Last week was a busy week! We came home with more trophies from Hoover. We had a wonderful night at March on Madison. Friday night was an exciting night — Senior night and another win for the Patriots! We will be in the playoffs. We will have a home game on November 7th.

Chaperones are needed this week! Our game is on Thursday this week in Decatur. We will still meet at the school at 5:00. We need SIX more chaperones.

Southern States Competition in Chattanooga on November 1st

We will be taking charter buses to Chattanooga. We will have 48 extra seats available for parents to ride along with the band. All siblings and non band students must be accompanied by a parent. The cost is $20 per person. Departure time is 1:00 on Saturday. Please be there at 12:30. To reserve your seat, email Cindy Leaphart cindyleaphart@gmail.com with your name and number of seats that you need. Payment is due Tuesday by the end of the day. I will be in the band room during afternoon rehearsal. If payment is not received by Tuesday, your seats will be released.

We also have 50 discounted tickets to the competition available. They are $13 each (regularly $16). Make checks payable to US Bands. Lou Justice will be in the band room on Tuesday during rehearsal to sell the tickets.

The Mom in me would like you to remember that Chattanooga is on EASTERN TIME. And we get to turn our clocks back one hour Saturday night!

On Saturday, please eat lunch! We will eat at the concession stand after our performance.

News for this week:

Monday — THE VERY LAST DAY FOR PECAN ORDERS!

3:45-5:30 Competition Band Rehearsal

Spirit night at Mei Wei, 5-9pm

Tuesday — 3:45-4:15 Football Band Rehearsal

4:15-5:30 Competition Band Rehearsal

4:00-5:30 Ticket Sales for Southern States Championship Competition available in the band room.

Charter bus seats will be available for sale.

Spirit Wear available for sale in the band room.

5:00-8:00 Drumline Spirit Night at Which Wich

Wednesday — 3:45-5:00 Jazz Band Rehearsal at DMS

Thursday — Regular game schedule. Be at the band room at 5:00. We will leave for Decatur promptly at 5:30.

Friday — Half day of school. Dismissal is at 11:45.

1:00-3:30 Competition Band Rehearsal

Saturday — 8:45-10:30 Competition Band Rehearsal

12:30 Report to band room

1:00 Leave for Chattanooga

5:48 (EASTERN TIME) Performance time! At UT Chattanooga, Finely Stadium

We will be back in Madison about 10:30pm

Turn your clocks back 1 hour!

I tried to capture everything. Please refer to the detailed schedule that Ms. Thomas sent out two weeks ago for details concerning what to wear and when.

Looking ahead:

Nov 7- Playoff game at HOME. We will have our regular schedule for the game. We will be needing chaperones and concession stand workers.

Nov 8 — Belk Charity Sale, Color Guard

Nov 13 – Band Booster Meeting at 7pm — Volunteer Appreciation Night

Drumline Meeting immediately following Booster meeting

Fudge Sale begins

Dec 13 — Madison Christmas Parade

Dec 15 -Uniform turn in day

Concert rehearsal 3:45-5:30

Dec 16 – 5:30 Jazz Band Concert

6:30 Intermission — refreshments for sale

7:00 Concert

Fudge will be delivered

I know it is long. There is a lot going on. Thank you all for everything that you do to make our band successful! Tell your kids to thank you too!

Cindy Leaphart

BJHS Band Booster President

A REMINDER:

TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY TO TURN IN YOUR PECAN ORDERS! PLEASE GET THOSE IN!

Cindy Leaphart

BJHS Band Booster President

Hi everyone!

Yes, it’s game day and Senior Night, and I’m later getting this info out than I’d intended to be. This week and marching season are flying by!

Wasn’t Tuesday night amazing? Many thanks to each of you who contributed in any way – from working concessions, selling and taking tickets in advance and at the gate, greeting people, helping with field equipment or clean up, making sure your student was there with a crisp, clean uniform, buying concessions, telling friends and family about the event and for just being there! Thank you for stepping up to volunteer as we couldn’t have done this without you! If you have suggestions for ways to make it better, please don’t hesitate to let us know so we can put it in our after action reports for next year! I do believe this will continue to be an “annual event”!

