Corporate Board

The Colts Drum & Bugle Corps (a non-profit organization) sponsors two corps, the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps, and The Colt Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps, and the Dubuque Colts Youth Choirs.

The primary objective of the Colts Youth Organization is to provide programs for youth in music, performance and life skills training through a positive environment that emphasizes character and social development, leadership, self-discipline and the pursuit and achievement of excellence in the performing arts.

Associated objectives are:

To preserve and build on the great tradition of the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps as a nationally known and ranked touring drum and bugle corps that has grown since 1963.

To appropriately represent Dubuque, Dubuque County, and the United States and the drum and bugle corps activity worldwide.

To support music and performance arts education in Dubuque and the State of Iowa, to stimulate interest in the study of music and the drum and bugle corps activity.

The Board of Directors consists of 9-15 voting members and the Executive Director (ex-officio) with members serving staggering three-year terms. Three members from the Colts Booster Club, Inc. are appointed to the Corporate Board.

Randy Eichhorn, President
Beth Miller, Vice President
Bill Howes, Secretary
Tom Rogers, Treasurer
Rod Bakke
John Berns, appointed from the Booster Board
Lori Connolly, appointed from the Booster Board
Gary Dolphin
Bruce Hallahan
Bill Symoniak
Peggy Francomb, appointed from the Booster Board
Rich Theobald
Youth Chorale Representative
Alumni Representative
Greg Orwoll, Executive Director (ex-officio)

Booster Board

The Booster Club was formed on November 16, 1966. It was renamed Colts Booster Club, Inc. on October 17, 1996.

The main purpose of the Colts Booster Club, Inc. (a non-profit organization) is to support the Colts Drum & Bugle Corps through local fundraising events. Main fundraising events include a successful bingo operated three nights a week, Colts Car Wash in June, and the concessions for the annual Music on the March events held at Senior High School in July. The Boosters have participated in sponsoring a wreath at the Mercy Festival of Trees.

Board members are elected to a three-year term with three board members elected each year.

Current Board Members are:

Peggy Francomb, President
Tammy Merkes, Vice President
Cindy Kenyon, Secretary
John Berns
Lori Connolly
Sue Hallahan
Jim Hauser
Betty Hoeger
Steffany King
Ray Morgan
Pat Richards
Margo Weydert
Randy Eichorn, appointed from the Corporate Board
Greg Orwoll, Executive Director (ex-officio)

Alumni Association

Dear Colts Alumni,

We've been asked by the Colts Drum Corps Corporate Board to invite you to complete the enclosed survey to help determine interest in a more formal Colts alumni organization. This survey is being sent to over one thousand addresses of former members on file at the Colts office. Some of you may receive it by e-mail; others by regular mail. Your survey will be returned to the alumni development committee at the Colts office for tabulation with results to be shared later.

Your thoughts are important to the committee in two ways. First we need to know how much interest there is in having a way to connect with good alumni friends regardless of location. They may be scattered across the country or clustered in your state, region, or city. A newsletter is one possibility to be considered. Second, the survey will let the committee know if you're willing to help in some way we'll let you describe. The committee will use the results to guide the next steps in development.

Comment space is provided after each item and more at the end, so if the right question isn't on the survey, let the committee know your thoughts. Thanks for helping in this way. Please send in your survey as soon as you can.

Sincerely,

John "J.T." Theobald & Emily (Neuendorf) Pawlak

Take the survey online now!