Band Booster Family,
Prelude: As we head into this holiday week, we have a lot to be thankful for: outstanding band students, excellent directors, & great volunteer parents, siblings, and others! Please enjoy a safe & fun Thanksgiving with the ones you love: )
First, just a reminder of Band Booster Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries Restaurant Fundraiser all day Tuesday, November 22…coupon attached. Thank you to Dee Gardner for volunteering to organize this event. Please share the coupon with all of your family & friends, post on Facebook or any other social media you can think of…let’s get the word out
Second, Michelle Booth is collecting inputs/ideas for future Tag Days. Please fill out the attached survey & have your kids return to Mr. Burke. If you want, you can e-mail it back to me, & I’ll forward to those that need it.
Third, November is catch your breath month as we transition from outdoor Marching Band to indoor Concert/Symphonic Band. Currently, here’s the December schedule of events:
8 HIGH SCHOOL BAND CONCERT -7pm
Fruit Delivery and pick up.
9 Tiny tots Concert (w.e.)10am
10 All District Band Auditions
West Potomac high school
NOTE: As we prepare for the indoor concert/symphonic season, one of the lessons learned these past six years, is that the students ALWAYS say that they wish they had started practicing sooner & more for All-District Auditions, scheduled for Sat, 10 Dec. Parents need to encourage their students put extra personal time into this: )
14 Chorus Concert - select wind ensemble members performing
19 AP Scholars Reception – Jazz Band
Fifth, miscellaneous items:
- Second payment of $136 for November 1st for the Band Spring Trip, 18-22 Apr to Atlanta, GA…other payments due in January 4th, February 1st, & March 1st… http://www.hayfieldbands.com/id76.html
- Thank you to Band Booster parent/alumni Jean Martelli for sharing her photographic talents: Composite Pictures of your child are now available for purchase through www.jeaneimages.com using password, “2011band” when prompted. Click on the link, and order pictures from this sight. A large composite picture will be made of the whole band from these pictures.
- If you have any tuxedos or accessories that you either want to donate, trade, or sell, please send me detailed info & I’ll advertise through Band Booster e-mails
1. Reply to me if you can use the following tux donated by the Lichtman family: 34R Jacket, 28R Pants (28" inseam hemmed), bow tie, cummerbund.
- Mr. Burke shared a UVA Band Day trip opportunity for 20 Feb…more info to follow
- Parents of seniors, it’s not too early to be thinking about the 3 pictures (baby pic, kid pic, & senior pic) you want to use for the Final Concert, Wed, 6 Jun 2012
Again, if I haven’t said it enough or lately, THANK YOU! You’re rocking as parents/siblings, your Band students LOVE you for it, & the Band Booster Family is living the good life: )
Finally, our students REALLY NEED YOU! As most teenagers, they will NEVER admit this. Your VOLUNTEERISM is ESSENTIAL to THEIR SUCCESS!!! Additionally, they really do APPRECIATE seeing you @ their various events cheering for them. I hope to see ALL the parents volunteering @ various events throughout the year: ) If there is ANYTHING I can do or answer, please let me know. Please keep the following links for future reference:
- Hayfield Secondary School http://www.fcps.edu/HayfieldSS/
- Hayfield Band webpage http://www.hayfieldbands.com/
- Band Booster Blog http://www.hayfieldbandboosters.blogspot.com/
- Band Booster Sign-Up Genius http://signupgenius.com/go/hssband1
Humbly serving our kids,
Che Russell
Home (703) 405-9065
Cell (703) 963-4655
Work (202) 231-6273
Crussell82@cox.net
