2009 Howar Jr. High Drum Majors Announced

Drum Majors for the Howar Junior High Marching Band Fall 2009:
Maddie Lange
Shayla Wolver

Congratulations to these fine young ladies! Thank you to everyone who tried out, there were some tough choices that Mr. Taylor and I had to make this afternoon. The whole band did a grand job of supporting all of the candidates.

(Thanks to Mr. Taylor for serving as our guest judge today.)

Lakeview Concert - A Success!

Congratulations, Howar Band, on a very successful afternoon concert today. You did a great job.

What an adventure today, loading a tight bus as it started to rain (AGAIN), performing in a very hot, humid gym, and then re-loading... Of course, it rained on me as I came back to HJH. You work well under adverse conditions.

Jazz Banders - after about a month of not meeting, you did a fine job of playing Grooved Pavement. Soloists did an outstanding job, and be sure to thank our very own microphone stand, Mr. D! I'm so proud of all of the hard work you have done this year!

Concert Band - a great variety well played. Tubas, trombones, and baritones nice work in your features. Thank you, too, to the eighth graders who voulenteered to speak this afternoon. You did a fine job.

Now looking to the end of the year... tomorrow we will unload the truck and start working on marching music for next fall. Thursday and Friday we will continue working on that music as well as consider seventh graders for drum major. Monday we'll watch our movie. Then it'll be time to start thinking about summer lessons, crazy, huh?

CHS Color Guard/Flag Team

CHS Color Guard/Flag Team
2009 Marching Season

Seniors
Taylor Armington (captain)
Rachel Eddy (captain)

Juniors
Bethany Jackson
Shaniel Smith
Molly Thomas

Sophomores
Hope Hancox
Shelby Kanselaar
Megan Mobley

Freshmen
Patience Clark
Lei Alena Dagat
Ally Logsdon


Thank you to everyone who auditioned!

· Uniforms will be fitted before the end of the year.
· T-shirt/hoodie orders will be organized in June.
· Be sure to fill out an information sheet next week (contact info, etc.). August practice schedule will be available next week, too.

Lakeview Concert Announcement

Our annual Lakeview Recruitment Concert is scheduled for Tuesday, May 26. We will begin around 2:20 p.m. The HJH schedule that day will be slightly altered allowing our students to be in attendance at all academic classes before performing the concert. We will bus to the concert and dismiss for the day from Lakeview. Students needing to ride a bus home will board the bus at Lakeview. Students getting a ride or walking should plan on leaving from Lakeview. If a student needs to walk from Howar or return to Howar for some reason, please ride an afterschool bus from Lakeview to Howar.

Congratulations to our Award Winners

Congratulations to everyone from Howar who received an award at last night's awards assembly. I was proud to see so many of the band students get acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in so many different areas.

I would just like to highlight a few of our 2008/2009 school year band awards...

Most Improved Musician - Concert Band
Lewis B., Alexis J., Chyenne L., Corina M., Shayla W., Neal C., Charlie P., Hannah R., and Lynsey W.

Outstanding Band Member
7th Grade - Maddison L.
8th Grade - Hannah R.

Most Improved Musician - Jazz Band
Marissa H., Maddison L., Eli S., Matthew W., Patience C., Shelby R., Jeremy S., and Jesse S.

Outstanding Jazz Band Member
7th Grade - Eli S. and Marissa H.
8th Grade - Shelby R.

First Point Award (150+ points earned while participating in Howar Band)
Lewis B., Dillon C., Kolton G., Marissa H., Brentyn J., Alexis J., Maddison L., Melanie M., Tiffany M., Corina M., Hunter M., Nikki M., Katie M., Jake O., Erin P., Nicole S., Eli S., Elizabeth S., Kelsey W., Katie W., Matthew W., Shayla W., Jin W., Zach B., Neal C., Lauren C., Jessica D., Alesha D., Brandon J., Charlie P., Makenzie R., and Jessica S.

Second Point Award (300+ points earned while participating in Howar Band)
Megan A., Shawn B., Patience C., Jeff C., Mallory C., Lei Alena D,. Alesha D., Ally L., Hannah R., Shelby R., Jeremy S., Jesse S,. and Annie W.

Third Point Award (450+ points earned while participating in Howar Band)
Lei Alena D., Hannah R., Shelby R., Jeremy S., Jesse S.

Congratulations to everyone involved, it's been a great year!!

Another Scale Star!

Congratulations to MARISSA H. who has just recently completed her first and second levels in her quest! Way to go!