[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 20227]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 HONORING MARYVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SIXTH GRADE WIND ENSEMBLE BAND

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor a fine group of 
sixth graders from my district in Tennessee. The Maryville Intermediate 
School Sixth Grade Wind Ensemble Band from Maryville, Tennessee, is 
headed to Chicago for the prestigious 2007 Midwest Clinic, an 
international band and orchestra concert.
  The event is known in band and orchestra circles as one of the 
highest honors a musical group can receive. They were chosen to 
participate only after an extensive audition process in which they 
competed against other bands and orchestras from high schools, 
communities, colleges and universities and militaries from around the 
world.
  This is certainly a great achievement in and of itself. But the 
Maryville band is special in another way; they are the first sixth 
grade band in the Clinic's 61-year history to be invited to 
participate. It is an honor that the close-knit community of Maryville 
can be proud of, and just another example of the incredible spirit of 
the people of east Tennessee.
  Madam Speaker, in closing, I urge my colleagues to join me as I 
salute Maryville Intermediate School's Wind Ensemble Band and its 
directors, George Hayden and RoAnn Romines, on this much-deserved 
accomplishment. I wish them many more musical scores to come.

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