Mark attended college at Northeast Missouri State University (now known as Truman State University) graduating in May 1986 with a bachelors degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Marketing and Data Processing. Mark lives in Chicago and has been employed for 20 years as a Flight Attendant for Northwest Airlines, which is now merging with Delta Air Lines. He has spent the last 10 years as an International Purser. He has also spent several years in the Inflight Training Department teaching all aspects of airline safety and service to flight attendants from new hires to seasoned veterans of the industry.

Mark will be assisted by Tour Managers Rick Lunn and Joe Paul, as well as Assistant Tour Managers Josh Parm, Diane King and Neal McFarland. Housing coordination will be handled by Francine Micklus.

Rick Lunn will be returning for his 12th year on the management team. As a Cavaliers marching member, Rick played baritone in 1979, marched in the color guard in 1979-1981, and was named Drum Major for the 1982 and 1983 seasons. Rick was part of the visual staff during the 1984 season. Since 1999 Rick has served both as a tour manager and as the creative genius behind all of the Cavaliers DVD products.

Rick's professional endeavors have included work in the media business of Hollywood in the early nineties, performing in or participating technically in everything from avant-garde theatre pieces to playing rock and roll with a theatrical band to producing, shooting and editing nationally released documentaries.

Rick holds Bachelor's Degrees in Theatre and Biology from Illinois Wesleyan University. He currently resides in Colorado.

Joe Paul is excited to be joining The Cavaliers' management team for the 2010 season. After aging out of the corps in 1984, he was a member of the guard staff through 1987. Since then he's had a long and varied engagement with the "marching arts" as a designer, instructor, director and judge. Joe is currently a drill/staging designer for a number of local bands and winter guards. He is a judge for the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association and spends the winter season judging for several winter guard circuits around the country.

Over the last several years Joe has been involved in a variety of volunteer projects for The Cavaliers, including projects related to the celebration of the corps' 60th Anniversary and the Cavaliers Anniversary Corps.

Joe holds a Bachelor's Degree in Art and lives and works in Los Angeles as a freelance graphic designer.

Josh Parm joined The Cavaliers tour management team in 2006 and will be entering his 5th summer with the corps. Josh marched with The Madison Scouts in 2003. He was a visual instructor for Teal Sound in 2005. Josh has written drill and taught visual for various bands across Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He is a senior at Lincoln Memorial University seeking a degree in music.

Originally from Cincinnati, OH, Josh currently resides in Knoxville, TN with his fiance Melanie.

Diane King was a tour manager for The Cavaliers from 1996 to 2001 and 2009 and is excited to be back for the 2010 season. Diane is in her 16th year as a band director, the last 8 years at Reese Public Schools in Reese, Michigan. She has been responsible for starting a jazz program, a fall color guard and a winter drum line program at the school. The winter drum line has been state champs the past two years. Diane spent the past two summers as the battery visual tech for Dutch Boy Drum and Bugle Corps.

Diane has been involved with winter percussion in Michigan since 1995. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Michigan Color Guard Circuit for 9 years - 6 as Secretary and 3 as the Percussion Representative. Diane is also the Director of the WGI Independent World Class drum line, NorthCoast Academy. The ensemble recently represented the American winter drum line activity at the European Percussion Championships in Belgium.

Diane holds a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Music Education from Central Michigan University.

Neal McFarland is an alumnus of The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps where he played trumpet from 2006-2008. He is originally from Roselle, IL and currently resides in Macomb, IL while pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Music Business at Western Illinois University. Neal is involved with various organizations at school including the University Union Board where he books Comedians to showcase at Western Illinois. Neal has also taught various marching bands including his alma mater the Lake Park High School marching band. 2010 will be his second summer on the management staff with The Cavaliers.

Francine Micklus, will be returning for her 5th season as Housing Coordinator. Francine began her career as a drum corps volunteer selling souvenirs for the Phantom Regiment, and has been helping The Cavaliers in various volunteer capacities since the late 1990s.

Francine has been a music educator in K-12 and Middle School. She holds a BME-Secondary Vocal from UW-Eau Claire; a Master of Divinity (1989), and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting (1991) from Yale University. Francine is currently working on her dissertation for the DMin-Liturgy Concentration at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

She supports her Drum Corps addiction by "working" as the Director of Liturgy and Music at St. Robert Parish in Shorewood, WI.