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2011-2012
Meetings:
09/20/11 [TUESDAY] ABHS Band Room at 7:30 p.m.
01/10/12 [TUESDAY] ABHS Band Room at 7:00 p.m.
04/19/11 [THURSDAY] ABHS Band Room at 7:00 p.m. Nominations taken for next year's Band Booster Executive Board.
05/15/11 [TUESDAY] ABHS Band Room at 7:00 p.m. Voting for next year's Band Booster Executive Board.
Quick Fact...
College admissions officers continue to cite participation in music as an important factor in making admissions decisions. They claim that music participation demonstrates time management, creativity, expression, and open-mindedness.
- Carl Hartman, “Arts May Improve Students’ Grades,” The Associated Press, October, 1999.
Quote of Note...
“During the Gulf War, the few opportunities I had for relaxation I always listened to music, and it brought me great peace of mind. I have shared my love of music with people throughout this world, while listening to the drums and special instruments of the Far East, Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Far North, and all of this started with the music appreciation course that I was taught in a third-grade elementary class in Princeton, New Jersey. What a tragedy it would be if we lived in a world where music was not taught to children.”
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf — United States Army
The Anchor Bay Band Booster Organization is designed to supplement the overall band program with fund-raiser activities as well as the chaperoning of various trips and events. If you have a child in any band, you automatically become a booster, and are asked to lend your support to the organization. This year's AB Band Booster executive board is as follows:
President |
Carol LaPorte | carollaporte@yahoo.com |
1st VP (Fund Raising) |
Barb Belanger | bela21@att.net |
2nd VP (Special Event Fund Raising) |
Jesse Jenson | Jessie-jensen@comcast.net |
Treasurer |
Heidi Gnesda | hgnesda@gmail.com |
Financial Secretary |
Tim Piepenbrok | piepenbrokCL@aol.com |
Recording Secretary |
Maureen Block | mgblock@att.net |
Director of Bands |
Scott Oranchak | soranchak@anchorbaybands.org |
Director of Bands |
David Visnaw | dvisnaw@anchorbaybands.org |
Please feel free to contact these individuals when questions arise with the goings on of the Band Booster Organization. The executive board is always working towards the best interest of our students, and can provide help whenever it is necessary.
Note: Phone numbers may be available upon request. If you would like a phone number of any member of the band booster organization, email them, state your name and purpose, and they'll respond.
If you plan on visiting a building during the school day to help-out/volunteer, please fill out an ANCHOR BAY SCHOOLS VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION FORM and turn it in to the main office.