The 2006-2007 School District 73.5 Band Calendar has been posted. Please consider this calendar tentative, especially as it relates to our Midwest Clinic preparation. —–
Saturday, July 1 at noon is the deadline for Market Day orders. The Skokie School District 73.5 PTA is once again giving proceeds from the summer Market Day orders to our band program. It’s real easy to order online through...
While the topics and schedules haven’t been posted yet, the Midwest Clinic has announced who will be presenting sessions at next December’s Conference. —–
Publicity photos are due to the Midwest Office by September 15. This doesn’t leave much time once school starts. Finding locations for these photos has been one of my priorities this week. While I had considered various Chicago-type locations for...
This past Tuesday morning a couple parents and I met with Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen. I don’t know if our meeting with the Mayor seems unusual or not, but at least in this case we knew we should set...
It appears as if a recent minor upgrade of PHP by our webhost broke some of our scripts. I think I fixed all of the problems, but if you run across anything that doesn’t seem to be working, please let...
Skokie Review – June 8, 2006 by Mike Isaacs It’s difficult to imagine many school bands more honored in a single month than the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band under director Chip De Stefano. The series of successes for De...
An article about some of our recent accomplishments, including our Midwest invitation, appeared in today’s Skokie Review. This link will probably break in a week, but we’ll update the address on the press page on our website. We have some...
If you haven’t already seen the great article by Mike Isaacs in this week’s Skokie Review, make sure to run out and buy a copy!
I had wanted to type something up before we met today describing my planning, but spent all day running around getting ready for the rehearsal. We normally don’t meet after graduation. This is certainly a special case however, and I...