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Oklahoma Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps

Also documented as: Oklahoma Cadets

Oklahoma City areaPhotographed 1963Youth drum and bugle corps
Documented history with gaps
Master record213

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Documented overview

An archival record identifies a stable named cadet drum-and-bugle organization in 1963. The live archival metadata further states: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Cadets founder Edward e. Clark pins attendance awards on two drum and bugle corps members, John Ream, Crooked Oak High School, and Lee Hill, Southeast High."

Documented history with gaps. The record supports a public history, with important limitations stated on the page.

History

Identity and chronology

An archival record identifies a stable named cadet drum-and-bugle organization in 1963. The live archival metadata further states: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Cadets founder Edward e. Clark pins attendance awards on two drum and bugle corps members, John Ream, Crooked Oak High School, and Lee Hill, Southeast High."

Leadership

An archival record identifies a stable named cadet drum-and-bugle organization in 1963.

Sponsorship and participation

Oklahoma Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.

Youth ensemble; exact sponsorship unresolved.

Activity

An archival record identifies a stable named cadet drum-and-bugle organization in 1963.

Why this band matters

Named historical youth drum-and-bugle organization documented by an item-level archive record.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    An archival record identifies a stable named cadet drum-and-bugle organization in 1963. The live archival metadata further states: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Cadets founder Edward e. Clark pins attendance awards on two drum and bugle corps members, John Ream, Crooked Oak High School, and Lee Hill, Southeast High."

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Oklahoma Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Photographed 1963 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Oklahoma Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Evidence

Sources

1 of 1 listed live source link resolved during the September 3, 2026 audit. Gateway metadata checked: Primary: “[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0940]” — Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma Cadets founder Edward e. Clark pins attendance awards on two drum and bugle corps members, John Ream, Crooked Oak High School, and Lee Hill, Southeast High."

  1. The Gateway to Oklahoma History itemhttps://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc219066/

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