NEWLY UPDATED on 8/31/06!! EVERYBODY PLEASE READ!!!1ST DAY OF SCHOOL EDITION!!! Seniors please note the picnic time change! Everyone else look at the 1st day instructions!!!

Our motto this year (among other things, but this is the main one): "If we do what we've always done, we will always get the same results. Good isn't good enough anymore!!!"

Hello everybody!! First things first, there is one more practice before school starts and that is tomorrow morning, thursday August 31st, 2006 from 7 am-8 ish(squad leaders may wish to extend practice to as long as 9am. Remember there is no practice on labor day.

Read the previous blog for information about weekly practices.

Now, in the news:

MR. SMITH, OUR NEW PRINCIPAL, IS TRYING TO CHANGE THE SOCIAL CLIMATE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL!! HE WANTS US TO PLAY AS THE KIDS COME IN ON THE FIRST DAY!! Please come in a 7:15 am is you can on tuesday morning (the first day of school). Squad leaders, please email this around so everyone gets the message!!!! Drumline, flags, and majorettes, this means you too! BE THERE!!!

THE BAND HAS BEEN INVITED ONCE AGAIN TO PLAY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOCKEY TEAM!! Every year for the past 5 years, the HHS pep band has been invited to fill in for the hockey pep band when the U of m band is on the road. Well once again (Drum Roll)... THEY HAVE ASKED US TO DO IT!!! HOORAY! the date is saturday october 28th. Tryouts for this group will occur shortly after school starts.

I NEED A MEMBER OF THE COLOR GUARD TO BRING IN THEIR VARSITY LETTER. I am finalizing an order for more varsity letters and I am going through a different company. They need a xerox of the design so they can duplicate it.

THE MARCHING BAND WILL BE PLAYING FOR THE STUDENTS IN THE MORNING ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL... I'll will explain at practice tomorrow.

SENIOR PICNIC IS AT MY PLACE 7061 HERBST (mapquest it) PLEASE READ THIS!!! THE PICNIC STARTS AT 5:30 (seniors, call the people you know that don't check this blog. if people show up at 4, I won't be there yet!!!) , the picnic goes till... whenever. I supply the burgers and dogs,and 3 acres, y'all supply the side dishes and softdrinks (See Emily Ellison or jane or kristine alexander about who is bringing what. Don't just bring chips!!). This picnic will have other band parents present, and it obviously is a picnic steeped in MORAL VALUES, so have no fear! IF you run into other non MB but still in the band program seniors, pass this along!! It would be cool to see them too!

very well... capital work! .... Carry on... harrrumph... so forth...

Smigell