Pecans – orders were due today- Friday, October 24. If you think you can sell some over the weekend – do it and get the order in first thing Monday morning! Everyone needs to send in their final order along with the money by Monday! Drop it in the booster box so we can tally everything and get the order placed. The pecans will be delivered before Thanksgiving. I cannot give you a date yet, because the company waits until the temperature is low enough that the pecans won’t get rancid or melt when being shipped.

If you haven’t sent all money in for tickets your student took to sell for March On Madison, please do so by Monday as well. We still have over 20 who have not turned theirs in. We’d like to get this fundraiser closed out and to be able to report to everyone about its success money wise! Send in money and unsold tickets. There may be a question or two about the sales… Everyone has been asked to sell TWO so that $10.00 can go into the booster account to help with expenses. ANY AND ALL sales after the first two will go into individual student accounts to be used for student band expenses- all but class fees. The money was not to be pocketed by individual students! Bet you didn’t know some thought they could do that, did you?

There is one more competition! Saturday, November 1st the competition band will be in Chattanooga at the Southern States Championship. Our directors were given 50 tickets to sell at a discount. If you’d like to buy tickets, the cost will be $13.00 (face value $16.00), we’ll have them available Tuesday afternoon in the band room beginning about 4:00 after football practice until after the competition practice is over. If you intend to write a check, please make it payable to USBands.

Also available Tuesday afternoon will be the long awaited spirit wear. YES! It is FINALLY ready! After delays with logos, merchandise, a big job getting in to our vendor ahead of us and our job being big itself, we are finally able to make this available to you just in time for the last game of the season! Isn’t it wonderful we’ll go into play offs to give everyone more opportunity to wear it AND don’t forget it will make great Christmas gifts, so get to the band room Tuesday to get yours!

And finally – unless I think of something else as soon as I hit send – Mei Wei Spirit night will be this next week – Monday the 27th from 5:00 until 9:00 p.m. This business is owned by the family of one of our own, and they are excited to be able to help us this way. Let the cashier know you’re with the Bob Jones Band!

OH! and yes! one more item of interest and then I’m really through! Jefferson’s on 72 near Slaughter will be giving a portion of sales TONIGHT – even after the game – to Bob Jones! The money won’t come directly to the band but it will benefit our school, so if you need a place to go tonight, let them know you appreciate their support!

Please be in touch if you have ANY questions or I can help you with anything!

Lou

256-830-8319

I hope that got your attention!

A reminder that tomorrow is the last day to turn in orders for the BBQ chicken lunches from DMS. Put your money in the band box. Gabi Bowerman will pick up the lunches and deliver them back to the band room during the lunch break on November 1st.

Band Spirit Night at Mei Wei on Monday, October 27th.

Drumline Spirit Night at Which Wich on Tuesday, October 28th from 5-8pm. 20% of all sales will go to the Indoor Drumline.

Reminder:

Pecan orders and money are due FRIDAY!

If you have not turned in your $10 for the two required MoM tickets, please do that.

Friday is Senior Night. There will an email just for Seniors soon. Stay tuned.

It has been a great week so far!

Cindy Leaphart

BJHS Band Booster President

Had several questions. As per my email last week and my instructions in class, parents are to drop off students in FULL UNIFORMS (no garment bags or hat boxes) at the STADIUM at 5:45pm. No buses will run from the school to the stadium before or after. We will be at the bandroom until about 4:45pm today if you forgot anything. Your instrument should have been loaded on the carts before you left school or taken with you. You will not be able to get back into the bandroom after 4:45pm until we return around 8:45-9:00pm. Thanks!!

Leigh S. Thomas

Assistant Band Director, Bob Jones High School

leighthomas24@gmail.com