Contrary to what the motion pictures will let you know, the marching band at Ravenna High School is fairly properly revered. This 12 months’s homecoming king and queen had been each members. “It definitely helps that we have a small school, because we’ve all known each other our whole lives,” mentioned Trinity Dunch, 17, who performs the trombone. “Everybody knows everybody. Someone you’ve grown up with, you don’t really pick on.”
But there are many different issues to fret about. Ravenna, Ohio, just isn’t the type of place anyone desires to make motion pictures about, Emmanuel Miller, 17, a senior tuba and sousaphone participant, mentioned. It’s the type of place you permit — dwarfed by its next-door neighbor, Kent, house to Kent State University, which has extra undergraduates (greater than 20,000) than Ravenna has folks (simply over 11,000).
When Ashley Markle returned to {photograph} the band college students at her alma mater, the most hanging distinction in her hometown was how anxious everybody appeared: about exams and extracurriculars, dates, school prep, determining what’s subsequent. (Ashley, who graduated in 2013, was in Ravenna’s band, too; she performed the flute.)
One factor that hasn’t modified: the escape that the band room can supply.
When she was a pupil at Ravenna, “band didn’t even feel like part of the school, to be honest,” mentioned Ashley. “It felt like I was a part of something special and important. I felt that I could make a difference on a large team of people all striving for something we cared about.”
These days, that group snaps folks up early. Julia Stratton, 15, in again, and her girlfriend, Nina Fuller, 16, seated on the flooring, have each been enjoying flute since the fifth grade.
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