♦ "I would say that the second outstanding year was 1970, mainly because it was the first year that we won the DCA. We had just gone through three rather unsuccessful years, at least for us, and we needed to rebuild. After some rather extensive personnel and instruction staff changes, it was an up and down season, but we felt as though we had a good corps and a point to prove. There was a definite drive to that corps, and the guys put forth the extra effort to win that first championship. I think it permanently changed our 'work ethic', and got us back to where we had been in the early sixties. I remember that the Saturday night before the Championship, which was in Rochester, New York that year, we were in a contest in Toronto and came in third to the Hurricanes. I guess that brought out the push we needed the next day. We won the preliminaries in the morning, then came back to win the championship at night. That was also Jimmy Russo's first year with the corps which gave us a much needed shot in the arm."