January
2003
MOONLIGHT SERENADE
Dinner Dance Just
Around the Corner
Mark your calendar
now and set aside the evening of Saturday, February 1 for the Jazz Band
Annual Dinner Dance. Enjoy an
outstanding performance by the AM Jazz Band and dine on fine cuisine at the
Clarion Palm Garden Hotel /Eric’s Restaurant in Newbury Park.
Ticket cost is $35
per person and includes chicken Marsala and
rice pilaf or pasta primavera (vegetarian), salad, vegetables, rolls and
dessert. The no host bar opens at 6pm. The Silent Auction also begins at 6pm, dinner
will be served at 7pm. This is a great
event to invite friends and family to attend.
Tickets will be
available at the Booster Meeting on Tuesday, January 14. You may also order tickets by placing your
order form in the Band White Box (see page 3) or by calling Melody Fouse,
493-0951 or Shari Smith in the Band Office, 379-0437. All orders must be place with either Melody or Shari or be in to
the White Box by Friday, January 24 (remember this is a minimum day). We are looking forward to seeing YOU and
your friends there!!
What Can You Donate?
Wanted: Silent Auction Donations
Goods, cash or services with a
value of
at least $25
Items don’t have to “stand
alone”, they can be combine with other donations to make one spectacular
basket. Did you receive a Christmas
gift that just don’t suit your fancy?
It would be a excellent addition to a gift basket. (No used items please.) Consider special skills or opportunities you
may have (tickets to a play or concert).
Don’t forget to ask your local merchants that you patronize regularly
for a gift certificate donation. Call Betsy
Connolly,
498-3638, to make arrangements to get
your donations to her.
Discovery Arts Concert Features TOHS Band Student
One of our own will be performing
with the New West Symphony in the Discovery Artists Concert on January
18 at the Kalvi Theater at the Civic Arts Plaza. Each year the New West Symphony sponsors a contest to discover
new, up and coming talent. This year
French horn player David Feldman was one of four young adults chosen to
perform with the New West Symphony.
David will be performing a 17 minute solo from the Strauss Horn
Concerto #1. Anyone interested in
attending this event can order tickets at
1-800-NEW-WEST or
www.newwestsymphony.org, click on
Discovery Artists. David would welcome
all our support. Best of luck and
congratulations on this outstanding achievement, David!
The
President’s Corner
Dear
Booster Families:
HAPPY
NEW YEAR!
I
hope you are all well rested and ready to have a great 2003!
December
was a fun month with many musical events.
Thank you to Marty and Mary Ann Martone, staff, Shari Smith, our bake
sale moms and their helpers, and Camden Lorentson and the stage crew for making
the winter concerts such a huge success. Our concert nights made over
$2200.00. Carolers brought in over
$1700.00 for the ASB account. There
were many happy households who had the pleasure of hearing our carolers. Thanks to our Brass Quintet for caroling at
OSH Hardware Store in Thousand Oaks on December 20. OSH donated $50.00 to the band and shoppers were generous with
their donations as well. Great job guys! Thank you to Betsy Connolly for organizing
our caroling social. We had lots of
cookies, cocoa, Mrs. Martone’s 40th birthday cake and fun. Thanks also to the Connolly’s for opening
their home for the Student Holiday party.
They had a blast! Also in
December, the Jazz Band performed at the TOHS Blue Ribbon Ceremony at the
Ronald Reagan Library hosted by The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The Jazz Band and vocals by Mrs. Martone
gave a crowd pleasing performance. Our
superintendent, Dr. Robert Fraisse, was very impressed! Dr. Fraisse said to me
that “usually you either get a great conductor or a teacher that’s great with
students, you are so fortunate to have both with Mr. Martone. I hear such wonderful things about your
program and him.” Thank you Dr.
Fraisse, we agree!!
Our
AdBooks were delivered in December.
Wow! What a great band year
book. It’s full of wonderful pictures
and special tributes done by Cathy Philipp.
You out did yourself Cathy, thank you so much for all the long hours and
dedication. Thank you, too, to Penny
Hunter for organizing and running a very successful AdBook campaign. Thanks to all the families and vendors for
your support. I know many families made
a lot of money for their student accounts.
The students who participated made $7,077 for their accounts and the
Booster budget benefited by $10,644.00.
The
month of January is an organizing month and a time of preparation. The students are preparing for auditions and
finals. Good Luck! The Color Guard and Drumline are preparing
their shows. The Boosters are
organizing another big important fundraiser:
our ever-popular Dinner Dance.
