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Hosting Honor Band at Bowling Green by Misty Lovejoy Alpha Xi - TBΣ Bowling Green State University
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eginning November 21st and ending on November 23rd, the Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts hosted our 2019 High School Honor Band. This included over 500 applicants from over 80 high schools throughout Ohio and Michigan. The sisters of Alpha Xi and the Beta Kappa brothers of our Kappa Kappa Psi chapter, look forward to and plan for this week from the beginning of the school year. Not only is it our biggest service and outreach opportunity, it is also a ton of fun for all involved! Out of the 500 applicants, there were about 300 total high school students that were accepted to be in this honor band clinic! Our first day of service typically starts with a group of us checking each student as they arrive. When they first arrive, the students audition and are split into 4 ensembles. These ensembles are then dispersed into different rehearsal spaces around campus. Our brothers and sisters then get the finalized seating charts for each ensemble and begin the wonderful process of setting up each rehearsal room! This includes putting name tags, T-shirts, music, etc. on to each chair. So where do these students stay while they are on campus for 3 days? Well, some of them commute and about 250 of them stay in a hotel close to campus. With that, we had 8 brothers and sisters who are scheduled to be chaperones at a hotel. This means that we slept in shifts and hung out in the hotel lobby until 6am, when it was time to wake the students for breakfast! As a two-time hotel chaperone myself, I would arguably say that this is the best shift to have. It’s a fun way to bond while during service and keeping the high school students safe!
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Sisters Noel Wuesthoff and Hayley Harleman before check-in for the honor band began!
Pictured from left-to-right: Sisters Ashleigh Diefenbach and Hayley Harleman, brothers Ben Tuttle and Heather Emberg, band office secretary Brandon Golpe, and Alpha Xi membership candidate Tristan Bonde
