Category Archives: Reunion News

Knights Alumni Rings are now available to order.

View/Print the order form here: Knights CF22 US Order Form

Just FYI, the “engraving of up to ten characters” is not available. Each ring and medallion will have the “Three Eras, One Legacy” included.

Orders should be sent to:

Knight’s Reunion
PO Box 284
Geneseo, IL 61254

We will send in the first order on 4/15/16.

Knights 50th Anniversary Reunion Banquet
July 3, 2016 6:00 PM Happy Hour followed by dinner.
Jumer’s Casino and Hotel
777 Jumer Drive
Rock Island, IL 61201

3 Entree Buffet with potato and vegetables
Mixed Green Garden Salad, Dinner Rolls
Iced Tea, Coffee, water
Cash Bar

Knights Alumni Corps performance throughout evening beginning during Happy Hour.
Other Program features TBA
Evening MC’ed by ex-Knights Drum Major and DCI’s own Dan Potter.

Cost is $55 per person
Children 12 and under $27 (under 4 free)
(the 2006 reunion was $45 and this is a bigger, nicer place, and is of course 10 years later)

Send Check or Money Order and Names of attendees to:
Knights Reunion
PO Box 284
Geneseo, IL 61254

Make checks payable to Knights Reunion.
Reservations are due by June 15, 2016
(reservations made by May 16th will be entered in a door prize drawing)
Please get your reservations in early.

From Gregg Neuleib:

Saturday July 2, 2016

12:00 PM – informal family/corps picnic at the large shelter west of the Band Shell in the City Park in Geneseo (between State St and Center St). If you would like to attend just bring what you would like to eat for a picnic lunch. (please be aware that Geneseo City Parks have a no alcohol ordinance) The grill options are limited.

1:30 PM – Sectionals for Brass Percussion and Guard – Weather permitting we will be in the shade. There are many areas around the park to spread out and rehearse. BRASS – If you want to be able to sit please bring a lawn chair. We will perform standing but may need sit time in between.

Non-participants may observe or there are other possibilities in town including the Park District’s new swimming pool, golf at Maple Bluff Golf Course, Geneseo Museum, Hennenpin Canal bike paths and walking. Richmond Hill Park is at the south end of town and there is plenty of room at the park for softball, soccer, tennis,etc.

3:30 PM-5:00 PM full corps putting together the dress rehearsal for the park later, and ultimately the Banquet show Sunday evening.

5:00 PM – dinner, either another picnic or one of the many fast food places or restaurants in town.

7:30 PM (be at gathering spot behind the band shelter at 6:30 PM) – Geneseo High School Band performs at 7 PM doing their Celebration of the Knights show that they have just learned. We will be able to listen to them. Then….
Full run through “dress rehearsal” at the City Park Ice Cream Social with audience. Geneseo Performing Arts Council will be serving the deserts. Press releases have been put out about this concert. Brass and Percussion will wear black shirts or black Knights t-shirts. Reunion t-shirt is fine as are the past black shirts. Khaki or jean pants or shorts are okay. Post dress rehearsal (approx. 8:30) will be social time.

Sunday July 3, 2016

KNIGHTS POOL PARTY – 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – a private party at the new Geneseo Aquatic Center, East North St. in Geneseo. Diving boards, climbing wall, splash pad, current pool, and more. Everyone bring your suit. (Or at least dip your feet in). Invite your friends and relatives.

GOLF – 8:30 am tee time Maple Bluff Golf Course. Private message Gregg on Facebook is you want to play.

2:30 – 3:30 – AT JUMERS – Fix what we need after the dress the night before and adapt to the room. (only air-conditioned drum corps on Sunday!)

Banquet check-in 5:00 pm – dress is business casual or more (some may want to dress up)

5:30 pm – Cocktail Hour at Jumers Casino in Rock Island

6:45 – Dinner

8:00 – Banquet program – (with all musical performances and Round Table Accolade after dinner) We have the room until midnight.

• February 13-14
• April 9-10 (with percussion)
• June 4-5 (with percussion)

Rehearsals at Geneseo High School
Times to be announced.

We realize that some of you will have to come a long way. Attendance will help all of us be better but is not mandatory. Stay in touch with your section leader and do videos or facetime if you cannot make it to a rehearsal. We have to know how you,re doing on the music.

