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Subject: Re: Message from Big Daddy Author: Cecillia Dohrn Rivas [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 20:02:53 03/25/03 Tue In reply to: Charles Kuentz 's message, "Message from Big Daddy" on 03:38:03 02/22/03 Sat Mr. K, It was great to read your message. The longer, the better! I am filled with emotion as I reflect on my time with the Ram Band. I remember wanting to quit when I was in Middle School because I wasn't enjoying my instrument (clarinet). However, I owe my mother a debt of gratitude for making me stick with it until I went to High School. Fortunately for me I did persevere and was able to have the awesome privilege of learning what it was like to be a part of a team that was the Pride of their school and city. Your loving leadership gave me the desire to be my best and to get up early every morning ready to march. Marching is the only form of exercise that I have ever enjoyed, still to this day! Surely the time that I spent in Band and all of the numerous fund-raising events, etc... were some of the very best of my life. Thank you so very much for all of the effort that you put into molding us and instilling in us the importance of being our very best. Although I did not pursue the clarinet after JMHS, I do still play the piano and keyboard and am fully involved in church music. I have 4 children, and the oldest 2 both play the violin. My husband went to H.S. in El Paso and had a very similar band experience to mine, so we are hoping our children will also get to participate in a fantastic band/orchestra. Our daughter is in the Nashville Repertory Symphony Orchestra and will be starting High School next year at the magnet school which focuses on the arts, Nashville School of the Arts. We are excited for her opportunity. She has had some wonderful mentors thus far. Please know that you were my very favorite teacher and still hold a special place in my heart. I am really looking forward to seeing you again. It's great to have this opportunity to come together. Hugs from "Seniors Try More Harder"!! Cecillia [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Message from Big Daddy Author: Susan Taylor Jolly [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:00:07 04/03/03 Thu From the eighth grade at Hobby MS, to graduation at JMHS, to the present, you have been a great influence in my life. Thank you for being such a good friend and mentor. And for not getting too mad when you got your behind chewed out by someone in administration every time I got hauled in for being off campus during peprally periods (it honestly never occurred to me that I would get YOU in trouble...) And for semi-permanently wiring the battery to the starter with jumper cables in my green-bomb wagon at 1:00 a.m. in the torrential pouring rain somewhere the other side of Pleasanton so the wind-ensemble could finish the drive home from a concert at Del Mar College (good chance you remember that one, huh?) Seriously, life would be considerably different for so many kids if they had one teacher in their entire school experience who would lead, befriend and discipline their students the way you did with us. Many thanks! love, sue [ Post a Reply to This Message ]