[Namron] Off Topic School Related Request with explanation...

[Lee McGoodwin]

Sammi,

Bring 2 for me.

Etienett

--- Samarrah bint Annaan
<samarrah_bint_annaan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Greetings All!
> 
> This is completely NON SCA related, but please
> indulge
> me for a moment or two as it is a noble deed I seek.
> 
> As many of you may know, I have two children who
> were
> both VERY active in their school's extra curricular
> events.  Both were in athletics...but even better,
> both were proud band geeks! (I am a proud and every
> geekier band mom!).
> 
> My daughter has gone on to college and I no longer
> have to participate in the multitude of fundraisers
> that her high school life required.  HOWEVER, My son
> Billy is a senior this year, and while I've avoided
> most of the fundraising frenzy there is one going on
> now that I MUST share with you all.
> 
> Our High School Band has less than 30 students in
> it. 
> Of those 30, only four...yes I said FOUR, are high
> school students.  Two of those are Seniors, the
> other
> two are Sophomores.  The majority of our High School
> band are 7th and 8th graders. Yet, when they go to
> competitions, they are usually competing against
> full
> high school bands.  Junior High Bands have thier own
> division.  Our school blends Jr & Sr. High in one
> building due to it's small population.
> 
> That being said, our band continues to blow away the
> competition in our devision at every contest we go
> to.
>  We took Konowa in our devision, made it to the
> finals
> at Ardmore, and made STATE CHAMPS in MARCHING!!!  
> 
> We are in concert band season now and are steadily
> triumphing again in every contest we go to, making
> straight "1's" (the best score you can recieve) on
> performance and on sight reading. (Sight reading is
> where the entire band is given a peice of music
> they've never seen before, are allowed 5 minutes to
> look it over and ask their directer questions and
> then
> must play cold, without pracite, in one sitting.
> 
> Due to their excellent performances and dedication
> to
> their band, our school is going to the State
> Championship Concert Band Contest in Stillwater on
> the
> 18th of April.  As we are the smallest band in the
> smallest division, we will be one of the first bands
> playing early in the morning.  If we were to leave
> Maysville that day, the kids would have to be up by
> 4
> a.m. and leaving by 5 to make it in time.  they'd be
> worn out and tired and wouldn't be able to do their
> best.  ....Here comes the fundraising part...
> 
> The band director would like to leave on the 17th
> and
> have the kids stay at a hotel (along with
> chapperones)
> in Stillwater so that they will be well rested and
> fresh for their performance that next morning.  We
> did
> this last year when the kids went to compete in
> Missouri at Branson...where we took the sweepstakes
> trophy!!!
> 
> In order to afford the hotel room, the band kids are
> selling cookbooks that were written by the
> Grandmother
> of our drum major.  She passed away a few years ago
> and last year her family donated the books to the
> band
> for fundraising purposes.
> 
> The Healthwise Recipe and Reference Book, by Billie
> English & Sharon Calhoun, is a low fat, low
> cholesteral, low sodium, low sugar, and Low calorie
> cookbook that is full of taste and variety!  There
> are
> over 350 delicious Easy to use and Healthy Recipes
> with lot's of practical tips on shopping, reading
> package lables, restraunt guides, fitness tips, and
> much more.
> 
> Each book is only $10.00 and the procedes from each
> sale go to the Pride of Maysville Warrior Marching
> Band to help them with their trip to Stillwater.
> 
> If you would like to order a book, just respond to
> this e-mail with the number of books you'd like and
> I
> will bring the books with me to Med Fair.  Payment
> must be collected at delivery, cash or checks
> please. 
> Checks can be made out to the Maysville High School
> Band.
> 
> Thank you so much for your indulgance.  This should
> be
> my last ever school fundraiser....and now back to
> your
> regularaly scheduled programming....
> 
> Love ya!
> 
> Samarrah
> 
> <DIV>
> <DIV>Lady Samarrah bint Annaan, Princess of Pie
> Procurement, Den Mother of Puhka Lovr University,
> Mother to Michaella the Merguard and Billy the
> Mortally Mundane,wife to her beloved Rouda Bjorn
> Wilhelmson, The Iron Bear of Bjornsstead</div>
> <DIV> </div>
> <DIV>God be with you in every pass. Jesus be with
> you on every hill.</div> <DIV>Spirit be with you in
> every stream, headland, ridge and
> law,</div><DIV>each sea and land, each moor and
> meadow, lying down and rising up,</div> <DIV>in the
> trough of the waves or on the crest of the
> billow.</div><DIV> Each step of the journey you go,
> go with God.</div>
> <DIV> </div>
> <DIV> </div></div>
> 
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