George Hopkins is currently the Executive Director of Youth Education in the Arts and The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps.



George Hopkins, started his drum corps career in 1968 as a member of the Holt's Hornets in Clifton Heights, PA, along with his brother Mark Hopkins. George then moved with the corps to Norwood, PA where they became the 507 Hornets, which eventually became the Crossmen.



He aged out in 1978. In 1979, he joined the previously named Garfield Cadets as a percussion instructor. In 1982, at the age of 25, he became the director of the corps. His direction immediately led the Garfield Cadets to their first Drum Corps International World Championship title in 1983.



The Cadets would go on to win 8 more DCI World Championships under his direction, the most recent being "The Zone: Dreamscapes in Four Parts with Door" which is probably the most "out-there" show DCI has ever seen. as well as hundreds of other local, state and regional contests. Under his direction, The Cadets have become universally renowned as the winningest drum and bugle corps to take the field since the inception of competitive marching music.



George Hopkins has subsequently been inducted into the DCI Hall of Fame in 1997.