Trumbull High School Band

The Importance of our upcoming Door-To-Door campaign.

On the 29th of August the boys and girls in the band will set out to raise money for themselves by doing something that will undoubtedly be difficult for anyone of their age. I don’t want to trivialize the difficulty of this challenge for the High School kids – which will be to ask what are likely to be complete strangers for money to help them fuel their future endeavors. And the town of Trumbull, Surrounding Towns and Corporate Sponsors within Fairfield County have always been extremely generous to the THGEMB. Thank you for help in the past, and thank you in advance for the help you will provide in the future.

In one of the local papers I recently wrote a letter to the editor which publicly displayed how proud I felt to live in CT when the Trumbull Little League won their world series, I felt the same pride for the THSGEMB when they were marching by the president in the Inaugural Parade. I am going to include my letter to the editor here until the local paper provides an online link I can just link to. Maybe you disagree with me, maybe not I would love to hear your comments. But more importantly just remember the kids can not do what they do best “march” without all of our help, and in many cases that help can be people volunteering and other cases it can be people donating to the cause. It is a good cause, at least I think so.

Please understand the next article is not necessarily the opinion of anyone but me,

Mark DeAngelis

Trumbull has always supported it young achievers

Last weekend was the Little League World Series 20th Year reunion game. In 1989 the Trumbull Little League team made us proud to live in CT. I didn’t even live in Trumbull, but I celebrated Trumbull’s victory like the rest of CT did. That victory was something everyone in CT could be proud about.

Perhaps you’ve heard of the magazine rating Trumbull as one of “The 100 Top Places to Live?” Trumbull was picked for many of the same reasons my wife and I chose Trumbull to move to. We looked at towns in the area and saw in Trumbull, a town with a plan, a town with lots of open spaces, parks. There was a highly rated school system, a well-rounded school system. Trumbull has recently kept commitments to core school activities during difficult times when other towns have been slashing the same school programs to solve their fiscal woes.

I appreciate the BOE’s commitment to programs other towns put on the chopping block, for example the Music program. The Music program is one of largest programs in terms of student involvement in our School System. In addition to academic programs the BOE is supporting Music and the Arts when other area towns have cut the same program that typically makes a student at the High School level, better rounded and may give them opportunities to travel locally, nationally, perhaps globally. The BOE can not fully fund all programs. They can back the programs enough that parental organizations can volunteer and take a program to the next level where these programs will succeed – with help. Help means raising money and getting parents to volunteer. So now you understand why my article is titled what it is.

Programs that keep children busy after school, at nights and on weekends need our help raising money, they can’t do it by themselves – If they are to succeed, they will need our help. Trumbull has always responded well and given money to good causes – always! If the Marching Band does a good job during the school year, maybe it gets noticed and invited to Good Morning America, or invited to represent Trumbull and CT in an Inaugural parade like in 2009 when all of CT could be proud Trumbull was representing them in the Inaugural Parade. This is where hard work and practice have ways of paying off whether it’s baseball or music. Nothing happens by accident. The Little League Team of 1989 worked hard to win it all. And while we remember the kids, I‘ll bet there was an army of volunteer coaches and parents working hard to raise money to get them to the World Championships.

We might just live in a town that has set some high expectations and goals, we reach for the stars and occasionally get them. Deep down, we want our youth working hard and being involved in organized programs like these – don’t we?