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Field Pass: A Troopers side story



Have a question, comment or request for Field Pass? Leave a message for Dan Potter by phone at 317.489.9385 or by e-mail at fieldpass@dci.org.

The Troopers are having an exceptional 2009 season. As DCI's Dan Potter discovers in today's Field Pass, several years of rebuilding in Casper, Wyo. are paying off big with an 80-percent member retention and more age-outs this year than any other in the corps' history.




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Dan Potter has been hooked on drum corps and competitive marching band for 30 years. He is the announcer for many Drum Corps International and marching band shows nationwide and is the host of DCI's "Field Pass" podcast which covers the best in marching music.

Drum major of the Geneseo Knights Drum and Bugle Corps from 1979-1981, Potter has experience on the staff of the Glassmen and has taught or consulted high school marching bands in Indiana and Texas.

At home in Tulsa, Okla., Potter is news director and assistant program director for AM 740 and FM 102.3 NewsTalk KRMG. His journalism has been honored by several broadcast organizations including the 2000 Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for best radio newscast in the U.S. and, in 2004, Dan was part of a team of radio reporters awarded broadcast journalism’s equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton.