page_title: Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The 2016 Oregon Crusaders
context_page_description: The Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps was a World Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Portland, Oregon, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International and was the undefeated Division III champion in 2004 and the undefeated Open Class champion in 2012. On January 13, 2019, the Oregon Crusaders informed DCI that they would not be participating in the 2019 season.
context_section_description: The original Oregon Crusaders junior drum and bugle corps was founded in Oregon City in 1971 by brothers Ron and David Jones, with 15-year-old David as Corps Director and 16-year-old  Ron as composer, arranger, and drill designer. The first year corps consisted of a drill team with drum line, and is distinguished for suffering a bus breakdown as its 40 members were en route to the unit's only scheduled performance. The brothers reorganized in 1972, acquiring sponsorship of the Dickinson's Gourmet Preserves Company (now owned by Smuckers) and fielded as Dickinson's Oregon Crusaders. In 1973, the corps merged with the Imperial Cadets and marched as the 115 member Imperial Crusaders, but returned as the Oregon Crusaders in 1974 when the two corps split. After the Jones brothers aged out, the corps lapsed into inactivity.
  In 1999, Rick Wise inaugurated a corps in Medford then known as the Southern Oregon Crusaders, though not affiliated with the original entity. In 2001, a collection of Southern Oregon Crusaders personnel along with a new group of staff members moved to reorganize the unit. Bill Perkins was named executive director, and Portland, Oregon was designated as the corps' new home.  The name was also shortened to, "Oregon Crusaders." From 2001 to 2003, the growing corps performed valiantly throughout the western US garnering the attention of the larger drum corps community despite fledgling membership and shoestring budget, which would including borrowed uniforms, horns and percussion equipment. In 2004, the corps traveled throughout the Western United States on its way to the DCI World Championships in Denver, where the corps won the Division III title, to complete an undefeated season.
  In seven of the next eight seasons, the corps competed in Division II/Open Class.
  In the summer of 2012, the Oregon Crusaders had another undefeated season and won the Open Class World Championship with a score of 95.250, along with high brass, high visual performance, and high general effect. The corps went on to achieve 19th in World Class.
  In 2013 the corps was promoted to World Class.
  In 2016, the corps became one of the first to wear digitally printed uniforms with those worn in their production "Hunted," giving the corps the stylized appearance of trees.
  On January 13, 2019, The organization announced that it would not be competing in the 2019 season. 
  Note: The Jones brothers have established an attachment to the new organization and credit their experience in operating the original Oregon Crusaders for their later success in life. David, having been responsible for the corps' travel, today is vice president of a major, premium travel agency. Ron continued in music and is a successful Emmy- and Grammy-nominated composer of film and television soundtracks, and co-arranged the corps's 2003 program "Mysterious Mountain".
caption: The 2016 Oregon Crusaders
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