"I found out that when we finally get into a competition, if a Field Judge gets in our way, we are just supposed to crash right through him, because if we go around him, he'll TAKE OFF POINTS!  It's his job to stay out of our way!" -- 7/23/2004

"It was soo funny, it's the first day of full-day band camp and in just the first 2 hours, there must have been at least 30 people that had to sit out and take a break. Come on people, we have to get in shape!" -- 7/26/2004

"Mr. Rowe really knows what he is doing and the staff really helps. I hope this show is going to be as great as last year."

"I'm a parent, but I just wanted to say that I am so proud of the kids ... they are doing great!"  --Mrs. P.

"If you guys think the mud is bad this year, you should have seen it when we did Moulin Rouge. It was disgusting and full of bugs...we even had our very own one-shoed mud dancer of death!" --M., 7/26/2004

"OK, muddy shoes, aching toes, feet and heels, tired, but I'm having fun, off to the shower" -- 7/26/2004

"GUARD - Keep your head up!"--7/28/2004

"Freshmen camp this year we had about 60 people attend. Three years ago we had only nine freshmen. And two of those were on their second year of marching! I'm excited that we have grown so much, but I just want to tell all the new people: Be confident because if you are confident, the whole band is confident."--L./Mellophone, 7/31/2004

"on the last day when we got to get all our parents out on the field and they made fools of themselves."--G./Flute, 8/1/2004

"we were running picture moment and i found a frog by the sidelines on thursday and tried to pick it up but it jumped every time i tried to pick it up. then kevin d. (staff) came and picked it up and moved it."--A.H./Color Guard, 8/2/2004

"During camp, I woke up at 4:00 in the morning on the side of my bed at attention, hands up and everything"--K./Trumpet, 8/2/2004

"When Matt tore his hamstring and Megan and the other dude were bringing him up to the band room, I remember that Spencer let him use one of his crutches. Megan asked Diana to take Matt to the ER, and Andrew went out to help Diana load the car. Andrew assumed that they would want the crutch, so he put it in the trunk. Diana speeds away w/ Matt, and Megan turns to Andrew and asks "Where's the crutch?" Andrew tells her that he put it in the trunk of Diana's car. "WHAT?!?!" Megan turns and chases Diana with her arms in the air, but the other dude runs all the way to the stop light at 64 to catch Diana, and he gets the crutch out of the car and of course everyone was staring at them. A classic!"--S.L./Pit, 8/2/2004

"on tuesday when we went to see the other bands march (at NightBeat), we were all yelling at the top of our lungs just to try and get t-shirts from the marines. my voice was shot the next day."--C.J./Clarinet, 8/2/2004

"Let's see, my freshman year in band I got tendonitis in my left foot from marching, my sophomare year I got tendonitis in my left knee, my junior year I tripped on a curb and smashed my bass drum into my knee caps, and my senior year I tore my hamstring. Hows that for memories. Oh yes and mr. or miss. S.L./Pit, I only spell my name with one "t" so lets get on the ball here."--Mat B./Tenors-Drumline, 8/5/2004

"Well Ray was always telling us to work on our crabs (lol) and one night during the dinner break i was going to my computer and i was trying to get thru a tight space and i crabbed it! i was like "oh man!" i went back and told Ray about it, of course he said that's good. well when i got home that night i was walking up the stairs to Ride!"--M./Drum Line, 8/25/2004

"i was in the mud when someone with a camera came up to me and my friend talking...then heather comes up and asks my friend to put the cupcakes under of the elastic of her pants but asked her "can u put these down my pants?" when the camera was recording"--Totally Anonymous, 9/9/2004

"One time when we were doing sectionals, Mitchell let us go off in groups of 3 or 4. So it was me and a couple other people on the second story in some building near a stairwell. so CJ gets all "mad" and he throws a chair down the stairs. we were laughing forever. Sorry we weren't behaving Mitchell!! ;)"--H.P./Trumpet, 9/9/2004

"I will forever remember that moment with Heather and the pants! LOL!!"--Jaime, Color Guard

"I celebrated my sweet 16 @ band camp this year and it was one of the best birthdays ever :). mr. rowe made the entire band sing to me!"--L./Piccolo, 3/18/2005