User talk:NeBandAlumni

== NeBandAlumni ==

The Band Alumni of Northeast High School in Oakland Park, FL depended upon the Band Boosters and Band Officers to upkeep the Alumni Database in order to be apprised of the Alumni concert at the end of the year. That database was accidentally erased by a well-meaning person and the information was unretrievable. There were no backups, either paper or disc. This has spurred the Alumni to form their own group to upkeep their own database and news so that the Band Boosters can concentrate on supporting their kids who are current band members.

In the past, the only time you saw the Band Alumni was at the end of the year Alumni Concert where we fondly played "The 1812 Overture", "MacAruthur Park", and "The Horse". At one time the Band had swelled to 177 members in 1973 and 203 in a later year we are trying to verify.

NE Band began as early as 1961 but did not recieve their uniforms until 1964 with Mr. Dasher. Just 2 years later, Mr. John "Buck" Jamison took the baton in 1966 and remained the Band Director for 25 years at NE. He put down the baton and retired in 1991, having served kids in music in 3 School Districts (also in North Florida early in his career and Osceola County (Kissimee area) for 10 before coming to Broward County to start at another school before NE High.

For 2 years after Mr Jamison retired others held the baton for 1 year each. Mr Bryant and a (now) Assistant Principal.

In 1993, a '72 Band Captain Alumni, Steve Salo, picked up the baton and held it for 13 years, handing the baton off to '99 Band Graduate, Leo Bacigalupi in 2006.

2006-07 was Leonardo Bacigalupi's first year. He walked in with no Alumni database and a disbanded Band Booster group.

In March, Band Alumni learned of the missing database and began gathering together online. Several from '72 met in GA and phoned Mr. Jamison only to discover they had missed his birthday by one day. Another small group from '73 - '76 met in Orlando. Two weeks later a dozen met at the annual Alumni Concert to surprise Mr. Jamison, Steve Salo, and Leo Bacigalupi.

By mid July 100 had found their way to the online Alumni group to gear up for the first big Band Reunion in 2008, fund raising for the John B. Jamison Band Scholarship, and other new traditions. (That's 100 found and 4,680 to go!)

There are photos on Classmates, ( Northeast High, Oakland Park, FL) of the 1966 Band photo with closeups of small groups, which at this time are unidentified. Several photos of other years in the 80s and possibly 90s are also shown waiting to be identified. Announcements are located on the 3 different Northeast High Listings (2 incorrectly spelled in Ft Lauderdale and the 1 correct one in Oakland Park, FL) so you may want to be listed on all 3 to find your friends. Searches have also been done on Reunions.com and Reunited.com, both of which have done Class Reunions for Northeast.

July 2007 finds NE with a brand new Principal, Mr. Jonathan Williams, who is excited to find that NE has some very popular traditions and looks forward to working toward encouraging Alumni to return to the Homecoming Game in late October and the Alumni Concert at the end of the school year.

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