FINDING A HORN. We have talked about needing horns and that most every marching band is done now until next late summer for marching band camp. If you can make contact with a local band director and borrow one that would be great. Sopranos/Trumpets you need a Bb trumpet, Mellos a marching mellophone in F, Baris a marching baritone in Bb, and Contra/tubas a marching tuba in Bb. Many many bands have these instruments and probably do not use them for a few months. Connect or reconnect with the directors and see if you can borrow one. (They might be an old corps person.) Ebay has been known to have them for sale too. As a last resort please let your section leader know that you cannot find one and we will try to help. But remember, you finding 1 horn is probably easier than us finding multiple.

UPDATE:

December 7 at 7:38am (Gregg Neuleib) received this message from Greg Blum (of Colts fame and Knight’s friend) via Facebook

Saw your post on finding instruments. Here are some schools that may be helpful:
DeWitt Central-purchased 6 tubas from colts. He’s a friend of Vicki MacFarlane.
Davenport Central-Brian Zeglis (past Colt cadets percussion head) teaches that band …
Wilton-Pete Wyatt (Emerald Knights alum) is band director
Scott Lawson-colts Alum @ WIU. Is connected to WIU Alumni band

From Gregg Neuleib:

Attention! (Your heels probably just snapped together didn’t they?)
Because it is a holiday weekend no one would provide a “block” of rooms. That is probably the price we pay for using a good 3 day weekend for travel. www.hotels.com has many rooms available in the Moline/RockIsland/Geneseo area for anywhere between $60-$160 a night. The Moline airport hotels are only 5.6 miles from the Banquet site (Jumers Casino and Hotel) and 15 to 20 minutes from Geneseo. July 2 and 3 are the dates. We also have the large shelter at Richmond Hill Park reserved for the whole day on the 2nd.

Brass Members as of 12/2/2015

Trumpets
Dan Moore
Shane Connor
Gregg Neuleib
Arthur Neuleib
Tom Huntley
Joshua Huntley
Todd Meier
David Clark
Dan Garrett
Myles Anderson
Roy VanMeter
Gordan Connor
Bill Parker
Jim Cassens
Julie Frank
Jackson Frank
Phillip Corbin
Anne Hale Corrigan
Michael Embrey
Joanne Chamberlain Krakora
Dick Schweninger

Mellophones
Kent Baker
Sharon Hartz
Ron McBride
Jeannie Jarigese
Jennifer Greif Bolton
Stephanie Gardner
Keith Baker
Cindy Hamilton Megli
Casey Hanford
Eric Ashcraft

Baritones
Greg Young
Dwight Johnson
Sandy Ivy
John Jordan
Tim Morgan
Tom Whitman
Jeff Hempstead
Charles St Clair
Bart Pillen
Paul Hinman
Charlie Hanford
Jeff Uddin
Jonathan Zimny
Dan Swallow
Frannie Castro
Steve Deal

Tubas
David Stollberg
Darryl Anderson
Eric Olsen
Craig Carper
Dale Sutherland
Mike Stollberg
Frank Wolverton
Billy Hamer
Dave Ivy

Another update from Gregg Neuleib:

Have had quite a few people asking what we are playing for the reunion. It is still a work in progress depending how things transpose and work but the following is what is being worked on. As I mentioned, nothing set in stone yet.
1969 – Hava Nagila, production
1972, 73, 74, 79 – If Ever I Would Leave You from Camelot – closer
1976, 77, 78 – Temptation, concert
1977, 78 – Nights in White Satin – production
1981, 82 – Eleanor Rigby – concert/production
1983 – It Was Almost Like a Song/Joust/Ending, closer
1985, 93 – Jesus Christ Superstar (TBD selections)
1992 – Overture to Robinhood (opener)
The thought is all eras represented, playability, and of course, do we have the charts.

The email addresses for the brass staff are as follows.

• Gregg Neuleib grneul@yahoo.com
• Dan Moore tofive1@gmail.com trumpet/soprano
• Shane Conner splooie1990@hotmail.com trumpet/soprano
• Kent Baker warhmr@yahoo.com mellophone
• Greg Young gbrassmusic@gmail.com baritone
• David Stollberg davidstollberg@gmail.com tuba/contra

Some of the charts are ready so please contact your section leader for parts. Please be aware that probably everyone cannot play first part for the whole gig so ask for all the parts for your instrument. Any relative of a past Knight member or staff member is welcome to join the brass line (perc and guard too). So let’s get at least 60. What do you think?