Week Four of the Marching Warriors 2008 Season

Practices:

Wednesday evening practices will continue through Aug 6 from 6:30-9pm, meet in the Henderson Band Room. Snack provided.

DCI Summer Music Games Event: ONE TICKET REMAINING!!!!!

On Thursday, July 31, 2008, 7:30 p.m. at West Chester University’s Farrell Stadium, Youth Education in the Arts presents Music in Motion! This is an evening of intense, choreographed musical excellence! The drum corps competing are Jersey Surf, Crossmen, Glassmen, Blue Knights, Carolina Crown, Blue Devils, The Cadets The Henderson band boosters has a block of tickets and one ticket is available at $20 (a savings of $7), if interested contact Carolyn Best. (Tickets can also be purchased at the stadium if you decide to come and need more than one ticket.)

Band Camp:

Band Camp will be two full weeks long, held Monday through Friday beginning Monday, August 11. Camp is being held at Henderson with most instrumentation meeting from 8:30-4:30 – percussion and guard schedules may have morning and also evening practices (potentially 6:30-9:30pm) due to staffing availability.

Questions about band camp scheduling conflicts/accommodations (due to sports or vacations) should be discussed with Mr. Quinn. HE KNOW HAS AN EMAIL ADDRESS WHICH IS GQUINN@WCASD.NET . (note the first initial is a G which is from his first name, however, he is known by his middle name which is Chris).

A special note to all campers, this year the school is paying for tshirts and shorts to all the students that sign up to attend band camp and join the Henderson Marching Warriors. Chris connected with Kelly Sports and they will be ordered as soon as the commitment forms are received. Also, we will be having a pool night (band campers social) the first week and a catered dinner affair (probably more like a family picnic) the second Thursday (August 21) which will be followed by a band performance.

Program Introduction Package:

A Marching Warriors introductory packet will be distributed next week and includes a program description (letter from the band director), a commitment form for participation in the Marching Warriors fall season along with descriptive information from the band booster membership and a marching band schedule. Commitment forms will need to be returned by August 6 if students want to participate in this year’s season which includes the band camp that begins August 11.

If you are unable to attend or stop by to pick up the information, we will send it via email and regular mail if email address not available.

Equipment Inventory:

Continues on! Uniforms have been inventoried, now we need to put them together (swags and buttons attached). Help with that on Wednesday would be great! A parent or student that would like to create and input the uniform information on an Excel document would be very helpful as well. Contact Carolyn Best if you can assist with that.

Please continue to encourage students to come out to rehearsals on Wednesday evenings and be a part of the Marching Warriors experience!

Week three updates

PERCUSSION COACH JOINS STAFF!

The new percussion captain head is Charlie Dolar. Mr. Dolar has been a percussion instructor for over twenty years. He is currently on staff with the Phoenix Drum and Bugle Corps and will be touring with them from this coming Wednesday until DCI finals.

Practices:

Wednesday evening practices will continue through the summer from 6:30-9pm, meet in the Henderson Band Room. Snack provided.

Car Wash Success:

The car wash that took place this past Saturday was well attended by students and those that had dirty cars as well! Band boosters raised $442 that day. Thanks to all the students and parents that worked together to make the day a success. MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Next car wash will be Saturday, August 9 from 9-2.

DCI Summer Music Games Event:

On Thursday, July 31, 2008, 7:30 p.m. at West Chester University’s Farrell Stadium, Youth Education in the Arts presents Music in Motion! Jon Lacy, senior trombone, will be competing as part of the Jersey Surf along with two others from WCASD (Eric Smith - Henderson student/Rustin graduate and Brad Schoener - Rustin student.) A newly formed local mini corp., Crossmen Extreme, will be performing as well and a part of this corp. includes Henderson band students Jane Best, Sean Hughes, Grant Struble and Jon Szelak! The Henderson band boosters has a block of tickets and recently two have become available at $20 each (a savings of $7 per ticket), if interested contact Carolyn Best.

Band Camp:

Band Camp will be two full weeks long, held Monday through Friday beginning Monday, August 11. Camp is being held at Henderson with most instrumentation meeting from 8:00-4:30 – percussion and guard schedules may have morning and also evening practices (potentially 6:30-9:30pm) due to staffing availability.

Questions about band camp scheduling conflicts/accommodations (due to sports or vacations) should be discussed with Mr. Quinn.

Welcome Package:

A Marching Warriors welcome packet is being developed and will include a commitment letter for participation in the Marching Warriors fall season along with descriptive information from the band director and band booster membership information. These packets will be distributed July 30 and commitment sheets will need to be returned by August 6 if students want to participate in this year’s season which includes the band camp that begins August 11.

Equipment Inventory:

Color guard equipment, flags and costumes are being photographed, cataloged and packed in bins thanks to the help of Mary Burgoyne and Donna Cristiano. There are a lot of flags in various spaces which is now being nicely organized and ready to share with our new color guard coach when she gets on board! We do have more hanging space for uniforms now too!!! I NEED YOUR HELP WITH UNIFORM INVENTORY: if someone(s) could volunteer to stay Wednesday evening and help me to continue with uniform inventory and movement of the jackets and pants, etc that would be of great assistance. I can count and list and hang up things but rearranging all that we have is hard for me in my current status of “stay off your ankle for three weeks” advice from my doctor. See me in the back room Wednesday evening if you have some time to do that!

Please continue to encourage students to come out to rehearsals on Wednesday evenings and be a part of the Marching Warriors experience!

Rolling along

Tonight a dozen students (and parents) met the new band director - Chris Quinn. Nice guy, tough spot -- he has an optimistic attitude, and looking forward to moving forward with practices, band camp, getting a couple of supporting staff, music, etc.

As you might have heard, he's starting marching band practices Wednesday's 6:30 to 9pm at Henderson, through the summer (that's drumline, pit, wind players, and guard).

Have a great 4th of July weekend!
Mr. L

PS - We're having another CarWash Saturday July 12, 9am to 2pm, up at the Lukoil, by Boot Rd and Rt 100.