Parents and Friends supporting the Award-Winning Brunswick High School Bands!
BAND PARENTS and FRIENDS!
Updated on April 27, 2008
Please remember to visit the Brunswick High School Bands News & Information to stay informed of current events!
Welcome to all parents and friends of the award-winning Brunswick High School Band Program! No successful program
can exist without the enthusiastic support of a large group of parents and friends working behind the scenes to advocate
for the program, support the students through attendance at all concerts and competition and raise funds to support their
many endeavors. It is our hope that this new section of the band web site will improve communication with parents,
generate more excitement about what our program has to offer, and provide parents with additional resources and
information about the importance of an enthusiastic and healthy support organization for our students!
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It is not too late to become a Band Patron or a Corporate Sponsor! Please contact Mr. Wardeska if you are interested!
Click the button to email Mr. Wardeska.
CURRENT NEWS!
ATTENTION PARENTS, ALUMNI and FRIENDS - WE NEED YOU!!
Last year working at the Kenny Chesney concert raised $7000 for the Brunswick band program.
Help make this year's concert another success by volunteering your time on May 24th, 2008
for the Kenny Chesney Pirates & Poets tour concert at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
total of 50 volunteers are needed.
Donating your time to an event such as this is an excellent way to give to the band program while meeting
other band parents and friends.
| There will be several shifts available. For times, details, and additional information contact: |
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Visit the Brunswick Band Parents Organization Web Site for More Details!
Watch the NBC Nightly News Story About High School Band...
Friday night's NBC Nightly News featured a story about the Shaw High School Band.
<Click Here> to watch the story and learn about the incredible odds that these students
and the director are overcoming through discipline and hard work. You will find the
story interesting.
NBC Nightly News Reports - "Better Minds Through Music"
On the Tuesday, March 3 broadcast of NBC Nightly News...
Researchers have long acknowledged a correlation between music instruction and
academic achievement, but a new study reveals exactly how learning music changes the brain.
NBC's Robert Bazell reports. Click
the link to watch the story for yourself!
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/23469396#23469396>
BAND PARENTS ORGANIZATION ADOPTS NEW BY-LAWS!
In an effort to increase efficiency and involvement of parents in the band program, the BBPO formed a strategic
planning committee in the spring of 2007 to review and revise the current by-laws and operating procedures of the
Brunswick Band Parent Organization. The committee consisted of approximately 40 parents, Mr. Wardeska, Ms. Neubauer,
Mrs. Wardeska and Brunswick High School Principal, Michael Mayell. The resulting document provides a clearly laid out
leadership structure and "chain of command" to help give a clear definition to volunteers of what type of work needs to be
done. The new document was ratified at the December meeting of the Brunswick Band Parents Organization. Plans are
now underway to install the first nominating committee under the new constitution and begin the search for our new
slate of officers who will begin their terms in May, 2008. To download a copy of the new by-laws, please click the link
which follows this article.
Mr. Wardeska is very excited about this organizational step and hopes it leads to a new, invigorated parent organization
that will join the band in moving forward toward our continuing goal of excellence.
Download the New BBPO By-Laws!
BAND PARENTS ORGANIZATION ADOPTS MISSION STATEMENT!
As part of the strategic planning process, the Brunswick Band Parent Organization in conjunction with the Band
Department adopted a powerful new mission statement. The statement reads:
"The Brunswick Band Parents Organization believes that music education is a fundamental piece of the human experience
in the education of the whole child. Music education offers unique learning opportunities that develop life skills, explore
and enhance individual creativity and self-expression, and foster an understanding of past and present cultures in a
diverse world community which culminates in a life-long appreciation and enjoyment of music."
WEB LINKS OF INTEREST!
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR PARENTS
OHIO MUSIC SCHOOLS at COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Remember that students need not be a music major or minor
to benefit from music scholarships and participation in college! We encourage your sons and daughters to continue
their music participation after graduation from high school!
CURRENT FUNDRAISERS!
ATTENTION PARENTS, ALUMNI and FRIENDS - WE NEED YOU!!
Last year working at the Kenny Chesney concert raised $7000 for the Brunswick band program.
Help make this year's concert another success by volunteering your time on May 24th, 2008
for the Kenny Chesney Pirates & Poets tour concert at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
total of 50 volunteers are needed.
Donating your time to an event such as this is an excellent way to give to the band program while meeting
other band parents and friends.
| There will be several shifts available. For times, details, and additional information contact: |
|
|
Visit the Brunswick Band Parents Organization Web Site for More Details!
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