MORE THAN A MEASURE OF SUCCESS : LANCER BAND RACKS UP SERIES OF TOP HONORS.Byline: Gloria Gonzales Daily News Staff Writer The band is having its best year ever, winning contests that are the equivalent of a horse winning the Triple Crown or a college football team winning a national championship. ``We won all three of the most prestigious events in our region,'' said band director Bill Hoehne, who led the Thousand Oaks High School Thousand Oaks High School is a high school established in 1962 and located in Thousand Oaks, California. It is a California Distinguished School, and offers curriculum at all levels for Thousand Oaks students. The mascot is the lancer. Lancer Band and Color Guard to new heights this year. ``It's like a collegiate football team winning the Cotton Bowl, the Orange Bowl and Rose Bowl - all in the same year.'' And the band's successes have not gone unnoticed. Monday night, Hoehne and each of his 178 players were scheduled to receive certificates recognizing the band's 1996 achievements. Not only did the band win 19 awards during the 1996 season, it also won the top three regional competitions: the Mt. Carmel Invitational Tournament, the Arcadia Festival of Bands and the Tournament of Champions. ``There's no statewide or regional competition,'' Hoehne said Monday afternoon, before receiving his commendation COMMENDATION. The act of recommending, praising. A merchant who merely commends goods he offers for sale, does not by that act warrant them, unless there is some fraud: simplex commendatio non obligat. . ``But it's very unusual for a band to win all three events, it really marks us as champions. We had a great year, with great kids and incredible parent support.'' Hoehne said a parent booster club A booster club is an organization that is formed to contribute money to an associated club, sports team, or organization. Booster clubs are popular in American schools at the high school and university level. raises money to pay for all the band's extras. Those extras include nine part-time instructors who work the entire band season, from August to December. The band has great student support, too. ``It looked like a lot of fun,'' said Chris Trumpy, a 15-year-old sophomore who joined the band in midseason. ``I was hanging out with friends who played in the band and I just got more and more interested.'' Trumpy, who had played the saxophone saxophone, musical instrument invented in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax. Although it uses the single reed of the clarinet family, it has a conical tube and is made of metal. and guitar, took up the tuba tuba (t  `bə) [Lat.,=trumpet], valved brass wind musical instrument of wide conical bore. in December and joined the band in January. Trumpy, along with the band's other 177 members, piled into four buses most weekends to drive to competitions throughout Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . ``We've had a great year,'' said Hoehne, who has directed the band for eight years. ``We've always been good, but this year we were especially good.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Members of the Thousand Oaks High School Lancer Band and Color Guard won 19 awards during the 1996 season. (2) Director Bill Hoehne directs the Lancer Band on Monday in Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. . Jeremy Greene/Special to the Daily News |
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