Mandarins

In February 1963, Roy Wong, Frank Lim, Thomas Fong, and Yuk Fong met to discuss the possibility of forming a drum and bugle corps for youth. One month later, a letter was sent to the Sacramento Chinese Community, asking for support to establish a boys and girls drum and bugle corps. With the numerous festivities and parades taking place annually in Sacramento and neighboring locales, certainly the Chinese Community, with all of its native traditions and color, could exhibit representation which it could claim as its own.