During the 30 years that Diane (Brotzman) Koenig has contributed to the operations of the Reading Buccaneers in positions both on and off the contest field, the Bucs have won the Drum Corps Associates (DCA) championship six times. She marched in the color guard from 1977 to 1980. The color guard was undefeated on the score sheets throughout the season, when the Bucs won the 1979 DCA championship. Again in 1980, the Buccaneers had top guard and won the DCA title. Throughout 1980s, she performed in the horn line, playing French horn from 1981 to 1985, baritone in 1986, French horn again in 1987 and 1988, moving to mellophone in 1989 before switching back to French horn in 1990. She became drum major in 1996, and has served in that position since then, except for 2003. She was drum major for the Buccaneers’ four straight undefeated DCA championship seasons in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. She was named to the Reading Buccaneers Hall of Fame in 1997. She served as secretary on the executive committee in the mid-1990s, and has been a member of the support staff sewing crew for more than 20 years. She has also been an active member of the Buccaneer Alumni Drum Corps, playing baritone since the corps formed in the mid 1980s.
