I don't really have any "Father Louie Stories", I just knew him as a driving force behind St Raphael's drum corps from it's inception through the 1963 season. He brought the unit from a Yankee Circuit "beginer corps" all the way through to the Circuit Champioonship, then to Greater New York, Tri-State & Penn-Jersey to meet up with the "Big Boys" of that era.
Father DeProfio got the corps to VFW Nationals in Miami Florida in 1961 and Minneapolis Minnestota in 1962, and onto the stage at Carnagie Hall (the ONLY Connecticut junior corps to ever appear there) in the Spring of 1963.
Along the way he had very much to do with the founding of the Drum Corps News "World Open Champiuonships", and having the show brought to Bridgeport from "Joisey" in 1964 & 1965.
He is again active in the "Bridgeport Drum Corps Activity" with his participation in the Park City Pride and PAL Buccaneers. He ranks among the numbers of the Catholic Priests who were moderators/founders of such great corps as St Vincents Cadets, Blessed Sacrament, St Kevins Emerald Knights, and St Marys Cardinals, a few of the powerhouse junior corps of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