The diner Dance and Silent/Live Auction will be held at The Clarion Palm
Garden Hotel/Eric’s Restaurant in Newbury Park, Saturday, February 1,
2003. Dinner will be accompanied by our
own Jazz Band. Buy your tickets
early. More details are in the Bugle. Melody Fouse and her dedicated helpers are
planning a momentous event. Don’t miss
out on the event of the year.
I
would also like to mention that on Saturday, January 18, 2003, the New West
Symphony/Discovery Artists Concert will be held at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts
Plaza Kavli Auditorium. David Feldman
is one of the Discovery Artists, a great honor and some of our band students
perform with the New West Symphony.
Tickets may still be available at the Civic Arts Plaza box office.
Lastly,
it is imperative that those of you who haven’t done so yet, please pay your
fall expenses.
I
hope to see you at our Booster Meeting on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 7:30pm
in the Band Room. It’s also Subway
night!
Musically
yours,
Lynne
Phillips
Website Update
The new and improved TOHS Lancer
Band and Color Guard website is up and running. You can find a copy of the latest Bugle along with weekly
write-ups from our Booster President there.
Our calendar section is great and is continually updated with all of the
upcoming events. The website is based
on volunteer input. There is still a
lot of work to do and we would love to have more website content from our
Boosters. If you have any written
articles, pictures, videos, or sound bites that you would like to donate,
please e-mail Jeff Noli, the Webmaster, at webmaster@tohsband.org. If you have any questions and need to speak
to Jeff, please call him at 492-8381.
Thanks to Jeff for doing such and outstanding job this year with the
website!
JAZZ BAND WOWS SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Jazz Band played at the TOHS
National Blue Ribbon School Ceremony held at the Ronald Regan Library in
December. The Jazz Band is just one
reason that TOHS is a National Blue Ribbon School. Everyone enjoyed their outstanding performance. Thanks to all the students and to the
Martones!
Spring Drumline Gets Off to BIG
BANG!
The Spring Drumline participants
were selected by auditions before winter break. They will be rehearsing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday from
3pm-6:15pm. There will be two Drumline
camps, Saturday, January 11 9am-9pm and Saturday, January 25, 1:30pm—9pm. The season gets underway on February 8 with
the WGI competition at
Riverside. Listed below are the dates of their
scheduled
competitions. Good luck and have a great season!
February 8 - WGI Riverside
February 22 - SCPA Competition
March 1 - SCPA Competition
March 7-9 WGI - Las Vegas
March 15 WGI - Chino
March 29 - SCPA Competition
April 5 - SCPA Championships
April 9-13 - WGI Championships
Dayton, Ohio
Color Guard Update
The Color Guard Tournament is
scheduled for Friday, February 21 (this is a date change). Edith Hauger, 531-9773, and the Guard are
looking for people to help organize and run this fundraiser. Talk to Edith about how you can help.
Do you know any junior high students who might be interested in a
“career” in the Color Guard in high school?
All 6th, 7th and 8th grade Conejo Valley Unified School District
students are
invited to learn about the art of
Color Guard. Classes begin on January 8
in the TOHS Girls’ Activity Room.
Classes will be held from 5-6pm for 6th and 7th graders and from
5-6:30pm for 8th graders and include instruction in movemnt, flag, rifle and
saber. Call Mrs. Martone, 495-7491,
ext. 6002 for more info. It is not too
late to join! No prior experience
necessary to attend!
Pancake Breakfast
Update
The pancake Breakfast has been postponed. Watch the Bugle for details later this
spring.
Scrip Always Available
National Scrip is again available
from Mary Tessendorf. All orders must
be placed with Mary by Tuesday mornings via the Band Office White Box or by
dropping it off at the box in front of her home, 2657 Castillo Circle (this is
the most direct way). If you are
interested in ordering Arco scrip, please order with a separate form and
check. Contact Dorothy Hatfield for
paper scrip.
See’s Candy...Going,
going….gone…
See’s Candy has had to raise
the price of a case of candy. Mrs.
Martone order 10 cases at the old price and after that, we will not be getting
any more. To all the students who have found this to be an effective
fundraiser, take advantage of these last few boxes. Because when it is gone, it’s gone!
Save Those Dates
The Week of January 13
Auditions for Second Semester
Tuesday, January 14
Booster Meeting - 7:30pm
Subway Night
Saturday, Janaury 18
New West Symphony/
Discovery Artist Concert
Kalvi Theater - 7:30pm
Monday, Janaury 20
NO SCHOOL
January 22-24
FINALS—Minimum Days
Friday, January 24
Deadline for Ordering Dinner
Dance Tickets
Thursday, January 30
Baja Fresh Night
Saturday, February 1
Moonlight Serenade
Dinner Dance and Auction
Clarion Palm Garden Hotel
6pm-11pm