List #709: 5 Thoughts on Duluth Public Schools

List #709: 5 Thoughts on Duluth Public Schools

1. You should support taxes that help them, because they produced me

2. One of my great desires as an elementary school student was to explore the then unused portions of Lincoln Middle School

3. Nettleton Magnet School was doing STEM before stem was the new sexy edu-trend

4. A surprising number of teachers/administrators 'followed me' from Middle School to High School.

5. I liked it when they had a Gifted and Talented program.

List #376: Ways in which my life still resembles High School

List #376: Ways in which my life still resembles High School

1. I go to School every day
2. I spend time thinking about / working on debate
3. I go to all of the Ice Hockey games
4. I play in the Pep Band
5. Sometimes there's busy work
6. I could probably be more awesome if I worked at it
7. My bedroom is a mess, and I spend most of my time there

List #234: Band memories

List #234: A woefully inadequate list of EHS Band memories

1. Torm
2. The French Horn sectionals and defecting to the FHorn section in Wind Ensemble
3. When the 2nd Trumpets had 17 total notes in the giant all-music-department holiday concert finale.
4. The UMD jazz combo that played at the after concert party
5. Pops concert with Steve Vecchi
6. Pops concert with Ruth Dodge
7. Playing a Barry Mannilow medly when he was in the DECC giving a concert
8. 2nd Suite in F, The Lord of the Rings music (De Meij), Dies Natalis, and Valdres March
9. The Norwegian thing that Brad Bombardier wrote for torm
10. Vice Presidenting senior year
11. Looking up to/Idolizing Nick and Nate and Andy B.
12. Jumping out the window by the French Horn shelf on the last day
13. The Blues Brother's and pizza party
14. Being 2nd chair in concert band in 10th grade and sitting next to Chris Russo (and being called Superfly)
15. Getting a letter from the Edina band (see list #233)
16. Concert Band, Jazz Band and Wind Ensemble (with a study hall that overlapped with both Red Band and Symphonic Band) senior year
17. Making jokes about the choir and choir director during the holiday concert
18. super awesome friends
19. #19
20. Hans' dyed-white choppers for Christmas City
21. Florida (see Sub List A

Sub List A: Florida Trip memories
a) Taking pictures in the "backstage" areas of Disney (when they told us not to)
b) wearing those awful furry black hats and suits in the 98 degree heat/humidity
c) completely jumping the gun on an entrance in the contest piece (in the spot where Torm specifically told us not to screw up.... yeah... that was me... sorry)
d) 'My main concern right now is getting everyone on the tram(p)'
e) Hans' autograph book for his younger sister (and how "Sam Addams" signed it)
f) the beach
g) the crowd of boys that followed Sarah Fisher every where at the water park (and how just rumor that she was going to the pool was enough to get our trumpet sectional cancelled)
h) playing a really good solo on Samba De Carrera in the jazz band concert
i) running into my good pal Chad at the Waterworld boat
j) learning Cribbage from Paco on the flight home

List #233: Pep Band Memories

List #233: Pep Band Memories

1. everything up an octave
2. Pi
3. "Milk", "Bessie" and other cheers (to taunt and confuse cheerleaders)
4. playing chords
5. "Championship," "Sirocco", "Children of Sanchez", "Winter Games"(!), "Freeze Frame", "Rock'n'Roll part II (the Hey Song", "Centerfold" and, of course, "go, team, go"
6. Torm's keys and "Purple People Eater"
7. The Birchen, and how great it felt to play after a goal
8. State Hockey, Boys B-Ball, Girls B-Ball
9. the Communist flag
10. The Mall of America and Torm's threats to send people home on the Fan Bus
11. The Edina pep band
12. the Apple Valley Game (grrrrr!!)
13. the 95 State Hockey Championship
14. the long-sleeved t-shirts (which I used to still wear for CH back when I played it)
15. playing at assemblies
16. Many more. Pitch in if you've got one

List #232: Jazz Band memories

List #232: Jazz Band memories

1. Pete Lee, Legend
2. Super Saxy Swinging Snow Shovel Sea Serpent Story Solos
3. Chameleon and Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
4. Playing at gym class dances
5. Santa Hats
6. Loud and Louder
7. lots of Count Basie
8. the solo's on Li'l Darlin' and Shiny Stockings
9. it being a great way to end each day
10. The #2 Book

List #41: State Tournament Memories

List #41: State Tournament Memories (Minnesota State High School Hockey)
(East went to state all four years when I was in HS, and the year after. and I went down with the band. So much fun )

1. The "Apple Valley Game" 5-overtime Debacle in 1996 (with the unseen goal)
2. Three games, three Hat Tricks -- Dave Spehar in 1995 tournament (champions)
3. Being Forced to wander the Mall of America all day long waiting for the games
4. "Duluth East 5, Bloomington Jefferson 0, Any questions" 1995
5. The called back high-stick goal in the 1997 Championship game loss to Edina
6. Making friends with the Edina Band in 1997
7. Getting together with friends to go as 'civilians' in 1998 for the championship
8. Waving Communist Russian flags at our enemies.
9. Being taped-in by Torm... "You'll go home on the Fan Bus"
10. Going down on the Fan bus as freshen for the BJ semi-final in 1994

(11). Wondering how the 'Hounds are losing 4-2 to CDH right now even though we're out-shooting 30-10...