emerald
Lancers, Conquest,  Emerald Marquis, and even Blessed Sac would 
come down once in a while.  We had huge rivalries with every one of
them none bigger than with the Skylarks.  Conquest was like poison and
Sac's rock and roll show with them all wearing that long blonde braid
was an easy target.  They all thought they were going to beat us or
should of beat us and the only one who we would trade off regularly was
the Skylarks.

>show...But now, I wouldn't go near to Metro.  My guard (Q.E.D.)  went
>to a few (3) metro shows last year.  The quality of Metro guards is in
>general pretty sad.  And the scoring?  Geez, my last years in admiral
>we got above an 85 our first show!  Ridiculus!  And now with my

Well then nothing has changed then!

>younger guard it is very hard to explain why last week at metro they
>got a 65 and this week at WGI they got a 40 when their show was so
>much better.  I do believe that WGI has their eyes on the future,
>that is the place to be if you want real competition and pretty
>knowledgeable judges. (Give or take a few)  But Metro is basically a
>joke.  So, we are doing NJA only this year.  Besides, have you heard
>about the "Metro letter"  That has everyone fuming?

No, I have not heard about the Metro letter.  But an educated guess tells
me that they don't want any of their guard competing in WGI, am I right?


>Admiral used the Checked floor a couple of the times.  The first time
>was our first year in Open, 1986 when we wore white evening gowns.

I think '86 is the year I was referring to.

>But most people remember 1987 when we tied with Emerald Marquis in
>Finals when we wore Gold and had the mirrors on the flats.  I was a
>Sabre in Admiral (with our manadatory time on Rifle and Flag)  until
>we got rid of Sabres my last year, then I went fulltime to Rifle.

>Ken: What did you twirl in RG?
>Are you going to come to any local shows or WGI's this year?

I was in the rifle line.  One of the first with a beard, the other was
Brian McCormack the rifle instructor.  Brian aged out with me in '83 and
taught NYRG from '84 to '86.  He wrote the '86 African show and brought in
George Zingali, Peggy Twiggs and Denise Bonfiglio for finishing touches.

In '87 he moved on to Chesapeake Cavaliers and has been the head 
instructor since.

Going back to me, I was in the rifle line all three years and in
my last year, the Fiddler show with the peasant constumes, I was
Captain (83).

>I have the NJA schedule someplace if anyone is interested...

I am not sure if I will get to any WGI shows this year.  If I do
it will be the ones in Pennsylvania.

If you don't mind, please post the NJA schedule.  Maybe there is
something local I can go to?


                                           Thanks,



                                           Ken