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Long hours, cold mornings, and success

kept the lxmd and orchestra

('f enior Adam Sinley and junior Jushn Iuehn perform a duet I ' by Ashley Wilkins and lindsey &haffart
~ at the basketball game against Millard West. The band was
required to play at every home basketball game . photo by As hley •
Rosenboom
Orchestra-front- Sam MorriS. Charlene Engle, Emily Liu. Cassie Heard. USlC
Devyn Bailey. Martina Ru.nrung. Anna Turetsky. Elise Bennett. BE=a
Goodsell. Elisha Rodriguez. Ju.ha Xu. Karen Fralun; second row-Nolan
Gauthier, Emily Mel vor, Megan Goldsberry, Jessica Burket. Jessica Watts. Students were able to express their creativity
Micaela Kluver, David K.iepe. Walter Seaman. Alex Reese, David Antonson.
Nick Stone, Debbie Martinez; third row- Taria Abram, Sarah lorimor, in school by JOining band or orchestra. lt offered a
Ahcia Ehlers, Rachel Strevey, Katie Kirstein. Kris Kashyap, Brian Welch.
Rubria Hintz. Cameron Cushing. Kelsey Rodenbiker. Kaela Wilhamson, great musical experience and close friendships .
Aaron Wong. Caithn Ray; be.ck- David Lin, Glenn Kitchell. Ryan Duell. "Band IS fun because the people are great, and
Andy Kerkhoff. Cameron Deremer. Rob Weaver, Doug Johnson, Laci
Willenborg. Ehzabeth Hamilton, Andrew Holm. John Lin. Jordan Niebur, even though it stinks practicing in the cold every morn-
Dann Johnson; not pictured- Kristen Rose, Laura Groggel photo by Martin
ing, the tnps we go on make 1t worthwhile," jun1or Dan
McCallister said.
Another aspect of being 1n band or orches t ra
were the rewards.
"At the Columbus Marching Festival the band
was Grand Champions 1n t he parade and had a Superior
1 rating in the Field Competition," band director Matt
Sheppard said .

Band wasn't the only group to be successful;
orchestra also had its own achievements .
"We had SIX students chosen for the UNO
Honor Orchestra, three students were pic ked for the
Hastings Honor Chambe r Orchestra, and we sent one
student to the VJesleyan Honor Orchestra," director
Debbie Martinez said.
Other students found their accomplishments
helped ma ke the claSS§S memorable .
" l play the perc ussions for both band and
orchestra, and l have won two first places and a sec-

ond place for my solo competitions at Districts,"
sen1or Andy Culp sa1d .
Many of the students had Similar ideas of
playing on after "M~1ki11~_1 fl'lcl LlC• Wv10 tile [-y~.;t ~\_::wt
h1gh scho ol.
it Orchestra-front-Debbie Martinez, Brian Welch. Bethany "I've been ~1l..,c1ut IYilld i11 L'IYilc~:;t r~-1. "
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!terson, Kristin Peterson, MB9:an Guthrie, Charlene En9:l& second row-
uneron Cushin_g. Rachel De!Tovechio, Sarah Lorimor, COurtney playing the cello
:-~derson, Andrew Smith, Nick Stone, Andrew Culp; be.ck-Ahcia Thorson,
cia Ehlers, Andy Kerkhoff. Cody Thomas, Ryan Duell Tim Bess. Eric since l was in the
nselli not piclured-ALaina Beckwith photo by Ma.rlin Photogra phy
fourth grade, and l plan t o con t inue playing while l'm in
Ul-£tate Orchestra-Katie Kirstein. Emily Liu. Samantha college . l can't give it up; it's a fun instrument," sopho -
1orriS, Doug Johnson, Daniel Johnson, Kaela Williamson, Jordan
·iebur, David Lin more Cameron Cushing said.
lll-£tate Band-Bethany Peterson, Erin Pi:rruccello, Erica Mus1c became a v1tal part of life for the stu-
vennyer, Emily Mcivor, Courtney Anderson, Andrew NorriS.
1 illiam Anderson, Ryan Duell. Andrew Smith dents, and both classes brought unforge t table experi -
ences that would have otherwise not been possible .
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