The 2024 season and year are behind us, and the 2025 season groundwork is underway. This past season went by way too fast. We have had an exciting year of events that many Alumni participated in! Our Scouts had a fantastic year. Fighting their way back into the top 12. Please help support the corps and keep this tremendous momentum in the future! Participation is key in helping us grow our great organization while supporting our Madison Scouts.
This coming 2025 year and season are shaping up to be exciting! We want to engage many more alumni to help us support our scouts and get the alumni socially together to revive old friendships and make new ones.
The following are some of the projects that are ahead for 2025. As always, we would love for our Alumni base to be part of these activities. We welcome you and look forward to seeing you.
Randy Ferrie
The Hall of Fame Class of 2025 nominations are being accepted now and will close after December 31, 2024. Please send your nominations to
CH Beebe: We will launch the 2025 CH Beebe Scholarship Fund in January. Please check this out; there will also be testimonials from past scholarship winners. Please donate to the 2025 CH Beebe campaign. Each donation will be recognized on our booster boards, and you will receive a CH Beebe commemorative challenge coin. This will help a deserving Scout attain their dream of becoming a Scout!!
The 2025 Legacy Shirt: For 2025, MSAA is having a design contest for our yearly Legacy Shirt. This will be an excellent opportunity to show off your creative side! So, get your design caps on; your great design could be worn nationwide!
Tailgates / Get-togethers:
- March 12, Rockin for a Cure
- July 5th Whitewater Show and Tailgate: Madison Scouts, Blue Stars, Blue Coats, Cavaliers, Colt Cadets, Colts, Columbus Saints, Crossmen, Phantom Regiment, Troopers, River City Rhythm
- July 25th Drums On Parade show and Tailgate: Madison Scouts, Colts, Cavaliers, Santa Clara Vanguard, Pacific Crest, River City Rhythm
- August 1st & 2nd Allentown Pa Tailgate: All corps
- August 8th Indianapolis, In: Get together, age out ceremony
In 2024, we fed the corps in Middleton at the MSAA Hall of Fame, Drums OnTailgate, and San Antonio with Texas BBQ Scouts Style. New this year, 2025, we would like to feed Our Scouts in four locations. DOP and San Antonio, as we did last year. Adding Whitewater and one other location. Let us know if you and a group of your Alumni friends would like to help support the corps by feeding them along their 2025 tour. Doing this last year was gratifying. This will be an excellent opportunity to support Our Madison Scouts.
Last year at Drums on Parade, we also had The Capitolaires and the Alumni Breakfast Club in attendance. In 2025, I would like to invite all of the corps from Madison to come and set up a Drum Corps reunion at our tailgate. Those invited are Madison Scouts, Madison Jr Scouts, CapitolAires, Capitolaires Petites, Capital Sound, State Street Review, SouthWind (MDBCA years), and the 32nd Hussars. Let's make this another tradition for this fantastic event. It's such a great mix of Drum Corps people. See how you can get involved.
In 2025, we will focus on the Madison Scout Alumni Chapters nationwide. Chapter leaders are being contacted to see what we can do to grow these local groups to get together. If you would like to be added to the Chapters list, Let us know by sending us an email, and we will get you started.
The 2024 class of age-outs has joined our ever-increasing ranks of the Madison Scouts Alumni. This year, as in years past, representatives of the MSAA gathered and held a ceremony for the newly aged out members by presenting them with a neckerchief, info on how to stay connected, and some words of welcome! Let's Welcome our new Alumni!
We would love to have you get involved with the MSAA. Monthly meetings are on the 3rd Sunday of each month. Come to a meeting and see what we are all about. Please get involved, get to know your alumni, and help our Madison Scouts.
Randy Ferrie
Looking forward to seeing you!
Randy Ferrie
YNWA