Glassmen don’t return to the competition in 2014
Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps doesn’t return to the DCI competition in 2014. The corps from Toledo has put a statement on Facebook.
“We're still getting a few inquiries about positions and auditions for 2014”, the corps says in a Facebook post. “While we are thankful for the continued interest, we must state for the record that the Glassmen are not holding auditions and do not plan to field a corps in 2014.”
It was already known that the Glassmen are in financial difficulties. In October 2012, Interim Director David Stinson called for drum corps fans to make a donation to the corps. There was then a $300,000 gap in the total budget of $850,000 that had to be closed by 1st January 2013 but this didn’t happen.
Chairman Tom Sink of the Glassmen emphasised that they are just pausing to catch their breath and that this is not the end of the corps that was founded in 1961.
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