Arts
The band program, under the direction of Nick Rotindo, has established a name for itself during recent years. List of recent accomplishments are as follows:
- Marching Band
- 2005 USSBA New Jersey State Group III Open Class Champions
- 2005 USSBA All-State Group III Open Class Champions
- 2005 Undefeated season
- 2006 USSBA New Jersey State Group II Open Class Champions
- 2006 USSBA All-State Group II Open Class Champions
- 2006 USSBA National Champions Group II, for its program titled "Going for Broke: a Gamer's Tale".
- 2007 4th Place USSBA National Championships Group III, winning General Effect and Visual Effect.
- Jazz Band
- 2005 New Jersey State Champions
- 2006 New Jersey State Champions
- 2007 3rd Place Finish at New Jersey State Championships
- 2008 3rd Place Finish at New Jersey State Championships
- 2009 2nd Place Finish at New Jersey State Championships
In earlier years, students auditioned and were selected for honors choirs. These accomplishments include:
- Choral
- 1995 MENC: All-Eastern Honors Choir & Band (Choir: Kevin Scott Collins, tenor; Elise Quagliata, alto. Band: Jessica Williams)
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“On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)