Wow! It's hard to believe that the end of the year is already here! Soon we'll be wishing the graduating seniors luck in their next chapter and wishing a happy summer to everybody. We are very excited to represent our school and city in the Memorial Day Parade. Then, we start planning for the 19/20 school year!

We can't tell you enough how impressed we have been with SVB this year. Each member has shown great dedication, volunteerism, camaraderie, and pride! It's students like this that make our involvement with SVB a pleasure and honor. Thank you!

This newsletter contains a lot of important information for all band members. It's important that we are all "on the same page."

Following the Spring Band concert, all school owned concert instruments need to be returned for the summer. Upon our return to school on Memorial Day, all school owned equipment marching equipment must be turned in. Students using school owned equipment are expected to clean personal items out of the case, vacuum the case out, clean instruments as much as possible (swabbed out, greased corks and slides, freshly oiled valves).

The instrument turn in process is complete when the instrument has been inspected by a director. If there is any damage to the instrument, beyond normal wear and tear, you'll be contacted over the summer with the cost of the repair.

If you'd like to keep your school owned equipment over the summer months, a new loan agreement must be turned in before the instrument is allowed to be taken home for the summer.

The band room will be open periodically throughout June and July. Please go to the SVB Calendar for dates and times.

Words cannot express how amazing the past 11 years have been. I am humbled and honored to be a member of the Southview Band Family. You all know that I'm not always the best with words, so I'm struggling to find them in my last SVB Newsletter.

The Southview Band is a huge family. A family that is supportive to its members, it is functional and sometimes dysfunctional, it's unpredictable, it's made me laugh and cry, and every member's successes are priceless!

I have moved 7 times in my life, this move gives me a renewed sense of adventure and tugs at my heart with what I'm saying goodbye to. I know that those of us ending our chapters with SVB take great memories with us. I hope that the SVB family will welcome all of its new members with open arms, a big smile, and new eyes for the future. There are lyrics to a hymn that have stayed with me throughout my life: "Time and Change will surely show, how firm thy friendship." This line reminds me to remember the past and embrace the future.

In music, Alison Knowles

My name is Miss Emily Hage and I am incredibly excited to join the Southview Band program next year as the director of bands! I come to you from Northview and Arbor Hills where I have been a band director for the last six years. I earned my undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University in 2013, and received my Master of Music Education degree from the University of Michigan in 2018. As a Sylvania graduate, I have always wanted to give back to the community that helped shape me into the person, musician and educator I am today. I truly look forward to the opportunity to continue the outstanding traditions of the Southview Band!

Email: ehage@sylvaniaschools.org