Greater New Orleans Drum Corps Association’s Annual Business Meeting
& Pot-Luck (10/11/2025)

This is to announce that our Annual Business Meeting will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm at Gray Insurance Co., 3601 North I-10 Service Road West, Metairie, LA 70002. In addition to GNODCA members, we also invite friends, family and especially Drum Corps alumni to come join us and socialize. It will be a pot luck dinner, like we’ve done in the past, so please bring your favorite dish along with you. Please join us and become an active GNODCA member.

GNODCA’s purpose is to preserve and build the great tradition of the drum & bugle corps activity; appropriately represent the Greater New Orleans area as well as Louisiana, the United States and the entire drum & bugle corps activity worldwide; and to stimulate interest in the study and teaching of music and the arts.

If you would like to become a GNODCA member, Membership dues are due as of the first day of the fiscal year, October 1 (Go to http://gnodca.org/joinus.html for Membership Application or to register on-line). However, we will be happy to accept dues at the Annual Business Meeting or you may mail your Membership Application & dues to Greater New Orleans Drum Corps Association , Post Office Box 23582, New Orleans, Louisiana 70183-3582. Please make sure you get your dues in on time to be eligible to vote in the next election! Our fiscal year is October 1 to September 30. At this meeting, eligible “Regular Members” for at least 1 full year, will elect 2 Board of Directors.

Two Board Members will be elected for 3-year terms at this year's meeting. Elroy Ingersoll and Babette Staunton have accepted nominations for the open positions. A little information about each of them is listed below:Our Crescent City Color Guard started off with a bang for the 2025 guard season! They took 1st Place in Boloxi Guard Show, Denham Springs Guard Show, Memphis WGI Regionals & Gulfport WGI Regionals and 1st Place at LMCGPC World Championship. Then made semifinals at the WGI Championship in Dayton, Ohio, where they ranked in the top 25. Things are now looking great for the 2026 season. The Directors & staff are in the clinic, planning and audition stage for our guard. Wishing them good luck!

Hope to see you at the Annual Meeting & Pot Luck. Set-ups and soft drinks provided. Please let us know (via email or text) what food item you expect to bring to insure we have a variety of foods and to estimate how many are attending. If you have any questions, please contact me, Babette Staunton, GNODCA Social Committee at 504-343-1964 or bbstaunton@gmail.com (Subject: ABM).

Yours in Drum Corps,
Babette Staunton
GNODCA Board of Directors, Secretary

Article By Babette Staunton – Posted October 16, 2025