Cuero Band
Improve to Achieve
Gary Owens - Director of Bands
Steven Hearn - Assistant Director of Bands
updated 8/27/10
5:20 pm
Contact info:
Band office number 361-275-2772
           shearn@cueroisd.org

Important Band News

Game Day announcements for Wimberly Game (Home) 8/27/2010
Band will meet at the band hall by 6pm in uniform.  Music must be in flip folders with string to hold around your neck.  Purchase a music lyre.  Music to be played off include: Mvt 1 of Marching Time Machine,  Star Spangled Banner, School Song, Fight Song, The Way You Make Me Feel, and Get Ready for This.  For those that are interested, The Dinner Club will have Subway this week for $6. Those will be ready by 5:30 pm.   
 











The Dinner Club


This year we will begin our GAME DAY DINNER CLUB. This program is designed to help feed our band students when we have performances away from Cuero.  In the past we have made efforts to provide a few meals on out of town performances but because of continued budget shortfalls it will be necessary to cut back on this service.  For only $6 per game, your student will have two choices of meals (usually one beef and one chicken choice), ready to eat, prior to the football game on Friday night.  Please be aware there are NO drinks served with these dinners; that will be up to the students.  Game Day Dinner forms normally go out on Monday and need to be turned in with payment by Wednesday at 5:00 pm to give us time to order.  This year we are offering the opportunity to pay for all the football game Dinners in advance, so you do not have to worry about payment each week.  It is by no means mandatory as forms will still go out  each week for those not in the Dinner Club.  Below is a list of the Game Day Dinner Schedule with tentative plans for each week.  Remember there may be additional days this dinner is used (contest, etc….), and those meals will be separate and require additional payment if used.  Chaperones may also purchase the Dinner Club meals.  

Friday, August 27               Home Game (Wimberly) – Subway
Friday, September 3             Home Game (Liberty Hill) – Pizza Hut
Friday, September 10    Home Game (Bellville) – Jason’s Deli
Friday, September 17    Away Game (Port Lavaca) – Smolik’s
Friday, September 24    Home Game (Pleasanton) – Chick-fil-A
Saturday, September 25  East Central Marching Contest – Cici’s Pizza
Friday, October 1               Away Game (LaVernia) – BarBeQue Station
Friday, October 8               Open Week – NO MEAL!
Friday, October 15              Home Game (Yoakum) – Sonic Drive In
Monday, October 18      UIL Marching Contest @ East Central HS – Bill Miller BBQ
Friday, October 22              Away Game (Poteet) – K & N
Friday, October 29              Home Game (Sam Houston) – Whataburger
Friday, November 5              Away Game (Gonzales) – Special Catering

BANDSMAN OF THE WEEK
August 27 - Bevin Velandia


SECTION OF THE WEEK
August 27 - Color Guard


Keep improving daily on all the little things.  
YOUR IMPROVEMENT IS OUR ACHIEVEMENT.

We want to thank our following corporate sponsors:
 Post Lumber Company, Wal-Mart,  McMahan Welding, Better Beverages/Dr. Pepper, Certified Rentals, Progression Music, Colortyme, Partners Automotive, Reuss Pharmacy, Alamo Lumber Company, DeWitt Poth & Son, Jackie Schumacher, Victoria Allergy & Asthma Clinic, 7-C Unlimited, Trust Texas Bank, Rosie's Mexican Restaurant, Cuero Record, Anders Auto Supplies, Beall's Department Store, Tiger Tote #16, Friends, Taqueria Vallarta, Life Check Drug, Ful Of Pep Ranch & Garden Center, Main Street Coffee Haus, A Special Stitch, Wells Fargo, Cuero Gifts & Boutiques, Victory Cleaners, Bahnhof Café, Donut Palace, Wellness & Rejuvenation Center, McAlister's Sweet Shop, The Décor Shoppe, Kleineke's, and  Standard Printing

Financial donations are always welcome and are tax deductible

Music students out-perform non-music on achievement tests in reading and math. Skills such as reading, anticipating, memory, listening, forecasting, recall, and concentration are developed in musical performance, and these skills are valuable to students in math, reading, and science.
- B. Friedman, “An Evaluation of the Achievement in Reading and Arithmetic of Pupils in Elementary School Instrumental Music Classes,” Dissertation Abstracts International.

The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvan ia School District analyzed its 1997 dropout rate in terms of students’ musical experience. Students with no ensemble performance experience had a dropout rate of 7.4 percent. Students with one to two years of ensemble experience had a dropout rate of 1 percent, and those with three or more years of performance experience had a dropout rate of 0.0 percent.
Eleanor Chute, “Music and Art Lessons Do More Than Complement Three R’s,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,