As the noontime hour approached, the band members, guests and other assorted people were herded into the Model Lab School library for the first round of "goodies;" in this case, lunch, where the reconnecting continued.

A display table was placed in the library containing an assortment of artifacts and treasures from Mr. Stephens' tenure as Band Director. Mr. Stephens realizes where all of his stuff has been for the past few weeks. Yearbooks from almost every year of Mr. Stephens' 24 years at Model Lab were prominently on display, opened up to the band page.		ROLL CALL!
		Nothing quite like free food to bring out a crowd! Band Members, Family and Friends of Allan D. Stephens who showed up for lunch included:
		Tom Brosius ('01)	Carla Gover ('89)
		John and Phyliss Gump
		Meena Mohanty ('88)	Evan Sullivan (9th Grade)
		Diane Timmons	Andrew Virgin (9th Grade)
		ALSO PRESENT: Muriel Stockburger

The Roitman's Radioactive Stroller makes one final appearance

It is interesting to note that the old groups that we used to have in the grill during lunch back in high school more or less re-formed years later.

Allan Stephens, Susan Stephens Zarzycki

Daniel, Samuel and Amy Frostman with Mary Lou Stephens

Tom Brosium, Phillip Gump, Amy Frostman, Kate Klaber, Chastity Ross, Michael Moore (obscured), K.C. Dawson

Robert Robinson, Paul Sirek, T.J. Mansfield, Stephen Rupard

Dawn Quillen Walters, Meena Mohanty, Melissa Bowling, Neal Jett

Kurt Adams, Jimmy Kwak, Donna Pierce, with Keith, Justin and Tiffany Hartman visible in the background

Allan Stephens, Shay Quillen, Eileen Graham, Chris Staples

Hey look, behind Mr. Stephens, it's Ron Zarzycki, running around and taking all those nice group photos as well as all those interstitial shots of the school that all of our other "photographers" forgot to capture. Thanks again for the fine work, Mr. Zarzycki!

Carla Gover (center) showed up with her pal, Diane Timmons (left)

Mr. Stephens! Weren't you wearing a white shirt when you came in? Did you swipe it off of the display table? And hey, for that matter, don't you know that it's a faux pas to show up wearing the same outfit as someone else? (For the record, Mrs. Stephens went back to the house to retrieve the shirt, which is not the original on the display table but rather the "commemorative 2006 reissue" of the award-winning 1986-87 MHS Band T-shirt.)

It should be noted that Mr. Stephens chose to sit at the table with all of the cool people.

Ah, the pain and the joy of parenting, as exemplified by our very own Keith Hartman

At about 12:30pm, the call came: "Rinse out your mouths, and head back to the band room!" If you got 'em, get the instruments out ...

Photos on this page were taken by JLK, Scott Zarzycki, Ron Zarzycki, and Donna Pierce.

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