| A FEW FORMER BAND RATS AND SOME OTHER FRIENDS TOO |
| THE RATS |
| **T.J. - A grad of '01 - a Tenor Sax. Always up for a laugh (although not always at the most appropriate time) and always keeps me smiling. Plays a great tenor sax, and is definitely a friend who will be missed. **Steve - A grad of '99 - a Clarinet, and a former D.M. A friend who is too far away. **Amanda - A grad of '99 - a French horn/Trumpet/Piano, and a former D.M. **David - A grad of '00 - a Trombone, and a former D.M. He is Fernando Hernandez our Spanish Conquistador from Southern Spain, who conquered Northern Peru. **Laurie (Queen Laurie) - A grad of '01 - a flute, and a former D.M. My mortal enemy (well not any more) and the one person to help me keep my sanity when the "Mario Brothers" just don't make sense. **Margaret (B-27) - A grad of '02 - What can I say? - She still always manages to challenge my way of thinking and reasoning, giving me a whole new perspective on some of the basics of life. A good friend, an awesome clarinet and alto sax player, and a GREAT section leader - Kudus to you. **Asa - A grad of '02 - A tenor player that can make Zac be quiet. He gets my respect. **Devon - A grad of '00 - a Clarinet/Piano, and a former D.M. A funny person who is as betarded as David. (Stop it. . . .asking questions.) **Steve - A grad of '01 - a Trombone. A real character, everybody's best friend. **John - A grad of '02 - A fellow trumpet and friend since fourth grade. One of the lesser evils of our section. A good listener and a great section leader. Can't wait for the road trip. **Greg - A grad of '01 - a Percussionist. An overall nice guy who just likes to have fun. **Erin - A grad of '00 - a Flute/Piccolo. A good friend who made me laugh, and made me promise to watch "A Bug's Life". **Korey - A grad of '01 - a Trumpet. A great guy who always made me laugh when he danced during Jazz band. **Darryl - A grad of '02 - A real nice percussionist. I wish they were all as polite. **Thomas - A grad of '02 - Our pit player from Hamburg. Should have stayed in St. Louis in my opinion. Silly Grrman. **Andre - A grad of '00 - a Trumpet player who was never afraid to give his opinion. **Mark - A grad of '01 - a Percussionist. Always ready to help out and have a good time too. Is this thing on? **John - A grad of '99 - a Trombone, and a good guy. Still visits us rats sometimes. **Katie - A grad of '99 - a Clarinet, and the sweetest person you'll meet. (just don't call her Martha Stewart. She hates that.) **Hilarie - A grad of '00 - a Trumpet, and my bestest companion in the trumpet section. Is missed sorely by this minority of the section. I'm still her trained Freshman at heart. **Rob - A grad of '02 - a Baritone, and the originator of the McNorth band site. Even though he left us for dirty Mehlville, he still deserves to be a rat. **Kristen - (Hiawatha Pocahantas Houchie Bouchie Etc. Etc. .) - A grad of '02 - Finally a rat, congrats. A member of the pit and a Pianist and Bassist in jazz. Still an Orch Crick though. **Kartez - A grad of '01 - a Trumpet. He always made things interesting. **Jocelyn - A grad of '00 - a Flute/Piano. A friend who I knew and didn't even know. **Becky - A grad of '00 - a Clarinet who never thought I was crazy, because she knew April before she met me. Heh heh. Still visists ever so often. **Curtis - A grad of '01 - a Percussionist. He liked to have a good time all the time. **Zac - A grad of '02 - He's actually not a band rat, he's actually a band weasel/ferret/mongoose. (He doesn't like rats.) A traitor to his section but only halfway since he still marches pregame. A trumpet and a bass guitar. **Neal - A grad of '02 - A Football playing, wrestling Tenor player. Little do you know he used to play flute. **Grant - A grad of '02 - One heck of a French horn/Mellophone and geetar player. He belts it out on the field. **Emily - A grad of '00 - a Flute/Piccolo who let me pretend I was 5. I didn't really have to do much pretending usually. **Amber - A grad of '02 - The best flute playing cheerleader ever. Ammmmmber! **Tracey - A grad of '99 - a