| MHS Band 1988-89 Total Members: 32 Flute Oboe Clarinet Alto Saxophone Tenor Saxophone Baritone Saxophone French Horn Trumpet Trombone Baritone Tuba Percussion DEPARTING: Abby Long (12), Jason Chanley (9), Sherri Chastain (8), Chad Luhman (9), Lance Landreth (9), Ellen Mitchell (10), Sara Pfotenhauer (9), Chris Rogers (10), Jason Wigand (10), Jeff Williams (9), Joe Williams (11) NEW ADDITIONS: Brian Bowman (8), Oliver Brewer (8), Job Cook (9), Chad Elliott (11), Lucy Jett (8), Stephen Rupard (10) Sousa Award * Doubled up on F Alto Horn
** Moved from F Horn to Percussion
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This particular band would have some of the tightest individual sections. The flute and trumpet sections remained quite large, with many of these players having performed together for a number of years. The clarinet section, while consisting entirely of three freshmen, had been playing together since Intermediate Band. Dawn Bates conquered the high school band this year, starting with an appointment to Drum Major, directing the last song of the last concert of the year, and sharing the Sousa Award with Sebastian Odong-Wodolam. 1987 co-Sousa Award winner Joe Ballew returned to guest conduct a piece with the Sixth Grade Band at the Spring 1989 concert.
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Some of the Band Tunes Performed This Year: MAY 4, 1989
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Dawn Bates and Willie Gump in the back room prior to the Spring Concert, May 1989.
Backstage at the Spring 1989 Concert
Band membership had a considerable dropoff this year, due to the departure of six seniors from the previous year and, more significantly, the re-integration of eighth graders into the Advanced Middle School Band, leaving a considerably smaller incoming class of middle schoolers into the high school band. Year seven would continue to be like any other year; Mr. Stephens had become somewhat of an expert in adapting to adverse band lineups.
