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Bishop Dwenger and Concordia Lutheran high schools welcome new band directors this fall. Those bands hope to join Carroll, Leo, Northrop and Snider in building on past success. Bands compete in assorted organizations and in several enrollment levels; competition dates and venues vary accordingly. Most local bands will march for the first time on Saturday, Sept. 10, at the On the Banks of the Wabash high school marching band festival at Bluffton High School. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors. Performance schedules typically are finalized in the week leading up to the show. Watch INFortWayne.com for updates. • BISHOP DWENGER •
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The Bishop Dwenger High School Marching Saints perform in exhibition at a Drum Corps International event at the University of Saint Francis.
The Northrop High School Big Orange Pride marching band performs a preview show for parents, Aug. 13 at Spuller Stadium.
Saints of Bishop Dwenger High School. The band presented their show several times in exhibition on Aug. 2 before a Drum Corps International competition at the University of Saint Francis. And on Aug. 13, the
band performed at the SoundSport International Music & Food Festival at the Pavilion at Pan Am, in conjunction with the DCI Grand National Finals in Indianapolis. The band is off to a running start with first-year director Don
Cochran. He arrives from Southwestern High School in Hanover, Ind. He formerly served at Springs Valley High School. He is a native of Fort Wayne and a graduate of Homestead High School and IPFW. His wife, Mindy, is
a counselor at Bishop Dwenger. “SoundSport is providing us an opportunity to re-establish a marching program at Bishop Dwenger with few numbers, and to get students excited about it who may not have been
involved in the past,” Cochran said. Bishop Dwenger students were not able “to explore this avenue of the marching arts” over the past year unless they were involved in winter guard or winter See BANDS, Page A14
Northrop’s Witzigreuter took ideal job, traded up By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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Principal Jason Witzigreuter visits with students during lunch hour at Northrop High School. Witzigreuter is a graduate of Snider High School and a former Northrop band director.
Ball State University in 1998, he earned his master’s degree from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2012. He also served as a band director at Anderson and Angola and in Wisconsin, before arriving at Northrop in
2007. It was an ideal job in a large school, he recalled in an interview. “My intention was to retire here as band director,” he said. “And as I started working more in the program I thought
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Jason Witzigreuter is back at Northrop High School. The former band director now directs from the principal’s office. Both jobs are really about working with people, he said. Witzigreuter returned to Fort Wayne Community Schools in July, after four years as principal at Adams Central High School. The 1993 graduate of Snider High School served as Northrop’s band director for five years before taking the administration job in Monroe in 2012. Returning to a school that he knows so well is a huge advantage, he said. “I told everybody that my best teaching experience was at Northrop, that those five years were huge to me,” he said. After graduating from