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Subject: If you could change one thing about band, or high school
Author: Randy Duncan	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:04:26 01/10/03 Fri What would it be? [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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Author: Debbie [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 14:33:11 01/10/03 Fri Band? Ban playoffs, a form of institutionalized torture. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Diego Pena
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Date Posted: 17:28:55 01/10/03 Fri

WHAT PLAYOFFS!! Marshall's football team was never in the playoffs when we were in Band!! When we were at Marshall, playoff hopes died when football season started. Not true today. If I could change one thing about band: Getting paid for all the fun we had...Actually, I'd do it again for free. What would I change about high school in general: nada.

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Robin
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Date Posted: 17:44:08 01/10/03 Fri

Football?! Who mentioned football?!

Playoffs--you know when you were challenged and had to sit there and listen to somebody(naming no names) play a piece perfectly; and then when it was your turn, you choked!

If I could change things, I would have changed the ratio to 10% high school (maybe keep the English and biology classes) and 90% band.

And lose any course taught by someone called "Coach"--they were a complete waste of time.

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Debbie
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Date Posted: 19:09:46 01/10/03 Fri

Thank you to both Robin and Diego for that trip down Memory Lane for those of us who might have suppressed such painful memories of both band playoffs and football playoffs.

With all the time we spent in band class itself, not to mention additional rehearsals -- before school, nights, sectionals, pre-game run-throughs, then during the games and concerts themselves, not to mention summer band -- it did feel like it was 10% school and 90% band to me.

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Juli Perry Briggs
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Date Posted: 02:09:55 01/22/03 Wed

90% band and 10% anything else?

Don't you remember that Big Daddy would frequently tell us that the teachers from all of the other subjects would come to him and complain about something that one of us had done in their classrooms, predicated with, "one of YOUR BAND MEMBERS did blah, blah, blah." It was like we had no other identity at all on that entire campus!
Guess that's what it means to be a part of something that's larger than life, huh?

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Kim Kuentz Melchert
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Date Posted: 14:57:07 01/13/03 Mon

* 15 minute lunches (if we were lucky)
* practicing with the dance team on Thursdays...."Thank youuuu bannnd!!" ughhh!!!
* marching in dresses during school days. Yes, even band girls tried to look nice.
* Standing at attention and not flinching - forever - during summer band. (even though I know I'm better for it now)
* Finding *both* white gloves on Friday afternoons.
* Standing in line at the bathroom downstairs after practice.
* Although a great memory now, having your parent as a teacher in high school can dampen one's sense of mischieviousness in school, without the fear of immediate consequences.

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Susan Taylor Jolly
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Date Posted: 18:28:36 01/31/03 Fri

I would add (to Kim's list) 1: the very beautiful yearbook portraits taken after marching a total of two hours before school and at lunch in 100 degree late summer heat/humidity (why did we bother wearing curlers to practice??) and,
2: changing clothes (if you didn't march in your dress) in 45.2 seconds in a sweaty, stinky practice room with several equally sweaty, stinky friends, if you were lucky enough to find one not already occupied.

All that to say, I really do have alot of great memories of being in marching band and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Nothing like former fellow band members to help you recount the cost...the price was sometimes high, but so worth it!

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