1961

Drum Corps

• Blue Devils: Color Guard added to corps
• Glassmen: founded as Maumee Suns
• Nisei Ambassadors: founded
• Sertomanaires: founded
• Limestone City Grenadier Drum and Bugle Corps (later the Grenadiers): formed
• Marching Angels: founded
• Guardsmen, Schaumberg, founded.

Organizations

• The VFW approves valve-rotor brass instruments for drum corps competition.