Are there any DCI Hall of Fame members from The Cavaliers?
Yes! Many of the DCI Hall of Fame members have been involved with The Cavaliers. Don Warren Inducted in 1985 After a 56-year career with one of the more successful drum corps in history, you would think Don Warren would hang up his green hat. Not so. I still work every day on it, Warren says of the marching entity he created, which was renamed the Cavaliers in 1951. That year the corps also donned its first green, black and white uniforms. Warren caught the drum corps bug at a Boy Scout jamboree at Chicagos Soldier Field in 1946, after watching the Racine Scouts perform. As a scout leader, he convinced his troops to pick up instruments. They were getting tired of tying knots, Warren said of his troops early enthusiasm for forming a drum corps. Under his leadership, the Cavaliers won the VFW National Championship title in Miami in 1957, where a steady rainstorm ensured that the corps new plastic drumheads would outlast the waterlogged percussion competition. This early championship tran
