Northernaires

Menominee, MI United States
Founded: 1953

Inactive Junior

Year	Position	Score	Theme/Songs
1962			Everything's Coming Up Roses (from Gypsy) * Ghost Riders in the Sky * The Song of the Volga Boatmen * Sheik Of Araby * Temptation
1969			Marco Polo March * Also Sprach Zarathustra (from 2001: A Space Odyssey) * Man and His World * Ooglan Ooglan * When the Saints Go Marching In * Theme from The Sand Pebbles
1970			Old McDonald * Besame Mucho * Promised Land (from How the West Was Won) * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Love Theme (from Romeo and Juliet) * Golden Slumbers * Carry That Weight * The End * Theme from The Sand Pebbles
1971			Theme (from Patton) * Promised Land (from How the West Was Won) * On The Mall March * Golden Slumbers * Carry That Weight * Zippadeedodah * Love Theme (from Romeo and Juliet)
1972	32	54.900	Theme (from Patton) * Promised Land (from How the West Was Won) * When Johnny Comes Marching Home * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Zipadeedodah * Walk on the Wild Side * Happy Together * Love Theme (from Romeo and Juliet)
1973	44	40.800	I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight (from Camelot) * When Johnny Comes Marching Home * Toilet Bowl * Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah * Gole Gandom * Love Theme (from Romeo and Juliet)

Position 200+ indicates Division II, Position 300+ indicates Division III, Position 400+ indicates Mini Corps.

CORPS Photos

1969 1 Photos

The Northernaires was a parade and marching and maneuvering junior drum corps, based in Menominee, Michican.

The corps got its start when a drum corps from Racine so impressed the home folks in Menominee that they decided they had to have their own corps. This was in June of 1953. The DAR Boys Club focused the sponsorship for the new group, with the whole town backing them and a local disc jockey acting as cheerleader. One of the first corps directors was Bill King.

In the early days the DAR Boys Club Corps marched in local parades, playing music learned from exercise books. By 1956 they were anxious to move on, and entered their first competition which, to everyone's surprise, they won. By 1958, with new uniforms, instruments, and name (The Northernaires), the growing group won 17 out of 25 contests over two years, beating the likes of the Racine Kilties and the Madison Scouts.

So successful were these years that the Northernaires boasted their own feeder corps, the Northern Lites.

The corps marched in DCI competition in 1972 and 1973, finishing 32 and 44th, respectively. They were more successful in American Legion competition, capturing eighth place in 1971.

Although disbanding in the mid-1970s, the corps formed an alumni group in 1997.

[DCW, 4/03, p.13; DCW, 6/11/04, p.7

Members (7)

Member Name	Section	Years Involved
Ennis, Tom	Soprano	1955 to 1966
Nason, Gene	Baritone	1963 to 1968
Pawlowski, A.J.	M&M instructor	1972
Schoenbach, Frank	Baritone	1969 to 1973
Schoenbach, Frank	Baritone	1969 to 1973
WELLNER, CHRIS	SOPRANO	1977 to 1981
WELLNER, CHRIS	BRASS INSTRUCTOR	1982 to 1985