It's Homecoming Week - Let the Craziness Begin!

Homecoming Week at THS and our first marching competition of the season all at once - wow! What a week it will be! Let's see if we can lay it all out:

• Monday:
• Homecoming Assembly AM. Everyone wears pep shirts
• MB regular rehearsal 5-9
• Tuesday:
• MB field rehearsal 6:30-9
• Wednesday:
• Parade rehearsal 3-4:30. WEAR ATHLETIC SHOES
• MB Sectional and ensemble rehearsal 5-7 (bring a nutritious snack)
• NO FIELD ACCESS
• Thursday:
• Nothing scheduled! Yay!
• Friday:
• Homecoming Parade 3:30 call time (please eat a small nutritious snack). PEP SHIRTS, BLUE JEANS, ATHLETIC SHOES
• Band dinner after parade - yay! Fowler and Twality will join us - be good examples! 
• MB uniform 6pm
• Homecoming Game and halftime show. Eye O' TIger with Tigerettes. Pep with Fowler and Twality in stands
• Load truck after game
• Saturday:
•  Sunset Marching Classic! Schedule to be posted Monday evening 10/1. Yay!

Looking Forward to FOB (October 20)

OK folks - it is apparent that our prelim performance time at the U of O Fessstival of Bands will be quite early - we don't have a firm time yet, but we do know that Class A will go 1st, and we will be the 4th Class A band performing that morning. So, we are making plans to drive down the night before and stay at our favorite inexpensive Eugene-area motel, the Springfield Motel 6. Mr. Neffendorf has given us the go-ahead and now we just need to get the OK from Dr. Rada - I do not anticipate any problems with that. 

We will publish our itinerary in a couple of weeks, but right now I am planning to have us leave THS at 8:30 pm that Friday evening. The lodging cost is $15/student and many of you have student account $$ available that can be transferred. 

Some parents are going to want to drive down and join us. I will need this information sooner than later. I need to talk to the good folks at Motel 6 next Monday morning and give a firm number of rooms we will need, so anyone wanting to join us will need to send me the information via email this week. Parent/adult cost under our group rate will be $50 per room - what a bargain! 

More information to come -

PSAT Test Takers

Here's the list of those signed up to take the PSAT at La Salle High School on Wednesday October 17:

• Conner A
• Jennifer D
• Gabe E
• Gabi G
• Kayla K
• Rebekka K
• Wendy M
• Jay R
• Bryn R
• Austin S
• McKenna W
• Tyler W

Any corrections needed? Email McKee RIGHT AWAY!

"I Have a Conflict - What Do I Do?!?"

The question has come up a few times very recently about conflicts between Marching Band and (fill in the blank) activities. Sometimes the conflict is with rehearsal, and there is one particular event that some folks are very interested in that conflicts with a performance. Here's the lowdown:

• Rehearsals are essential to our overall success. If you are truly ill (raging sore throat, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, etc), we don't want you to infect the rest of us and you should probably stay home. If you are "ill" (tired, lethargic, bummed out, weary, ticked off, sore, etc), get off your behind and get to rehearsal! If you have relatives who are in town for this night only and you won't see them again until you get married in another 15 years, bring them to rehearsal with you and let them see from the stands this very cool thing you do. If your mom is missing you and wants to have dinner with you, take her out on a Tuesday, or a Thursday, or a Sunday, or any other day when you are not expected to be at Marching Band. Here's the deal: if you are gone, it affects everyone around you and the total sound and picture. UNLESS THERE ARE OVER-THE-TOP EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES, COME TO ALL REHEARSALS. PERIOD.
• Performances are not optional. Period. I too would love to go with a group of my friends on a weekend trip to Ashland and see the fabulous Shakespearean theatre and watch plays, but I have made a commitment to the Tigard High Marching Band. And if I am gone, the entire group will suffer. That is not an exaggeration - the performance will not be successful and the scores will go down. Meanwhile, I'm off having fun and my bandmates are back with the MB doing their job. Not cool, not ok. You've made a decision to be part of a group - now be a person of integrity.

This should be the end of this conversation.