Flute/Piccolo who is my role model for fundraising. Heh heh. She put up with me even though I was just a "little freshman". **Matt - A grad of '00 - a Trumpet. A good player who liked to prove it. **Bailie - A grad of '02 - a clarinet to add to the confusion. Where will it all stop? "Bailie your Dad's here." **Matt - A grad of '01 - a Alto Sax. A good friend who always showed me a different way of looking at things. Too bad he has cooties. **Jeff - A grad of '01 - a Trumpet. I've known Jeff forever, and he's a true friend. (Even if he does scare me sometimes) A great trumpet, and some tough competition. **Jennifer (Rachel) - A grad of '01 - an Alto/Soprano Sax. Ah, now here's someone who encourages me to go through with some of my stranger ideas. A great friend and someone I truly consider to be an equal when it comes to crazy schemes. (luckily they're usually schemes that I'll go along with - our late night excursions) **Justin - A grad of '99 - a Trumpet who sets the standard for trumpet players everywhere. If anyone could come up with a distraction for EVERYONE, he could. **Ashley - Agrad of '02 - A flute, a real trooper and a great friend and confidence booster. A true asset to the band and flute section as a section leader. **Brock - A grad of '01 - a Trombone. In order to describe Brock, well. . .I can't. Brock is a nice guy with a personality like none I've ever seen before. A true original. **Josh - A grad of '02 - A fun friend, although sometimes maybe too much info from this trombone player. **David -A grad of '01 - a Trombone. My ninja thug. A "bum not bum", good friend, listener, and person all around. |
| SOME "OTHER" FRIENDS |
| Ya know, the ones that don't nearly qualify as official rats and aren't quite fleas, although it comes out that a lot of 'em are orchestra cricks and choir (fill in blank). |
| **Mike (Monkey boy) 04 - What can I say, he can do the monkey face perfectly. A good percussonist, and a fun person to take to Applebee's, or anywhere for that matter. (As long as they don't play "Shout" in Jennifer's car.) **Sarah - An orchestra crick, but not at good ol' McNorth. Although she goes to R.K., we keep in touch. (I mean, she does live right across the street even if I didn't know that until third grade.) **Bixby - Although it's not fair that he's on here before some other people are, I'm making and exception, so he won't whine about not being on the front page anymore. A punk and a choir (fill in blank). A common combination. **Sarah - An orchestra crick, who keeps me company in the misery of first hour Western Civ. - Heh, I think that's punishment enough for anyone. A good friend. **Katey - A friend who has moved on to I.W. but still pops up from time to time. (I think it's because she misses me so much.) It wouldn't be a real party without her. Anyone up for a round of pudgy bunnies? **Rob - A Band Rat, a baritone player, who unfortunately had to leave us to go to Mehlville. He still comes to visit us and participate in our festivities. (The Lock-in, Paintball, you know.) We miss ya Rob! **Leah - An orchestra cricket (I suppose she might be their "ultimate"), whom puts up with me as best she can. One of my best friends since 2nd grade. - Heh, imagine that. **April - A friend I made due to the good graces of Becky. (I'm not sure why she introduced us though, we're pretty deadly to her when together - Putt-putt anyone?) A blast to hang out with and the inspirational force to this site. Check her site out. **Bronwyn - My singing, flute buddy with more energy than I'll ever have. A real character on and off the stage. **Tim - LOUD - do I really have to say much more? - Although it is a shame that he moved. We all miss him to some extent. Ha ha. **Kelly - Meow meow kitty meow meow. Kitty in a well. My good buddy who also helped me drive Becky up the wall. **Patrick (Patsy, Grand Master Pat) - A fun guy. A tenor player who I think would rather play piano. He has a really nice guitar too. A shame he's moving, still a true rat in my heart. We'll miss you, Patsy. |
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